Joseph E. Roach, B.A. (S.C.), B.Ed. (N.B.), LL.B., is Emeritus Professor of Law and a graduate of the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa, where he has been teaching property law, landlord and tenant law, and mortgage law for more than 40 years. He was the first Director of the French Common Law Program created at the University of Ottawa in 1977, and has played a key role in its development ever since, especially with respect to the French property law terminology. In light of his involvement in the Franco-Ontarian community he was awarded a life time membership with the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario. He is also a member of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Ottawa.
He has published books in both French and English on mortgage law please see references below. He has also collaborated in the development of French Common Law terminology with the Centre of translation and legal terminology at the University of Ottawa as well as the Comity of Standardisation (PAJLO).
Having rendered over 400 awards, in French and English, he has acted as a labour arbitrator since 1974. For many years he acted as part-time Chairman of the Board of Referees for the Ontario Regional Decision and, in particular, for the District of Ottawa within the Unemployment Insurance Commission. He was also a member of the Commission of Inquiry on Forty Catholic Church-Related Colleges and Universities in Canada.
Life Member of the The Society of Upper Canada, Membre à vie de l’Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario, Honorary Member of the Canadian Bar Association, and Honorary Member of the County of Carleton Law Association.