Institute and Centre of Air and Space Law
Recognising the critical role that legal education would play in facilitating integration of legal standards globally, in 1951, McGill University established the Institute of Air and Space Law (IASL) to provide graduate legal education for students from around the world. In the ensuing seventy years, IASL has educated over 1200 students from 120 countries. Today, our graduates hold some of the highest positions in international organizations, governmental air transport ministries, airlines, and law firms around the world.
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Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism
The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism is a focal point for innovative legal and interdisciplinary research, dialogue and outreach on issues of human rights and legal pluralism. The Centre’s mission is to provide students, professors and the wider community with a locus of intellectual and physical resources for engaging critically with how law impacts upon some of the compelling social problems of our modern era.
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Centre for Intellectual Property Policy
The CIPP takes a comparative, transdisciplinary, and contextual view of the role of intellectual property and allied regimes to creativity and innovation.
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Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law
Founded in 1975 by Professor Paul-André Crépeau, the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law (formerly the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law) endeavours to promote the civilian tradition in Canada and develop it through a philosophy of openness to the lessons to be learned from other legal traditions. The Crépeau Centre brings together legal scholars and academics from Quebec and abroad with a view to renewing the theoretical investigations of Quebec’s fundamental private law institutions. As a civil law system evolving in an environment otherwise largely grounded in the common law, Quebec’s private law provides a living model for the fruitful coexistence of two historically distinct legal traditions. The importance of this model in our increasingly interconnected world is underlined by the fundamentally bilingual nature of Quebec’s civil law.
The ambitious research program of the Crépeau Centre comprises many different axes of research, all of which pursue a dialogical understanding of local law set against the world’s great legal traditions.
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Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory
The Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory (LLDRL), housed at McGill University’s Faculty of Law in Montreal, Canada, brings together international and interdisciplinary researchers, practitioners and students seeking to further reflections on the interactions between labour law and development and to contribute to the emergence of a transnational labour law which recentres the Global South - and the "South of the North" - and the workers and types of work typically excluded from past and current debates in labour law and development.
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Research Group on Health and Law
Health issues are at the forefront of modern social preoccupations in Canada. McGill’s Faculty of Law offers an array of opportunities for those who seek to explore these issues through academic study and research.
Public health, aging, health and the environment, biotechnologies, global health, the growing prevalence of obesity and other chronic health conditions and illnesses, HIV/AIDS and the spread of infectious diseases, access to health care institutions and technology, the governance of health care institutions, human rights and health, clinical research and the protection of human research subjects, social diversity and health, and Indigenous health exemplify topics of preeminence in the minds of Canadians that McGill’s Faculty of Law has also identified as priorities.
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Rule of Law and Economic Development Research Group
The Rule of Law and Economic Development Research Group (ROLED) aims to further the understanding of the rule of law’s role in fostering equitable economic growth and sustainable development.
The rule of law serves as a foundation of democracy and a guardrail of good governance. It counters corruption, punishes and deters crime, and makes human rights actionable, enforceable and realizable. Weak rule of law, impunity, injustice, and insecurity impede inclusive development. For these reasons, our research aims to contribute to understanding the role of state, market and civil society in advancing rights-based economic development in country-specific contexts.
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Private justice and the Rule of Law research group
Founded in 2007, the Private Justice and the Rule of Law (PJRL) research group is headed by Professor Fabien Gélinas. The goal of the Private Justice and the Rule of Law research program is to foster our understanding of the interplays between private and public justice. By inquiring on the control over arbitration and anational law, our program focuses on the manifestations of state justice both in substantive and procedural terms, that is on the funding pillars of the rule of law.
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