Herbert Marx (politician), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Herbert Marx (politician)

Canadian politician

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1932

Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: Canada

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Herbert Marx (politician)

  • Herbert Marx (born March 16, 1932) is a Canadian lawyer, university law professor, politician, and judge.
  • He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1979 to 1989, a cabinet minister, and a Justice of the Quebec Superior Court. Herbert Marx was born in Montreal in 1932 and graduated from Baron Byng High School.
  • He attended Concordia University (B.A., 1958); UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al (M.A., English Literat7); and Harvard Law School (LL.M., 1969).
  • Throughout his law studies, he received a number of prizes.
  • Moreover, he was awarded the Prix du Barreau for having come first in the Quebec Bar Exams in 1968.
  • He was also awarded scholarships by the Quebec and Canadian Governments. Between 1955 and 1964, he worked in the lighting industry, becoming vice-president of Verd-A-Ray Industries Ltd. In 1967 and 1968 he articled in the law firm of Stikeman Elliott in Montreal.
  • He joined the Faculty of Law at the UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al in July 1969.
  • Over the next ten years, he taught constitutional law, civil liberties and poverty law.
  • Between 1969 and 1979, he was a consultant to the Quebec Ministries of Justice, Education and Intergovernmental Affairs as well as to the Canada Law Reform Commission, the Quebec Civil Code Revision Office, the Quebec Gendron Commission on Language Rights and the Montreal Island School Council.
  • He was also a visiting professor at the UniversitĂ© du QuĂ©bec Ă  MontrĂ©al and McGill University Faculty of Law.
  • In 1969, he was a founding member of the Pointe Saint-Charles Legal Aid Clinic in Montreal.
  • He was a Commissioner of the Quebec Human Rights Commission from 1975 to 1979, and a member of the Consultative Committee of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario from 1977 to 1982. In 1979, he was elected in a by-election as the member from D'Arcy-McGee to the Quebec National Assembly.
  • He was re-elected in 1981 and 1985.
  • He was Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Quebec from 1985 to 1988. He was appointed a Justice of Quebec Superior Court in 1989 by the Government of Canada and took mandatory retirement in 2007. He is active in a number of non-governmental organizations: Co-chair of the McGill Consortium for Human Rights Advocacy Training; Co-Chair of the McGill Middle East Programme in Civil Society and Peace Building; Governor of Tel Aviv University; President of the Association for Canadian Studies; Member of the Board of the Tolerance Foundation. He is the author and co-author of the following books: Les Problèmes constitutionnels posĂ©s par la restructuration scolaire de l'Ă®le de MontrĂ©al (with F.
  • Chevrette and A.
  • Tremblay), Editeur officiel du QuĂ©bec, 83 pages. Les Grand arrĂŞts de la jurisprudence constitutionnelle au Canada, Les Presses de l'UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al, 761 pages. Droits et pauvretĂ© au QuĂ©bec: documents, notes et problèmes (with J.
  • Hetu), Les Edition ThĂ©mis, 566 pages. The Law and the Poor in Canada (with I.
  • Cotler), Black Rose Books, 143 pages. Droit Constitutionnel (with F.
  • Chevrette), Les Presses de l'UniversitĂ© de MontrĂ©al, 1728 pages.He is also the author of many peer-reviewed articles on constitutional law, civil liberties and poverty law.

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