Sébastien Grammond
Sébastien Grammond is Professor at the Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa. His main research interests pertain to indigenous peoples and the law and, more generally, to the legal treatment of minority issues. He authored three books and several published papers on those subjects. Aménager la coexistence : les peuples autochtones et le droit canadien, published in 2003, is a comprehensive textbook on indigenous peoples and the law in Canada and received the Quebec Bar Foundation prize. A revised version was published in English in 2013 under the title Terms of Coexistence: Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Law. Another book, Identity Captured by Law: Membership in Canada’s Indigenous Peoples and Linguistic Minorities (2009) provides an in-depth analysis of how legal definitions of membership in indigenous communities and linguistic groups may be compatible with human rights and the autonomy of the groups concerned. Sébastien Grammond’s current research projects focus on the recognition of indigenous groups and benefit from funding granted by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada. His other publications in this field deal with issues such as the adaptation of human rights to cultural difference or the reception of indigenous legal systems in Canadian law.
