Joseph Eliot Magnet, F.R.S.C. B.A., LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D. is one of Canada鈥檚 most respected constitutional lawyers. He clerked for Chief Justice Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada, served as Crown Counsel in Ottawa, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Boalt Hall Law School, University of California, Berkeley, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, Israel, Visiting Professor, Central European University, Budapest, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University (2003 and 2008), and Visiting Professor Universit茅 de Paris, France. He has acted as counsel in more than two hundred constitutional cases in the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court of Canada, and the trial and appellate courts of Ontario, Quebec, B.C. and Manitoba. He has been lead counsel for the Government of Canada in Supreme Court of Canada appeals, counsel to individual Senators and Members of the House of Commons; counsel for National Indigenous organizations, First Nations, minority groups, corporations and others, advisor to the Canadian Federal, Provincial and Territorial Governments on constitutional matters, Chief Negotiator and Lead Counsel for First Nations in Land Claims Processes, a frequent invited expert before Senate and House of Commons Committees. Professor Magnet is the author of eighteen books and more than one-hundred articles on legal subjects, particularly constitutional and Indigenous law. He has lectured widely in Canada and around the world, and is in frequent demand as a radio, television and op-ed commentator in Canada鈥檚 major media. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1998.
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Joseph Eliot
Magnet
F.R.S.C.
Full Professor
Ph.D. (McGill)
B.A. (Long I.)
LL.B. (McGill)
LL.M.
Room
57 Louis Pasteur St., Room FTX 118
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Office: 613-562-5800 ext. 3315
Office: 613-562-5124
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