Conferences

Papers presented (selected, since 1985)

• Panelist, 16th Annual Workshop on Commercial and Consumer Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, 17-18 Oct. 1986 “Canadian Perspectives on Current Development in International Arbitration”.
• “Fiducie et fondation dans le projet de loi 20”, 29 janvier 1985, Association du Barreau canadien, Division du Québec, Section du droit immobilier, Montreal.
• Chairman, “Development of Legal Education in Ontario”, Canadian Historical Association, Université de Montréal, May 1985.
• “Probate under Bill 20”, October 1987, Canadian Bar Association, Quebec Section, Wills and Trusts Section, Montreal.
• “Challenging the Arbitration Award Rendered in Quebec”, Journées Jean Robert I, National and International Commercial Arbitration Centre, Quebec City, January 1988.
• Chairman, “Law and You” Conference, Insurance Brokers, Faculty of Law, McGill University, February 1988, Montreal.
• “Pre-judicial Arbitration (arbitrage préalable)”, Journées Jean Robert II, National and International Commercial Arbitration Centre, Quebec City, September 1988.
• “Co-ownership under Bill 20”, Canadian Bar Association, Quebec Section, Property Law Section, 6 December 1988, Montreal.
• “Reform of Quebec’s Civil Code”, The Canadian Institute, March 1989, Montreal.
• “L’arbitrage”, Quebec Centre of Private and Comparative Law November 1988, Montreal.
• “Introduction to the Civil Law”, Canadian Association of Law Teachers, Comparative Law Day for Law Teachers, Université Laval, Quebec City, June 1989.
• “The Civil Law in Canada”, Duke University, Symposium on Civil Law in North America, Duke University School of Law and Canadian Studies Center, 25-26 May 1990, Durham, North Carolina.
• National Report on Canada - “Bijuralism in Federal Systems and in Systems of Local Autonomy”, 13th Conference, International Academy of Comparative Law, Montreal, August, 1990 (26 p.).
• “General and Historical Introduction to Civil Law” International Bar Association, Montreal, 6th Biennial Conference 4 June 1991, Panel “Civil Law in English”.
• “Fiduciary Institutions in Quebec other than the common law trust”, Annual Meeting, International Academy of Estate and Trust Law, Victoria, B.C. 5-7 June 1991.
• “Quebec’s Bilingual Heritage in Law”, Duke University, Canadian Studies Center: Canadian Law and Literature, Access to Legal Information in a Multilingual Culture, 27-28 March 1992.
• 1992 Journées Maximilien Caron, Le nouveau Code civil du Québec: “Les langues du Code civil” (13 March 1992).
• “Academic Perspectives on the Future of Comparative Law”: American Assoc. of Law Libraries, Annual Meeting, San Francisco, Ca., 21-26 July 1992.
• “Law Teaching in Canada”: American Assoc. of Law Schools, Southeastern Conference, Sea Island, Georgia, 12-16 August 1992.
• “The New Quebec Law of Trusts: The Adaptation of Common Law Thought to Civil Law Concepts”. November 1992, Assoc. Henri Capitant and Quebec Assoc. for Comparative Law.
• Seminars for judges of the Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa, Ont., 27 May 1993, “The New Civil Code of Québec”; 1 November 1993, “The New Quebec Law of Trusts”.
• Seminar for English-language notaries, 25 August 1993, on Titles 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the Civil Code of Québec.
• Le droit des biens dans le nouveau Code civil du Québec, conference for Quebec judges, Hull, Quebec, 20-21 October 1993.
• Seminar for Common-law lawyers in the federal Department of Justice (“Civil Law for Common law lawyers”), Ottawa, 14 March 1994 and 10 December 1994 (with others), “Historical Introduction to the Civil Law with particular reference to the new Civil Code of Québec”.
• Conference on « les clauses testamentaires dites de ménage et sur l’arbitrage dans le règlement des successions », Continuing Education Courses, Chambre des Notaires de la province de Québec, Laval, 8-9 April 1994.
• Conference on « la théorie générale de la fiducie et la fiducie entre vifs, Cours de perfectionnement », Chambre des notaires de la province de Québec, Quebec City the 13- 14 May 1994.
• Speaker, Canadian Association of Law Libraries, annual meeting, Montreal, 15 May 1994: “The Civil Law Tradition and the new Civil Code of Québec.
• “The History of Mixed Jurisdictions in North America: Quebec”, 1 Sept. 1995, Montreal, Association internationale d’histoire du droit et des institutions, at the 18th International Congress of Historical Sciences.
• “Arbitrage conventionnel en droit quebécois: fonctionnement” in Colloquim “La médiation et l’arbitrage en matière commerciale”, 20 October, 1995, Montreal, Barreaux de Montréal and Bruxelles, Institut Wilson and Lafleur.
• Panelist, “Enseigner le droit patrimonial de la famille / Teaching Family Property Law”, 18 Dec. 1996, Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law, Montreal.
• With N. Kasirer, “Review of Federal Real Property Act / Loi sur les immeubles fédéraux in light of the bijural and bilingual character of federal statutory instruments”, Seminar for members of the Federal Department of Justice, March 1996.