Alec Sader

Alec Sader is an associate in Gowling WLG’s Montréal office, practising in Indigenous Law.

Alec holds an integrated Bachelor of Civil Law/Bachelor of Laws (B.C.L./LL.B.), as well as a minor concentration in Indigenous Studies from the Faculty of Law at McGill University. He also holds a Masters of Laws (LLM) from the University of Toronto. His thesis, entitled Indigenous Allodial Homeland, explores the doctrine of discovery, the sovereignty of Indigenous Nations and of the Crown, and ancestral title in Canada.

During his studies, he served as a research assistant to several law faculty professors at McGill University and University of Toronto, and was a teaching fellow in Constitutional Law at both McGill and the Toronto Metropolitan University. From 2020 to 2021, he clerked for the Honourable Justice Janick Perreault at the Superior Court of Quebec.

While at university, Alec served as editor of Inter Gentes: The McGill Journal of International Law and Legal Pluralism, and was editor-in-chief of the journal from 2019 to 2020. He was also the coordinator of external review for the Indigenous Law Journal while at the University of Toronto.

In his spare time, Alec is a goalie for the Lebanese national ice hockey team.