Legal Theory Workshop

October 2008: Professor Doug Harris, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at UBC's Faculty of Law, spoke on "Condominium: The Rise of Property in the City". He was hosted by Professor Mark Antaki (McGill).

2009-2010 Legal Theory Workshops

McGill University's Faculty of Law sponsors a legal theory workshop series featuring presentations from leading jurists from around the world.

All are invited to attend the workshops, as well as access their presentations and other work available on this site.

December 4, 2009. 12h30, Common Room
Untangling Equality's Role in Theorizing Indigenous Rights

Speaker: Dwight Newman, Associate Professor University of Saskatchewan College of Law

Download the Newman papers [.pdf].

February 12, 2010. 12h30, NCDH 202
The Zoo as a Legal Anomaly

Speaker: Irus Braverman, Associate Professor at University of Buffalo Law School, SUNY.

Download the Braverman paper [.pdf].

March 5, 2010. 12h30, NCDH 202
The Union of Law and Letters: Dicey on Legal Method and Legal Literature

Speaker: Mark Walters, Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University.

March 24, 2010. 12h30, NCDH 202
The Union of Law and Letters: Dicey on Legal Method and Legal Literature

Speaker: Rémi Bachand, professeur au Département des sciences juridiques de l’UQAM.

May 17, 2010. Time and place TBA
Negotiable Constitution: On the Limitation of Rights

Speaker: Grégoire Webber, BCL/LLB'03, Lecturer in Law at the London School of Economics, on his book, The Negotiable Constitution: On the Limitation of Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009).