Mr Louis Guilbault

Education and Qualifications including Prizes, Scholarships and Achievements

PhD Candidate – University of Cambridge (2021 – current, with intermission in 2022-2023)

• Max Planck Law Exchange Programme Scholarship - Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg (2025)
• W.L. Mackenzie King Travelling Scholarship (2023-2024)
• Wright Rogers Law Grant (2022-2023)
• Julia Montgomery Scholarship & National Bank of Canada Scholarship - Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund (2022-2023; 2023-2024)
• Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship - Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (converted to an SSHRC doctoral fellowship) (2022-2026)

Member of the Quebec Bar (2018 - current)

Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), Dean’s Honorable Mention for Academic Achievement - Université du Québec à Montréal (2017)

• Best Student Award 2016-2017: Introduction to American Law
• Best Student Award 2014-2015: Administrative Litigation
• Honour roll of the Faculty of Political Science and Law (2015-2016 & 2017-2018)
• Academic internship (principal: Hon. Yves-Marie Morissette, j.a.) (2015 - 2016)

Master of Arts in Philosophy (M.A.), Graduate scholarship, Université du Québec à Montréal (2010)

• Thesis title: Tolérance et conscience chez Pierre Bayle [Toleration and Conscience in Pierre Bayle’s Thought]
• Thesis assessment: excellent

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy (B.A.), Undergraduate scholarship (2004)

• Publication: ‘‘Droit, légitimité et limites du pouvoir’’ [Law, Legitimacy and the Limits of Power] (2003) 2 Disposition 35. As part of a writing contest, this student article won the bronze medal (jury composed of professors).

Selected Employment

• Knowledge Management Lawyer - Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg Ward LLP, Montreal (2022- current)
• Counsel, National Litigation Sector - Department of Justice Canada, Montreal (contract from February to June 2023)
• Law clerk (judicial assistant) to the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, C.P., Chief Justice of Canada - Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa (2020-2021)
• Law clerk (judicial assistant) to the Honourable Yves-Marie Morissette, j.a. - Court of Appeal of Quebec, Montreal (2018-2020)
• Philosophy teacher (permanent position), Department of Philosophy - Collège de Valleyfield (post-secondary/pre-university education) (2007-2018):

- Most Outstanding Teacher Award ["professeur le plus marquant"] (2010);

- Courses: Philosophy & Rationality, Philosophical Anthropology, Ethics & Politics, Introduction to Law;

- Coordinator for the creation and implantation of a Cognitive Science program (2014-2016);

- Member of the Academic Council (2010-2011).

• Research assistant of Prof. Anne Saris - Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des sciences juridiques (2014, 2016)
• Research assistant of Prof. Josiane Boulad-Ayoub - Université du Québec à Montréal, Département de philosophie (2007-2009)