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In his essays on the history and evolution of western legal traditions and in his most recent theoretical monograph entitled ABCDE he draws the several threads of his scholarship together in a grand synthesis of the local vernacular and the transcendent in legal normativity. [...] His studies on the right to privacy and the legal regimes governing the treatment of refugees, the latter being the subject of a monograph authored while he held the Bora Laskin Fellowship in Human Rights Law, reflect his capacity to see overarching legal ideals that inform apparently disparate branches of the law. [...] During the past two decades he has written several studies on codification, the interpenetration of the Civil law and the Common law traditions and the notion of mixed legal systems. [...] He has served as the Director of the Institute of Comparative Law at ZZZ University and has been a President of both the Quebec and Canadian Comparative Law Associations. [...] YYY hAS been At the forefront of scholArs who Are closely investigAting the normAtive And conceptuAl premises of AboriginAl lAw AS the “lAw of AboriginAl peoples.” This tASk hAS led him into the fields of legAl Anthropology And legAl plurAlism theory.