The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China
A guest lecture by Professor Shitong Qiao of Duke University.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Political Science of Concordia University, as well as the Chaire du recherche du Canada en droit des bien transystemique et communautés durables in the Faculty of Law (McGill University)
The Authoritarian Commons: Neighborhood Democratization in Urban China
A guest lecture by Professor Shitong Qiao of Duke University.
Co-sponsored by the Departments of History and Political Science of Concordia University, as well as the Chaire du recherche du Canada en droit des bien transystemique et communautés durables in the Faculty of Law (McGill University)
6th Annual Women in Entrepreneurship Panel
Since 2020, the McGill Engine has co-hosted an annual Women in Entrepreneurship Panel with
Annie Macdonald Langstaff Workshop | Kanàtenhs: When the Pine Needles Fall
Kanàtenhs: When the Pine Needles Fall, a screening and discussion with Director Katsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel in conversation with Prof. Beverly Jacobs, University of Windsor Faculty of Law.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #4 – Foundations of IP and Patent Searching
This workshop will demystify and explain the various form of intellectual property (IP), namely, patents, industrial designs, copyright, trademarks, and trade secrets. We will then do some actual patent searching with our librarian April Colosimo using the DERWENT worldwide patent database.
When No One's in It, Everyone is in It: Structural Injustices and the Violence of Legal Silence
This lecture explores how legislators and regulators have remained silent on issues of structural injustice, failing to address deeply embedded systemic inequities that have long disadvantaged low-income communities worldwide. Structural injustice arises in contexts where power, information, and economic asymmetries enable certain actors to dominate or exploit others—while the state, through inaction or neglect, allows these injustices to persist.
Defending Human and Environmental Rights through Strategic Litigation in Colombia: The Case of Anchicayá
Organized by McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Lawyers without Borders Canada.
Join us for a compelling discussion on defending human and environmental rights through strategic litigation in Colombia, focusing on the Anchicayá case. This event will explore the ongoing legal battle for justice following the devastating environmental damage caused by the illegal dumping of toxic sludge into the Anchicayá River.
Inclusive Citizenship: Advancing the Rights of People with Disabilities
Join us for our Student Colloquium, where students from across Canada will present their research work on the topic of "Inclusive Citizenship: Advancing the Rights of People with Disabilities". With Keynote guest Professor Sébastien Jodoin, professor at McGill Faculty of Law and founding director of the Disability-Inclusive Climate Action Research Program (DICARP).
Hot Chocolate & Tea Time at the Nahum Gelber Law Library
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Visit the Nahum Gelber Law Library on March 31 starting at noon and get a warm cup of hot chocolate or tea. Members of the Library team and the McGill Wellness Hub will be there to welcome you and tell you more about wellness at McGill.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #5 - Market Research and Analysis of Competition
This workshop will provide an overview of the different types of market research, how to analyze the competition, and the resources available at McGill to perform market research. Our market research librarian will walk us through some of those resources using a market research canvas tool.
The Annual Proulx Roundtable 2025 | Made in Canadian Prisons: An Urgent Discussion about Prison Labour in Canada
Prisons are many things. Among these, they are places of work for the tens of thousands of human beings imprisoned there. Like others, these people report for work in a variety of roles: kitchens, maintenance work, food processing, clerical jobs, and manufacturing. Unlike others, they do so without being recognized as employees and without the basic legal protections usually afforded to workers. Among other impacts, this can mean working in problematic conditions for meagre pay.
Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #6 - Customer Discovery
This workshop will provide an overview of the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model or lean canvas.
Date: Apr. 8th, 2025 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room -FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)
Book launch – The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography
The Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law warmly invite you to attend the book launch of Valentin Jeutner’s new book, The Reasonable Person: A Legal Biography (Cambridge University Press, 2024).
Attendance is open to students and lunch will be served.
Application Deadline: Invention to Impact Training Program Spring 2025
McGill graduate students, do you have promising research results to solve real-world problems? Consider applying as a team to our