Régine Tremblay
Assistant Professor
- Office:
Allard Hall, room 341
- Phone: 604 822 4669
- Email: tremblay@allard.ubc.ca
Profile
Régine Tremblay joined Allard Law in 2017. Her areas of expertise include family law, matrimonial property law, private law, comparative law, family mediation, reproduction and law, and critical theories, including feminism and queer theories. She holds a BCL and an LLB from the Faculty of Law at McGill University and an LLM and an SJD from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Quebec Bar since 2011 and a member of its Comité consultatif en droit de la famille since 2018. She is the Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, and, alongside Professor Erez Aloni, the co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Family Law. She is the Vice President of the Association des juristes d’expression française de la Colombie-Britannique, a full member of the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law (McGill University), a researcher with the Groupe de réflexion en droit privé (UQAM), and sits on the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law.
Her research has been published in English and French in publications such as the Supreme Court Law Review, the Canadian Journal of Family Law, and the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law. She coauthored the Private Law Dictionary of the Family, 2nd edition, and the Dictionnaire de droit privé: Les familles, 2ème édition. She is a contributor to the McGill Companion to Law, the Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law (forthcoming), the Jurisclasseur: Personnes et famille (QC), and is the co-editor of Les intraduisibles en droit civil and House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law [UBC Press, forthcoming]. Her research has been funded by institutions including the Law Foundation of British Columbia and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.
Courses
- Family Law
- Reproduction and Law
- Topics in Comparative Law: Feminist and Queer Theory
Publications
Dictionary and Encyclopedia
- France Allard, Jean-Maurice Brisson, Nicholas Kasirer, Robert Leckey and Régine Tremblay, Dictionnaire de droit privé et lexiques bilingues: Les familles, 2e ed (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2016)
- France Allard, Jean-Maurice Brisson, Nicholas Kasirer, Robert Leckey and Régine Tremblay, Private Law Dictionary and Bilingual Lexicons: Family, 2nd ed (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2016)
- Entry: “Mère”in The McGill Companion to Law, Special Issue, (2021) 66: 1 McGill Law Journal. online: http://www.mcgill.ca/companion/list/mere
Collection of Essays
- Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay, House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, [forthcoming])
- Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay, Special Issue: Celebrating the Work of Professor Susan Boyd (2019) 32:2 Canadian Journal of Family Law.
- Alexandra Popovici, Lionel Smith & Régine Tremblay (eds), Les intraduisibles en droit civil (Montreal: Éditions Thémis, 2014)
Articles
- Julianna Ivanyi and Régine Tremblay, “Measuring Success of Family Law Reforms” in Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay, House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, [forthcoming]).
- Régine Tremblay, “Thoughts on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, Habitual Residence and the Supreme Court’s Decision in Office of the Children’s Lawyer v. Balev”, (2019) 89 SCLR (2d) 227-251
- Régine Tremblay, "Réflexions sur le dialogue entre la médiation familiale et le droit de la famille" in Gabriel-Arnaud Berthold, Charles Antoine Péladeau & Jérémie Torres-Ceyte (eds), Le dialogue en droit civil (Montreal: Thémis, 2018)
- Régine Tremblay, “Quebec’s Filiation Regime, the Roy Report’s Recommendations, and the ‘Interest of the Child” (2018) 31:1 Can J F L 199
- Régine Tremblay, “Sans foi, ni loi. Appearances of Conjugality and Lawless Love” in Anne-Sophie Hulin, Robert Leckey & Lionel Smith (eds), Les apparences en droit civil (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2015)
- Régine Tremblay, “Surrogates in Quebec: The Good, the Bad and the Foreigner” (2015) 27:1 CJWL 94
- Pascale Fournier and Régine Tremblay, “Translating Religious Principles into German Law: Boundaries and Contradictions” in Simone Glanert (ed), Comparative Law: Engaging Translation (London: Routledge, 2014) pp. 157-72
- Régine Tremblay, “Le droit myope” (2010) 25:2 Can. J F L 369
Book Review
- Régine Tremblay, "D’un océan à l’autre, book review of Nicole LaViolette and Julie Audet, L’essentiel du droit de la famille dans les provinces et territoires de common law au Canada (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2014)" (2017) 30 :2 Can J Fam L 369.
Other
- Régine Tremblay and Erez Aloni, “Introduction” in Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay, Special Issue: Celebrating the Work of Professor Susan Boyd (2019) 32:2 Canadian Journal of Family Law.
- Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay, “Introduction” in Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay, House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, [forthcoming])
- Alexandra Popovici and Régine Tremblay, “Le don en famille: promesses et écueils” in Partenariat de recherche – Familles en mouvance, Les familles sous l’œil du droit - Bulletin de Liaison, vol 15, fall 2017.
- Benoît Moore and Régine Tremblay, Fascicule 14 “Formation du mariage” in Jurisclasseur coll. “Droit civil”, Droit des personnes et de la famille (Montreal: LexisNexis, 2010, 2018, and 2021).
- Robert Leckey and Régine Tremblay, “Introduction” in After Equality: Family, Sex and Kinship (2015) 27: 1 CJWL i
Publications listed on the Law Library Faculty Research Publications Database

Organization Affiliations
- Centre for Feminist Legal Studies
Research Interests
- Civil law
- Comparative law
- Family Law
- Feminist legal studies