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Règles de l'art - François Le Moine - Droit de l'art - Droit du patrimoine - Art Law
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François Le Moine - Règles de l'art

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Combining his passions for art and law,

François Le Moine can assist you with

your matters relating to

works of art and cultural patrimony,

whether they call for legal advice,

contractual negotiations,

or litigation and dispute resolution.

Formation et Barreau

  • Member of the Québec Bar.

  • Master of Laws (LL.M.), McGill University, 2020

  • Bachelor of Civil Law and Bachelor of Laws (B.C.L. / LL.B.), McGill University, 2012

  • Master’s in Political Philosophy, Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, 2009

  • Bachelor of Arts in History, Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2005.

Enseignement et engagement communautaire

  • Teaching a seminar on Art and Cultural Heritage Law at Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Law (2015 to present).

  • President, Association littéraire et artistique internationale – Canada and member of the international executive of the association (2021 to present).

  • Co-president of Culture Montréal’s Permanent Commission on Public Art (2022-present ; member since 2017).

  • Member of the Board of directors of MU (2021 to present).

  • Member of the Board of directors of Les Productions Porte Parole (2020 to present).

  • Member of the Board of directors of Héritage Charlevoix (2020 to present).

  • Associate researcher at the Chaire de recherche sur la gouvernance des musées et le droit de la culture at the Université du Québec à Montréal (2019 to present).

  • Governor of the Future at the Fondation du Barreau du Québec (2019-2021).

  • Member of the Board of directors of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels (2019-2023).

  • Member of the Board of directors of the Association des juristes pour l’avancement de la vie artistique (2018-2020).

  • Supervising lawyer at the Clinique internationale de défense des droits humains de l’Université du Québec à Montréal in a file regarding the dispossession of cultural objects in Sub-Saharan Africa during the colonial period and in a trial on the free access to courts before the European Court of Human Rights (2017 and 2018).

  • Numerous presentations on Art Law and Copyright to High School and University students in museology, art history, music, law and business, as well as during a hackathon.

Scholarships and Prizes

  • Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (2021-2024). 

  • Doctoral Research Scholarship, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture, refused (2021-2024).

  • Prize for best publication for the article “Noli me tangere: affiner le régime québécois d’immunité de saisie pour les objets culturels” (2020) 65:4 McGill Law Journal 625 (Centre de recherche en droit public, 2022).

  • Mobility Award to present the conference “The implementation of UNESCO 1970 in Canada: Crimes, export restrictions and Museum Policy” at La Sapienza (Rome), McGill University – Faculty of Law (2021).

  • Grad Excellence Award, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2020-2021).

  • Ian C. Pilarczyk Graduate Award in Law, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2020).

  • Oppenheimer scholarship, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2020).

  • Heather Munroe-Blum Fellowship in Public Policy, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2019-2020 and 2020-2021).

  • Chief Justice R.A. Greenshields Memorial Scholarship for Graduate Studies, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2019-2020).

  • Research Scholarship to perform research and write an article on the immunity from seizure for cultural objects temporarily on loan to Québec museums, Fondation du Barreau du Québec (2017).

  • Katherine A. Pearson Scholarship – Public Policy Graduate Award, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2017).

  • Fraser Mann Fellowship, Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2017).

  • Osgoode Society Legal History Prize, best essay in the history of law, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2012).

  • Wainwright Fellowship to write an essay in the history of law, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2011).

  • Mobility Award to complete an exchange at the University of Copenhagen, McGill University – Faculty of Law (2011).

  • Li Ka Shing Fellowship to participate in a study program on the Chinese judicial system at Shantou University, Li Ka Shing Foundation (2010).

  • Justice Harry Batshaw Prize, best average in Foundations of Law class (ex aequo, 2009).

  • JASSO Scholarship (Japan Student Service Organisation) that financed the year of study in Tokyo at the Keio University, Government of Japan (2005-2006).

  • MAJOR Scholarship that financed three years of study in Paris at the Sorbonne and the EHESS, Ministère des affaires étrangères de France (2004-2007).

  • Excellence scholarship that financed two years of study in Paris at the Université de Paris 1 : Panthéon-Sorbonne, Agence pour l’enseignement du français à l’étranger (2002-2004).

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