Pascale Cornut St-Pierre is Doctor from Sciences Po Law School, Paris. She holds a B.A. (2007) and a M.A. (2009) in philosophy from the Université de Montréal, as well as an integrated degree in civil law and common law from McGill University (B.C.L./LL.B., 2013).

Her research focuses on the ways in which business communities perceive, mobilize and develop the law in the course of their activities. Her works deal mainly with corporate and financial law, but draw heavily on research from the social sciences, such as sociology of law, economic sociology, political economy and critical studies.

Her dissertation defended under the supervision of Professor Benoit Frydman, is about the role of legal work in contemporary financial innovation. She analyses the role and techniques of standard-form contracts, like the ISDA Master Agreement, in the emergence of new financial instruments and the development of their global markets.

Since July 2016, Pascale joined the Faculty of Law of University of Ottawa (Civil Law Section) as an assistant professor, where she teaches the law of business associations. She was previously a lecturer in the sociology of law and in the law of obligations, at Sciences Po, Paris, and at the Faculty of Law of McGill University.

Les swaps ou l'innovation financière aux mains des juristes : contribution à l'étude socio-juridique de la financiarisation.