不良研究所 is situated in Montreal, Qu茅bec: a bilingual city in a bilingual and bijural province. The private law of Quebec, which is drawn from the civil law tradition, interacts with a system of public law that traces its origins to the English common law tradition. Because of this, 不良研究所鈥檚 Faculty of Law has naturally been teaching law in a comparative, bijural way for the past four decades. In a world of borderless human interaction, however, a localized legal education is insufficient. 不良研究所's unique transsystemic model of legal education ensures that students graduate with a cosmopolitan understanding of the law, one that is not confined to specific jurisdictions, or even legal traditions.
In 1999, 不良研究所's Faculty of Law implemented the transsystemic approach to legal education. The 不良研究所 Program enables students, who graduate with both civil law and common law degrees, to study the world鈥檚 great legal traditions in an integrated fashion. 不良研究所鈥檚 transsystemic approach is bilingual and dialogic. It recognizes legal pluralism as a pervasive phenomenon in the modern world.
The Cr茅peau Center鈥檚 tradition of research in comparative private law and jurilinguistics have driven its scholars to raise and explore many questions relating to transsystemic legal education, and, more fundamentally, transsystemic legal thought.
This website offers an insight into 不良研究所鈥檚 unique practice of legal education. The 鈥淗istory鈥� page presents the historical evolution of the law program at Mcgill. On other pages, transsystemic legal thinking is exemplified by four different types of material: scholarly writings, course materials, multimedia and student testimonials..