David Lametti

Faculty of Law

Biography

David Lametti is an Associate Professor of Law, McGill University, a member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP). He teaches and writes in the areas of Civil and Common law property, intellectual property and legal theory. His work to date has attempted to understand the parameters of traditional and intellectual resources in analytic terms, linking them to their underlying justifications and ethical goals.

David Lametti obtained a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto in 1985, and received his first Common and Civil law degrees from McGill in 1989. He received an LL.M. from the Yale Law School in 1991, and a doctorate in law at Oxford University; his thesis was entitled "Ethical Aspects of the Theory and Practice of Private Property". He was a clerk to Justice Peter Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-90.

David Lametti recently received a three-year SSHRC Research Grant for his project, "Copyright's Cross Currents: The Evolution of Copyright's Foundations and Copyright Governance".

His most recent representative publications are “The Objects of Virtue” in G. Alexander and E. Peñalver, eds. Property and Community (New York; Oxford University Press, 2010) 1-37, and “How Virtue Ethics Might Help Erase C-32’s Conceptual Incoherence”, in M. Geist (ed), From "Radical Extremism" to "Balanced Copyright": Canadian Copyright and the Digital Agenda, Toronto; Irwin Law, 2010) 309-340.

Education

BA Toronto (Econ & Pol Sci), 1985

LL.B., B.C.L. McGill, 1989

LL.M. Yale, 1991

DPhil Oxford, 1999

Employment

Director, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy , 2010-

Associate Dean (Academic), 2008-2011

Director of research, CIPP, 2007-2010

Associate Professor, McGill Faculty of Law, 2003-

Member, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, McGill University, 2003-

Director, Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University, 2002-2004

Acting Director, Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University, Jan.1-Dec.31, 2000

Assistant Professor, McGill Faculty of Law, 1997-2003

University Lecturer, McGill Faculty of Law, 1996-97

Faculty Lecturer, McGill Faculty of Law, 1995-96

Visiting Research Fellow, University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law, 1994-95

Junior Dean, Exeter College Oxford University, 1993-94

Law Clerk to Mr. Justice Peter Cory, Supreme Court of Canada, 1989-90

Areas of Interest

Intellectual property, legal and political philosophy, common and civil law property and aboriginal title.