McGill Law Journal articles from December 2005

McGill Law Journal archives from December 2005

Preface navigating the transsystemic: a course syllabus.(Canada)
December 1, 2005... Naming this special issue of the McGill Law Journal was not easy. On the one hand, editors wanted to give the issue a substantive label, to suggest the content in a clear and informative way. On the other, they wanted to incorporate the...

Madly off in one direction: McGill's new integrated, polyjural, transsystemic law programme.(Canada)
December 1, 2005... In 1994, the McGill Faculty of Law organized a two-day faculty retreat, seeking to lay the foundations of a new curriculum. This desire was in part a response to the contradictions inherent to the faculty, but also stemmed from a deep-seated...

No toilets in park.(transsystemic educational program)(Canada)
December 1, 2005... The undergraduate law curriculum adopted at McGill University in 1998--the transsystemic programme--was born of the unique political, social, and intellectual histories of its Faculty of Law. This essay reviews these contexts and characterizes...

Where law and pedagogy meet in the transsystemic contracts classroom.(Canada)
December 1, 2005... In this article, the author examines how the transsystemic McGill Programme, predicated on a uniquely comparative, bilingual, and dialogic theoretical foundation of legal education, operates "on the ground" in a first-year Contractual...

Une lecture du systeme normatif de l'Eglise catholique par un pluraliste comparatiste aux personnalites multiples.(Canada)
December 1, 2005... As part of their work as comparatists, legal scholars have sought to uncover all that was "legal", that is, everything linked to law, without questioning what it is exactly that they were comparing. The pluralist conception of law has...

The chronology of the legal.(United Kingdom)
December 1, 2005... The most influential legal philosophies--notably legal positivism--tend to draw a sharp epistemological distinction between the concept of time and the concept of law. The author provides a legal pluralist account of law, understanding it to...

Doin' the transsystemic: legal systems and legal traditions.(Canada)
December 1, 2005... Transsystemic legal teaching is a challenge to the western bias against conceiving of law as anything other than that which is positively enacted by the state. A more convincing explanation for the normativity of law is provided by refocusing...

Prolegomenon to a pedestrian cartography of mixed legal jurisdictions: the case of Israel/Palestine.
December 1, 2005... The relationship between cartography and law provides a unique focus through which to examine mixed legal jurisdictions. Through an exploration of the various uses of law, cartography, and nation building, the author postulates that mixed legal...

Bricolages anthropologiques pour promouvoir, en Afrique et ailleurs, un dialogue entre univers juridiques.
December 1, 2005... Anthropologue et juriste, l'auteur confronte et conjugue differentes logiques, non seulement les traditions differentes comme le droit civil et la common law dans l'espace juridique canadien, mais aussi des univers juridiques reputes chacun...

Toward cosmopolitan law.(teaching law and philosophy)(Canada)
December 1, 2005... The term "transsystemic law" was coined to characterize the study of law in which the McGill Faculty of Law has been engaged ever since it combined civil law and common law education into a single curriculum. In seeking to characterize and...

One man's justice: my life in the courts.
December 1, 2005... The author offers a personal account of his life in Canada's courts, highlighting in particular the influence that Quebec jurists and legal events have had on his career. In recounting his experiences involving clients from many different walks...

The Cultural Defense.(Book review)
December 1, 2005... Alison Dundes Renteln, The Cultural Defense. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. 219. Alison Dundes Renteln's The Cultural Defense is a monumental treatise, equally versed in the literature of law and anthropology. The author...