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Larocque, François
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François Larocque joined Power Law in 2014. He has been an associate professor at the Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law of the University of Ottawa since 2005.
His legal practice and research focus on language rights, civil liability, private and public international law and human rights. He has substantial experience with appellate advocacy, including applications seeking leave to appeal or to intervene before the court, the drafting of factums, the presentation of applications and interventions.
He has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Divisional Court of Ontario, the Superior Court of Ontario, the Court of Appeal of Quebec, the Quebec Superior Court and the Court of Appeal of Alberta.
He completed his doctorate at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College); his thesis examined the adjudicative jurisdiction of national courts in civil proceedings for serious violations of international law and human rights.
He clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada with the Honourable Justice Louise Arbour and at the Court of Appeal for Ontario with the Honourable Justices Louise Charron, Jean-Marc Labrosse, Stephen Goudge and Stephen Borins.
François argued and took part in the presentation of major cases before the Supreme Court of Canada and the provincial appellate courts:
Supreme Court of Canada
- Kazemi Estate v Islamic Republic of Iran, 2014 CSC (public international law, State immunity, torture)
- Club Resorts Ltd v Van Breda, 2012 SCC 17, [2012] 1 SCR 572 (conflicts of laws, forum of necessity)/li>
- R v Caron, 2011 SCC 5, [2011] 1 SCR 78 (jurisdiction, interim costs)
Provincial Courts
- R v Caron, 2014 ABCA 71 (language rights, bilingual legislation)
- Steen v Islamic Republic of Iran, 2013 ONCA 30 (public international law, State immunity, terrorism)
- Islamic Republic of Iran v Hashemi, 2012 QCCA 1449 (public international law, State immunity, torture)
- Perron v Perron, 2012 ONCA 811 (divorce, language rights)
- Islamic Republic of Iran v Hashemi, 2012 QCCA 1449 (public international law, State immunity, torture)
- Kazemi (Estate of) v Islamic Republic of Iran, 2011 QCCS 196 (public international law, State immunity, torture)
- Landry c Barreau du Canada, 2011 ONSC 2947 (language rights, professionalism)
- Landry c Barreau du Canada, 2010 ONSC 3501 (language rights, professionalism)
- Bouzari v République islamique d’Iran, 2004 ONCA 871 (public international law, State immunity, torture)
Publications
Books and chapters
- “Archéologie d’un pacte constitutionnel oublié : la proclamation royale de 1869” dans L’affaire Caron et le statut du français dans l’ouest canadien, (Cowansville: Éditions Yvon Blais, to be published in 2014) (with Mark Power and Michel Doucet)
- “Les recours en matière de droits linguistiques” in Michel Bastarache and Michel Doucet, ed., Les droits linguistiques au Canada, 3e édition (Cowansville : Éditions Yvon Blais, 2014)
- Civil Actions and Uncivilized Acts: Transnational Human Rights Litigation in the Common Law Tradition (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2010)
- “Le délit transnational de la torture”, in S. Rogers, R. Ruparelia, L. Bélanger-Hardy ed, Critical Torts (Toronto, LexisNexis Canada Inc, 2009). Text published simultaneously in the Supreme Court Law Review : (2009) 44 SCLR (2d) 263
- “Civil Remedies for Terrorism” in Craig Forcese et Nicole LaViolette, ed, The Human Rights of Anti-Terrorism (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2008)
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
- “Constitutional Litigation, the Adversarial System and Some of its Adverse Effects” (2013) 17:2 Review of Constitutional Studies 1 (with Mark Power and Darius Bossé)
- “Let (Language) Right(s) Prevail: Le statut du français au Barreau du Haut-Canada” (2013) 44:1 Ottawa L Rev 103 (with Mark Power)
- “Taxonomie juridique des institutions postsecondaires offrant des programmes et des services en français à l’extérieur du Québec” (2012) 36:1 Manitoba LJ 67 (with Mark Power and Albert Nolette)
- “L’élargissement du concept d’obligation fiduciaire au profit des communautés de langue française en situation minoritaire dans leurs relations avec l’État” (2012) 63 UNBLJ 368-415 (with Mark Power and Maxine Vincelette)
- “Le statut du français à l’Université d’Ottawa et la Loi sur les services en français” (2011) 12 RCLF 55 (with Mark Power, Matthew Létourneau et Joseph Morin)
- “La Loi sur l’immunité des États canadienne et la torture” (2010) 55 McGill LJ 81
- “La proclamation royale du 6 décembre 1869” (2010) 33:2 Manitoba LJ 298-326
- “The Tort of Torture” (2009) 17:3 Tort Law Review 158-175
- “Recent Developments in Transnational Human Rights Litigation : A Postscript to Torture as Tort” (2008) 46:3 Osgoode Hall LJ 605-656
- “L’incorporation de la coutume internationale en common law canadienne” (2007) 45 Annuaire Canadien de droit international 173-222 (with Martin Kreuser)
- “Bouzari v. Iran: Testing the Limits of State Immunity in Canadian Courts” (2003) 41 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 343-386
- “La dissuasion et le no-fault” (2001) 9 Health Law Journal 171-181
- “Eunomia et le droit selon Allott” (2001) 31:2 RGD 255-290
Book reviews and other publications
Book reviews
- Book Review of The Law of State Immunity and Terrorism by James Cooper-Hill (2007) 45 Annuaire canadien de droit international 611-616
- Book Review of Peremptory Norms in International Law by Alexander Orakhelashvili (2007) 38:2 Ottawa L Rev 219-227
- Book Review of The Globalized Rule of Law de O.E. Fitzgerald, dir (2006) 44 Annuaire canadien de droit international 759-763
- Review of Using international law in National Courts by Shaheed Fatima (2006) 44 Canadian Yearbook of International Law 739-742
- Book Review of Corporations and Transnational Human Rights Litigation by Sarah Joseph (2005) 76 British Yearbook of International Law 543-544
- Book Review of Using International Law in Canadian Courts by Gib van Ert (2003) 35:1 Ottawa L Rev 146-151 (avec Mark Power)
- Book Review of Torture as Tort: Comparative Perspectives on the Development of Transnational Human Rights Litigation by C. Scott ed. (2002) 41 Osgoode Hall LJ 147-158 (avec Mark Power)
- Book Review of The Law of State Immunity by Hazel Fox (2002) 62:2 Cambridge LJ 504-505 (Review cited as “praise” on back cover of 2nd edition)
Other publications
- “Cornwall ou comment faire face au mur”, Le Droit, samedi 10 mars 2012, at p 19 (with Linda Cardinal, Mark Power et al)
- “Advance Cost Awards and Access to Justice”, The Lawyer’s Weekly (April 15, 2011) Vol 30 No 46, at pp 10, 14 (with Mark Power)
- “Affaire Caron : La Cour d'appel de l'Alberta entendra la question du bilinguisme législatif”, AJEFO : L'expression (novembre -décembre 2010), at p 4 (with Mark Power)
- “Les provisions pour frais : L'affaire R c Caron”, AJEFO : L'expression (septembre-octobre 2010), at p 3 (with Mark Power)
- “Alien Tort Statute Survives the Supreme Court” (2004) 63 Cambridge LJ 532-534
- “The Choice of Torture”, The Lawyer’s Weekly (May 2, 2003) Vol 23 No 1, at p 4
- “State Immunity Trumps Rights to Fair Trial and Freedom from Torture” (2003) 6:3 OBA: Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section 6-9
- “No Right to Assisted Suicide Under European Human Rights Convention” (2003) 6:3 OBA: Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section 15-17
- “Old Battles, New Arguments: Recent Language Rights Cases in Ontario and Quebec” (2002) 5:2 OBA: Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section 27-30
- “De la possibilité d’un recours civil pour le terrorisme” (2001-2002) Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights – Bulletin, at pp 2, 19 (with Mark Power)
- “Bill C-36 Lacks Civil Remedies”, The Lawyer’s Weekly (December 7, 2001), Vol 21, No 30, at pp 5-6 (with Mark Power)
- “Canadian Administrative Law Cases at the Supreme Court of Canada” (2001) 9:3 OBA: Administrative Law Section 23-28 (with Marya Duckworth)
- “Bush v. Gore: Is the Bloom off the Robes?” (2001) 4:2 OBA: Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section 1-5
- “Anti-Gang Legislation: Is the Disease Worst than the Cure?” (2001) 4:1 OBA: Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Section 3-5
Professor François Larocque
Common Law Section
Faculty of Law
University of Ottawa
57 Louis-Pasteur Street
Ottawa
(ON)
K1N 6N5
Telephone 1 : 613 562 5124
Fax : 613 562 5124
Email : FrancoisLarocque@UOttawa.ca
Last Update : 2016-05-05
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