The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism invites submissions for the Rathlyn Disability Initiative Student Colloquium, to be held on February 16, 2026, from 1:00-2:30 PM in New Chancellor Day Hall Room 312.
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Date: Feb. 18th, 2026
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
The Admissions Drop-In Advising Session will provide you with an opportunity for an open conversation with a member of our Admissions Office to discuss any element of the BCL/JD admissions process.
The session will take place on Zoom; please register at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/yA-tMOWpTk-gc9IX1icD5g
The Admissions Drop-In Advising Session will provide you with an opportunity for an open conversation with a member of our Admissions Office to discuss any element of the BCL/JD admissions process.
The session will take place on Zoom; please register at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/3tub6TRUTrWmsP76OhJPMA
This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.
Date: Feb. 24th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
The Admissions Drop-In Advising Session will provide you with an opportunity for an open conversation with a member of our Admissions Office to discuss any element of the BCL/JD admissions process.
The sessions will take place on Zoom; please register at the following link: https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/KqwuTY0ZSGKP4wknvGlgnA
The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation.
Date: Mar. 10th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This event is part of a series of workshops, see the complete Winter 2026 schedule here!
This event examines how carceral bureaucracies and corporate telecommunications interests have turned family contact into a profit-driven system, drawing on Michigan’s groundbreaking “Right to Hug” litigation to challenge the erosion of in-person visits amid mounting pressures on due process. It situates this litigation within broader jail and prison policies across the United States that replace physical visits with costly, unreliable, and highly surveilled video calls.
This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.
Date: Mar. 17th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
Date: Mar. 24th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a new market research canvas tool.
Date: Mar. 31st, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.
Date: Apr. 7th, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)