Ejan Mackaay
Ejan Mackaay (born 1943) is a Canadian emeritus professor of law and author. He was a professor of law at the Université de Montréal between 1972 and 2009. Career. Ejan Mackaay was born in Amsterdam. He obtained an LL.M from the University of Amsterdam in 1966 and an LL.M from the University of Toronto in 1977, with Michael Trebilcock as thesis adviser. He obtained his LL.D. at the University of Amsterdam in 1980 codirected by Arnold Heertje and Hans Franken on a thesis titled: "Economics of information and law". Mackaay became professor of law at the Université de  Montréal in 1972. He retired in 2009. He specialises in Economic Analysis of Law and intellectual property. Over the years, Mackaay has been involved in several organisations and institutions, including Fellow at CIRANO since 2010, director of the Centre for the Law of Business and International Trade (CDACI) (2005–2008) and director of the Public Law Research Centre (CRDP) (1999–2003), at the Université de Montréal. In 1986, he was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 1996, he was awarded the Minerva Prize of the Netherlands Society of Translators for the translation of the  Netherlands Civil Code into French. In 2013, he won the Vogel Book Prize for his work "Law and Economics for Civil Law Systems". On 13 November 2018, the Aix-Marseille University awarded him an honorary doctorate in law. His research has always aimed at making the law more easily accessible, by focusing on the intersection of law and neighbouring sciences, including information technology and social sciences ("jurimetrics", Law and economics). Publications. Other publications. Several publications of Ejan Mackaay can be found on these websites: References.