About the Author

• Author: Gregory Tardi
• Pages: 807-807

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

GREGORY TARDI, BCL, LLB, DJur, is a member of the Barreau du Québec.

After an initial period in private practice in his father’s law f‌irm in Mont-

real, he served in the Public Service of Canada. He worked in a variety

of departments, including the Privy Council Oce and the Department

of Justice. His long experience as legal counsel at Elections Canada and

as senior parliamentary counsel at the House of Commons led him to

formulate his theory of political law. is is a novel way of uniting the

various legal aspects of government into a single subject matter; of focus-

ing on the role of law in democratic governing, in contrast to the role of

policy and politics; and of conceptualizing the accountability of all pub-

lic ocials to law. In this conceptual framework, the legal aspects of elec-

tioneering play a central role. Mr Tardi has taught at Carleton University,

McGill University, and Osgoode Hall Law School. He is the author of

he Legal Framework of Government, he Law of Democratic Governing, and he

heory and Practice of Political Law, as well as a number of articles. He is the

executive editor of the Journal of Parliamentary and Political Law | Revue de

droit parlementaire et politique.