Naivi Chikoc Barreda

Naivi Chikoc Barreda

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Naivi Chikoc Barreda
Associate Professor


Phone
613-562-5800 ext. 3232


Biography

Professor Chikoc Barreda specializes in Private International Law and Comparative private law in a context of globalization. She holds a PhD in Law (University of Lleida, Extraordinary Doctoral Prize, 2020), a LL.M (University of Montreal, 2014), a diploma in notarial law (University of Montreal, 2011) and a LL.B. (University of Havana, 2001). She has been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Private International Law of the University of Heidelberg (2022), the Centre for Private International Law of the University of Aberdeen (2023) and the Research Institute for Notarial Law at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2024).

Her research interests cover a wide range of topics relating to cross-border situations on civil and commercial matters, as well as the notarial profession. In the field of private international law, her studies encompass a variety of subjects, including contracts, cross-border teleworking, the circulation of notarial acts, succession, surrogacy, marriage, divorce and tortious liability. She is a member of the European Association of Private International Law (2021), the Quebec Association of Comparative Law (2020), the Multidisciplinary Observatory on the Future of Private Law (2022), the Centre for Private international law of the University of Aberdeen (2023) and the International Academy of Succession Law (2024). She is a member of the Quebec Chamber of Notaries and represents Quebec as general advisor to the International Union of Notaries (2023). Within this institution, she is a member of the American Affairs Commission, the American Notarial Academy and the working group on “Digitalization and authentic instruments”. 

Fields of interest

Private international law

Comparative private law

International notarial law

Publications and communications

Succession internationale et dispositions particulières de la lex rei sitae : contribution à l'étude de l'impérativité internationale en matière de succession (450 pages), L’Harmattan, Paris, 2022 

Funded research projects

Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (Spain), 2024-2027. Project: "Revision of Regulation (EU) 650/2012 on succession: review of its application and proposal for amendment”. Status: co-researcher. Principal investigators: prof. Diana Marín Consarnau and prof. Josep M. Fontanellas Morell.

Quebec Chamber of Notaries (2024). Project: “The international circulation of digital notarial acts drawn up remotely: current issues and comparative law perspectives”.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (Insight Grant, 2023-2026). Project: “Cross-border telework faced with the regime of international employment contracts in private international law”.

Canadian Legal Research Fund (2023-2024). Project: “Marriage and divorce in the context of globalization: the response of Quebec private international law”.

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) (Knowledge Syntheses Grant, 2020-2021). Prof. Stéphanie Bernstein (UQAM), co-applicant. Project: “Legal issues of cross-border telework: the role of private international law instruments”.