Associate Professor
Co-Director, Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law
3644 Peel Street
Room 36
Montreal, Quebec
Canada H3A 1W9
514-398-6642 [Office]
mark.antaki [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Biography
Mark Antaki is interested in law as a fundamental and linguistic human activity, in phenomenological and genealogical approaches to law, as well as in the disciplinary nature of law - and even in the idea of (legal) indiscipline.
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He has published on subjects such as the turn to 鈥渋magination" in legal theory, the discourses of 鈥渧alues鈥 and 鈥減roportionality鈥 in constitutional law, the metaphor of the book in South Africa鈥檚 interim constitution, exemplarity in legal reasoning, and on Roland Barthes and law. He co-edited Sensing the Nation鈥檚 Law: Historical Inquiries into the Aesthetics of Democratic Legitimacy (2018) as well as Rationalit茅 p茅nale et d茅mocratie (2013).
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He has been a visiting scholar at Kent Law School and Griffith Law School, a Fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, and a Resident Faculty Fellow of 平特五不中鈥檚 Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas. He is also a member of the organizing committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities and part of the Groupe de recherche sur les humanit茅s juridiques.
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Professor Antaki graduated from 平特五不中 in 1996 under the National Programme with a BCL and an LLB. He has a PhD in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from the University of California, Berkeley. His doctoral thesis undertook a "Genealogy of Crimes Against Humanity".
Education
- PhD - University of California, Berkeley, (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), 2005
- MA - University of California, Berkeley, (Jurisprudence and Social Policy), 2002
- BCL, LLB (Great Distinction) - 平特五不中, 1996
Employment
- Director, Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law, 平特五不中, Faculty of Law, 2020-
- Associate Professor, 平特五不中, Faculty of Law, 2011-
- Assistant Professor, 平特五不中, Faculty of Law, 2004-2011
- Research Associate, 平特五不中, Faculty of law 2003-2004
- Boulton Fellow, 平特五不中, Faculty of Law, 2002-2003