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Coffee and Comparative Law with... Professor Shauna Van Praagh
Thursday, April 7th, 2016 @1-2pm听
For this session,听we were very fortunate to have Prof. Shauna Van Praagh join us to present and discuss her publication titled 鈥淧alsgraf as 鈥楾ranssystemic鈥� Tort Law鈥�,听giving听us an opportunity to discuss 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 unique take on comparative law as well as legal education with one of the Faculty鈥檚 leaders in both of these areas.听
Prof. Van Praagh is a Full Professor here at the Faculty, where she has taught since 1993. Her听substantive areas of research and expertise are primarily children and law, religion and law, legal education and the private law of civil wrongs. Within each area, she adopts a methodological approach grounded in legal pluralism, a sensibility to identity-based narrative and critique, and a particular emphasis on literary sources and style. She currently teaches Extra-contractual obligations, Advanced Common Law Obligations, as well as a seminar in Legal Education. A former听recipient of the John W. Durnford Teaching Award, Prof. Van Praagh has been instrumental in shaping 捆绑SM社区's unique pedagogical approach over the last two decades.听
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Coffee and Comparative Law with... Professor Kirsten Anker
Tuesday, February 16th, 2016
In this installment of the series, we had the pleasure of enjoying 鈥淐offee and Comparative Law鈥� with Professor Kirsten Anker 鈥� one of 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 own comparative scholars whose research interests include property, Aboriginal title, legal theory, translation studies, anthropology,听education, evidence, and alternative dispute resolution. Last year, Prof. Anker received the inaugural Richard M. Buxbaum Prize for Teaching in Comparative Law, awarded to her by the Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC).
As a point of focus, Professor Anker distributed听her previously-published article titled 鈥淭he Truth in Painting: Cultural Artefacts as Proof of Native Title鈥� and connecting it to her more recent work.
For those of you unfamiliar with this initiative, 鈥淐offee and Comparative Law鈥� is a series of short informal talks by (and talks with) different Faculty members regarding their work in comparative law. These talks serve as an opportunity for interested students to meaningfully engage with 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 own comparative scholars and their work. Each event involves the advance distribution of a selected text and a corresponding talk by its author, followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion over a cup of coffee! Ultimately, these sessions allow us to engage with both the process and substance of comparative scholarship with some of the field鈥檚 brightest scholars. Even should the subject matter lay outside your particular research area, these engagements offer an opportunity for questions that relate to more general issues such as method and difficulties encountered in your own comparative scholarship.
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Coffee & Comparative Law with... Professor Ren茅 Provost
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
Room 102, 3690 Peel
For this session, we had听the privilege of enjoying 鈥淐offee and Comparative Law with... Professor Ren茅 Provost鈥� - a respected member of 捆绑SM社区's faculty who teaches and conducts research in public international law, international human rights law, international humanitarian law, legal theory and legal anthropology.听
Prof. Provost will join us in discussing his "Cannibal Laws" - a fascinating piece听in which he explores the tension in the association of law and cannibalism as a way of unpacking our understanding of law as a social practice. In it, he suggests there are three ways of interrogating that tension, three different 'cannibal laws' that each illustrates a unique facet of our understanding of law.听He writes:
"The first cannibal law is the law that seeks to repress the practice of cannibalism. In this relation, law constructs the practice as an object to be regulated. This is an 茅tude on the theme of regulation, and its motif is legal positivism. The second cannibal law is the law that the cannibals make. In this relation, law offers a normative framework for understanding the practice of cannibalism not merely as an irrational or depraved act, but as a part of a system of norms that fulfils a specific function. This is an 茅tude on the theme of normative agency, and its motif is legal pluralism. The third cannibal law is the way in which legal discourse relates to other forms of social discourse. In this relation, cannibalism stands as a metaphor for the manner in which legal discourse consumes all other ways of understanding, which are digested and transformed to aliment legal analysis. This is an 茅tude on the theme of representation, and its motif is the cultural study of legal hermeneutics."
Questions can be directed to jeffrey.kennedy [at] mail.mcgill.ca
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Coffee & Comparative Law with... Professor Hoi Kong
Thursday, October 23, 2014
This听session, we had the pleasure of enjoying 鈥淐offee and Comparative Law with... Professor Hoi Kong鈥� 鈥� one of 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 own comparative scholars who teaches and writes in the areas of Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Municipal Law, among others.
For us to explore and discuss, Professor Kong distributed a draft of his current work-in-progress entitled 鈥淒eliberative Constitutional Amendments鈥�.
For those of you unfamiliar with this initiative, 鈥淐offee and Comparative Law with...鈥� is a new series of short informal talks by (and talks with) different Faculty members regarding their work in comparative law. These talks serve as an opportunity for interested students to meaningfully engage with 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 own comparative scholars and their work. Each event involves the advance distribution of a selected text and a corresponding talk by its author, followed by an opportunity for questions and discussion over a cup of coffee! Ultimately, these sessions allow us to engage with both the process and substance of comparative scholarship with some of the field鈥檚 brightest scholars. Even should the subject matter lay outside your particular research area, these engagements offer an opportunity for questions that relate to more general issues such as method and difficulties encountered in your own comparative scholarship.
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Coffee & Comparative Law with... Professor Robert Leckey
Wednesday, June 25, 2014
For this session, we had the pleasure of enjoying 鈥淐offee and Comparative Law with... Professor Robert Leckey鈥� 鈥� one of 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 most prolific scholars and an active participant in both academic and public discourse.
Professor Leckey distributed a draft chapter of his current work-in-progress on comparative constitutional law for us to explore and discuss, writing: "This will be the final chapter of a book manuscript to be completed by end of summer. It draws together findings from a study of judges鈥� application of Bills of Rights in Canada, the United Kingdom, and South Africa. I changed it a lot after presentations of the project overseas in May and I present it once more, in London, before I present to your group. So things may change further, though I hope less drastically.鈥� Both the ongoing nature of this work and the influence of feedback that Professor Leckey has received when presenting this work overseas offered a unique glimpse into the process of comparative scholarship, and a rare opportunity for us as students to see the 鈥榞uts鈥� of a project this size.
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鈥淲hich Comparative Law?鈥� A Talk by 鈥� and with 鈥� Prof. H Patrick Glenn
Wednesday, March 19, 2014听
To start, we had the pleasure of our first session being 鈥淐offee and Comparative Law with... H Patrick Glenn鈥� 鈥� one of 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 most prominent comparative scholars, a former Director of the ICL, and the current President of听the American Society of Comparative Law. Professor Glenn gave a talk titled 鈥淲hich Comparative Law?鈥� and invited students to consider a draft of his article 鈥淐om-paring鈥�. As a glimpse into his talk, Prof. Glenn writes that 鈥淐omparative Law has had a long history but emerged as a separate and taxonomic discipline only in the nineteenth century. A new (old) concept of comparative law is required in a time of globalisation and interdependence.鈥�
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