Herbert Marx

Who is Herbert Marx?

Herbert Marx is a Canadian lawyer, university law professor, politician, and judge. He was a member of the National Assembly of Quebec from 1979 to 1989, and a cabinet member, and a Justice of the Quebec Superior Court.

Herbert Marx was born in Montreal in 1932. He graduated from Baron Byng High School.

Subsequently, he attended Concordia University; Université de Montréal;; and Harvard Law School.

Throughout his law studies, he received a number of prizes. Moreover, he was awarded the Prix du Barreau for having come first in the Quebec Bar Exams in 1968. He was also awarded scholarships by the Quebec and Canadian Governments.

Between 1955-1964, he worked in the lighting industry, becoming vice-president of Verd-A-Ray Industries Ltd.

In 1967-68 he articled in the law firm of Stikeman Elliott in Montreal. He joined the Faculty of Law at the Université de Montréal in July 1969. Over the next ten years, he taught constitutional law, civil liberties and poverty law.

Between 1969-79, Prof. Marx was a consultant to the Quebec Ministries of Justice, Education and Intergovernmental Affairs as well as to the Canada Law Reform Commission, the Quebec Civil Code Revision Office, the Quebec Gendron Commission on Language Rights and the Montreal Island School Council. He was also a visiting professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University Faculty of Law. In 1969, he was a founding member of the Pointe Saint-Charles Legal Aid Clinic in Montreal.