A Common Law of the World?
The Reception of Customary International Law in The Canadian Common Law
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2019-09-09
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Thirty-Fifth Viscount Bennett Memorial Lecture
The Honourable Justice Louis LeBel was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada as a Puisne Justice on 7 January 2000. He attended the Collège des Jésuites in Quebec City, where he obtained a B.A. in 1958. He obtained an LL.L. from Laval University in 1961, a graduate degree (DES) in private law from Laval University in 1965, and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto in 1966. Justice LeBel practiced law in Quebec City from 1963 to 1984. He was appointed to the Quebec Court of Appeal on 28 June 1984.