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Litigating Charter Challenges: Stories of a Constitutional Lawyer
Join us for a lecture by Joseph Arvay, QC, recipient of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism 2014 Robert S. Litvack Award.
Joseph Arvay is a Canadian lawyer who has argued numerous landmark Supreme Court of Canada cases involving civil liberties and constitutional rights. The Robert S. Litvack Award recognizes his outstanding lifetime achievement.
Discriminations en droit du travail: dialogue avec la doctrine americaine
The Centre for Human rights and Legal Pluralism and the Annie MacDonald Langstaff Lecture Series welcome Marie Mercat-Bruns.
About the speaker
Marie Mercat-Bruns is a tenured Associate Law Professor at the Labor and Employment Law Chair of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) where she is a member of the Research Institute LISE CNRS (Group, Relational Theories on Gender).
She is also a member of the scientific committee of Presage (Sciences Po/OFCE Research and Academic Program on Gender Thinking).
Disability & Law Reading Group: Disability, Accessibility, and Public Spaces
The Disability & Law Reading Group will be taking on Disability, Accessibility, and Public Spaces as a topic.
For more information, email Dr Futsum Abbay, coordinator: futsum [dot] abbay [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca.
Disability & Law Reading Group: A Comparative Perspective of Disability Law in Europe, Africa, and the Americas
The Disability & Law Reading Group will be taking on Comparative Perspective of Disability Law in Europe, Africa, and the Americas as a topic.
For more information, email Dr Futsum Abbay, coordinator: futsum [dot] abbay [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca.
The Makings of an International Arbitration Award: Its Contents and Discontents
The Private Justice and the Rule of Law group present Rahim Moloo, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP/S.E.N.C.R.L., New York, for a McGill Dispute Resolution Lecture Series on “The Makings of an International Arbitration Award: its contents and discontents”.
RSVP: kuzi [dot] charamba [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca
CANCELLED - Equality and the Indian Supreme Court: The Naz Foundation Case
DUE TO SEVERE WEATHER CONDITIONS AND CANCELLED FLIGHTS, THIS TALK WILL BE RESCHEDULED.
The Centre for Human rights and Legal Pluralism and the Annie MacDonald Langstaff Lecture Series welcome Madhav Khosla, PhD Candidate, Harvard University, who will talk about "Equality and the Indian Supreme Court: The Naz Foundation Case."
Les principes et les mutations de l’expertise dans la culture juridique française : un regard comparé avec le projet de réforme de l’expertise au Québec
The McGill Research Group on Health and Law is pleased to invite you to a workshop with Etienne Vergès, Université de Grenoble. The workshop will be entirely in French.
Space is limited to 25 participants. Kindly RSVP to rghl [dot] law [at] mcgill [dot] ca. Please indicate if you a member of the Bar, as a request for accreditation has been made to the Barreau du Québec. Coffee and cookies will be served.
Stuart “Kip” Cobbett receives James A. Robb Award
On February 4, 2014, during an evening reception held in the Common Room, the Faculty of Law presented Stuart H. “Kip” Cobbett, BCL’72, with the James A. Robb Award to honour his exceptional work as a volunteer at the Faculty of Law and, more broadly, at McGill University.
The event was attended by Principal Suzanne Fortier, Provost Anthony C. Masi, Chancellor Arnold Steinberg, Dean Daniel Jutras, Mr. Norm Steinberg, Chair of the Faculty Advisory Board, as well as by Mr. James Robb himself.
Gender, disability and global health: The rights of girls and women with disabilities
Systematic discrimination against women and girls with disabilities continues to result in the denial of the rights to experience their sexuality, to have sexual relationships and to found and maintain families. While the right to integrity and the right of a woman to make her own reproductive choices are contained in a number of international human rights treaties, women with disabilities continue to be denied these rights through practices such as forced sterilization, sexual violence and the removal of their legal capacity in many parts of the world.
Conférence de la Revue de droit de McGill: "Le rôle et l'influence des juristes dans les débats publics"
(IN FRENCH ONLY) La Revue de droit de McGill vous invite à sa conférence francophone annuelle. Cette année, la Revue s’intéresse à promouvoir une réflexion critique sur la place qu’ont, ou que devraient avoir, les juristes lors de grands débats publics, ainsi que sur leur influence sur les prises de décision reliées à ces enjeux.