Régine Tremblay

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 Barreau du Québec since 2011 and a member of its Comité consultatif en droit de la famille since 2018. She received the Mérite Christine-Tourigny in 2024. 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 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. She was the Vice President of the Association des juristes d’expression française de la Colombie-Britannique from 2021-2024.

• Family Law
• Reproduction and Law
• Topics in Comparative Law: Feminist and Queer Theory

REFERRED PUBLICATIONS

a. Articles in Journals

• “Recoding Family Law: Towards a Theory of Relationships of Economic and Emotional Interdependency in the Civil Code of Québec” (2023) 68:3 McGill Law Journal 249 (41 pages)
• “Plurifiliation et ‘multiple parentage’: réflexions de droit comparé” (2023) 52:3 Revue de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke 623 (36 pages)
• “Quebec’s Filiation Regime, the Roy Report’s Recommendations, and the ‘Interest of the Child” (2018) 31:1 Canadian Journal of Family Law 199 (44 pages)
• "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, Éditions Yvon Blais, 2014)" (2017) 30 :2 Canadian Journal of Family Law 313 (peer-reviewed book review) (14 pages)
• “Surrogates in Quebec: The Good, the Bad and the Foreigner” (2015) 27:1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law 94 (17 pages)
• “Le droit myope” (2010) 25:2 Canadian Journal of Family Law 369 (46 pages)
• "La Loi sur la protection des obtentions végétales; entre compétitivité et utopie y a-t-il un avenir pour le modèle?" (2010) Osgoode Hall Review of Law & Policy 59; republished (2010) 26 Canadian Intellectual Property Review 145 (37 pages)

b. Referred Book Chapter

• Julianna Ivanyi and Régine Tremblay, “Measuring Success of Family Law Reforms” in Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay (eds), House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022) (34 pages)
• “Le dialogue des personnes en droit de la famille. Le cas de la médiation familiale” in Gabriel-Arnaud Berthold, Charles-Antoine Péladeau et Jérémie Torres-Ceyte (eds), Le dialogue en droit civil (Montreal: Thémis, 2018) (33 pages)
• “Sans foi, ni loi. Appearances of Conjugality and Lawless Love” in Anne-Sophie Hulin, Robert Leckey and Lionel Smith (eds), Les apparences en droit civil (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2015) (38 pages)
• 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) (15 pages)

c. Other

• Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay, “Introduction” in Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay (eds), House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022) (21 pages)
• “Mère” (encyclopedia entry) in The McGill Companion to Law, Special Issue, (2021) 66: 1 McGill Law Journal (5 pages)

NON-REFERRED PUBLICATIONS

a. Journals

• “Introduction to the Special Issue: Current Challenges in Reproduction and Law” (2025) 36:2 Canadian Journal of Family Law 1 (13 pages)
• “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 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) (24 pages)
• Robert Leckey and Régine Tremblay, “Introduction” in Special Issue: After Equality: Family, Sex and Kinship (2015) 27: 1 Canadian Journal of Women and the Law I (4 pages) 

b. Conference Proceeding

• Alexandra Popovici, Lionel Smith and Régine Tremblay, “Introduction” in Alexandra Popovici, Lionel Smith and Régine Tremblay (eds), Les intraduisibles en droit civil (Montreal: Éditions Thémis 2014) (4 pages)

c. Other

• “Fascicule 14: Formation du mariage” in Jurisclasseur  coll. “Droit civil”, Droit des personnes et de la famille (Montreal: LexisNexis, 2021, 2024) (46 pages)
• Alain Roy, mise à jour par Régine Tremblay. Jurisclasseur Droit Comparé (Belgium), Fascicule 22 : CANADA (QUÉBEC). – Droit civil. – Mariage. – Régimes matrimoniaux. – Divorce. – Union civile. – Filiation. 2024. 122 pages (54,339 words)
• “Family” (encyclopedia entry) in Catherine Valcke, Jan Smits and Jakko Husa (eds), Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law, (Cheltenham: Elgar Publishing, 2023) (6 pages)
• Benoît Moore and Régine Tremblay, ‘’Fascicule 14 : Formation du mariage” in Jurisclasseur  coll. “Droit civil”, Droit des personnes et de la famille (Montreal: LexisNexis, 2018, 2019) (44 pages)
• 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 

BOOKS

a. Authored

• France Allard, Jean-Maurice Brisson, Nicholas Kasirer, Robert Leckey and Régine Tremblay, Dictionnaire de droit privé: Les familles et lexiques bilingues, 2nd edn (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2016) (159 pages)
• France Allard, Jean-Maurice Brisson, Nicholas Kasirer, Robert Leckey and Régine Tremblay, Private Law Dictionary: Family and Bilingual Lexicons, 2nd edn (Cowansville: Yvon Blais, 2016) (162 pages) 

b. Edited Collections and Special Issues

• Special Issue: Current Challenges in Reproduction and Law (2025) 36:2 Canadian Journal of Family Law (183 pages).
• Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay (eds), House Rules: Changing Families, Evolving Norms, and the Role of Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2022) (384 pages) (refereed)
• Erez Aloni and Régine Tremblay (eds), Special Issue: Celebrating the Work of Professor Susan Boyd (2019) 32:2 Canadian Journal of Family Law (250 pages) (refereed)
• Alexandra Popovici, Lionel Smith and Régine Tremblay (eds), Les intraduisibles en droit civil (Montreal: Éditions Thémis, 2014) (302 pages) 

c. Chapters

• “Legal Parenthood in Canada” in Claire Fenton-Glynn (ed), The Law of Parenthood: A Comparative Guide (Cheltenham (UK): Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025) 525 (22 pages)

Publications listed on the Allard Research Portal.