Catherine Le Guerrier

Research interests

• Contract law
• Adhesion contracts
• History of consumer credit
• Comparative private law
• Private law theory

Biography

Catherine Le Guerrier is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of New Brunswick. She is a doctoral candidate the Osgoode Hall Law School.

Catherine holds BCL and LLB degrees from McGill University, where she received the Principal David L. Johnston Medal for Contribution, and a master’s in philosophy from the University of Montréal, which was funded by a Joseph A. Bombardier Scholarship and received the “mention exceptionnelle”.

Catherine also clerked for the Honorable Clément Gascon at the Supreme Court of Canada and is a member of the Quebec Bar.

Courses taught

• Contracts
• Insurance
• Jurisprudence
• Bankruptcy and Receivership

Selected publications

C. Le Guerrier, 2024, Mixing oil and water? Redrawing the limits of contract freedom after the criminalization of usury. Ottawa Law Review 55(1): 11-48.

C. Le Guerrier, 2022, ‘What huge influence they could have!’: Consumer empowerment in and around Quebec’s first Consumer Protection Act. Les Cahiers de Droit 63(3): 719-751.

C. Le Guerrier, 2021. Clément Gascon, juge « pour le Québec ». Supreme Court Law Review, 2nd series 103: 39-59.