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
- Law in the Time of Oxymora. A Synaesthesia of Language, Logic and Law
- Normative Pluralism and Human Rights
- CALL FOR PAPERS: Colonial Institutions and the Uses of Law in Early Modern South Asia – Radboud Universiteit Indian Ocean World in the 18th Century Workshop Series (DEADLINE: 21 October 2018)
- BOOK: Dylan LINO, Constitutional Recognition - First Peoples and the Australian Settler S tate (Leichardt: The Federation Press, 2018). ISBN 9781760021818, $45.00
- JOURNAL: American Journal of Legal History Vol. 58 (2018), Issue 3
