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Adjunct professors: Vital cogs of cash-strapped universities

Michel Deschamps doesn’t have to teach. In much demand for his expertise in banking and finance and commercial law, the Montreal lawyer trots around the world giving conferences and participating in commercial law reform projects in the area of secured transactions when not taking care of his clients at the Montreal office of McCarthy Tétrault LLP.

Yet for the past 37 years, Deschamps has been an adjunct professor at the Université de Montréal, teaching law students the complexities of banking law. Stellar pupils include the current dean of the Université de Montréal, and two generations of his family, including his daughter and his two sisters, one of whom is Supreme Court of Canada Justice Marie Deschamps.

“It’s not as if I need the revenues from teaching to make a living but I continue to do it because I enjoy teaching and enjoy the exposure to students as they provide me with a window into perspectives of the coming generation,” said Deschamps, who seriously considered becoming an academic before being dissuaded by the dean of the faculty of law at his alma mater.

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