Admissions Drop-In Advising Session

The Admissions Drop-In Advising Session will provide you with an opportunity for an open conversation with a member of our Admissions Office to discuss any element of the BCL/JD admissions process.  

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #1 - Technological Innovation and Entrepreneurship 101

This workshop will provide an overview of what technological innovation is and what entrepreneurship is, as well an overview of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, the Lean Launchpad methodology, the Business Model Canvas and the Lean Canvas.

Date: Feb. 24th, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Admissions Drop-In Advising Session

The Admissions Drop-In Advising Session will provide you with an opportunity for an open conversation with a member of our Admissions Office to discuss any element of the BCL/JD admissions process.  

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #2 - Design Thinking Methodology

The learning objective of this workshop is to understand the fundamentals of the Design Thinking Methodology and how it promotes innovation.

Date: Mar. 10th, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)

Martine Roy Student Colloquium

Michelle Douglas Lecture

The Right to Hug

This event examines how carceral bureaucracies and corporate telecommunications interests have turned family contact into a profit-driven system, drawing on Michigan’s groundbreaking “Right to Hug” litigation to challenge the erosion of in-person visits amid mounting pressures on due process. It situates this litigation within broader jail and prison policies across the United States that replace physical visits with costly, unreliable, and highly surveilled video calls.

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #3 - Introduction to Industry Analysis

This workshop will introduce the fundamental tool of Industry Analysis which companies use for strategy development. For startups, understanding the industry is a critical step in determining market entry and market positioning. The Five Forces Framework will be presented and applied to during an exercise.

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 using the DERWENT worldwide patent database. 

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 new market research canvas tool.

Pre-Startup Skills: Workshop #6 - Customer Discovery

This workshop will provide an overview on the customer discovery process and then delve deeper into how to conduct customer interviews and how to iterate on your business model canvas.

Date: Apr. 7th, 2026 Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Location: in-person @ Engine Seminar Room - FDA 3 (Accessibility Map)