Hugo B. Lafrenière is an Assistant Professor in the French Common Law Program. He holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) and an LLB with a minor in philosophy from McGill University (2005) as well as an LLM in legal theory (2017) and a JSD (2022) from New York University, where he received the John Bruce Moore Award for excellence in legal philosophy.
Before joining the University of Ottawa, Professor Lafrenière completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) (2022-23), where he taught political and moral philosophy. He then taught trans-systemic property law at McGill University as a Junior Boulton Fellow (2023-24).
His current research interests lie at the intersection between private law, political philosophy and moral philosophy. He is particularly interested in the relationship between personal autonomy and distributive justice and the implications of this relationship for property law.