Meet Our Team

Tim Haggstrom, JD

National Director

Tim completed a clerkship with the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan. He holds a J.D. from the University of Saskatchewan, a B.Math from the University of Waterloo, and a B.B.A. from Wilfrid Laurier University. Before his clerkship in Saskatchewan, Tim completed a term of articles with a national law firm in Calgary. He was recently called to the bar in Alberta. While in law school, Tim served as President of the Runnymede Chapter at the University of Saskatchewan. He also worked as a research assistant to Professor Dwight Newman, primarily on topics in constitutional law. His writing on the subject of administrative law has been published in The Supreme Court Law Review. Tim is fluent in French and English, and he has served for two years as coach for a team in the French-speaking division of the Canadian National Negotiation Competition.

Maxime St-Hilaire, LLM, LLD

Quebec Director

Maxime St-Hilaire holds a doctorate in law (LLD) from Laval University and is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at Université de Sherbrooke, where he teaches constitutional law and legal philosophy. In 2021, he won this University’s research and creation award, in the human sciences category, for his book titled Les Positivismes juridiques au XXe siècle. Normativismes, sociologismes, réalismes (PUL, 2020). In 2014, he won the ‘’Prix Minerve 2014’’ award for his book titled La lutte pour la pleine reconnaissance des droits ancestraux: problématique juridique et enquête philosophique (Yvon Blais, 2015). He co-edited, with Joanna Baron, the book/special-issue Attacks on the Rule of Law from Within (Lexis/SCLR, 2019), and edited a special issue on the German philosopher “Axel Honneth and the Law” for Droit et Société in 2011. Professor St-Hilaire has published more than thirty five articles and chapters, among numerous other publications in scholarly and media sources, and given more than sixty talks around the world. He visited numerous research centres and universities, among which the Marc Bloch Centre (Berlin), the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights (Oslo), the Louvain Global College of Law (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), and SciencePo’s Law School (Paris). While a doctoral student, he served as law clerk to the hon. Marie Deschamps J., at the Supreme Court of Canada (2009-10), after an internship at the Venice Commission (2007-8).

Preston Jordan Lim, MGA, JD

Scholar-in-Residence (Major Fellow)

Preston Jordan Lim is an Assistant Professor at Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law. He is on leave during the 2024-2025 academic year to commence an SJD at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He holds an A.B. from Princeton University, a Master’s of Global Affairs from Tsinghua University—where he studied as a Schwarzman Scholar—and a J.D. from Yale Law School. Following his graduation from law school, he clerked for the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and then for Chief Justice Richard Wagner of the Supreme Court of Canada. He also previously served as Foreign Policy Advisor to the Honourable Erin O’Toole. He writes primarily on the history of Canadian federalism and on public international law. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming in the UBC Law Review, Queen’s Law Journal, Dalhousie Law Journal, Canadian Journal of Law and Society, and Canadian Yearbook of International Law, among other outlets