Helge Dedek is a lawyer and professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law, where he holds the Wainwright Chair in Civil Law.
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Education and early career
editDedek passed the first and second German State Examinations in Law in 1997 and 2000.[1] He completed a clerkship at the court of appeal in Cologne before taking research positions at the universities of Cologne and Bonn.[2][1] He received his LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School and a doctoral degree from the University of Bonn, Germany.[3]
He practised as a lawyer in Cologne, working in corporate law and real estate transactions.[4]
Academic career
editDedek joined the Faculty of Law at McGill University as an assistant professor in 2007.[1] In 2012, he was promoted to associate professor with tenure and appointed director of the Institute of Comparative Law, a role he held until 2016.[1] He was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2021,[5] and in 2023 he was appointed to the Arnold Wainwright Chair in Civil Law.[6] Between 2018 and 2021 he also held a part-time position as Professeur associé (associate professor) at the University of Lausanne.[1]
From 2014 to 2023 he was jointly editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law with Franz Werro.[7]
In 2021, Dedek was elected as a Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.[8] In that year he also received the John W. Durnford Award for Teaching Excellence at McGill University Faculty of Law.[9]
Research
editHelge's research includes study of legal history, including the history of individual rights and law's colonial past.[1] He is also interested in comparative law, Roman law and theory of private law.[4]
Publications
edit- Dedek, Helge, ed. (2021) A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108894760 OCLC 1256592093
- Dedek, Helge, & Werro, Franz, eds., What we write about when we write about comparative law: Pierre Legrand's critique in discussion. American Journal of Comparative Law 65, Special Issue, 2017.
- Dedek, Helge & Van Praagh, Shauna (2015), Stateless Law, Routledge ISBN 9781138720039 OCLC 1120659237
- Dedek, Helge. "Private law rights as democratic participation: Kelsen on private law and (economic) democracy." University of Toronto Law Journal 71, no. 3 (2021): 376-414.
- Dedek, Helge. "Duties of love and self-perfection: Moses Mendelssohn’s theory of contract." Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 32, no. 4 (2012): 713-739.
- Dedek, Helge. "A Particle of Freedom: Natural Law Thought and the Kantian Theory of Transfer by Contract”(2012) 25." Canadian Journal Law & Jurisprudence 2: 313.
References
edit- ^ a b c d e f "Helge Dedek". Faculty of Law. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ Örücü E (2007) Developing comparative law. In Örücü E and Nelken D (eds), Comparative Law: A Handbook. Oxford: Hart Publishing, pp. 43, 49.
- ^ "Gastprofessor Helge Dedek". juridicum.univie.ac.at.
- ^ a b "Prof. Dr. Helge Dedek - Käte Hamburger Kolleg "Recht als Kultur"". www.recht-als-kultur.de. Retrieved 2024-04-22.
- ^ "Helge Dedek promoted to Full Professor". Faculty of Law. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ "Helge Dedek, Frédéric Mégret, and Colleen Sheppard named to prestigious research chairs". Faculty of Law. Retrieved 2023-11-09.
- ^ Dedek, Helge; Werro, Franz (21 June 2024). "Changing of the Guard: Two "Gatekeepers" Bid Adieu". The American Journal of Comparative Law. 71 (4): vii–x. doi:10.1093/ajcl/avae014.
- ^ "International Academy of Comparative Law welcomes six members from McGill Law". Faculty of Law. McGill University. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Helge Dedek receives 2021 Durnford Teaching Excellence Award". Faculty of Law. Retrieved 2023-11-09.