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Malcolm Lavoie is a recognized expert on a range of topics, including property, contract, and tort law, expropriation law, Aboriginal law, natural resources law, and constitutional law. In addition to his work with Miller Thomson, Malcolm is also a Professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law. He has experience assisting clients with civil and constitutional litigation, expropriation, regulatory matters, questions of statutory interpretation, and Aboriginal law-related matters. Malcolm has argued two cases before the Supreme Court of Canada. He previously served as a law clerk for the Hon. Justice Frans Slatter of the Alberta Court of Appeal and later for the Hon. Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada. He is the author of numerous academic publications and has been cited in decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada.
Mandats importants
- Lead counsel for an intervener, Annapolis Group Inc. v. Halifax Regional Municipality, 2022 SCC 36
- Lead counsel for an intervener, R. v. Comeau, 2018 SCC 15
Leadership éclairé
Books
- Mitchell McInnes, Ian R Kerr, Anthony VanDuzer & Malcolm Lavoie, Managing the Law: The Legal Aspects of Doing Business, 6th Ed., Toronto: Pearson, 2022 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, Trade and Commerce: Canada’s Economic Constitution, Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2023 (link)
- Eran Kaplinsky, Malcolm Lavoie & Jane Thomson, Ziff’s Principles of Property Law, 8th Ed., Toronto: Thomson Reuters, 2023 (link)
Articles
- Malcolm Lavoie, « Subsidiarity and the Structure of Property Law, » 74:2 University of Toronto Law Journal [forthcoming] (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “Models of Indigenous Territorial Control in Common Law Countries: A Functional Comparison,” Dwight Newman, ed, Research Handbook on the International Law of Indigenous Rights, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2022 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “Property and Local Knowledge,” 70 Catholic University Law Review 637, 2021 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie & Moira Lavoie, “Indigenous Institutions and the Rule of Indigenous Law,” 101 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 325-335, 2021 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “The Implications of Property as Self-Government,” 70:4 University of Toronto Law Journal 535-571, 2020 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “Property Law and Collective Self-Government,” 64:2 McGill Law Journal 255-308, 2020 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “Aboriginal Rights and the Rule of Law,” 92 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 159-183, 2019 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “Aboriginal Title Claims to Private Land and the Legal Relevance of Disruptive Effects,” 83 Supreme Court Law Review (2d) 129-166, 2018 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “R. v. Comeau and Section 121 of the Constitution Act, 1867: Freeing the Beer and Fortifying the Economic Union,” 40:1 Dalhousie Law Journal 189-219, 2017 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie & Moira Lavoie, “Land Regime Choice in Close-Knit Communities: The Case of the First Nations Land Management Act,” 54:2 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 559-607, 2017 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “Why Restrain Alienation of Indigenous Lands?,” 49:3 University of British Columbia Law Review 997-1060, 2016 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, « Canada’s ‘Unique’ Approach to Specific Performance in Contracts for the Sale of Land: Some Theoretical and Practical Insights, » 12:2 Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal 207-227, 2013 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, « Understanding ‘Trade as a Whole’ in the Securities Reference, » 46:1 University of British Columbia Law Review 157-175, 2013 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “Locke, Hegel, and Rights to Property: Examining the Unstable Ideological Architecture of the Canadian Law of Aboriginal Title,” 69 University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review 25-54, 2012 (link)
- Malcolm Lavoie, “Canadian Common Law and Civil Law Approaches to Constructive Takings: A Comparative Economic Perspective,” 42:2 Ottawa Law Review 229-252, 2011 (link)
Engagement communautaire
Malcolm is a member of the board of the Edmonton Bar Association.
Formation et admission au barreau
- Alberta Bar, 2013
- B.A. (Hons.), University of British Columbia
- M.Sc. (Distinction), London School of Economics
- B.C.L./LL.B., McGill University Faculty of Law
- LL.M., Harvard Law School
- S.J.D., Harvard Law School
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Justice Frans Slatter of the Alberta Court of Appeal, 2012-2013
- Law Clerk to the Hon. Justice Rosalie Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada, 2013-2014