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Christopher Essert Assistant Professor B.A. (McGill), J.D. (Toronto), LL.M., J.S.D. (Yale) Faculty of Law, Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6 tel: (613) 533-6000, ext. 75693 fax: (613) 533-6509 email: chris.essert@queensu.ca

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Curriculum Vitae

Teaching Subjects

• Property
• Jurisprudence

Recent Professional Achievements

• Visiting Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Centre for Ethics, 2009-2010
• Doctoral Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2008-2010
• Law Clerk to the Honourable Mr. Justice Michel Bastarache, Supreme Court of Canada, 2006-2007

Current Research

My research is broadly in the areas of analytic jurisprudence and private law theory (especially tort law and property law). I am most interested in the understanding the law's impact on our practical reasoning: the questions is, when should we do what the law tells us to do and why? My current work explores these questions through an investigation of the nature of legal obligation.

Recent Publications

Book

• The Law of Bilingual Interpretation (with Michel Bastarache, Naiomi Metallic and Regan Morris). Toronto: Carswell, 2008. Translated into French as Le droit de l’interprétation bilingue. Montreal: LexisNexis 2009.

Articles

• “A Dilemma for Protected Reasons”, forthcoming in Law and Philosophy.
• “Tort Law and Happiness” (2010) 36 Queen’s Law Journal 1.
• “Normativity, Fairness and the Problem of Factual Uncertainty” (2009) 47 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 665.
• “Dignity and Membership, Equality and Egalitarianism: Economic Rights and Section 15” (2006) 19 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 407.