LAW 6455 (2 cr.).Professor

Associate Professor at the University of Montréal’s Faculty of Law, Vincent Gautrais teaches a number of courses on information technology law and business law. Since June 2005, he has held the University of Montréal Chair in e-Security and e-Business Law. He is also Co-Director of the joint Master’s program in electronic commerce (Faculty of Law, HEC Montréal, DIRO ; www.cel.umontreal.ca).

Prior to teaching at the University of Montréal, he was a professor in the common law section at the University of Ottawa. Since 1992, he has been doing research, writing books and articles, giving conferences and doing consulting on electronic business law, electronic contracts, cyber-consumption, network security, dispute resolution by and for the Internet, intellectual property and privacy.

Professor Gautrais holds Licence and Master’s degrees from the Université de Rennes 1 in France and LLD, LLM and LLB degrees from the University of Montréal. His doctoral thesis was published in 2002 by Bruylant (Brussels), and is entitled Le contrat électronique international. Vincent Gautrais is also a lawyer, member of the Barreau du Québec.

Website : www.gautrais.com Tel : (514) 343-7534 Email : vincent.gautrais at umontreal.ca