The Authors
Anne Des Ormeaux
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Attached to the Office of Francophonie, Justice in Official Languages and Legal Dualism since 2000, Anne Des Ormeaux is responsible for the valorisation and development of the Canadian legal dualism.  Aside from the research involved in this book, the author has also been responsible for research projects involving law and economics since 2001.

Civil law graduate from the Université de Montréal, Ms. Des Ormeaux also completed undergraduate studies in common law and obtained the diploma awarded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. Member of the Barreau du Québec since 1999 and the Law Society of Upper Canada since 2003, the author was a lecturer at the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law from 2003 to 2008.

Administrator of the project, the author's legal expertise was instrumental in all matters concerning this aspect of the dictionary. She produced the different versions of the ontologies and helped design the bisystemic model that was adopted. Some of the author's other major contributions include: co-authoring the definitions, making the final selection of the excerpts and producing the final draft of the thematic summaries of the selected judgments.

Jean-Marie Lessard
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Graduate of philosophy and linguistics from the Université de Sherbrooke, the author's expertise applies to every aspect of the design, computerization and linguistic use of the large textual and lexical databases, notably for lexicographical purposes.

After working at the Centre d'analyse et de traitement informatique du français québécois (CATIFQ) as a research assistant from 1989 to 1999, and as a lecturer in the Département des lettres et communications during the same period, Jean-Marie Lessard worked as a consultant for the Government of Canada in 2000 and was appointed in 2001 to the position of informatics manager at the Legislative Services Branch of Justice Canada. Since March 2005, the date on which work began on the current dictionary, he is a Senior Advisor to the Office of Francophonie, Justice in Official Languages and Legal Dualism.

The author is responsible for the formal lexicographical development of the dictionary and its computerization, which includes programming the related paper and web publishing applications. His efforts contributed to establishing the dictionary's editorial policy and he worked diligently to monitor its implementation. He was also involved in the conception and development of the bisystemic ontological design used to create the list of entries for the dictionary. He co-authored and edited the final version of the definitions.
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