Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law
The Centre of Private and Comparative Law was founded in 1975 to promote research in the field of private law from a jurilinguistic and comparative perspective. The Centre has produced historical and critical editions of the Civil Codes and a multi-volume Treatise of Quebec Civil Law. The Centre has also published a series of volumes making up the Private Law Dictionary / Dictionnaire de droit priv茅, along with associated bilingual lexicons; these are world-renowned authorities on the vocabulary of the civil law in English and French. The Centre sponsors the Civil Law Workshops at the Faculty which are designed to explore the foundations of the civil law tradition. It also serves as the focus for research relating to the Faculty鈥檚 ground-breaking program of transsystemic legal education.