Director of the Revue juridique Thémis de l'Université de Montréal

Professor Michel Morin’s teaching and research activities pertain to comparative history of public or private law, the evolution of Aboriginal peoples’ rights, and comparative law. In 1998, the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences awarded him the Jean-Charles Falardeau prize for his work entitled, L'Usurpation de la souveraineté autochtone [The Usurpation of Aboriginal Sovereignty] (Montréal, Boréal). In 2004, he published Introduction historique au droit romain, au droit français et au droit anglais [Historical introduction to Roman, French and English Law] (Montréal, Éditions Thémis). In 2012, he was the first recipient of the Richard and Diane Cummins Legal History Research Grant from the George Washington University Law Faculty.

 In 2012, he directed and co-wrote, with Arnaud Decroix and David Gilles, Les tribunaux et l’arbitrage en Nouvelle-France et au Québec de 1740 à 1784 [Courts and Arbitration in New France and Québec from 1740 to 1784] (Montréal, Éditions Thémis), which was awarded the 2013 Rodolphe-Fournier prize (ex aequo) by the Fédération des sociétés d’histoire du Québec [Québec Federation of Historical Societies] and the Chambre des notaires du Québec [Québec Chamber of Notaries].