February 2012

Allison Christians La professeure Allison Christians, actuellement à l’Université du Wisconsin, nous rejoindra en mai 2012 pour occuper la Chaire H. Heward Stikeman de droit fiscal.


February 2012

[13 Feb] Dean Daniel Jutras travels to New York City and San Francisco; Erin J.C. Arsenault Trust offers new fellowships for Law graduate students and law grads Anne-France Goldwater, BCL’80, and Ken Dryden, LLB’73, make their debuts on CBC’s Canada Reads.


February 2012

Student Katie Webber playing Mrs Boyle in The Mouse Trap. [13 Feb] In our student news round-up: Actus Reus brings murder to the Moot Court while the Environmental Law and Women’s Caucus student groups host a career panel and networking event. The McGill Law Journal hosts a debate on the future of the Constitution and Lucas Gilfuni presents a paper at the North American Consortium on Legal Education.


December 2011

[13 Dec] For a third consecutive year, the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation has generously provided its support to an innovative outreach initiative at the Faculty of Law.


December 2011

Sidney Thompson [13 Dec] In our news round-up for December: two recent grads receive 2011 John Peters Humphrey fellowships; McGill Arbitration Society presents a workshop on negotiation; students attend a special lecture with Supreme Court with Justice Louis LeBel; and doctoral student Julie McCann to present in Jean-Louis Baudoin Chair conference cycle.


December 2011

[13 Dec] Roger Carter scholarship recipient and third-year law student Jessica Labranche-Hamelin has an impressive resume that points to the importance both of academic achievement and community involvement.


December 2011

[13 Dec] Media mentions go out to 4L Joey Flowers, who takes on a holiday stereotype, while Montreal firm Robinson Sheppard Shapiro makes a gift to support student moots. The Toronto Star and Canadian Lawyer 4Students were there to put it in ink.


November 2011

Simone Samuels[15 Nov] Simone Samuels, 2L, received a Forces AVENIR award on October 26, in recognition of her commitment to community projects while the student group Criminal Law McGill hosted a speed-meet with well-known judges, prosecutors and criminal lawyers. Keep reading….


November 2011

Elizabeth Monk, BCL 1923 [15 Nov] David O’Brien, BCL’65, makes another substantial gift to support the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism; Elizabeth Monk, BCL’23, the first woman to win the Faculty’s Gold Medal for academic excellence and the first Quebec woman to receive a Q.C. designation, is honoured by the University Women’s Club of Montreal. Keep reading…


October 2011

Roderick Macdonald [10 Nov] Roderick A. Macdonald, F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law, has been named to the Charbonneau Commission, which has been charged with examining allegations of corruption in the construction industry.