Draft:Helge Dedek

Helge Dedek. is a German-Canadian professor at the McGill University Faculty of Law, where he holds the Wainwright Chair in Civil Law. His research lie in comparative law, legal history, Roman law and theory of private law.

Education
Having obtained the first and second German State Examinations in Law, Dedek held research positions at the University of Cologne and the University of Bonn while pursuing graduate studies. He received his LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School and a doctoral degree from the University of Bonn, Germany.

Academic Career
Helge Dedek joined the Faculty of Law at McGill University as an assistant professor in 2007. In 2012, he was promoted to associate professor with tenure and appointed director of the Institute of Comparative Law, a role he held until 2016. In 2014, he began his tenure as co-editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law.

In 2021, Dedek received the John W. Durnford Award for Teaching Excellence at McGill University Faculty of Law.

He was promoted to the rank of full professor in 2021. In 2023, he was appointed to the Arnold Wainwright Chair in Civil Law

Helge Dedek is an elected Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

He is currently (2024) serving as the Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Comparative Law.

Academic Timeline

 * Professeur Associé (Législations étrangères, droit comparé et transnational), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, 2018 - 2021.
 * Director, Institute of Comparative Law, McGill University, 2012 - 2016.
 * Associate Professor (with tenure), McGill University, Faculty of Law, 2012 - 2020.
 * Assistant Professor (tenure-track), McGill University, Faculty of Law, 2007 - 2012. • Maxwell Boulton Fellow, McGill University, Faculty of Law, 2006 - 2007.
 * Boursier post-doctoral, Institut d'études européennes (IEE), Centre d’excellence sur l’Union européenne, Université de Montréal / McGill University, 2006 - 2007.
 * Research Fellow / Tutor (full-time), Institut für Römisches Recht und Vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte, University of Bonn, 2005 - 2006.
 * Research Fellow / Tutor (full-time), Institut für Arbeits- und Wirtschaftsrecht, University of Cologne, 1998 - 2003.
 * Teaching / Research Assistant, Institut für Römisches Recht, University of Cologne, 1994 - 1996.

Publications

 * Dedek, Helge, ed. (2021) A Cosmopolitan Jurisprudence. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108894760 OCLC 1256592093
 * Dedek, Helge, & Werro, Franz, eds., What we write about when we write about comparative law: Pierre Legrand's critique in discussion. American Journal of Comparative Law 65, Special Issue, 2017.
 * Dedek, Helge & Van Praagh, Shauna (2015), Stateless Law, Routledge ISBN 9781138720039 OCLC 1120659237
 * Dedek, Helge. "Private law rights as democratic participation: Kelsen on private law and (economic) democracy." University of Toronto Law Journal 71, no. 3 (2021): 376-414.
 * Dedek, Helge. "Duties of love and self-perfection: Moses Mendelssohn’s theory of contract." Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 32, no. 4 (2012): 713-739.
 * Dedek, Helge. "A Particle of Freedom: Natural Law Thought and the Kantian Theory of Transfer by Contract”(2012) 25." Canadian Journal Law & Jurisprudence 2: 313.

Peer Accolades (abbreviated)

 * John W. Durnford Teaching Excellence Award, McGill Faculty of Law (selected by the students of the Faculty via the McGill Law Students Association), 2021.
 * Elected Titular Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, 7/2021.
 * McGill Faculty of Law Research Award, 2017.
 * Elected Honorary Corresponding Member of the German Association of Comparative Law, 6/2016 - present.
 * Elected Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law, 6/2013.
 * BRAVO McGill, McGill University, Montreal, February 10/17, 2009.
 * Award of the Universitätsgesellschaft Bonn (University Society Bonn), 2007. Annual award for the best works by doctoral students of all faculties of the University of Bonn.
 * Award of the Stifterverband für die deutsche Wissenschaft: in support of the publication of an outstanding work of scholarship, 2006.
 * Award of the Editors of the “Journal of European Private Law” (“Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht”) – Prof. Reinhard Zimmermann, Prof. Jürgen Basedow et al.