[13 Feb] What is a battlefield in the era of modern warfare? How should we determine whether human genes can be patented? How do we tackle the problem of discrimination when it simultaneously crosses gender, race, ethnicity and more? Professors Frédéric Mégret, Richard Gold and Colleen Sheppard take a look with their recent publications.
February 2012
[13 Feb] Timothy Wood, BCL/LLB’09, penned an op-ed for Embassy about his efforts to support underground gay activists in Jamaica.
December 2011
[13 déc] Le 1er décembre marquait la Journée mondiale du SIDA. Nous présentons donc ici un extrait d’un article de Martin Hétu sur l’accès aux antirétroviraux qui se voit restreint par des accords internationaux sur le droit de la propriété intellectuelle.
December 2011
[13 Dec] Lionel Smith, a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, sends us an overview of the college and of his research there.
November 2011
[15 Nov] Between October 9 and 11, Penny and Gordon Echenberg, and six McGill Echenberg Human Rights Fellows working or living in Africa gathered in Kigali, Rwanda, for a two-day meeting on human rights and governance issues.
November 2011
[15 Nov] Members of the Institute of Air and Space Law (IASL) travel to Cape town for the International Astronautical Conference and host a congress on space debris remediation in Montreal; Professor Ram Jakhu receives the 2011 Social Sciences Book Award from the International Academy of Astronautics, and he and Professor Paul Dempsey publish a new book on international civil space regulation. Read further…
October 2011
Roderick A. Macdonald, titulaire de la Chaire F. R. Scott en droit constitutionnel et en droit public de l’Université McGill, signe une lettre d’opinion dans le Le Devoir du 7 octobre 2011 à propos des commissions d’enquêtes.
October 2011
[12 Oct] Internet law specialist and blogger Allen Mendelsohn, BCL/LLB’01, LLM’10, shares his concerns about Facebook privacy practices and how it handles your personal information.
October 2011
[15 sep] Les “QS University World Rankings” classaient récemment McGill parmis les meilleures au monde. Lisez l’intégrale de la lettre que Daniel Jutras a envoyé à La Presse en réponse à l’éditorial «J’cours les concours» de François Cardinal.
September 2011
[15 Sep] Every summer, a select group of McGill law students spend 12 weeks as interns with NGOs around the world. Siena Anstis, a second-year law student, reflects on her internship with the League for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights in Phnom Penh, Cambodia while Jean-Philippe Mac Kay reports on his internship with the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia.
