Founded in 1965, the Institute of Comparative Law reflects a commitment to comparative legal study and scholarship at McGill that finds its origins in the mid-nineteenth century, when the Faculty of Law was established.
The Institute of Comparative Law (ICL) offers graduate students at McGill Law space for the intellectual development and exchange of ideas related to comparative law and learning. Apart from its pedagogical activities, the ICL has been the site a breadth of scholarly projects. The ICL has also been solicited by agencies, notably the Canadian International Development Agency, to pursue commissioned law reform projects in countries with evolving legal systems. In the last two decades, work on law reform in Vietnam, China and Russia has been completed under the ICL’s aegis.
- The ICL is currently serving as co-host of the American Journal of Comparative Law.
- The ICL is a sponsor member of the American Society of Comparative Law.
- The ICL is a corporate member of the International Academy of Comparative Law.
Comparative Law News
- CALL FOR PAPERS: Law and Governance of a Global City: 17th-century Amsterdam (Amsterdam, June 2020) (DEADLINE: 1 July 2019)
- BOOK: Beat A. KÜMIN, Imperial Villages : Cultures of Political Freedom in the German Lands, c. 1300-1800 [Studies in Central European Histories] (Leiden-New York: Brill, 2019). ISBN 978-90-04-39660-9, €121.00
- SPECIAL ISSUE: Gerhard AMMERER, Gerhard FRITZ & Jaromir RAUCHEN (Hrsg.), Sexualität vor Gericht. Deviante geschlechtliche Praktiken und deren Verfolgung vom 14. bis zum 19. Jahrhundert [Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs IX (2019), nr. 1], € 59
- BOOK: Elizabeth MANCKE et al., eds., Violence, Order, and Unrest: A History of British North America, 1749–1876 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019). ISBN 9781487523701, $41.25
- CONFERENCE: 22nd Belgian & Dutch Colloquium of History of Law (Liège, 14 & 15 JUN 2019)
