InterGentes: McGill Journal of International Law & Legal Pluralism

The first issue of a new journal on international law and legal pluralism has been published. This journal is peer-reviewed and open-access, available at www.intergentes.com. Although it is based in the McGill University Faculty of Law, the journal is interdisciplinary in its approach.

Following the release of this issue, the Journal will be proceeding with a publication schedule that will include a second thematic issue on (In)tangible Ownership in the International Sphere in 2017 and a renewed focus on op-eds and non-thematic articles to be published on a rolling basis. In keeping with its commitment to developing multimedia content and to complement the first issue’s discussion of resistance in international law, the journal will be releasing a podcast on 'hacktivism’ (a combination of the words ‘hacking’ and ‘activism’) and international law in the coming weeks. While the first issue features only English contributions, InterGentes remain deeply committed to its vision of a trilingual publication and will have Spanish and French pieces forthcoming soon.

Submissions are warmly encouraged. Guidelines are posted on the journal’s website.

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BOOK (Juris Diversitas): Dedek and van Praagh (eds), Stateless Law: Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline

Juris Diversitas is delighted to announce the publication, with Ashgate Publishing, of our latest volume:

Helge Dedek and Shauna van Praagh (eds), Stateless Law: Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline.

As the book's blurb explains:

This volume offers a critical analysis and illustration of the challenges and promises of ‘stateless’ law thought, pedagogy and approaches to governance - that is, understanding and conceptualizing law in a post-national condition. From common, civil and international law perspectives, the collection focuses on the definition and role of law as an academic discipline, and hybridity in the practice and production of law. With contributions by a diverse and international group of scholars, the collection includes fourteen chapters written in English and three in French.

Confronting the ‘transnational challenge’ posed to the traditional theoretical and institutional structures that underlie the teaching and study of law in the university, the seventeen authors of Stateless Law: Evolving Boundaries of a Discipline bring new insight to the ongoing and crucial conversation about the future shape of legal scholarship, education and practice that is emblematic of the early twenty-first century.

This collection is essential reading for academics, institutions and others involved in determining the future roles, responsibilities and education of jurists, as well as for academics interested in Law, Sociology, Political Science and Education.

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WEBSITE: The World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists Congress Website is now operational

The website for the World Society of Mixed Jurisdiction Jurists Congress is now operational at http://www.mcgill.ca/centre-crepeau/wsmjj-4th-worldwide-congress. 


Online registration is open and a draft schedule is posted.

DEATH: H Patrick Glenn (1940-2014)

Friends and admirers of Patrick Glenn may be interested in Daniel Jutras (Dean and Wainwright Professor of Civil Law (McGill))'s 'Saying goodbye to Professor H. Patrick Glenn (1940-2014)'. 

In addition, the International Academy of Comparative Law has circulated the following:

It is with incredible sorrow that we have heard that H. Patrick Glenn passed away. We vividly remember him. This summer he attended the 19th Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law in Vienna. He chaired the commission which proposed the members of the Executive Committee of the International Academy of Comparative Law which were newly to be elected.

We have lost a wonderful person, one of the most experienced comparatists. Students and scholars from all continents were extremely impressed by his lectures and his publications. His unique book Legal Traditions of the World (Canada Prize 1998), as well as the quite original General Course he taught at The Hague Academy of International Law, will continue to be used all around the world.

Patrick’s early passing away is a great loss for our Academy to which he has always been genuinely committed. Discussions with him were highly illuminating and challenging.

On behalf of all Academy’s members, we would like to express our deepest condolences to Patrick's family, to the Faculty of Law of McGill University, and to the American Society of Comparative Law.

We will miss him.

  

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo                                                    Katharina Boele-Woelki

Secretary General                                                                   President

  

  

C’est avec un terrible chagrin que nous venons d’apprendre le décès de H. Patrick Glenn. Il demeure vivant dans nos pensées. Cet été encore, il participait au 19e congrès de l’Académie internationale de droit comparé à Vienne. Il avait d’ailleurs présidé la commission qui a proposé les membres du comité exécutif de l’Académie qui viennent d’être élus.

Le monde académique a perdu une personne merveilleuse, l’un des comparatistes les plus érudits. Les étudiants et enseignants de tous les continents ont été profondément marqués par ses cours et ses publications. Son extraordinaire livre Legal Traditions of the World (Prix Canada 1998) ainsi que son Cours général très original professé à l’Académie de droit international de La Haye seront lus et utilisés dans le monde entier pendant longtemps.

Le décès venu trop tôt de Patrick est une grande perte pour notre Académie, envers laquelle il a toujours été extrêmement dévoué. Les discussions que l’on pouvait entretenir avec lui étaient éclairantes et stimulantes.

  

Au nom de tous les membres de l’Académie, nous souhaitons exprimer nos plus sincères condoléances à la famille de Patrick, à la Faculté de droit de l’Université McGill et à l’American Society of Comparative Law.

Il va nous manquer.

  

Diego P. Fernández Arroyo                                                    Katharina Boele-Woelki

Secrétaire Général                                                                  Président

SYMPOSIUM REMINDER: The Unbounded Level of the Mind: Rod Macdonald's Legal Imagination – 7-8 February 2014

Soyez des nôtres pour le Symposium "L'imaginaire juridique de Rod Macdonald", 7-8 fév @McGillU. Registration now open http://t.co/Bouf4oKNEk
— McGill Law (@LAWMcGill) January 9, 2014

CONFERENCE: The Centaur Jurisprudence Project Conference - The Legalization of Culture and the Enculturation of Law

The Centaur Jurisprudence Project Conference: The Legalization of Culture and the Enculturation of Law
Friday, 21 February 2014, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

This one-day conference will explore the potential of legal pluralism to account for the varied and dynamic roles of culture within legal discourse. Can legal pluralism create a richer model of legal knowledge, one that reflects plural cultural narratives, while still offering a normative foundation for formal legal processes? Or does it entail abandoning a distinctively legal discourse in favour of an assemblage of anthropological and legal knowledge or "centaur discipline"? In short, can legal pluralism bring culture within the domain of law?