CFLS Lecture Series: Professor Marie-Andrée Plante

Marie-Andrée Plante has been a professor at the Faculty of Law at the Université de Sherbrooke since 2023. Her teaching focuses on the foundations of law, property law, as well as legal methodology and writing.

Her primary interest lies in the construction and operation of categories within legal thought and their impact on the legal imagination. She seeks to understand the underlying modes of thought and historical contexts that these categories are built upon, aiming to question their assumptions and truths. Her current research revolves around exploring how a particular category—'the victim’—manifests itself in contemporary Canadian legal discourses.

She holds dual degrees in civil law and common law from McGill University, a master’s from the University of Oxford, and a joint master’s from the École normale supérieure de Paris, EHESS, and the Université Paris Nanterre. Previously, she worked as a law clerk at the Court of Appeal of Quebec and served as the assistant director of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law before pursuing her doctoral studies in law at McGill University.