Helge Dedek Author & Editor

Helge Dedek is an Associate Professor of Law and the Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University, Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada, where he teaches courses in private law, legal history and legal theory. He holds a doctoral degree from the University of Bonn (Germany), two German ’State Examination’ degrees in law, and an LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was a Langdon H. Gammon Fellow. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law. He has been an invited Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities ’Law as Culture’ at the University of Bonn and an invited Fellow at the Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and International Private Law in Hamburg. Shauna Van Praagh is an Associate Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law and Institute of Comparative Law at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, where she has taught since 1995 and served as Associate Dean from 2007 to 2010. A graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Sc., LL.B.) and Columbia University (LL.M., J.S.D.), she teaches primarily in the area of obligations law, and her research and writing focuses on comparative law, legal education and pedagogy, children and law, and social diversity and law. She has been an active participant and leader in the ongoing and unique development of the McGill Faculty of Law’s programs of legal education and integrated pedagogy, and served as the 2013-2014 President of the Canadian Association of Law Teachers.