Jean-Gabriel Castel

1999 Read Medal Recipient

O.C., O.Q., Q.C., B.Sc., J.D. (Mich.), S.J.D. (Harv.), Lic. en droit (Paris), F.R.S.C.

Jean-Gabriel Castel earned degrees at the universities of Paris, Michigan and Harvard. He joined the Faculty of Law at McGill University (1954-59) and then moved to the Osgoode Hall Law School (1959-1999), where he is still an active Professor Emeritus.  Dr. Castel was the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bar Review (1957-84). He has received numerous honours, including a Queen’s Counsel in Ontario, a Member of the Royal Society of Canada, an Officer of the Order of Canada, and a distinguished Research Professor at York University. He was also honoured by France, which has made him a Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur, an office of the Order de Mérite and of the Palmes Académiques and an Associate Member of the Académie du Var. Dr. Castel has published 14 books, including the three-volume treatise “Canadian Conflict of Laws” and”International Law, chiefly as Interpreted and Applied in Canada, and over a hundred monographs and articles on the conflict of laws, establishing him as one of the world’s leading scholars in the field of private and public international law. Dr. Castel was a founding member of the CCIL and a founding editor of the Canadian yearbook for international Law.