2011-2012 Legal Theory Workshops
Professor Catherine Valcke (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto) spoke on "The Autonomy of Law" on November 2, 2011.
McGill University's Faculty of Law sponsors a legal theory workshop series featuring presentations from leading jurists from around the world.
All members of the McGill Law community, students and faculty alike, are invited to attend the workshops!
October 3, 2011, 12h30. Stephen Scott Room
The Architecture of Transnational Private Regulation
Conflicting interests among private actors constitute an important factor to explain why and how transnational private regulation has grown and the proliferation of standards and standard setting organizations that has followed. This essay provides a map of transnational regulatory space suggesting that the different levels are related to various governance responses to conflicts within the private sphere and between private and public actors.
Speaker: Fabrizio Cafaggi (European University Institute, Law Department). Co-hosted by the McGill Private Justice and the Rule of Law Research Team.October 17, 2011, 12h30. Stephen Scott Room
Positive Law As A Limitation On International Criminal Justice: Is Impunity A Dirty Word?
Speaker: Brad Roth, Professor of Political Science and Law, Wayne State University.
Professor Mark Antaki circulated the paper to the Faculty Listserv on Friday, 6 October.
November 2, 2011, 12h30. NCDH 202.
The Autonomy of Law
Speaker: Catherine Valcke (LL.B. Civil Law, University of Sherbrooke; LL.B. Common Law, University of Toronto; LL.M. University of Chicago; S.J.D. Columbia), Professor at University of Toronto's Faculty of Law. Professor Valcke lectures on contract law, comparative law, and comparative legal theory in North America, Europe, and North Africa, and publishes in those fields nationally and internationally
November 11, 2011, 12h30. Thomson House, Room 406
Appropriation and the body politic: post-colonial legal form
Speaker: Dr. Brenna Bhandar, Queen Mary School of Law, University of London.
November 18, 2011, 12h30. NCDH 202.
The Value of Valor: Medals, Money and Military Contractors
Speaker: Matteo Taussig-Rubbo, Associate Professor, University at Buffalo Law School, The State University of New York