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
- CFP: Nuova Antologia Militare (NAM) - Medieval Military History Issues (2024 & 2025 issues)
- CFP: Nuova Antologia Militare (NAM) - Contemporary Military History Issues (XIX-XXI centuries) (2024 & 2025 issues)
- BOOK: Mario G. LOSANO (a cura di), Norberto Bobbio. Filosofia e dogmatica del diritto (1931) e La fenomenologia di Husserl (1933) [Studien zur Rechtstheorie; 1] (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2023), XII + 295 p. ISBN 978-3-465-04628-8
- LECTURE SERIES: Société d'Histoire du Droit - Programme pour l’année universitaire 2023-2024
- BOOK: Kane ABRY, The Construction, Sources, and Implications of Consensualism in Contract. Lesson from France (Studies in the History of Law and Justice, ed. Mortimer SELLERS & Georges MARTYN; 27) (Heidelberg: Springer, 2023), X + 317 p. ISBN 978-3-031...