Helge Dedek, McGill University

Research

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Latest funding

Cross-Examining the Mixed Jurisdiction Court : Situating the Private Law Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada in Comparative Perspective
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
$100,802
The history of subjective rights from 1745 to 1945
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$87,293

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Cross-Examining the Mixed Jurisdiction Court : Situating the Private Law Jurisprudence of the Supreme Court of Canada in Comparative Perspective

Co-investigatorSSHRC2025Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Jukier, Rosalie

$100,802

The history of subjective rights from 1745 to 1945

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Dedek, Helge

Keywords: rights; subjective rights; natural rights; (comparative) legal history; history of ideas; comparative law; legal theory; legal philosophy; jurilinguistics; political philosophy; positivism; individualism; communitarianism; Nazism

$87,293

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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