Law - Continuing Education events

A Global perspectives on disability, human rights and accessing justice seminar, organized by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. This seminar is accredited for 2 hours of continuing legal education by the Quebec Bar (activity no. 10075381). Agenda Moderator: TBA Participants: Ravi Malhotra (professeur agrégé, université d’Ottawa, Faculté de droit), Anne-Marie Cotter (boursière O’Brien, CHRLP), Lipi Mishra (étudiante de droit et stagiaire, action juridique pour les personnes handicapées)

The McGill Research Group on Health and Law (RGHL), in collaboration with the Institute for Health and Social Policy, are proud to host Thomas Pogge, Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs, Yale University, for the RGHL's sixth annual lecture.

This year, the 2013 Annual Workshop on Commercial & Consumer Law will be taking place at McGill's Faculty of Law. Established by Professor Emeritus Jacob Ziegel (U. Toronto), this long-running Workshop is the only academic business law conference regularly held in Canada. It is designed to keep legal scholars abreast of current developments in the commercial and consumer law areas.

The Legal Information Clinic at McGill (LICM) is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and, with McGill's Faculty of Law, is proud to invite you to a one-day conference on the legal clinic experience during Homecoming 2013: "Partnering Social Justice and Legal Education across Boundaries."  CALL FOR STORIES & PICTURES ABOUT THE LICM: conference.licm@mcgill.ca

Prof. Frédéric Bachand, Me François Fontaine & Me Doug Mitchell will talk about the new Code of Civil Procedure, provide an overview and discuss its key features in this first instalment of our 2013-2014 Think Ahead / Une pensée d’avance continuing legal education series.

The Fifth annual McGill Conference on International Aviation Liability & Insurance will provide a review of contemporary laws, jurisprudence and developments in International Air Law and Liability Insurance from the perspective of airlines, airports, ANSPs, insurers, manufacturers and lessors. VIEW PROGRAM & REGISTER ONLINE on our secured site https://www.mcgill.ca/iasl-events/ This event brings together some of the world’s leading experts to address the following topics:

A Global perspectives on disability, human rights and accessing justice seminar, organized by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. This seminar is accredited for 2 hours of continuing legal education by the Quebec Bar (activity no. 10075399). Agenda Moderator: Derek J. Jones (groupe de recherche sur la santé et le droit, centre des droits de la personne et du pluralisme juridique)

Join us for this third annual edition of the Constitutional Law Workshops. Panel 1: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Theoretical Dimensions: Deliberative Democracy and Electoral Law Presenters: Daniel Weinstock (McGill), Ron Levy (Griffith), and Hoi Kong (McGill). Commentator: Victor Muñiz-Fraticelli (McGill)

Professor Fabien Gélinas, Professor Geneviève Saumier, and the Honourable Louise Otis will discuss the privatization of civil justice in this second instalment of our 2013-2014 Think Ahead / Une pensée d’avance continuing legal education series.

The Honourable Marie Deschamps, Me Guy Pratte and another speaker will discuss the evolving role of the lawyer in the civil justice system in this third instalment of our 2013-2014 Think Ahead / Une pensée d’avance continuing legal education series.

Professor Angela Campbell and Mes Lynn Kassie and Marie Christine Kirouack will discuss access to justice in family matters in this fourth instalment of our 2013-2014 Think Ahead / Une pensée d’avance continuing legal education series.

Professors Patrick Glenn, Rosalie Jukier and Daniel Jutras will discuss civil justice and the civil law tradition in this fifth and last instalment of our 2013-2014 Think Ahead / Une pensée d’avance continuing legal education series.