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Human Rights and Inclusive Development: Integrating the Disability Perspective

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)

Religious Freedom in Education - A Pluralism, Religion & Public Policy Symposium

Education is one of the chief interests of families, of religious communities, and of society and the state; it is both a field of cooperation between private and public bodies and, by nature, a primary cultural and political battleground. It has long been a legal battleground as well, particularly where religious issues arise.

Global Migration Governance and Migrants' Rights after the 2013 UN High Level Dialogue on Migration and Development

Join us for a Brown Bag Seminar, with Professor François Crépeau. François Crépeau, who holds the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Professor in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law of McGill University, was appointed United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants in 2011.

Policy on Open Access to Science: A Law and Social Norms Perspective

McGill's Centre for Intellectual Property Policy presents Professor Roberto Caso of the University of Trento, who will speak on "Policy on Open Access to Science: A Law and Social Norms Perspective".

Tax Policy Colloquium: Lyne Latulippe

The Stikeman Chair in Tax Law is holding its fourth annual Tax Policy Colloquium as part of its PUB2 515 Tax Policy class. The Colloquium features distinguished visiting academics and offers a forum for students, professors, and local practitioners to discuss issues of tax policy and theory, along with related issues of economics and social justice. Members of the public are welcome (please note that the colloquium takes place in a classroom setting).

McGill Law Admissions Plenary

All prospective applicants to the B.C.L./LL.B. program of Law are invited to attend our admission plenary. Come learn from Admissions Officers about the faculty and program, our admission policy and process, important deadlines, etc. There will also be a Q&A section, as well as a Student Ambassador testimonial.

Those unable to attend can view the webcast.

www.mcgill.ca/law-admissions

Activism and Scholarship: Two Sides of the Feminist Coin

The Annie MacDonald Langstaff Workshop Series presents Dr. Dolores Chew, Research Associate and Teacher, Simone de Beauvoir Women's Institute, Concordia University and Marianopolis College.

Event co-hosted by: Feminist Collective at McGill Law, the Women of Colour Collective, McGill Women and the Criminal Law, and RadLaw

For additional information, please contact Professor Vrinda Narain (vrinda [dot] narain [at] mcgill [dot] ca).

43rd Annual Workshop on Commercial & Consumer Law

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.

RGHL/IHSP Annual Lecture with Thomas Pogge: Paying for Health Impact

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.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day (Canada). Classes cancelled. Administrative offices closed. Libraries closed.

Whither Patents? – Musings on the Bargain Theory of Patents

The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy (CIPP) welcomes Mr. Stephen Perry (Perry & Currier, Currier & Kao, Patent and Trademark Agents).

McGill Law Journal Annual Conference: Justice Goodwin Liu, Supreme Court of California

This year, the McGill Law Journal is hosting Justice Goodwin Liu, Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. Justice Liu will lecture on Justice and Distribution of Equal Opportunity.

A reception will follow.

Law Homecoming: Alumni Coffeehouse

Celebrate the launch of Homecoming 2013 festivities with a coffeehouse reception hosted by Dean Daniel Jutras!

The event is free, but we request an RSVP to help us with planning.

Register today on McGill AOC.

McGill Law at LSAC forum in New York

For the first time, the McGill Faculty of Law is participating in the recruitment forum of the Law School Admission Council being held in New York City.

In collaboration with the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, we will be on site (table 601) to provide information to prospective applicants currently in the United States about the possibility of studying law in Canada, and particularly at McGill. 

Law Homecoming: Dean's Breakfast

Dean Daniel Jutras cordially invites alumni and friends for breakfast: come have a chat with former profs and classmates over coffee and croissant, learn about recent changes in legal education, and recall good times at the Faculty.

The event is free, but we request an RSVP to help us with planning.

Register today on McGill AOC.