Membership Category

  • Associate

Institution

  • Université Laval

Discipline(s)

  • Law

Expertises

  • Product safety
  • Consumer health
  • Defective product liability
  • Comparative law
  • Quebec legal identity

Scientific activities and affiliations

  • Faculty of Law

Biography

Marie-Eve Arbour is a full professor in the Faculty of Law at Université Laval (Québec), where she teaches consumer law, contract law and civil liability, as well as legal methodology, including comparative law. Her recent research focuses on civil liability, product safety and Quebec legal identity. With Lara Khoury (McGill), she is leading a SSHRC-funded research project on the interface between defective products and product safety (2015-2021). She holds the agrégation nationale from Italian universities, where she worked as an associate professor at the Università del Salento between 2006 and 2010. She has spent professorial mobility periods at the ILO Training Center (Turin, 2018), Fordham Law School (New York, 2012), Washington & Lee University (Virginia, 2014) and Montpellier University (France, 2012). An associate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, she also sits on the board of directors of the Association québécoise de droit comparé and on the scientific council of the Institut québécois de réforme du droit.

Affiliated research axes

Change and Transition Management

Planning Optimization

Resource and Product Maximization

Policy levers

The RRECQ is supported by the Fonds de recherche du Québec.
Fonds de recherche - Québec