Phil Lord

Phil Lord
Born	Philippe Lord United States
🏫 Education	McGill University Faculty of Law Harvard University Champlain College St. Lawrence
💼 Occupation

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Phil Lord is a Canadian law professor, entrepreneur, and gun control activist from Montreal, Canada. He was appointed at age 24, and he remains the youngest law professor in North America. By age 25, he had published 25 academic articles in prominent law reviews and economics and religious studies journals. His research has been cited and downloaded tens of thousands of times, and he places within the top .2% of authors on SSRN.

Early life and education

Lord was born in the United States. He is a graduate of Champlain College St. Lawrence and has studied at Harvard University. He then attended the McGill University Faculty of Law, graduating on the Dean's Honor List and with the highest standing in property law and constitutional law. He was a senior editor of the McGill Journal of Law and Health. He then pursued an LL.M. as a SSHRC scholar.

Career

Lord has founded several companies. Prior to his appointment, he worked at the Federal Court (Canada) and taught at Carleton University. He was appointed a professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law. He was appointed and remains the youngest law professor in Canada.

Lord's research focuses on public law, taxation law, behavioral economics, and new religious movements. He is an expert on Scientology.

By the time of his appointment, Lord was called to the bar in New York, Massachusetts, and Quebec. He was licensed as a financial planner, an exempt market dealer, and a chief compliance officer of an exempt market dealer. He was also a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In 2021, he was promoted to fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is the youngest fellow of the Institute in Canada and the world.

Gun control advocacy

In several interviews, Lord has advocated for stricter gun control in the United States. He was the organizer of the Montreal March for Our Lives, which was widely covered by media outlets.

Personal life

Lord has suggested he has autism. He is a marathon athlete.

Bibliography

Peer-reviewed publications

• "Scientology’s Legal System" (2019) 21:1 Marburg Journal of Religion 1
• "The Eternal Commitment: Scientology's Billion-Year Contract" (2020) 1:2 International Journal of Coercion, Abuse, and Manipulation 82
• "Access to Inclusive Education for Students with Autism: An Analysis of Canada's Compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities" (2020) 9:5 Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 328
• "Law and Green Eggs and Ham" (2020) 6:2 Anamorphosis: International Journal of Law and Literature 431
• "Case Comment: Garcia v Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization" (2020) 86:2 Arbitration 211
• "The Social Perils and Promise of Remote Work" (2020) 4:S Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 63
• "Tackling the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020) 43:2 Manitoba Law Journal 1
• "Incentivising Employment during the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2020) 8:3 The Theory and Practice of Legislation 355
• "Work, Family and Identity" in Daniel Wheatley, Irene Hardill & Sarah Buglass, eds, Handbook of Research on Remote Work and Worker Well-Being in the Post-COVID-19 Era (Hershey: IGI, 2021) 329
• "Cultivating Humility" (2021) 55:3 The Law Teacher 364
• "Popping the Cap" (2021) 42:1 Health Law in Canada 14
• "Ending Poverty" [2021] Ottawa Law Review Blog

Articles in U.S. law reviews

• Pornhub: Opening the Floodgates?, 11 Houston Law Review Off the Record 54 (2021)
• COVID-19 and the Future of Work, Denver Law Review Forum (2021)
• Religious Legitimacy, 90 UMKC Law Review __ (2021) (forthcoming)
• Black Lives Matter: On Challenging the Soul of Legal Education, 54 Texas Tech Law Review __ (2022) (forthcoming)
• Moral Panic and the War on Drugs, 20 UNH Law Review __ (2022) (forthcoming)

Other scholarly publications

• "What Is the True Purpose of Quebec's Bill 21?" (2020) 9:3 Directions 1
• "Quelle est la réelle raison d'être de la loi 21?" (2020) 9:3 Directions 1 (written and published in French and English)
• "Popping the Cap" [2020] McGill Journal of Law and Health Online
• "COVID-19: Is the Cure 'Worse Than the Problem Itself'?" [2020] McGill Journal of Law and Health Online
• "'Ça ne fonctionne pas!': L'aspect symbolique du droit, du droit criminel à la Loi 21" (2020) 9:6 Directions 1
• "'It Doesn’t Work!': The Symbolic Aspect of Law, From the Criminal Law to Bill 21" (2020) 9:6 Directions 1 (written and published in French and English)
• "Structural Change or Collective Amnesia?" (2020) 57:4 Alberta Law Review 1053 (book review)
• "Recension : L'action collective : ses succès et ses défis" (2020) 61:4 Les Cahiers de droit 1155 (book review)

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