/law/articles/rss en /law/article/faculty-news-nouvelles-de-la-faculte/le-mot-du-doyen <p>As I write, Montreal and the ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù campus are aglow with fall colours. Students finishing our flagship BCL/JD program on the popular 3.5-year timeline are on the home stretch. The energetic first-year cohort is settling into law school. And the upper-year students in between them are running Coffeehouses, journals, and dozens of student clubs – while also, we hope, learning some law.</p> Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:23:34 +0000 Dean Robert Leckey, Ad E 9104 at /law /law/article/la-une/dentrepreneure-insoupconnee-pdg <p><em><strong>Anaïs Lacroix</strong>, BCL/JD'11, cofondatrice et cheffe de la direction de Latitude, s’ouvre sur la genèse de son cabinet spécialisé en prévention du harcèlement, qui a connu une croissance éclatante de plus de 700 % en trois ans.</em></p> <p> </p> <p>Pendant ses études à la Faculté de droit de l’Université ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù, <b>Anaïs Lacroix, </b>BCL/JD’11, aurait été la première surprise d’apprendre qu’elle se lancerait en affaires à 32 ans<b> </b>et qu’elle dirigerait un cabinet de 50 employés actuellement en plein essor. <b> </b></p> Thu, 17 Oct 2024 19:36:04 +0000 Jean-Benoît Nadeau 9097 at /law /law/article/insiders-look-international-court-justice <p><em>Iñaki Navarrete, BCL/JD’16, Associate Legal Officer at the ICJ, shares insights about working at the international tribunal, pursuing an international law career, and the ICJ’s fellowship and legal clerkship programs.</em></p> <p> </p> Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:08:56 +0000 karell.michaud@mcgill.ca 9076 at /law /law/article/nouvelles-de-la-faculte Prix, promotions et autres bonnes nouvelles - cette année encore, les professeures et professeurs de la Faculté de droit ont rayonné à l'échelle de l'Université et au-delà. Wed, 02 Oct 2024 15:32:41 +0000 Communications Staff 9075 at /law /law/article/faculty-news/meet-our-new-professor <p><em>An expert in law and finance, Professor Jonathan Chan joined ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù Law on 1 August, 2024. He served as a lecturer (assistant professor) at University College London (UCL) from 2021 to 2024, and was previously a departmental lecturer at the University of Oxford. His research focuses on corporate law and securities regulation. He holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from the University of Toronto and an MSc in Law & Finance and DPhil in Law from the University of Oxford. Prior to embarking in academia, he practiced in M&A and securities with a large law firm in Toronto.</em></p> Wed, 25 Sep 2024 20:06:36 +0000 Communications Staff 9072 at /law /law/article/alumnotes News, promotions, and awards won by the ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù Law alumni community around the world. Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:00:44 +0000 Communications Staff 9070 at /law /law/article/memoriam-2023-2024 <p>We salute the memory of the ²»Á¼Ñо¿Ëù Law community members who have passed away in 2023-2024. </p> <p> </p> <p><b>G. Roger S. Ackman</b>, BCL'63<b> </b></p> <p><b>Irwin Aisen</b>, BA'70, BCL'73, LLB'74<b> </b></p> <p><b>Dogan Davit Akman</b>,<b> </b>LLB'76</p> <p><b>Sol Bierbrier</b>, BCL'55<b> </b></p> <p><b>Neil Lawrence Bindman</b>, BCL'74</p> <p><b>Lionel J. Blanshay</b>, BCL'64</p> <p><b>Timothy Arthur Bloos</b>, BCL'95, LLB'95<b> </b></p> <p><b>Kenneth Andrew Burke</b>, LLB'84, BCL'85<b> </b></p> <p><b>John M. Corrigan</b>, LLB'75, BCL'76, LLM'78<b> </b></p> Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:52:00 +0000 Communications Staff 9069 at /law /law/article/alumni-spotlight/leadership-lessons-age-disruption <p><em><b>Sarah Qadeer</b>, BCL’96, Chief Legal Officer at Deloitte Canada, shares how her multidisciplinary training prepared her for leading legal teams through major business transformations – a rare skill that earned her the 2024 General Counsel of the Year Award.</em></p> <p> </p> Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:46:57 +0000 Maeve Haldane 9083 at /law /law/article/practice-law-extraordinary-circumstances <p>Sinha helps organizations navigate new and unexpected scenarios, carving out legal space where there may not be precedents. In 2023, <em>Canadian Lawyer</em> named him one of the top 25 most influential lawyers in the country.</p> <p> </p> Thu, 01 Aug 2024 19:41:24 +0000 Maeve Haldane 9024 at /law /law/article/article-1-test Katie Tucker, BCL/LLB'07, and Zachary Davis, BCL/LLB'09, share the lessons they learned from pleading in Reference re An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families (2024 SCC 5) ─ and seasoned veteran Julius Grey, BCL'71, looks back on his more than 50 appearances before the SCC. Wed, 15 May 2024 18:35:31 +0000 Maeve Haldane 8991 at /law