WSMJJ 4th Worldwide Congress
Faculty of Law, McGill University
Montreal, Canada, June 24-26, 2015
The World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists held a Fourth Worldwide Congress at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) for an opening evening reception and lecture from June 24, 2015 to June 26, 2015.
The theme of the Congress was “The Scholar, Teacher, Judge and Jurist in a Mixed Jurisdiction.”
See the programme here: 
Finale schedule WSMJJ
Mixed Jurisdictions, as they are traditionally understood, stand at the crossroads of the Common law and Civil law. They also frequently encompass other ethnic and religious laws. Rich in legal history and complex pluralism, they are often seen as natural laboratories of comparative law.
The laws, methods, and institutions of mixed jurisdictions are inevitably affected by the influence and presence of different traditions vying for supremacy or requiring reconciliation. Their added complexity places special demands upon the training of judges and jurists, the staffing of courts, the teaching of private law, the research of scholars, and the task of law reform. To what extent have these challenges been met by the actors and institutions of mixed jurisdictions? We propose to investigate these issues.
The conference was organized by the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists, McGill's Faculty of Law, and the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law. This event was a Borden Ladner Gervais Conference in Private and Comparative Law.
