On 28-29 September 2012, the Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law and the Faculty of Law hosted an international conference entitled Stateless Law? The Future of the Discipline.
This proved an exciting intellectual event, and was a precious opportunity to reflect on issues of fundamental importance to all of us. You can read about the conference and see photos in Focus online's October 2012 edition.
Program
Day 1: Friday, 28 September 2012 | Day 2: Saturday, 29 September 2012
This conference has been accredited by the Barreau du Québec for a total of 10.25 hours (Block 1: 2h35; Block 2: 2h35; Block 3: 2h30; Block 4: 2h35) of Continuing Legal Education. Accreditation no. 10055461.
Day 1: Friday, 28 September 2012
Friday morning block | ||
| 08:30 | Registration and coffee | |
| 09:00-09:10 | Mot de bienvenue | L. Smith |
| 09:10-10:00 | Plenary: Back to the Future | E. Weinrib S. Smith: président |
| 10:00-10:25 | Break | |
| 10:25-12:10 | Panel: The Place of the Law Faculty in the University of the Future | S. Toope: Thinking, Doing, Being: What Do We Mean by ‘Practicing’ Law? S. Van Praagh: Teaching Law: “Historian and Prophet All in One” H. Dagan: Law as an Academic Discipline M. Graziadei: commentator M. Moran: présidente |
| 12:10-13:25 | Lunch | |
Friday afternoon block | ||
| 13:25-15:10 | Parallel panels 1 | |
| 15:10-15:35 | Break | |
| 15:35-16:40 | Round table; rapporteurs; questions | |
| 16:40-17:30 | Plenary: Market Totalitarianism: Thinking Through Legal Technique | A. Riles: speaker |
Parallel panels 1, Friday afternoon | ||
| Code | Panel title | Speakers |
| Transnational law of commercial contracts | G. Saumier: The Designation of Non-State Law as Lex Contractus in International Dispute Resolution R. Wai: Already Transnational Private Law R. Michaels: Rethinking the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts G. Bermann: commentator F. Gélinas: président | |
| Juridification of CSR and the institutionalization of human rights responsibilities of the business sector | K. Buhmann: Applying discourse analysis to the development of the ‘UN Framework’: Prospects for legal theory and teaching law-making processes C. Ryngaert: Exploring the potential of transnational private regulation in the field of business and human rights M. Footer: Locating the nexus of human rights and CSR in informal international law and policy-making: the challenge of complex transnational regulating and governance R. Janda: président | |
| Mixity and hybridity in the classroom and the courtroom | M. Bailey: One Family Law? S. Donlan: Back to the Future? Stateless Law, the State of the Law Schools and Comparative Legal History R. Jukier: The Impact of Stateless Law on Legal Pedagogy L. Langevin: Civil Liability : Getting out of Law and Getting out of Civil Law M. Devinat: président | |
Day 2: Saturday 29 September 2012
Saturday morning block | ||
| 08:45-9:55 | Parallel panels 2 2A Making Room for the State in Legal Pluralism: The Future of a Paradigm? 2B The Production of Stateless Law
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| 9:55-10:20 | Break | |
| 10:20-12:00 | Parallel panels 3 3A En-Acting Stateless Law: Teaching, Learning, Performing beyond the State 3B (Re)Charting the State: Borders, Rights and Governance 3C Rethinking Law and Economics in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis | |
| 12:00-13:15 | Lunch | |
Saturday afternoon block | ||
| 13:15-15:00 | Panel: The future of law’s relationship with other disciplines | M. Bódig: Doctrinal Knowledge, Legal Doctrinal Scholarship and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Law - Reassessing the Realist Legacy in the Age of Globalization M. Cumyn: La structure d’un ordre juridique sans État L. Assier-Andrieu: Un inceste fécond : la relation du droit et des sciences sociales N. Kasirer: commentator P. Zumbansen: président |
| 15:00-15:20 | Break | |
| 15:20-16:10 | Plenary: Against Legal Pluralism | J. Gardner: speaker |
| 16:10-17:10 | Round table, rapporteurs, questions | H. Dedek: président |
| 17:10-17:30 | Mot de synthèse | D. Jutras |
| EVENING | CONFERENCE DINNER - SOUPER DE LA CONFÉRENCE | Optional / optionel |
Parallel panels 2 & 3, Saturday morning | ||
| Making Room for the State in Legal Pluralism: The Future of a Paradigm? | F. Makela: A Conceptual Vocabulary for Discussing Internormative Apperception M. St.-Hilaire: L’étude de la pluralité juridique hors le «pluralisme juridique » : L’avenir de la discipline ? D. McKee: Legal Pluralism and Globalization’s Background Rules H. Kong: président | |
| The Production of Stateless Law | J. d’Aspremont/L. van den Herik: The pluralization of the modes of production and dissemination of knowledge about (international) law J. Ellis: Interdisciplinarity and law’s autonomy R. Buchanan: présidente | |
| En-Acting Stateless Law: Teaching, Learning, Performing beyond the State | G. Painter: Struggles towards a Non-State Justice M. Antaki: Teaching Stateless Law V. Forray: « Qu’est ce qu’une “faculté de droit” ? – De la philosophie au droit » F. Zenati-Castaing: «Non ratione imperii, sed imperio rationis» M.-C. Ricgaud: présidente | |
| (Re)Charting the State: Borders, Rights and Governance | A. Ahmed: The Emergence of Identity Politics in International Law and Development E. Arbel: Bordering the Nation: Examining Canada’s “Multiple Borders Strategy” O. Aronson: Border Disputes: Negotiating the Boundaries of State Power under Jurisdictional Pluralism U. Khan: You’ve been a very bad boy: Legal & Quasi-Legal Social Control Strategies of Sex Trade Clients H. Shamir: présidente | |
| Rethinking Law and Economics in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis | D. Driesen: The Economic Dynamics of Law: An Introduction R. Hockett: Retrieving Keynes: A Proposal for Systemic Risk Reduction J. Hackney: A History of Corporate Finance Theory, Economic Dynamics, and the Financial Crisis A. Bjorklund, présidente | |
