• Company law
• Capital market law
• Business governance
• Economic analysis of law

Stéphane Rousseau is a Full Professor and incumbent of the Chair in Governance and Business Law at the Faculty of Law, where he directs the Centre de droit des affaires et du commerce international. He holds a Doctorate in Law from the University of Toronto, as well as a Master’s Degree in Law from Université Laval. He is a member of the Barreau du Québec. In addition to serving on the board of directors of the Chambre de la securité financière, he is also a member of the Disciplinary Committee of the Montréal Exchange.

Professor Rousseau teaches and researches company law, business governance and capital market law. He is the author or co-author of numerous works, including L'encadrement du secteur des valeurs mobilières par les provinces (Éditions Thémis, 2012), (with Prof. Raymonde Crête), Droit des sociétés par actions, (3rd ed., Éditions Thémis, 2011); (with Prof. Ejan Mackaay), Analyse économique du droit, (2nd ed., Dalloz/Éditions Thémis, 2008) and (with Me. Patrick Desalliers), Les devoirs des administrateurs lors d'une prise de contrôle - Étude comparative du droit du Delaware et du droit canadien (Éditions Thémis, 2007). He has furthermore published numerous studies on business governance, directorial duties and financial market regulation and he regularly delivers conferences in the professional and academic sectors, in Canada and abroad. He directs the “Business Law” division of the Jurisclasseur Québec Encyclopaedia (LexisNexis). Professor Rousseau teaches banking and financial law as visiting professor at Université Paris V – Descartes and Université Paris-Sorbonne Abou Dhabi and is as instructor at the Collège des administrateurs de sociétiés (Université Laval) in the Financial Services Governance module. Professor Rousseau is a member of the Comité sur les personnes morales of the Barreau du Québec, as well as the Legislation & Law Reform Committee of the Canadian Bar Association for the Quebec Branch.

Professor Rousseau was an expert to the Government of Quebec during its reform of corporate law, and also within the context of referrals to the Quebec Court of Appeal and to the Supreme Court of Canada for issues pertaining to the Parliament of Canada’s authority in matters regarding securities. He currently acts as expert counsel in governance to the Table des partenaires influents established by the Ministre de la Culture, des Communications et de la Condition feminine to investigate optimal ways of promoting the presence of women on boards of directors and in the senior management of large private Quebecois companies listed on the Exchange.

Juiristes sans frontières : Mélanges Éjan Mackaay, Montréal, Éditions Thémis, 2015, 706 p.

Laure Nurit-Pontier et Stéphane Rousseau (dir.), Risques, crise financière et gouvernance : perspectives transatlantiques, Montréal/Genève/Limal, Éditions Thémis, Schulthess, Anthemis, 2013, 235 p

Stéphane Rousseau, L'encadrement du secteur des valeurs mobilières par les provinces, Montréal, Éditions Thémis, 2013, 280 p.

Raymonde Crête et Stéphane Rousseau, Droit des sociétés par actions, Montréal, Éditions Thémis, 2011, 939 p.