Michael J. Trebilcock (born 1941) is a New Zealand-born, Canadian-based law academic. He is currently

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and professor of law at the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

, specializing in

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Early life

Trebilcock attended

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Teacher

Trebilcock taught at the

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, South Australia, until 1969, when he came to Canada as a visiting associate professor of law at

McGill Law School The Faculty of Law is one of the professional graduate schools of McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is the oldest law school in Canada, and continually ranks among the best law schools in the world. The faculty is known for it ...

. He was appointed associate professor of law at McGill in 1970 and joined the faculty of law at the

as a professor of law in 1972. He has served as national vice-president of the

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, chair of the Consumer Research Council and research director of the Professional Organizations Committee for the Government of Ontario. He was a fellow in law and economics at the

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in 1976, a visiting professor of law at

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in 1985, and a global law professor at

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in 1997 and 1999. From 1982 to 1986 he was a member of the Research Council of the Canadian Institute of Advanced Research. In 1987 he was elected a fellow of the

Royal Society of Canada The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; french: Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (French: ''Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada''), is the senior national, bil ...

and was appointed a university professor in 1990. He was honoured with a University of Toronto Teaching Award in 1986.

Author

He was awarded the Warren Owen Prize in 1989 by the Foundation for Legal Research for his book, ''The Common Law of Restraint of Trade'', which was chosen as the best law book in English published in Canada in the past two years. He has since authored ''The Limits of Freedom of Contract'' and co-authored ''The Regulation of International Trade; Exploring the Domain of Accident Law: Taking the Facts Seriously''; and ''The Making of the Mosaic: A History of Canadian Immigration Policy''.

Awards

Trebilcock specializes in law and economics, international trade and contract and commercial law. He serves as co-director of the Law and Economics Program. In 1999, Trebilcock received an honorary doctorate in laws from McGill University and was awarded the Canada Council

Molson Prize The Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize for the Arts is awarded by the Canada Council, Canada Council for the Arts. Two prizes are awarded annually to distinguished individuals. One prize is awarded in the arts, one in the social sciences and human ...

in the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the same year he was elected an honorary foreign fellow of the

American Academy of Arts and Sciences The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (abbreviation: AAA&S) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States. It was founded in 1780 during the American Revolution by John Adams, John Hancock, James Bowdoin, Andrew Oliver, and ...

Select publications

*'Economic Criteria of Unconscionability' in Reiter and Swan (eds), ''Studies in Contract Law'' 390 *'The Law and Economics of Contract Modifications' (with Aivazian and Penny) (1984) 22 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 173 * Michael Trebilcock and Ron Daniels, Rule of Law Reform and Development: Charting the Fragile Path of Progress (Edward Elgar, June 2008).

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Trebilcock, Michael Canadian legal scholars Living people University of Toronto Faculty of Law faculty University of Canterbury alumni Adelaide Law School alumni 1941 births People educated at Rangiora High School Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada Law and economics scholars