Teaching Personnel

Abbass, Jobe Full Professor Program: Office : GIG 229 Phone: 613-236-1393, ext.: 2263 Email: jabbass@ustpaul.ca Web Site: http://ustpaul.ca

Research Activities:

Comparative Law; Eastern Law; Religious Law; Church and State

Education:

Civil Lawyer L.L.B., 1975;
Canon Lawyer Doctorate, 1991;
Franciscan Priest M.Div., 1985

Courses taught:

Church and State
Eastern Canon Law
Religious Law

Publications:

Two Codes in Comparison, 2nd ed., 2007
The Consecrated Life: A Comparative Commentary of the Eastern and Latin Codes, 2008
"Revising the Eastern Canons on the Consecrated Life", 2011
"The Eastern Code: A Resource for the Revision of the Latin Code", 2011
"CCEO Canon 1 and Absolving Eastern Catholics in the Latin Church", 2012
"The Explanatory Note regarding CCEO canon 1: A Commentary," 2012
"Canonican Studies: Making the Case for a Course on Conflict of Laws", 2012
"Transfer to Another Church sui iuris, including teh Latin Church (CCEO c. 32, 2)", 2012
"Inculturation in the Eastern Code", 2012