LAW(S), LANGUAGE(S) & SOCIETY(IES) / DROIT(S), LANGUE(S) ET SOCIÉTÉ(S)
June 16, 2017, McGill University
The Crépeau Centre, in collaboration with the Network of Jurilinguistics Centres, is very pleased to announce that the 11th Summer Institute of Jurilinguistics will be held at McGill University on June 16, 2017.
This year, the theme of the Summer Institute is “Law(s), Language(s) & Society(ies) / Droit(s), langue(s) et société(s)”. Our aim is to explore, from different perspectives, the interactions between law(s), language(s) and society(ies), and the legal, linguistic and social issues that arise from these interactions. This Institute will be the perfect opportunity to reflect upon the subject of law, language and society from four lines of approach: Jurilinguistics and identity, jurilinguistics and diversity, jurilinguistics and accessibility, as well as jurilinguistics and equality.
Please note that this year, the Summer Institute will be held at the Bronfman Building of McGill University's Faculty of Management (1001, Sherbrooke Street West). The registration fee is $55.
***The Summer Institute is now full to capacity***
Programme
This conference is recognized as a continuing legal education activity of the Barreau du Québec and the Chambre des notaires du Québec for 5 h 00.
| 9h00 | Registration | |
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| 9h30 |
Words of Welcome Yaëll Emerich, Director, Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law |
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9h40 |
PLENARY SESSION: JURILINGUISTICS & IDENTITY | |
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Janny HC Leung, Professor, University of Hong Kong Javier Moreno-Rivero, Lecturer, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA Juliette Scott, Director of the Legal Translation Hub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London |
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| 11h15 | Break | |
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11h30 |
WORKSHOPS: JURILINGUISTICS & DIVERSITY | |
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1. Diversity and Gender Perspectives Michaël Lessard, Lawyer & Suzanne Zaccour, Student, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Florence Ashley Paré, Student, Faculty of Law, McGill University |
2. Diversity and Indigenous Perspectives Lorena Sekwan Fontaine, Professor, University of Winnipeg |
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| 12h30 | Lunch | |
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13h30 |
WORKSHOPS: JURILINGUISTICS & ACCESSIBILITY | |
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3. Accessibility and the Right to the Understanding of Law Stéphanie Roy, Lawyer, En Clair service-conseil inc. |
4. Accessibility, Translation and Interpretation Jeff Staflund, Chief Interpreter, Government of New Brunswick |
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| 14h30 | Break | |
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14h45 |
PLENARY SESSION: JURILINGUISTICS & EQUALITY | |
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Érik Labelle Eastaugh, Lawyer, Caza Saikaley Mélanie Samson, Professor, Université Laval Sandy Lamalle, International Consultant and Research Associate, Concordia University |
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| 16h15 |
Closing Words The Honourable Clément Gascon, Supreme Court of Canada |
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| 16h30 |
Acknowledgments Robert Leckey, Dean, Faculty of Law, McGill University |
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| 16h35 |
Cocktail |
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Speakers
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine
Lorena Sekwan Fontaine (LL.B, LL.M) is Cree-Anishnabe from the Sagkeeng First Nation in Manitoba. Lorena is an Associate Professor in the Department of Indigenous Studies at the University of Winnipeg. She is also a doctoral candidate at the University of Manitoba. Her research is on Aboriginal Language Right in Canada. Currently, Lorena is an Equality Rights Panel Member of the Court Challenges Program, and an editor for ab-Original: Journal of Indigenous Studies and First Nations’ and First Peoples’ Cultures, Penn State University Press.
Since 2003 Professor Fontaine has been an advocate for Aboriginal Residential School Survivors as well as Children of Residential School Survivors. She has spoken nationally and has authored articles in Australia and Canada on Residential School issues. In 2003 Professor Fontaine was a task force member and contributor to the Assembly of First Nation's Report on Canada's Dispute Resolution Plan to compensate for abuses in Indian Residential Schools. Professor Fontaine has also acted as a legal consultant to the Toronto law firm Thomson, Rogers for the plaintiffs and their counsel in the Baxter National Residential School Class Action as well as to Mother of Red Nations Women’s Council in Manitoba on cultural harm issues. Professor Fontaine has been involved with a project on Digital Storytelling on the Intergenerational Legacy of the Residential Schools. The Digital Storytelling project has been presented across Canada, the United States and in Iceland.
Érik Labelle Eastaugh
(In French only) Me Érik Labelle Eastaugh est avocat de litige chez CazaSaikaley srl à Ottawa, où il exerce surtout dans le domaine du droit public et des droits linguistiques. Notamment, il a plaidé devant la Cour suprême du Canada dans l’affaire Thibodeau c. Air Canada, [2014] 3 R.C.S. 340, un arrêt de principe portant sur l’interprétation de la Loi sur les langues officielles du Canada. Formé en droit civil ainsi qu’en common law, Me Labelle Eastaugh détient également un doctorat en droit constitutionnel de l’Université d’Oxford, où il a étudié après avoir été auxiliaire juridique auprès du juge Marshall Rothstein à la Cour suprême du Canada.
Sandy Lamalle
Sandy Lamalle (Ph. D, LL.M, MA) is an international consultant and associate researcher at Concordia University. She worked as a legal consultant in London, and legal adviser in European and international organisations in Brussels and Geneva. She holds a Ph. D in International Law (Geneva) and in European Union Law (Strasbourg), and led research projects in Europe, Asia, Australia and America, including a post-doctoral research at the Research Centre in Public Law (CRDP) in Montreal. She has conducted professional translations, and has published on legal pluralism, translation and the evolution of international legal language. At the core of her research is the apprehension of the subject in law and language. She is an editor for the International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.
Michaël Lessard
(In French only) Michaël Lessard est diplômé en droit de l’Université McGill (B.C.L. & LL.B. 2015) et il est présentement avocat. Il s’intéresse principalement au sexisme linguistique ainsi qu’au traitement des victimes d’agressions sexuelles. Il a, avec Suzanne Zaccour, coécrit Le masculin ne l’emporte plus! Grammaire non sexiste de la langue française (M éditeur) et le Dictionnaire critique du sexisme linguistique (Somme Toute). En outre, il anime la baladoémission Avenir d’idées et collabore à la maison d’édition Omri.
Janny HC Leung
Dr. Janny HC Leung is Associate Professor of English and Programme Director of Law and Literary Studies (BA&LLB) at The University of Hong Kong. She obtained her M Phil and PhD in English and Applied Linguistics from the University of Cambridge, an LLB from the University of London, and an LLM from Yale Law School. In 2013-2014, she was a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Yenching Institute, Harvard University. Her current research interest lies in the interdisciplinary area of language and law, with a particular focus on challenges, ideologies and paradoxes in multilingual legal practice. Her latest book on linguistic equality and multilingual legal order is forthcoming with Oxford University Press.
Javier Moreno-Rivero
Javier Moreno-Rivero is a Lecturer at the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a holder of postgraduate degrees in Applied Linguistics and Institutional Translation; and, in 2015, was granted the Research Excellence Award by the Department of Translation and Interpreting at the University of Alicante (Spain) for his dissertation on the translation of English Intellectual Property judgments. He has conducted academic and research stays in Spain, France, the United Kingdom and the United States. His research interests lie in the fields of linguistics and the intersection between Language and Law, in particular Legal Translation and Interpreting Studies. He is a member of AGILE, the International Legal Translation Research Hub at the School of Advanced Studies, University of London, directed by Dr. Juliette Scott. Javier is currently co-editing a volume of the Journal of Language and Law, published by the Public Administration School of Catalonia, on legal translation and Jurilinguistics..
Florence Ashley Paré
(In French only) Florence Ashley est une étudiante trans au LL.M. à l'Université McGill où elle s'intéresse aux enjeux trans et plus particulièrement aux politiques de santé portant sur les personnes trans. Activiste, ses écrits ont été publiés dans diverses plateformes, et elle siège au Comité trans du Conseil québécois LGBT.”
Stéphanie Roy
(In French only) Co-fondatrice d’En Clair Service-Conseil inc., Me Stéphanie Roy accompagne les organisations qui souhaitent simplifier leurs contrats, leurs réglements, leurs avis et autres documents complexes.
Avocate depuis 2007, Stéphanie a d’abord pratiqué le droit bancaire dans un grand cabinet de Montréal (aujourd’hui Dentons). Elle joint ensuite l’équipe d’Éducaloi à titre de spécialiste en vulgarisation juridique et y développe une branche spécialisée dans la simplification des contrats. C’est en 2016 qu’elle fait le grand saut comme entrepreneure en créant En Clair avec son âme soeur professionnelle, Me Geneviève Fortin.
Au cours des dernières années, Stéphanie a réalisé divers projets de simplification pour des organisations du milieu juridique, mais également des entreprises des milieux de l’assurance, de la finance et des télécommunications. Son expertise s’étend à une variété de types de contenus : contrats, sites Web, formulaires, lettres et jugements. Elle a notamment été la spécialiste en vulgarisation juridique responsable de la simplification des polices d’assurance automobile du Québec - projet initié par l’Autorité des marchés financiers et réalisé par le Groupement des assureurs automobiles en collaboration avec Éducaloi.
Formatrice d'expérience, elle anime des ateliers personnalisés sur la communiction claire et efficace pour les entreprises et les professionnels. Depuis 2015, elle enseigne aux juges et aux décideurs la rédaction efficace des jugements et des décisions dans le cadre des séminaires de l’ICAJ.
Elle a également publié divers articles sur la question du langage clair en droit et de la simplification des contrats.
Son expertise en simplification des contrats et son engagement pour la communication claire en droit lui ont valu de remporter en remporter en 2013 le prix Avocate de l'année - Leader de demain du Jeune Barreau de Montréal.
Mélanie Samson
(In French only) Mélanie Samson, LL.B, LL.M., LL.D. (Laval), est membre du Barreau du Québec depuis 2005 et professeure à la Faculté de droit de l’Université Laval depuis 2011. Depuis mars 2011, elle est également assesseure au Tribunal des droits de la personne du Québec. Ses principaux champs de recherche et d'enseignement sont la méthodologie du droit et les droits et libertés de la personne. Elle s'intéresse tout particulièrement aux interactions des chartes des droits et libertés de la personne avec les autres composantes de l'ordre juridique canadien. Elle effectue également des recherches sur les différents procédés auxquels les tribunaux ont recours dans l'interprétation des lois constitutionnelles et quasi constitutionnelles de protection des droits de la personne. Sa thèse de doctorat intitulée Les interactions de la Charte des droits et libertés de la personne avec le Code civil du Québec: une harmonie à concrétiser lui a valu le prix Minerve 2012 de même que le prix Henri Capitant 2012.
Juliette Scott
Juliette R. Scott, PhD is Academic Lead for Legal Translation Studies and directs the Legal Translation Hub at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom, to which she brings over 25 years’ experience as a senior legal translation practitioner in the fields of major corporate litigation, European legislation, and international financial crime.
Jeff Staflund
Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Jeff Staflund has worked in the language industry for over 25 years. He is currently employed as Chief Interpreter with the New Brunswick Translation Bureau in Fredericton. The Bureau recruits, hires and coordinates all of the province’s official-language court interpreters.
Jeff is keenly interested in the training of language professionals. He has helped to train medical interpreters for the Winnipeg Regional Healthy Authority, community interpreters for the immigration settlement sector, and court and conference interpreters for the province of New Brunswick. He is currently working on a Doctor of Education degree in language and literacy leadership.
Suzanne Zaccour
(In French only) Suzanne Zaccour est diplômée en droit de l'Université McGill (B.C.L & LL.B 2016) et étudiante à la maîtrise en droit à l’Université de Toronto. Elle est la co-autrice, avec Michaël Lessard, d'une grammaire française féministe à paraître à la fin de l’été (Le masculin ne l’emporte plus!, M éditeur). Elle a également codirigé, avec le même co-auteur, le Dictionnaire du sexisme linguistique, qui paraîtra à l'automne 2017 aux éditions Somme Toute. Suzanne est blogueuse féministe et écrit notamment sur la culture du viol. Elle entamera à l’automne un LL.M. à l’Université de Cambridge.
Location and Accommodation
This year, the Summer Institute will be held at:
Desautels Faculty of Management
Bronfman Building
McGill University
1001, Sherbrooke West Street
Montreal (QC) H3A 1G5
McGill University is located in the heart of Montreal. Many major hotels are in close proximity to the campus. Depending on your personal preferences and budget, you are requested to make your own hotel arrangements.
For a list of recommended hotels, all of which are located within walking distance to the campus (between 5 and 25 minutes), please click here. If you make your booking directly with the hotel, you should request the preferred rate and mention the title of the event.
Partners
The Crépeau Centre would like to thank Justice Canada for its financial support from the Access to Justice in Both Official Languages Support Fund through the Roadmap for Canada's Official Languages (2013-2018).
