To celebrate the 10th
anniversary
of the first graduating class of the McGill Program, the
Faculty of Law and the Quebec Research Centre of
Private and Comparative Law will host an international
conference on the
future of the
discipline of law. This event
will aim to foster a debate
that critically assesses the
latest developments
in legal thought and innovative approaches
to law, in the light of the challenge of globalization and the
move away from a national paradigm for understanding law. It will also ask the question
of how to integrate the
insights so gained into the teaching
of law. The concern is with law in all its dimensions:
public and private, local and
transnational, formal and informal. By being
forced to abandon, at least in part, the
posited law of the nation state
as their lode
star, legal education
and legal scholarship have been presented
with an opportunity to break the mould of centuries of legal
nationalism: an opportunity that encourages new,
transdisciplinary and transnational ways of thinking about law. In short, the goal is to re-assess and to re-imagine the
discipline of law, its place in the university, and its role
in society. The
working languages of the conference will
be English and French.
The Kent Centre forEuropean and Comparative Law (KCECL) will host the
British Association of ComparativeLaw (BACL) “Postgraduate Workshop on
Comparative Law” on 19-20 June 2012. The
workshop will precede an
international conference on “Comparative
Law: Engaging Translation” on 21-22 June
2012. Both events
are scheduled to take
place at Kent Law
School, Canterbury, Kent, UK.
