Ejan Mackaay

Ejan Mackaay (born 1943) is a Canadian emeritus professor of law and author. He was a professor of law at the Université de Montréal between 1972 and 2009.

Career

Ejan Mackaay was born in Amsterdam.[1] He obtained an LL.M from the University of Amsterdam in 1966 and an LL.M from the University of Toronto in 1977, with Michael Trebilcock as thesis adviser. He obtained his LL.D. at the University of Amsterdam in 1980 codirected by Arnold Heertje and Hans Franken on a thesis titled: "Economics of information and law".[1] Mackaay became professor of law at the Université de Montréal in 1972.[2][3] He retired in 2009.

He specialises in Economic Analysis of Law and intellectual property. Over the years, Mackaay has been involved in several organisations and institutions, including: Fellow at CIRANO since 2010, director of the Centre for the Law of Business and International Trade (CDACI) (2005–2008) and director of the Public Law Research Centre (CRDP) (1999–2003), at the Université de Montréal.

In 1986, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.[4] In 1996, he was awarded the Minerva Prize of the Netherlands Society of Translators for the translation of the Netherlands Civil Code into French. In 2013 he won the Vogel Book Prize for his work Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems.[5] On 13 November 2018, the Aix-Marseille University awarded him an honorary doctorate in law.[2]

His research has always aimed at making law more easily accessible, by focusing on the intersection of law and neighbouring sciences, including information technology and social sciences ("jurimetrics", Law and economics).

Publications

Books
  • Mackaay, Ejan (2013). Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems (1st ed.). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. ISBN 978-1-84844-309-9.
  • Mackaay, Ejan; Rousseau, Stéphane (2008). Analyse économique du droit, 2nd ed (in French) (2nd ed.). Paris: Dalloz. ISBN 978-2-247-07145-6. Archived from the original on 30 April 2010. Retrieved 23 June 2010.
  • Analyse économique du droit, 1st ed (PDF) (in French). Montréal: Éditions Thémis. 2000.
  • Ejan, Mackaay, ed. (2000). Les certitudes du droit [Certainties of the Law] (in French). Montréal: Éditions Thémis.
  • Peter Haanappel, Ejan Mackaay, Hans Warendorf and Richard Thomas (translators) (1999). Netherlands Business Legislation. The Hague: Kluwer Law International.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  • P.P.C. Haanappel and Ejan Mackaay (translators) (1995). New Netherlands Civil Code – Patrimonial Law / Le nouveau Code civil néerlandais (trilingual edition English – French – Dutch). Book 8 – Traffic Means and Transport/ Livre huitième – Du transport et des moyens de transport. The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
  • Mackaay, Ejan; Trudeau, Hélène, eds. (1995). L'environnement – À quel prix? [The Environment – At What Cost?] (in French). Montréal: Éditions Thémis.
  • Mackaay, Ejan; Poulin, Daniel; Trudel, Pierre, eds. (1995). The electronic superhighway – The shape of technology and law to come. Computer/Law Series. The Hague: Kluwer Law International.
  • Poulin, Daniel; Trudel, Pierre; Mackaay, Ejan, eds. (1995). Les autoroutes électroniques – Usages, droit et promesses [The Electronic Superhighway – Uses, law and promises] (in French). Cowansville: Les Éditions Yvon Blais.
  • Mackaay, Ejan; Gendreau, Ysolde, eds. (since 1993). Législation canadienne en propriété intellectuelle [Canadian Legislation on Intellectual Property] (in English and French). Scarborough, Ontario: Carswell. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  • Mackaay, Ejan, ed. (1991). Nouvelles technologies et propriété (in French). Montréal: Éditions Thémis.
  • P.P.C. Haanappel and E. Mackaay (translators) (1997). New Netherlands Civil Code – Patrimonial Law / Le nouveau Code civil néerlandais – Le droit patrimonial (trilingual English – French – Dutch ed.). Kluwer Law International.
  • Deniger, Constant; Mackaay, Ejan; Turcotte, Denis (1989). Les contrats en télématique – Guide pratique pour diffuser une banque d'informations (in French). Les publications du Québec.
  • Codification, Valeurs et Langage, Actes du colloque international de droit civil comparé (in French). Service des communications du Conseil de la langue française. 1986. Archived from the original on 8 April 2009. Retrieved 23 June 2010. (member of the Organising Committee of the Conference, which took place on 1–3 October 1981)
  • Paul A. Crépeau; et al. (1985). Dictionnaire de droit privé (in French) (1st ed.). Centre de recherche en droit privé et comparé du Québec.
  • Economics of Information and Law. Boston: Kluwer–Nijhoff. 1982.

Other publications

Several publications of Ejan Mackaay can be found on these websites:

References
  1. "E.J.P. Mackaay" (in Dutch). University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 27 July 2020.
  2. "Soirée Scientifique" (PDF) (in French). Aix-Marseille University. 13 November 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2020.
  3. "Ejan Mackaay". Université de Montréal. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011.
  4. "Ejan Mackaay". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020.
  5. "The 2013 Prix Vogel". Prix Vogel. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
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