Nicholas Kasirer
Nicholas Kasirer is a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, who was sworn into office on September 16, 2019.
Kasirer was previously a justice with the Quebec Court of Appeal between the years of 2009 to 2019. He is a graduate of the McGill University Faculty of Law, where he served as an editor for the McGill Law Journal, and where he later served as a Professor from 1989 to 2009 and Dean of the Faculty from 2003 to 2009. He has written more than a dozen books on legal matters and taught classes on the law of obligations, property law, family law, and wills and estates law in both civil and common law. On 10 July 2019 he was nominated to the Supreme Court of Canada by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. On August 7, 2019, he was officially appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada effective as of September 16, 2019.Books
- Kasirer, Nicholas, Le droit civil, avant tout un style?, Montréal, Les Éditions Themis, Canada.
On September 22, 2012, the Université de Sherbrooke granted an honorary doctoral degree to the Hon. Nicholas Kasirer.
