Lionel David Smith, McGill University
Law
Professor
Montreal, Quebec
lionel.smith@mcgill.ca
Office:
(514) 398-4670
Bio/Research
Lionel Smith is James McGill Professor of Law and Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law. His research and teaching focus on private law, in particular the law of trusts and unjust enrichment. He was a law clerk to Mr. Justice John Sopinka at the Supreme Court o...
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Bio/Research
Lionel Smith is James McGill Professor of Law and Director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law. His research and teaching focus on private law, in particular the law of trusts and unjust enrichment. He was a law clerk to Mr. Justice John Sopinka at the Supreme Court of Canada and conducted his doctoral research at Oxford under the supervision of Professor Peter Birks. He taught law at the University of Alberta (1991-1992; 1994-1996) and Oxford University (1996-2000) before joining McGill University in 2000.
He is the author of The Law of Tracing (Oxford University Press, 1997), and a co-author of Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada, 3rd ed. (Carswell, 2005). He is a co-author and the English reporter of Commercial Trusts in European Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005; paperback, 2009). He is a contributor to Canadian Corporate Law: Cases, Notes and Materials, 4th ed. (Butterworths, 2010), Oosterhoff on Trusts: Text, Commentary and Materials, 7th ed. (Carswell, 2009), and The Law of Restitution in Canada: Cases, Notes and Materials (Emond Montgomery, 2004). He is also the author of numerous articles, book chapters, notes and reviews.
He is a member of the American Law Institute, the European Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law and the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. He is a non-practising member of the Bar of Alberta.
In 2011, Lionel Smith was elected a Visiting Fellow at Oxford's All Souls, and elected Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
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He is the author of The Law of Tracing (Oxford University Press, 1997), and a co-author of Waters’ Law of Trusts in Canada, 3rd ed. (Carswell, 2005). He is a co-author and the English reporter of Commercial Trusts in European Private Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005; paperback, 2009). He is a contributor to Canadian Corporate Law: Cases, Notes and Materials, 4th ed. (Butterworths, 2010), Oosterhoff on Trusts: Text, Commentary and Materials, 7th ed. (Carswell, 2009), and The Law of Restitution in Canada: Cases, Notes and Materials (Emond Montgomery, 2004). He is also the author of numerous articles, book chapters, notes and reviews.
He is a member of the American Law Institute, the European Law Institute, the International Academy of Comparative Law and the International Academy of Estate and Trust Law. He is a non-practising member of the Bar of Alberta.
In 2011, Lionel Smith was elected a Visiting Fellow at Oxford's All Souls, and elected Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
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