Paul-David Chouinard is a doctoral candidate in law at the University of Ottawa, under the supervision of Professor Paul Daly, and a member of the Quebec Bar. He previously worked as a research lawyer at the Court of Appeal of Quebec. He is editor-in-chief of the Revue générale de droit, in collaboration with Professor Michelle Giroux, and is also a member of the Centre d'études en droits administratif et constitutionnel at Université Laval. He recently completed a four-month research stay at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Joanna Bell.
His research and teaching focus primarily on administrative law and civil procedure from a comparative law perspective. He is also interested in civil procedure reform, Quebec's mixed legal system, and access to justice issues in the relationship between citizens and the state. The title of his thesis is: ‘La relation entre le Code de procédure civile et le droit administratif. Une analyse sous le prisme de la mixité du droit québécois'.
He completed a Master’s thesis on the law of standing, supervised by Professor Antoine Pellerin at Université Laval. He is co-author of a monograph published in 2026 entitled Procedural Fairness in Canadian Administrative Law. His work has also been published in peer-reviewed journals, notably Les Cahiers de droit, La Revue générale de droit and the Revue de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke.