Graduate Research Trainee Aliénor Burghartz traces recent developments in private digital currencies and argues that it is vital to develop a comprehensive regulatory framework for stablecoins in view of the broader goal of modernizing payment systems and improving financial inclusion.
With an overall vision of how business law has an impact on both society and on other legal areas, the Professorship in Business Law serves as a liaison between the Faculty of Law and leading practitioners, in Montreal, in Canada and internationally.
Given the central role of business organizations and commerce in today’s world, McGill Law is committed to strengthening teaching, research and outreach in business law.
The McGill Business Law Platform, which the Professorship in Business Law has just launched, will become a hub of excellence in business law on par with McGill Law's other areas of recognized strengths such as human rights, comparative law and public policy.
Key parts of the McGill Business Law Platform are the Seminars in Business and Society and the McGill Business Meter Blog.
The latest in the Business Law Meter
1 Nov 2021
By looking at four key cases, BCL/LLB student Sharayer Rajabi argues that there is a growing sensibility of domestic courts towards the fact that multinational corporations’ private governing systems largely exist outside of the states’ regulatory capabilities.
1 Nov 2021
BCL/JD student Patrick Keeler discusses how online escort directories – have great potential to improve the working conditions of sex workers and to generate profits, and how a new constitutional challenge to Canada’s sex work laws, launched in March 2021, may enable Canadian-based escort agencies to operate legally in Canada for the first time.
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