Richard Janda, Université de Montréal

Research

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Administrative process environmental law economic regulation business associations competition law economic regulation air transport regulation

Latest papers

Morris and the Matrix – Halle Rules: On Morris Halle, “Phonology in Generative Grammar”, WORD 18.1-2 (1962): 54-72
WORD · 2026 · first author
Deconfining Corporate Liability: Assessing Inadequate Oversight of Risk
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2026 · first author
Contesting Sustainability: Academy Impact Paper of the 2025 McGill SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy
SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025

All 97 publications

Latest funding

Real time impact signalling and collective goods
SSHRC · 2016 · Principal investigator
$199,680
Gouvernance pédagogique dans l'enseignement du droit
SSHRC · 2010 · Co-investigator
$140,414
La responsabilité sociale : une redéfinition de l'entreprise comme institution sociale
SSHRC · 2009 · Co-investigator
$28,000

All 9 grants and awards

97 publications.

01

Morris and the Matrix – Halle Rules: On Morris Halle, “Phonology in Generative Grammar”, WORD 18.1-2 (1962): 54-72

Richard D. Janda

WORD2026First author

DOI: 10.1080/00437956.2026.2636312

02

Deconfining Corporate Liability: Assessing Inadequate Oversight of Risk

Richard D. Janda, Mario Michas

SSRN Electronic Journal2026First authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.6118226

03

Contesting Sustainability: Academy Impact Paper of the 2025 McGill SGI Transformative Business Law Summer Academy

Peer C. Zumbansen, Kirsten Anker, Simon Archer, Caroline Omari Lichuma, Sergio Alberto Gramitto Ricci, Chaumtoli Huq, Richard D. Janda, Vitor Henrique Pinto Ido, Daniel Litwin, Ibironke T. Odumosu-Ayanu, Jennifer Raso, Kevin Skerrett, Hamed Taherdoost, Priya Sarin Gupta, Daniel Tsai, Shivani Salunke

SSRN Electronic Journal2025Open Access

DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.5280195

04

Traces of Blaine Baker upon McGill’s Faculty of Law

Richard D. Janda

McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks2022First author

DOI: 10.1515/9780228012252-008

05

Inherent privacy limitations of decentralized contact tracing apps.

Bengio Y, Ippolito D, Janda R, Jarvie M, Prud'homme B, Rousseau JF, Sharma A, Yu YW

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA202153 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1093/jamia/ocaa153 PMID: 32584990

06

Protecting Democratic Expression Online: Canada’s Work in Progress

Richard D. Janda

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG eBooks20211 citationsFirst authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.5771/9783748929789-365

07

The need for privacy with public digital contact tracing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Bengio Y, Janda R, Yu YW, Ippolito D, Jarvie M, Pilat D, Struck B, Krastev S, Sharma A

The Lancet. Digital health2020158 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/s2589-7500(20)30133-3 PMID: 32835192

08

COVI White Paper.

Hannah Alsdurf, Yoshua Bengio, Tristan Deleu, Prateek Gupta, Daphne Ippolito, Richard D. Janda, Max Jarvie, Tyler Kolody, Sekoul Krastev, Tegan Maharaj, Robert Obryk, Dan Pilat, Valerie Pisano, Benjamin Prud'homme, Meng Qu, Nasim Rahaman, Irina Rish, Jean-Franois Rousseau, Abhinav Sharma, Brooke Struck, Jian Guo Tang, Martin Weiß, Yun William Yu

arXiv (Cornell University)202016 citationsOpen Access

09

COVI White Paper

Hannah Alsdurf, Edmond Belliveau, Yoshua Bengio, Tristan Deleu, Prateek Gupta, Daphne Ippolito, Richard D. Janda, Max Jarvie, Tyler Kolody, Sekoul Krastev, Tegan Maharaj, Robert Obryk, Dan Pilat, Valerie Pisano, Benjamin Prud'homme, Meng Qu, Nasim Rahaman, Irina Rish, Jean-François Rousseau, Abhinav Sharma, Brooke Struck, Jian Guo Tang, Martin Weiß, Yun William Yu

arXiv (Cornell University)20209 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2005.08502

10

Perturbations, Practices, Predictions, and Postludes in a Bioheuristic Historical Linguistics

Richard D. Janda

20205 citationsFirst author

DOI: 10.1002/9781118732168.ch24

Real time impact signalling and collective goods

Principal investigatorSSHRC2016Partnership Development Grants

Principal investigators: Janda, Richard A.

Keywords: collective action; public goods; social signalling; big data; life cycle assessment; network behaviour; data privacy and governance; sustainable communities

$199,680

Gouvernance pédagogique dans l'enseignement du droit

Co-investigatorSSHRC2010Standard Research Grants program

Principal investigators: Noreau, Pierre

Keywords: enseignement; droit; justice: interdisciplinarité: culture juridique

$140,414

La responsabilité sociale : une redéfinition de l'entreprise comme institution sociale

Co-investigatorSSHRC2009Research Development Initiatives

Principal investigators: Gendron, Corinne

Keywords: responsabilité sociale; entreprise; définition juridique de l'entreprise; compromis social

$28,000

A normative foundation for ecological economics and the tools for its assessment

Co-investigatorSSHRC2008Research Grants - Canadian Environmental Issues

Principal investigators: Brown, Peter G.

Keywords: civilization; moral foundations; conceptual content; disequilibium; scientific basis of beliefs; earth stewardship; commonwealth of life; purposes of economics; evolutionary cosmology and biology; laws of thermodynamics; land ethic

$233,988

Nouvelles formes de la gouvernance et de la régulation juridique

Co-investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Noreau, Pierre

Keywords: gouvernance; droit; contractualisation; régulation sociale; contrôle social; pluralisme juridique

$137,887

Peuples autochtones et gouvernance

Co-investigatorSSHRC2005Major Collaborative Research Initiatives Program

Principal investigators: Noreau, Pierre

Keywords: peuples autochtones; gouvernance; autonomie gouvernementale; droit autochtone; colonialisme; fédéralisme; sociétés et cultures autochtones; vie associative; entrepreneurship; citoyenneté; reconnaissance; interdisciplinarité; droit constitutionnel

$2,500,000

Expanding Canadian markets with open skies

Co-investigatorSSHRC2004INE - The Canada Project

Principal investigators: Dempsey, Paul S.

Keywords: international trade; market access; commerce; aviation

$162,500

Citizenship and sites of legal normativity

Principal investigatorSSHRC2000Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Janda, Richard

Keywords: law and justice;globalization;politics and government;economic and regional development;international relations;development and trade

$31,500

The social and political function of the corporation in the global economy

Principal investigatorSSHRC1999Relationships in Transition

Principal investigators: Janda, Richard

$11,750

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.

Frequent collaborators

Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle
Faculty of Law
Faculté de droit, Université McGill
Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences
Department of Medicine
Département de sciences de la décision
Civil Law
Other

Co-authors at Université de Montréal, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.

Yun Yu

Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

4 shared papers, latest 2021

Yoshua Bengio

Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle

4 shared papers, latest 2021

Abhinav Sharma

Department of Medicine

2 shared papers, latest 2021

Irina Rish

Département d’informatique et de recherche opérationnelle

2 shared papers, latest 2020

Tegan Maharaj

Département de sciences de la décision

2 shared papers, latest 2020

Tae Oum

Management, Business, Administrative Studies

1 shared papers, latest 2009

Kirsten Anker

Faculty of Law

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Hamed Taherdoost

Faculty

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Jennifer Raso

Faculty of Law

1 shared papers, latest 2025

Charles-Maxime Panaccio

Civil Law

1 shared papers, latest 2001

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