David Lametti
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David Lametti MP |
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| Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of International Trade | |
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Assumed office December 2, 2015 |
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| Minister |
Chrystia Freeland François-Philippe Champagne |
| Preceded by | Parm Gill |
| Member of the Canadian Parliament for LaSalle—Émard—Verdun |
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Assumed office October 19, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Hélène LeBlanc |
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August 10, 1962 Port Colborne, Ontario |
| Political party | Liberal |
| Spouse(s) | Geneviève Saumier |
| Children | 3 |
| Residence | Montreal, Quebec |
| Alma mater |
University of Toronto McGill University Yale University Oxford University |
| Profession | Law professor |
David Lametti (born August 10, 1962) is a Canadian Liberal politician. He was a Professor of Law at McGill University, a Member of the Institute of Comparative Law, and a founding member of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP). Lametti was elected as the Member of Parliament for the riding of LaSalle—Émard—Verdun in the 2015 federal election.
Lametti was born on August 10, 1962 in Port Colborne, Ontario, to Italian immigrants. Lametti earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from the University of Toronto in 1985, and his Common and Civil law degrees at McGill University in 1989. He then served as a clerk to Justice Peter deCarteret Cory of the Supreme Court of Canada in 1989-90. In 1991, Lametti obtained a Masters in Law (L.L.M.) from Yale Law School and in 1999, he received his Doctorate of Philosophy in law from Oxford University (Exeter College), with a thesis on the ethics and obligations of private property ownership.
In 1995, after having been a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick, Lametti accepted a lecturing position at the Faculty of Law, McGill University, where he has continued to teach and conduct research. Lametti became an Assistant Professor in 1998, an Associate Professor in 2003, and was promoted to Full Professor in 2015. He lectures and writes on subjects related to Civil and Common law property, intellectual property, property theory and ethics. His work led to the creation of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy, which he co-founded in 2003 and for which he served as director from 2009 to 2011.
Lametti is the author of many academic publications on the subjects of property, intellectual property, and social norms. He has lectured in English, French and Italian in major universities around the world.
Lametti was Associate Dean (Academic) of the McGill law faculty from 2008–2011, was a member of McGill University’s Senate from 2012 to 2015, and is a Governor of the Fondation du Barreau du Québec.
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