Pascal McDougall is an Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law - Civil Law Section. His main areas of research are comparative and international labor law, European Union law, economic development, and human rights. His current projects aim to elaborate reform proposals to make labor law and macroeconomic policies more responsive to the needs of low-wage workers, in countries of both the Global North and the Global South.
Professor McDougall holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School (2021), a Master of Laws from the University of Toronto (2013), and a Licence en droit from the University of Ottawa (2011). His dissertation, titled Labor Unions, Firm Governance, and Their Macroeconomic Infrastructure: A Legal Institutionalist Revision of the Economics of Collective Bargaining, develops a new economic model of collective bargaining that foregrounds the impact of macroeconomic policies on labor law's redistributive potential, particularly in the peripheral states of the European Union and the Global South.
A member of the Quebec Bar, Professor McDougall has worked as an in-house trainee lawyer at the Confederation of National Labor Unions in Montreal (2014) and as a law clerk to Justice Clément Gascon of the Supreme Court of Canada (2015-2016). He was a visiting researcher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva (2018) and the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory at McGill University (2019). Prior to joining the Faculty of Law - Civil Law Section, Professor McDougall taught International Labor Law, European Labor Law, and Law and Development at Sciences Po in Paris, where he was a visiting fellow in 2020 and 2021.