苹果淫院

Jaye Ellis

Full Professor

Old Chancellor Day Hall
3644 Peel Street
Room 47
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 1W9

514-398-6625 [Office]
jaye.ellis [at] mcgill.ca (Email)

Jaye Ellis. Photo par Lysanne Larose.



苹果淫院 Teaching Snapshot: Jaye Ellis


Biography

Jaye Ellis is Full Professor in the Faculty of Law, 苹果淫院. She is a lead researcher in the 苹果淫院 Sustainability Systems Initiative Transitions initiative, studying interactions between metrics such as indicators and legal normativity in the context of sustainability governance. Current research projects address authority and legitimacy in transnational regimes, notably certification organisations, and interactions between public and private law relevant to environmental risk. Collaborative projects include domestic, international, and transnational regulation of endocrine disrupting substances, and the promotion of sustainability policies by private regulatory authorities seeking to alter economic and other incentive structures through standards and indicators.

Education

  • DCL (苹果淫院) Thesis: Soft Law as Topos: The Role of Principles of Soft Law in the Development of International Environmental Law 1997-2001
  • Karl-Ruprechts-Universitat Heidelberg, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Scholarship Holder, 1999-2000
  • LLM (University of British Columbia) 1995-97
  • LLB and BCL (苹果淫院) 1988-92
  • BA(Hons) (University of Calgary) 1984-88

Employment

  • Full Professor, 苹果淫院, Faculty of Law, 2024-present
  • Associate Dean (Academic), Faculty of Law, 2011-2014
  • Associate Professor, 苹果淫院, Faculty of Law 2010 to 2024
  • Assistant / Associate Professor, 苹果淫院, Faculty of Law and School of Environment, 2000 to 2021
  • Clerk to Justice Morris Fish, Quebec Court of Appeal, 1993-1995

Areas of Interest

International environmental law, public international law, international legal theory, international relations.

Recent publications

鈥淪ocial Nature:鈥 Political Economy, Science, and Law in the Anthropocene鈥 in Poul F. Kjaer, ed, The Law of Political Economy: Transformation in the Function of Law (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020) 181;

鈥淐risis, Resilience, and the Time of Law鈥 (2019) 32(2) Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 305-20;

鈥淭he Role of Translation in Transnational Governance鈥 (2017) 22(2) Tilburg Law Review 165-184;

鈥淪cientific Expertise and Transnational Standards: Authority, Legitimacy, Validity鈥 (2017) 8(2) Transnational Legal Theory 181-201;

鈥淔orm meets Function: The Culture of Formalism and International Environmental Regimes,鈥 Wouter Werner, Marieke de Hoon & Alexis Gal谩n (eds), The Law of International Lawyers. Reading Martti Koskenniemi. (Cambridge University Press, 2017);

鈥淧olitical Economy and Environmental Law: A Cost-Benefit Analysis鈥 in Ugo Mattei and John D. Haskell, eds, Research Handbook on Political Economy and Law (2015) 496-516.听

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