About Ejan Mackaay
Born 1943. Ejan Mackaay is a Canadian lawyer, adjunct professor, university teacher and jurist.
Ejan Mackaay (born 1943) is a Canadian emeritus professor of law and author. He was a professor of law at the Université de Montréal between 1972 and 2009.
Career Ejan Mackaay was born in Amsterdam. He obtained an LL.M from the University of Amsterdam in 1966 and an LL.M from the University of Toronto in 1977, with Michael Trebilcock as thesis adviser. He obtained his LL.D. at the University of Amsterdam in 1980 codirected by Arnold Heertje and Hans Franken on a thesis titled: "Economics of information and law". He retired in 2009.à¸à¸µà¸ˆà¸±à¸™à¸žà¹ˆà¸à¸¡à¸¶à¸‡à¸•าย
He specialises in Economic Analysis of Law and intellectual property. Over the years, Mackaay has been involved in several organisations and institutions, including Fellow at CIRANO since 2010, director of the Centre for the Law of Business and International Trade (CDACI) (2005–2008) and director of the Public Law Research Centre (CRDP) (1999–2003), at the Université de Montréal.
In 1986, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he was awarded the Minerva Prize of the Netherlands Society of Translators for the translation of the Netherlands Civil Code into French. In 2013, he won the Vogel Book Prize for his work Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems. On 13 November 2018, the Aix-Marseille University awarded him an honorary doctorate in law.
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(member of the Organising Committee of the Conference, which took place on 1–3 October 1981)
Other publications Several publications of Ejan Mackaay can be found on these websites: http://en.scientificcommons.org/ejan_mackaay https://depot.erudit.org/items-by-author?author=Mackaay%2C+Ejan https://openlibrary.org/b/OL9006747M https://hq.ssrn.com/submissions/MyPapers.cfm?partid=20688 https://papyrus.bib.umontreal.ca/xmlui/discover?query=Ejan+Mackaay&submit=Aller https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ejan-Mackaay/research
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Ejan Mackaay was born in 1943 in Amsterdam.
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