Institute of Comparative Law

Founded in 1966, the Institute of Comparative Law reflects a commitment to comparative legal study and scholarship at McGill that finds its origins in the mid-nineteenth century, when the Faculty of Law was established.

The Institute of Comparative Law (ICL) offers graduate students at McGill Law a space for the intellectual development and exchange of ideas related to comparative law and learning. Apart from its pedagogical activities, the ICL has been the site of a breadth of scholarly projects. The ICL has also been solicited by agencies, notably the Canadian International Development Agency, to pursue commissioned law reform projects in countries with evolving legal systems. In the last two decades, work on law reform in Vietnam, China and Russia has been completed under the ICL’s aegis.

The ICL is a sponsor member of the American Society of Comparative Law.
The ICL is a corporate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.

Updated on Thu, 2013-08-22 16:59

November 2012: Graduate Students of the ICL with Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) Professor Rosalie Jukier (left) and ICL Director Professor Helge Dedek (right)
From the event, "Posner on French Law: Foreign Law in US Courts and the Role of Expert Witnesses", September 11 2013
From the event, "Posner on French Law: Foreign Law in US Courts and the Role of Expert Witnesses", September 11 2013
From the event: Professor Troeger, Frankfurt, "Europe and the Financial Crisis", March 27, 2013
From the event: Professor Troeger, Frankfurt, "Europe and the Financial Crisis", March 27, 2013
From the event: Professors Ibrahim and Bakht and Rabbi Whitman, "Religious Arbitration: A Measure of Legal Multiculturalism", February 26 2013
From the event: "Religious Arbitration: A Measure of Legal Multiculturalism", February 26 2013
December 2012: Graduate Students, Class of 2013, with ICL Director Professor Helge Dedek (left) and Associate Dean (Graduate Studies) Professor Rosalie Jukier (right)