Meet Our Team

Tim Haggstrom, JD

Directeur National

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

Directeur Québec

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

Boursier en résidence (Boursier Major)

Preston Jordan Lim est professeur assistant à la faculté de droit Charles Widger de Villanova University. Il est en congé pendant l'année universitaire 2024-2025 afin de commencer un doctorat en sciences juridiques à la faculté de droit de l'Université de Toronto. Il est titulaire d'un baccalauréat de Princeton University, d'une maîtrise en affaires mondiales de Tsinghua University - où il a étudié en tant que Schwarzman Scholar - et d'un doctorat en droit (juris doctor) de la faculté de droit de Yale. Après avoir obtenu son diplôme de droit, il a été stagiaire auprès des juges de la Cour d'appel de l'Ontario et ensuite du juge en chef Richard Wagner de la Cour suprême du Canada. Il a également été conseiller en politique étrangère auprès de l'honorable Erin O'Toole. Il écrit principalement sur l'histoire du fédéralisme canadien et sur le droit international public. Ses travaux ont été publiés ou vont l'être dans la UBC Law Review, le Queen's Law Journal, le Dalhousie Law Journal, le Canadian Journal of Law and Society et le Canadian Yearbook of International Law, entre autres.