Event

Legal professions today are evolving at an unprecedented pace.

International trade and the increasing activity and movement of jurists and firms across borders raise the fundamental question of the future of the legal professions in a changing world.

More locally, the diversity of practices, clients’ changing demands, and the need to ensure fair and equitable access to justice raise the equally fundamental question of how the legal professions can be reconstructed to meet contemporary challenges.

The Meredith Lectures will provide an occasion to discuss these timely issues at a moment when deep reflection on the future of the legal professions is taking place in Europe and elsewhere.

Distinguished guests at this event

• Mtre Jean-Michel Darrois, Chair of the French Commission d’étude sur les professions juridiques, mandated by President Sarkozy;
• Olivier Favereau, noted French economist and specialist in the economics of professional orders;
• Mtre Michel Beauchamp, notaire
• Mtre Gérald Tremblay, Bâtonnier of Quebec;
• Mtre Denis Marsolais, President of the Chambre des notaires du Québec;
• Mahmud Jamal, partner at Osler in Toronto;
• Christophe Jamin, professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques in Paris (Sciences Po) and Senior Boulton Fellow at McGill’s Faculty of Law;
• The Honourable Yves-Marie Morissette, judge at the Quebec Court of Appeal; and
• McGill Law Professors H. Patrick Glenn, Frédéric Bachand, and Geneviève Saumier.

A reception will follow (17h-18h30).

Cost

Free of charge (registration closed on Feb. 5).

About the Meredith Memorial Lectures

The 2009 Meredith Memorial Lectures, organized jointly by the Faculty of Law of McGill University, the Quebec Bar, the Montreal Bar and the Chambre des notaires du Québec, is an apportunity to consider these questions in the context of the Quebec legal professions.

The series was established to honour the late W.C.J. Meredith, QC, Dean of the Law Faculty from 1950-60. In 2006, the Meredith Memorial Lectures theme was Intellectual Property. Since 1961, each year's lectures have been published in book form.

Please note that the proceedings will be in French.