Wainwright Lectures

The 2019 Wainwright Lecture

Wainwright Conference 2019 guests of honour and speakers

Back row - Professor Darren Rosenblum, Pace Law School; Professor Daniel Jutras, Wainwright Chair; Daniel Boyer, Wainwright Librarian; Professor Rosalie Jukier; Justice Yves-Marie Morrissette, Emeritus Wainwright Professor; Madam Justice Manon Savard. Seated - Emerita Wainwright Professor Madeleine Cantin Cumyn; Emeritus Wainwright Professor; Professor Angela Campbell; Dean Robert Leckey.


2019

Professor Daniel Jutras, McGill University

L’avocat à la barre de l’action collective: une chasse-galerie?


2015

Professor Giorgio Resta, University of Bari, Italy

Les luttes de clocher en droit comparé, published 62:4 McGill Law Journal 1153, 2017.


2012

Monsieur le juge Yves-Marie Morissette, Quebec Court of Appeal

Aspects historiques et analytiques de l'appel en matière civile, published, 59:3, McGill Law Journal, 481, 2014.


2011

Professor François Ost, Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis à Bruxelles

Le marchand de Venise. Le pari et la dette, le jeu et la loi, published, 62:4 McGill Law Journal 1103, 2017.


2008

Professor Vernon V. Palmer, Tulane University

Quebec and Sister Jurisdictions in the Third Legal Family, published, 54:2 McGill Law Journal 321, 2009.


2006

Professor Madeleine Cantin Cumyn, McGill University

Le pouvoir juridique, published, 52:2 McGill Law Journal 215, 2007. (In the same volume: Dean Nicholas Kasirer's opening remarks, Présentation de la conférence; and Professor H. Patrick Glenn's closing remarks, À l'appui du pouvoir.)


2003

The Honourable Louis Lebel, Supreme Court of Canada

La protection des droits fondamentaux et la responsabilité civile, published, 49:2 McGill Law Journal 231, 2004.


1998

Professor Alain F. Bisson, University of Ottawa

La disposition préliminaire du Code civil du Québec, published, 44:2 McGill Law Journal 539, 1999.


1995

Professor Philippe Jestaz, Université de Paris-Val-de-Marne (Paris XII)

La parenté, published, 41:2 McGill Law Journal 387, 1996.


1987

Professor Christian Atias, Université d’Aix-Marseille

Savoir des juges et savoir des juristes : mes premiers regards sur la culture juridique québécoise, published, Montréal, Centre de recherche en droit privé et comparé du Québec, 1990.


1982

Professor Albert J. McClean, University of British Columbia

The Quebec Trust: Role Rich and Principle Poor?, published, 29:2 McGill Law Journal 312, 1984.


1978

Le professor Henri Batiffol, Université de Paris

Loi et liberté, published, 25:2 McGill Law Journal 143, 1979.


1976

Le professor Joseph Dainow, Louisiana State University

Civil Law in a Mixed Jurisdiction, déposée à la Bibliothèque de droit Gelber, McGill University.


1975

L'hon. Albert Mayrand, Quebec Court of Appeal

L’inviolabilité de la personne humaine, published, 17:2 Les Cahiers de droit 550, 1975.

Articles

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In November 2024, the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL) held its Centennial and 5th Thematic Congress at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-S

29 Apr 2025

On February 14th, McGill Law students Lara Kassem, Mario Michas, Amélie Delage and Xavier Lévesque represented the Faculty at the 2025 Mignault Moot in Quebec City, at Laval University’s Cercle Universitaire.

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