Students

Renowned anthropologist and winner of the 2013 Holberg Prize, Bruno Latour, will be coming to speak on "Gaia, Anthropology and the Law."

His reflections will pursue a theme he undertook in the 2013 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, entitled “Facing Gaia, Six Lectures on the Political Theology of Nature.”

See http://www.bruno-latour.fr/node/486. Latour’s ongoing project, An Inquiry into the Modes of Existence (AIME) forms the backdrop to the lecture.

The Faculty of Law welcomes the Quebec Court of Appeal for a live hearing in the Maxwell Cohen Moot Court. Come hear experienced pleaders debate a case before the Honourable Justices Clément Gascon, Dominique Bélanger, and Martin Vauclair.

A Legal Theory Workshop with Annalise Acorn, Thomas Lawlor Professor of Law and Ethics, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta.

Professor Acorn's topic is “Hero Worship”, which continues her investigation of law and emotion. She has taught and written about legal themes in literature and this talk will also be further in that vein, focussing considerably upon George Eliot’s Middlemarch. 

Patrice Florvilus will speak about challenges to access to justice and litigating human rights in Haiti, as well as his own struggles as a Haitian human rights defender.

McGill's Centre for Intellectual Property Policy presents Professor Rosemary Coombe of York University, on "Geographical Indications in New Contexts: The Promise, Perils and Politics of Protecting Place-Based Products".

John A. Hall (bio page), James McGill Professor of Sociology, will talk about civility, its rise, fall and re-emergence, underscoring its social impact and contrasting it to alternative ideological options available in the marketplace.

Organized by the Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy.

Please note that due to provincial elections taking place in Quebec that day, all classes, laboratories and examinations in all faculties and in the School of Continuing Studies are cancelled on Monday, April 7, 2014.

However, University and Faculty administrative offices will be open for business.

The McGill Dispute Resolution Lecture Series 2014, organized by the Private Justice and the Rule of Law group, welcomes Brian King, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP, New York, for a talk titled: “Apples and Oranges are Both Still Fruits: Comparing International Commercial and Investment Arbitration.”

RSVP: kuzi [dot] charamba [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca

The McGill Dispute Resolution Lecture Series 2014, organized by the Private Justice and the Rule of Law group, welcomes Charles Jarosson, Professor, Université de Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), for a talk titled: “The Notion of International Public Policy.”

RSVP: kuzi [dot] charamba [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca

The McGill Dispute Resolution Lecture Series 2014, organized by the Private Justice and the Rule of Law group, welcomes Franco Ferrari, Professor at New York University School of Law, for a talk titled: “Getting to the law applicable to the merits in international arbitration.”

RSVP: kuzi [dot] charamba [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca