Jean-Gabriel Castel

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Jean-Gabriel Castel (born 1925) is a French and Canadian law professor and Professor Emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Born in Nice, France he served in the French Resistance during World War II receiving military decorations for his service. After the war, he received two law degrees in Paris. He received a J.D. in 1953 from the University of Michigan and a D. Juris. in 1958 from Harvard University.

From 1954 to 1959, he taught at the Faculty of Law of McGill University. In 1959, he moved to Osgoode Hall Law School and taught there until hs retirement in 1999. From 1957 to 1984, he was Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Bar Review.

He is the author of Canadian Conflict of Laws, the leading Canadian work on the conflict of laws.

In 1985, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a member of the Order of Ontario. He is a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur and officer de l’Ordre national du Mérite.