Jean-Claude Danis is a Canadian university lecturer and judge. Danis completed a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science at Loyola College (since renamed Concordia University) in 1972, studied for a Master of Arts in Political Science at Harvard University in 1973, completed a Master of Arts in Political Science at Fordham University in 1974, and a Bachelor of Civil Law at the Université de Sherbrooke in 1978. He is the son of a former judge of the Superior Court of Quebec, and the brother of Marcel Danis, a former Canadian politician, lawyer and university administrator/lecturer. He served as a staff member for Joe Clark, then the opposition leader in 1982-83 and later as his brother's unofficial aide while the brother was deputy speaker of the Canadian House of Commons. He travelled to Guatemala late in 1985 for an election rally for presidential candidate Jorge Carpio Nicolle and discussions about Canadian International Development Agency financing for a proposed fertilizer factory. He teaches a number of political science courses at Concordia University. He has been a commissioner (an administrative law judge) at the Commission d'appel en matière de lésions professionnelles, the independent administrative tribunal which then handled workers' compensation appeals, from 1992 until 1998, and at the Commission des lésions professionnelles since 1998.
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