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Rédactrice en chef Our paper. As you read this, the G R E a high-energy drying process. Laurel Baker ’ S E paper under your thumb may T N The weight of the inside pages I Editorial Advisory Board feel a little different. It is. As is the same as the weight of the Daniel Jutras the University enters the third C cover, so that the entire issue T Nicholas Kasirer ’ R Toby Moneit-Hockenstein year of its largest fundraising E can be printed in a single pass S T V E Melissa Poueymirou drive ever – Campaign McGill – on the press – saving half the Jennifer Towell we’ve chosen to make some changes energy of a typical two-stocks print Shauna Van Praagh to better reflect our goals and ambi- run. This issue was printed by Pazazz, Designer tions. This magazine – printed on FSC- the only -based printer with a Gerry L’Orange certified, 100% processed chlorine 56" KBA six-colour UV press. UV ink is Editors and Copyeditors free, 100% post-consumer recycled 100% free of hazardous airborne parti- Véronique Bélanger fibre – is just one step in that direction. cles and volatile organic compounds, Diana Grier Ayton We chose offset (non-glossy) paper to making it by far the most environmen- Lysanne Larose Charmaine Lyn avoid petroleum-based coatings and tally-friendly ink on the market today. Susan Murley Melissa Poueymirou ® © Geneviève Saumier

Collaborateurs Laurel Baker Lainie Basman Sarah Berger Richardson Angela Campbell Maureen Duffy Daniel Jutras Nicholas Kasirer Daniel Jutras named Lysanne Larose Roderick Macdonald Maria Marcheschi Thomas McMorrow Interim Dean of Law Dorian Needham Yaw Nyampong Maria Turner On July 1, Professor Daniel Jutras took up the position Marie-Christine Valois Pascal Zamprelli of Interim Dean of McGill’s Faculty of Law Photographers François Brunelle Claudio Calligaris , Daniel Jutras, a conseiller principal de la juge en chef Marc Cramer In the fall of 1984 Owen Egan young gold medalist in law from the Beverley McLachlin pendant deux ans, Rachel Granofsky University of , gold medalist alors qu’il occupait le poste d’adjoint Jack Malric, JEM Photography John Morstad at the Quebec Bar Admission course, exécutif juridique. former law clerk to Mr. Justice Antonio Communiquez avec nous Lamer, and holder of the Frank Knox Professor Jutras has participated in Keep in touch Fellowship while pursuing an LLM at many scholarly, bar association and judi- Send your story ideas Harvard, came to McGill on a recruit- cial conferences across Canada and and AlumNotes to ment visit. At his faculty presentation, internationally, always bringing a deep Laurel Baker, inFocus Editor-in-Chief he spoke to his Master’s thesis on crimi- legal culture, acute analysis and wry [email protected] nal law; by the end of the day he had humour to his presentations. The epit- Phone (514) 398-3424 convinced his soon-to-be colleagues not ome of a teacher, scholar and academic Fax (514) 398-4659 only of his brilliance in that field, but of administrator for our collective aspira- Send your change of his potential to excel in the field of civil tions, he is a respected and cherished address to law obligations and private law more colleague who has given of himself Gina Sebastiao, Development Coordinator generally. unstintingly to others. alumnioffi[email protected] Phone (514) 398-3679 Ainsi, depuis 25 ans, Daniel Jutras Nous nous réjouissons de sa nomination Fax (514) 398-4659 enseigne le droit, mène des projets de comme doyen intérimaire et nous som- inFocus is published by recherche et publie dans plusieurs mes convaincus que la Faculté continue- The Faculty of Law’s domaines, tout en passant une année à ra à s’épanouir pendant son décanat. Development Office ] Faculty of Law, la Faculté de droit de l’Université de McGill University Toronto, pilotant le programme trans- Professor Roderick A. Macdonald, 3644 Peel Street systémique vers son adoption par le Montreal QC H3A 1W9 F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional www.mcgill.ca/law conseil de la Faculté, et agissant comme and Public Law Message from Nicholas Kasirer, Message from Dean of Law from Daniel Jutras, November 2003 Interim Dean to May 2009

For the past two decades, As my term as Dean draws to a pictures of distinguished close, I wish to record that this alumni have hung on the has been the happiest time of my walls of Chancellor Day professional life and to say thank Hall. , notaries, you to our great University. I will journalists, judges, profes- miss the wonderful tumult of life sors of law, business people, in the Dean’s o≈ce. But I am full community organizers, of hope for McGill University and philanthropists, human its fabled Faculty of Law as my rights activists, politicians – dear friend and colleague Daniel all of them united by a con- Jutras moves into the Dean’s nection to this great Faculty of Law, of course, but also O≈ce. Known as a pre-eminent scholar in comparative law, by their deep desire to make a diΩerence in the world. Dean Jutras will light up the Faculty with his infectious I remember walking down the hall on my way to class energy, his sharp mind and his delightful demeanour. A true 25 years ago, struggling with my new identity as a McGill citizen, Daniel Jutras has helped the Faculty thrive “professor of law” – both intimidated and inspired by since he began teaching. But as Dean, nothing will please this institution’s long history of civic commitment. him more than to learn more about our “community,” the I imagine that many of you, struggling with your new featured theme of this issue, and in particular the generous identity as law students, also gazed at these pictures graduates of the Faculty who, for me, have turned “commu- on the wall, and wondered: “What about me? Will I nity” into “family.” leave something behind when all is said and done? Will I have made things better around me?” Today, Le groupe des anciens est le coeur même de notre commu- the answer to those questions is obvious. This Faculty nauté. Year after year, promotion après promotion, our grad- and its alumni continue to be agents of change in a uates prove to be community-minded in a range of activities changing world. they take on alongside their professional work. Perhaps no one stands for McGill’s generosity better than Richard The theme for this issue is In the Community. It high- Pound, BCL’67, who, after ten years in o≈ce as our Chancel- lights the Faculty of Law’s persistent and positive lor presided over his last Law convocation in May. Un athlète influence at home and around the world. This influ- remarquable en natation, son sport préféré, Me Pound s’est ence can be seen in the work of our students, graduate impliqué dans la promotion du sport amateur au Canada et studies, faculty and alumni – all four groups that make à l’international. Mais c’est à l’Université McGill que Me up the Faculty of Law’s own community. Together our Pound a fait preuve d’une générosité qui ne peut que servir collective accomplishments are much too numerous to de modèle. list in one issue of our alumni magazine, so we have sought to highlight the great work of a few select indi- It is in this spirit that, years ago, our Faculty Advisory Board viduals in each of these groups, who share a determina- created the James A. Robb Award for Extraordinary Volun- tion to use their legal education to make the world a teer Service to the Faculty of Law. Every year, much like better place. The stories featured here, and the stories McGill’s energetic volunteer Jim Robb, BA’51, BCL’54, of your own lives as leaders in your respective commu- dozens of law graduates step up to oΩer their precious time nities, give meaning to the labours of present-day to endeavours ranging from mooting to career counselling, students and professors who wrestle with beneficial from taking up roles in University governance to helping ownership, interjurisdictional immunity, and forum non McGill raise money for its bilingual, transsystemic mission in conveniens. > law teaching. This year two graduates were so honoured. Brian Pel, LLB’84, has been the go-to person for generations of editorial boards of the McGill Law Journal. Along the >

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 1 Sur les murs de la Faculté, un coin spécial est réservé aux way Brian helped successive deans raise money and raise portraits des anciens doyens. Nous accrocherons bientôt the profile of the Toronto graduate community for which he sur ce mur celui du professeur Nicholas Kasirer, qui a ter- serves as chair of the McGill Toronto Advisory Board. In miné en juin dernier un extraordinaire décanat. Les pages June, James Grant, BA’58, BCL’61, was honoured for his de ce magazine ont attesté au fil des ans du formidable service on the Faculty Advisory Board of which, some 25 leadership qu’il a exercé sur nous tous, et des innom- years ago, he was an original member. At a moving ceremony, brables succès dont il est responsable. Sous sa gouverne, his old friend and partner Senator David Angus, BCL’62, la Faculté s’est enracinée au Québec en même temps paid tribute to Jim Grant as an unselfish man who sought to qu’elle a déployé toute sa vigueur cosmopolite. La riche “aim high, be loyal, and make everyone better.” Jim Grant histoire de la Faculté est devenue la trame sur laquelle se helped Deans Durnford, Brierley, Macdonald, Morissette, constitue une conception distinctive de l’enseignement Toope and Leuprecht, and within days of my appointment, du droit. Le doyen Kasirer a eu l’audace d’imaginer le was in the Dean’s o≈ce with his sleeves rolled up and a plan droit comme une discipline fondamentale et prioritaire to raise millions of dollars for McGill. David Angus himself au sein de l’Université, clarifiant du même coup la mission knows a thing or two about making the McGill community de cette Faculté : former des juristes à la mesure des défis shine: he has served as Chair of the McGill University de ce nouveau siècle, certes ; mais surtout, former des Health Centre Foundation, and as recently as this fall spent citoyens qui pensent et qui agissent. Pendant plus de cinq an afternoon with law students, alongside fellow senator and ans, son caractère, sa personnalité, sa vision ont été les indefatigable McGill volunteer the Hon. Yoine Goldstein, nôtres. Nicholas Kasirer est ra≈né, créatif, original, in- BA’55, BCL’58, speaking about the virtues of public service. fatigable, branché et formidablement éloquent dans les deux langues et les deux cultures. La Faculté s’est définie à À la Faculté, la bonne action chez les diplômés commence partir de ces qualités tout au long de son mandat. tôt. Nous avons le bonheur de compter dans nos rangs d’anciens au parcours remarquable, les membres du « Conseil And so, like Dean Kasirer, the Faculty is now somewhat consultatif de jeunes diplômés ». Formé il y a dix ans déjà, larger than life. It exudes energy, creativity and confi- le comité a créé un prix pour rendre hommage à un jeune dence. It is committed to intellectual refinement and diplômé qui se distingue par son action de bénévole et, tout social relevance. This is the new soul of McGill’s Faculty naturellement, il a décidé de nommer le Prix Charles D. of Law – the heritage of Nicholas Kasirer’s deanship. Gonthier en l’honneur de celui qui se consacre à l’avance- As the University committee continues its work to find a ment des jeunes juristes de la Faculté. Que le premier worthy successor for Nicholas, my colleagues and I will « Gonthier » soit présenté par le juge Gonthier lui-même à put every ounce of our energy toward keeping the Faculty Dominique Lapierre, BCL’98, LLB’98, est particulièrement moving forward and sustaining this renewed momentum, opportun. Dominique est une des fondatrices du Young this vitality that we all can feel. ] Alumni Advisory Board et a fait preuve, parfois dans la plus grande discrétion, d’un grand dévouement à l’essor de la Faculté.

In leaving the deanship, please allow me to applaud one very special volunteer. When we needed a chair of the Faculty Advisory Board, I immediately thought of James Woods, BA’70, BCL’73, LLB’74. He lectured me in civil procedure Daniel Jutras many years before and, since that time, I have seen him sup- Interim Dean / Doyen par intérim port dozens of young people in diΩerent settings. I owe him, and every member of the Advisory Board he chairs with such Dans les derniers jours avant la mise sous presse grace, a debt of gratitude that defies description. de ce numéro, nous avons appris avec tristesse le décès de Charles Doherty Gonthier BCL ’51, LLD ’90. La carrière I wish I could take every graduate by the hand to thank you de cet homme épris de justice sert de modèle pour ceux et personally for the great joy I have had as Dean of Law at celles qui veulent mettre en œuvre dans la communauté McGill. Longue vie aux anciens de la Faculté! Toutes sortes l’idée de fraternité qu’il a défendue avec autant de passion de bonnes choses à son nouveau doyen Daniel Jutras! ] (lisez l’hommage à sa mémoire en page 37).

Nicholas Kasirer

PORTRAITS BY CLAUDIO CALLIGARIS James McGill Professor of Law

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Faculty Faculté of Law de Droit  Free continuing legal education Fall 2009 Automne 2009 Beginning this fall, the Faculty of Law will be oΩering a new Continuing Legal Education series, free of charge. As part Law in the Le droit dans la of McGill’s commitment to public serv- ice, the Faculty is planning to oΩer five Community communauté three-hour courses in each of the next two academic years. The new series is NOS ÉTUDIANTS LES CHRONIQUES designed to enable lawyers to meet the Reaching Out to High Schools 10 Continuing Legal Education require- Mae J. Nam: Domestic Advocate 13 News | Actualités  ments recently adopted by le Barreau En aide aux Rwandaises 14 du Québec. The mandatory program New Faculty Books 5 requires the province’s 23,000 members OUR FACULTY of the Quebec Bar complete 30 hours of Back to Bountiful, B.C. 16 Alumni Awards 7 approved courses every two years. The The Nexus of Health & Law 19 series has been accredited by le Barreau Professeur Crépeau : Les droits Gifts | Dons 8 and la Chambre des notaires du Québec, sans frontières 20 and will cover a range of contemporary Homecoming & Class Reunions 32 legal issues. To find out more, please visit NOS ÉTUDES SUPÉRIEURES www.mcgill.ca/law/fc. Porte ouverte : Van Praagh 22 AlumNotes 34 The Professor’s Path 23  Your future on myFuture Laws in Space 25 In Memoriam 36 Alumni now have access to myFuture – a new job search and career tool suite OUR ALUMNI oΩered by the Faculty’s Career Devel- « Un signe de Dieu » 14 opment O≈ce. myFuture provides Alanna Devine Bites Back 26 graduates and current students with an Haiti, Without Borders 29 e≈cient way to search for jobs in law, Mahmud Jamal: access career development resources The Future of Law 30 and register for events and workshops. Starting this fall, myFuture will also feature a Professional Networking Pro- Entre Nous 20 gram to match students with alumni with Professor who share similar interests. To learn how Crépeau the CDO can help your career, please contact } Bountiful Aisha Topsakal at [email protected].

Notes from the  Top international arbitrator B.C. Interior 16 to deliver Brierley Lecture Leading international arbitration spe- Alanna to the Rescue 26 cialist Emmanuel Gaillard will deliver the John E. C. Brierley Memorial Lec- ture on Sept. 24, 2009, at the Faculty’s Maxwell Cohen Moot Court. Gaillard is Professor of Law at Université de New New Chancellor 33 Paris XII, Chairman of the Interna- Day Hall tional Arbitration Institute and head of The Faculty the international arbitration practice at Reaches Out 10 Shearman & Sterling LLP in Paris. This lecture commemorates the life and work of John E. C. Brierley, a Canadian expert on arbitration and former Dean of Law at McGill. For information please email [email protected]. Notes de partout 34

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 Grad Studies: virtual recruits Graduate students cite the Internet as among the most influential factors in their choice of university. In response, the Faculty has launched a new web site to enhance its recruitment eΩorts. The Graduate Studies in Law site oΩers an overview of specific programs, features testimonials from professors and alums, and gives visitors a glimpse of what the graduate law student life is like. Visit us at www.mcgill.ca/law-gradprograms. 1 2 3  The altruistic academic athlete Back in 2004, Eric L’Italien [1] was his wife welcomed their first child in “We’re in this space,” he says, “and it is completing his final year in the Quebec June – so he’s also taken on a whole new frankly a privileged space to be in. We Major-Junior Hockey League, playing role as a father. “It’s always been impor- need to do what we can to be more ac- for the Rimouski Océanic alongside tant to mix a couple of things in my life,” cessible, more visible and more useful Sidney Crosby. During his five-year he says with a smile. to our community in whatever ways we major-junior career, L’Italien also played Eric L’Italien captured the Randy Gregg possibly can.” in Quebec City, with general manager Award for his achievements in hockey, Patrick Roy. But unlike many players at academics and community service.  Two Faculty of Law alumni that level, L’Italien was ready to con- awarded prestigious Trudeau prize sider the possibility that his hockey  Three McGillians elected to Black Two Law graduates were selected for career would not necessarily take him Law Students Association of Canada Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation where Crosby was going and Roy had Three McGill students were elected to Scholarships, the most generous of their been. the executive board of the Black Law kind in Canada. Kathryn Chan [5], “I was looking for an opportunity to Students Association of Canada – an LLM’06, plans to pursue her doctorate keep playing hockey,” he says, “so I organization dedicated to promoting exploring ways to modernize the law to looked at the university option.” diversity within the legal profession. better support or regulate voluntary and L’Italien was accepted to McGill, where At the blsac’s recent annual conference, not-for-profit organizations. Jonas- he obtained his Psychology degree, and Anthony Morgan was named president, Sébastien Beaudry [6], BCL / LLB’04, is currently beginning his third year at Cynthia Burton the Francophone Rep- will undertake his doctoral work at the Faculty of Law. He also just com- resentative, and Laurent Koné Vice- Harvard, where he will examine social pleted his fifth and final year as a mem- President for the Province of Quebec. exclusion in Latin America with a view ber of the McGill Redmen hockey team. “blsac is essentially there to repre- to promoting equality. As co-captain, he has been a major part sent the interests of black law students of the team’s unprecedented success across Canada,” Morgan says. “Our aim  Excellence en arbitrage over the last few years, including three is to engage issues that aΩect the black Cet hiver, le doctorant Jean-François National Championship appearances in community.” As is tradition, blsac’s Hébert et l'étudiante à la maîtrise Robin the last four years. next annual conference will be held on F. Hansen étaient les premiers lauréats As important as hockey is, however, the president’s turf, which means that in du Prix d’excellence en arbitrage Marc L’Italien recognizes the value of bring- February of 2010, about 200 students, Lalonde. Hébert et Hansen ont chacun ing the same dedication to his school- academics, and legal professionals will reçu une bourse et ont été honorés lors work, and in his service to the convene at McGill to hear guest speak- d'une cérémonie tenue dans les bureaux community. In addition to being a ers, discuss issues in law aΩecting their de Montréal du cabinet Ogilvy Renault strong student, L’Italien helps run a community, and recognize African- en présence de . youth hockey school a≈liated with Canadian achievements in law. McGill’s hockey program, volunteers In addition to conference prepara-  Honneur « suprême » pour des playing hockey with kids in Montreal tion and coalition-building, add Mor- étudiantes en droit North, helps out at the student-run gan’s plans for programs in career Pour une sixième année d’a≈lée, McGill Legal Clinic on campus and plans to stay development and high school and un- enverra plus d’auxiliaires juridiques à la involved with the Redmen this year by dergraduate outreach, and it’s clear he is Cour suprême que toute autre université helping run practices. And as if his plate eager to make the most of a very busy canadienne. Erin Morgan (Juge Binnie), weren’t full enough, the 25-year-old and year. Elizabeth France (Juge Cromwell),

4 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009  Du neuf En 2009, la Faculté a accueilli deux grands experts dans ses rangs. C’est ainsi que le professeur François Crépeau, BCL’82, LLB’82, un spécialiste des 5 droits de la personne et de la migration, est devenu le premier titulaire de la Chaire Hans et Tamar Oppenheimer en droit international public. Également, l’ancien ministre de la santé, le docteur Philippe Couillard, est entré en fonction à titre de chercheur 4 6 7 principal en droit de la santé. Membre du Groupe de recherche en droit et Virginie Marier (Juge Fish), Palma Willem C. Vis International Commer- santé et rattaché aux Facultés de droit Paciocco (Juge Charron) et Jennifer cial Arbitration Moot; for the second et de médecine, le docteur Couillard tra- Klinck (Juge Rothstein) entreront en time in a decade, McGill’s Jessup Moot vaillera sur des questions interdisci- fonction en août 2010. Team qualified to compete in the Philip plinaires liées à la santé et au droit. C. Jessup International Law Moot  Moots hone courtroom skills Court Competition in Washington,  Convocation honours Our 2009 competitive moot teams D.C.; and the Charles-Rousseau moot At McGill’s Spring 2009 Convocation brought home dozens of awards [4] team came back from Brussels with six ceremony, Professor Richard M. in various international competitive prizes, including the top Charles- Buxbaum [7] was given a doctorate moots, mock trials where law students Rousseau prize. Our students’ mooting honoris causa by the Faculty of Law to plead cases as if before a real court. accomplishments were featured in our honour his distinguished career as a Some recent successes: McGill’s team May 2009 eBulletin, online at teacher and pre-eminent international earned the highest number of awards www.mcgill.ca/law/alumni/ebulletin. and comparative law expert. A former this side of the Atlantic in the annual Dean of International and Area Studies

Les migrations internationales Biotechnology IP & Ethics New Faculty Books contemporaines – Une dynamique E. Richard Gold and Bartha Maria complexe au cœur de la globalisation Knoppers L’imagination éthique – À la François Crépeau, Delphine Nakache Lexis Nexis Canada, 2009 recherche d’une éthique partagée et Idil Atak Margaret Somerville, traduit de Presses de l'Université de Montréal, Corporate Social Responsibility: l’anglais par Rachel Martinez 2009 A Legal Analysis Liber, 2009 Richard Janda, Michael Kerr and Code Civil du Québec – Édition Chip Pitts Le feu sacré: L’héritage d’Antonio critique, 2009–2010, 17e édition LexisNexis Canada, 2009 Lamer, juge en chef du Canada / The Nicholas Kasirer and Jean-Maurice Sacred Fire: The Legacy of Antonio Brisson, Centre de recherche en droit Public International Air Law Lamer, privé et comparé du Québec, Université Paul Stephen Dempsey, Institute and Daniel Jutras and Adam Dodek McGill Centre for Research in Air & Space Law, Lexis Nexis Canada, 2009 Éditions Yvon Blais, 2009 McGill University, 2008 ]

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at U.C. Berkeley, Buxbaum has taught at Professor , BCL’89, Associate Professor Wendy Adams the Berkeley Law School since 1961, liti- LLB’89, took over the job of Associate was appointed Director of the Centre gated for public housing and free Dean (Academic) from Geneviève for Intellectual Property Policy, where speech, drafted model securities and Saumier, BCom’87, BCL’ 91, LLB’91. she continues the cipp’s mission of fos- corporations laws, and been active in Canada Research Chair in Law and tering a global conversation about new various eΩorts to ensure access to higher Discourse Desmond Manderson, took ways to understand the world of innova- education for minority groups. over as Associate Dean (Research), suc- tion and the intellectual property issues Durant cette même collation des ceeding Fabien Gélinas. that accompany it. Adams succeeds grades, l’Association des étudiant(e)s en La Faculté a également créé deux Associate Professor E. Richard Gold, droit a présenté au professeur adjoint nouveaux postes. C’est ainsi que BSc’84, the cipp’s founding director. Robert Leckey, BCL’02, LLB’02, le Prix Véronique Bélanger, BCL’91, LLB’91, John W. Durnford d’excellence en LLM’99, a été nommée au poste de  Promotions and appointments enseignement 2009. Les étudiants ont doyenne adjointe à la planification Colleen Sheppard, Research Director souligné sa passion et sa grande disponi- stratégique. Dans ce nouveau rôle, elle for the McGill Centre for Human bilité comme professeur. Cette nomina- agit comme conseillère auprès du doyen Rights and Legal Pluralism, has been tion est arrivée tout juste après que en tout ce qui touche à l’administration promoted to the rank of full professor. l’Association canadienne des profes- de la Faculté, notamment en matière de Lara Khoury, co-convenor of the Re- seur(e)s de droit ait octroyé à Leckey gouvernance et de planification budgé- search Group on Health and Law, has son Prix d’essai juridique, un prix taire et financière. Par ailleurs, Ali been promoted to associate professor. qui récompense les jeunes universitaires Martin-Mayer, BSc’98, BCL’02, LLB’02, Boulton Fellows Alana Klein, BCL’02, pour un article faisant une importante est désormais doyenne adjointe aux LLB’02, and Vrinda Narain have been contribution au droit. études et à la vie étudiante. Son rôle vise appointed assistant professors, while Samuel Gale Chair holder Professor à l’élaboration de programmes complets Adrian Popovici, BCL’62, and Anicée Margaret Somerville, an international de soutien pédagogiques, de conseils Van Engeland have respectively been leader in legal and medical ethics, was académiques et de services aux étu- named Wainwright Senior Fellow and awarded an honorary Doctor of diants. Catherine Bleau, BCL / LLB’04, Boulton Junior Fellow. Professors Hoi Humane Letters this spring by Mount a remplacé Martin-Mayer à titre de Kong, BA’95, MA’98, BCL’02, LLB’02 Saint Vincent University. The University directrice du Centre de développement and Barnali Choudhury join the Faculty of Saskatchewan awarded an honorary professionnel (CDO) et est à présent this year as assistant professors, while doctorate of law to Paul-André épaulée par Lianne Barski, BCom’97, la Dr. Alicia Hinarejos and Han-Ru Zhou Crépeau [2] during its Fall 2008 Con- nouvelle coordonnatrice du Centre. join us as this year’s Boulton Fellows. vocation ceremony. Emeritus Professor Please join us in welcoming the fol- Wainwright Civil Law Librarian Daniel Crépeau was also the recipient of the lowing people to the Faculty’s adminis- Boyer, BA’79, MLIS’88, has been ap- Quebec government’s Georges-Émile tration: Aisha Topsakal, BCL’02, pointed head of the Nahum Gelber Law Lapalme prize for his contribution to LLB’02, will head the CDO while Library, replacing John Hobbins, the French language in Canadian law – Catherine Bleau is on maternity leave; BA’66, MLS’68, who retired this year. making it his second Prix du Québec. Melissa Poueymirou is managing the In June 2009, Stephen A. Smith was Faculty’s Development and Alumni Re- made a James McGill Professor for his  Royal honours lations o≈ce, while Director of Devel- achievements as a William Dawson In Sept. 2008, then-Dean Nicholas opment Toby Moneit-Hockenstein, Scholar at the Faculty and his accom- Kasirer was elected a Fellow of the BCom’00, BCL / LLB’05, is on mater- plished record at the University. James Royal Society of Canada – the most nity leave; and Laurel Baker joins the McGill professorships are reserved for prestigious scholarly association in Faculty as Communications O≈cer. scholars whose work is consonant with Canada – for his achievements in com- the standards associated with a tier-1 parative law, jurilinguistics and the fun-  Centres and institutes Canada Research Chair. damental theory of private law. In Nov. Assistant Professor Angela Campbell, Also in June, William Dawson 2009, former Dean of Law Roderick BA’95, BCL’99, LLB’99, who is co-con- Scholar and Associate Professor Macdonald will assume his post as the venor of the Research Group on Health Adelle Blackett [3] was appointed to 111th President of the RSC – making and Law, was appointed Director of the Quebec’s Commission des droits de la him the first law professor to hold that Institute of Comparative Law. She has personne et des droits de la jeunesse for title. been very active in renewing the Insti- a five-year mandate. tute’s mandate and identity, while men- PHOTO CREDITS, PREVIOUS SPREAD: 1 & 3 CLAUDIO CALLIGARIS;  New faces and roles toring graduate students engaged in 2 LYSANNE LAROSE; 4 RACHEL GRANOFSKY; 5 & 6 COURTESY OF THE TRUDEAU FOUNDATION; 7 OWEN EGAN The last year has seen several changes in comparative, pluralistic legal scholar- PHOTO CREDITS, OPPOSITE (LEFT TO RIGHT): CLAUDIO CALLIGARIS; LYSANNE LAROSE; GERRY HUDDLESTON, ALMONTE GENERAL the Faculty’s administration. Associate ship. HOSPITAL – FAIRVIEW MANOR FOUNDATION; LAUREL BAKER

6 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009  Une autre mention pour  Départs à la retraite lors de son 46e congrès annuel. l’éducation internationale Le professeur Pierre-Gabriel Jobin, Professor Jane Matthews Glenn also Le Programme sur les cours et les tri- titulaire de la Chaire Wainwright en retired in January. Glenn has been a bunaux internationaux de McGill a reçu droit civil et professeur de droit à member of the Faculty since 1971 and le Prix d’excellence du programme en McGill depuis 1980, a pris sa retraite en was also cross-appointed with the éducation internationale du Bureau janvier 2009; toutefois, il a immédiate- McGill School of Environment. Last canadien de l’éducation internationale ment repris le collier comme titulaire December, her friends and colleagues en 2008. Ce même programme a émérite de la Chaire Wainwright en honoured her “tenure” at the Faculty d’ailleurs été couronné en 2006 par le droit civil. L’Association québécoise de with a roundtable in her name, which Prix de la Banque Scotia et de l’aucc droit comparé, dont il fut président pen- covered the topics that have long been pour l’excellence en internationalisa- dant plusieurs années et où il demeure close to her heart: land use planning, tion.Voici le deuxième prix remporté très actif, a d’ailleurs fêté sa carrière agricultural law, access to housing, prop- par la Faculté de droit de McGill. En distinguée lors d’un cocktail tenu en erty rights and environmental law. At eΩet, en 2006, le bcei avait ainsi avril à la Faculté. Également en avril, the Spring 2009 Convocation, Professor couronné le programme d’éducation l’Association des professeurs et pro- Glenn was appointed Emeritus Profes- juridique transsystémique de la Faculté fesseures de droit du Québec a souligné sor by the University. ] de droit. les contributions du professeur Jobin

Left to right: The Hon. James Grant, BA’58, BCL’61, and James Robb, BA’51, BCL’54 | Nicholas Kasirer, BLC’85, LLB’85, Graham Nesbitt, BA’58, LLB’64, James Robb and Brian Pel, LLB’85 | The Hon. James K-Hugessen, BCL’57, and Mary Hugessen | The late Justice Gonthier, BCL’51 (see obituary, page 37), with Dominique Lapierre, BCL’98, LLB’98.

In April, Brian Pel was honoured as bunals and benches, but never left the Alumni Awards the first Toronto recipient of the award. Faculty of Law behind, serving as ad- The Faculty’s most prestigious honours A successful tax partner with McCarthy junct professor from 1962 to 1974, and Tétrault’s Toronto o≈ce, Pel has cham- supporting the Faculty and Law Library James Grant and Brian Pel: pioned Campaign McGill’s fundraising as an advocate, donor and advisor. The James A. Robb Award eΩorts in Toronto, sits on the Faculty This year, the Faculty of Law honoured Advisory Board and participated in last Dominique Lapierre: Charles two alumni with the James A. Robb fall’s External Review at the Faculty. D. Gonthier Outstanding Young Award for their exemplary volunteer Alumni Award service – the Hon. James Grant, BA’58, Justice Hugessen: The F.R. Scott Dominique Lapierre, BCL’98, LLB’98, BCL’61, and Brian Pel, LLB’85. The Award for Distinguished Service received the first Charles D. Gonthier award is named after the great McGill The Hon. James K-Hugessen, BCL’57, Outstanding Young Alumni Award last volunteer, James Robb, BA’51, BCL’54, will receive the 2009 F.R. Scott Award September. Named in honour of Justice who attended ceremonies for both re- for Distinguished Service at a ceremony Gonthier, BCL’51, this new prize was cipients. this fall. Named in honour of Canadian created by the Young Alumni Advisory In June, Grant’s friends, family mem- poet and former Dean of Law Francis Board to recognize a recent graduate. bers, and colleagues from Stikeman Reginald Scott, the award recognizes Lapierre has worked as a for Elliott gathered to show their support alumni who have exhibited exceptional Telefilm Canada, and currently serves as for their firm’s retired partner and Chair service to society and the Faculty. Telefilm’s Deputy Director of Television emeritus. Grant is a leader in corporate Justice Hugessen practised law until for the French Market. As yaab chair commercial law, was summoned to the 1972, when he was appointed justice of from 2004 to 2008, Lapierre was instru- Queen’s Privy Council for Canada in the Superior Court of Quebec. In 1983, mental in helping young alumni recon- 1996, and is a member of the Montreal, he became a judge of the nect with the Faculty. ] Quebec, Canadian, American and Inter- of Appeal, retiring in July 2008. News items by Lysanne Larose national Bar Associations. Hugessen also sat on a number of tri- and Pascal Zamprelli

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 7 Gifts | Dons

Faculty surpasses $20-million in Campaign McGill

Since the launch of Campaign McGill: History in the Making in the fall of 2007, the Faculty of Law has received gifts and pledges totalling more than Last fall, Rio Tinto Alcan established Ogilvy Renault partner Patrick M. Shea, $20-million, making it the Faculty’s the L. Chair in Interna- BCL’99, LLB’99, then-Dean Nicholas Kasirer, most successful fundraising drive. tional Arbitration and International BLC’85, LLB’85 and Ogilvy Renault Chair- Alumni, law firms, foundations and Commercial Law. Together with the man Norman M. Steinberg, BSc’71, BCL’75,

friends have played a critical role in the Fortier Chair, the Ogilvy Renault Fac- announce a $1-million gi≤ to the Faculty. CLAUDIO CALLIGARIS campaign, with alumni representing ulty Scholars will contribute to a critical 85 per cent of all donors. The Faculty mass of international arbitration experts aims to raise a total of $35,130,000 as at McGill. Thank you, Ogilvy Renault! part of Campaign McGill, which runs De Grandpré Chait Real Estate Award until the end of 2012. Osler gives business law a lift Students with a passion for real estate Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP joins law will be recognized by the firm Campaign McGill with the first law firm De Grandpré Chait LLP, which has gift to name a physical space at the partnered with its lawyers to create the Faculty of Law. The Osler Hoskin & De Grandpré Chait Real Estate Award. To find out how you can participate Harcourt Seminar Room will be located The award, to be funded over four years, in Campaign McGill with a gift to in New Chancellor Day Hall, where ren- will be used to support students who the Faculty of Law, contact Interim ovations have transformed the learning have completed at least one year of the Development Director Melissa environment (see story on page 33). BCL/LLB program and who have Poueymirou at (514) 398-6611 or While the firm has agreed to name demonstrated excellence in real estate. [email protected]. this state-of-the-art classroom, its individual lawyers and partners plan to The Faculty of Law proudly acknowledges create the Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt the participation and contribution of Business Law Fund. Designed to elevate law firms as part of Campaign McGill. Law firms join the profile of business law education at Such firm-wide support highlights the McGill, the fund will be used to invite Faculty’s close connection with many of Campaign McGill scholars and practitioners to the Faculty, Canada’s leading law firms, its alumni oΩer research stipends to undergraduate practitioners and the importance of Ogilvy sets the bar high students and develop new projects. McGill’s unique program of transsys- Ogilvy Renault LLP has partnered with temic legal education. its lawyers, agents and retired partners Fasken invests in students and research to raise $1 million in support of two In early 2009, Fasken Martineau be- scholars at the Faculty of Law, known as came the first law firm to make a major New Symposium for the Ogilvy Renault Faculty Scholars in gift to Campaign McGill. The Fasken Arbitration and Commercial Law. Martineau Excellence Fund, created Graduate Research An impressive 89 per cent of the with a generous $350,000 donation, will firm’s Faculty of Law alumni and 84 per support three important areas at the The Faculty of Law is very pleased to cent of McGill alumni contributed to Faculty: the Scholarship for Legal announce the creation of the Maxwell the cause – raising more than $500,000. Excellence provides a renewable schol- & Isle Cohen Symposium for Graduate A $250,000 gift from the firm, and an- arship to a student entering the BCL / Research in International Law. Thanks other $250,000 from Campaign McGill LLB program; the Corporate Social to generous donations from family, Co-Chair, L. Yves Fortier, BCL’58, Responsibility Research Fund supports friends, former students and colleagues, LLD’05, the longstanding Chairman of students working as research assistants; the Cohen Symposium will honour the Ogilvy Renault, and leader in interna- and the Fund for the Journal of Law and memory of Maxwell Cohen, former tional arbitration law, helped the firm Health supports this student-run and Dean at the Faculty from 1964 to 1969, create this symbolic gift. peer-reviewed scholarly publication. and pioneer of the National Program,

8 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009 created in 1968. The Cohen Symposium Methodology Program. Now, this criti- will be inaugurated in May 2010, with cal program has received support from a special celebration on March 17, leading litigator James A. Woods, FRANÇOIS BRUNELLE Maxwell Cohen’s birthday. BA’70, BCL’73, LLB’74. For those interested in making addi- Through his generous, endowed gift, tional donations to the Maxwell & Isle Woods has created a fund to support a Cohen Fund, please contact James A. Woods Junior Advocacy Fellow, [email protected]. to be awarded on an annual basis to a current student or recent graduate working with the Legal Methodology Charitable foundation Program. Jim Woods, senior partner of the firm invests in disability law Woods LLP, serves as a lecturer in civil litigation at McGill. He is also Chair of With contributions reaching over the Faculty of Law’s Advisory Board in $1.4-million, the Rathlyn Foundation Montreal. Thanks to an endowed gift from Michael has taken an active interest in improving Novak and Kathleen Weil, students will student learning at McGill, investing in have the opportunity to gain hands-on classrooms, student advising and men- Values that don’t experience doing field work in human torship programs. The Foundation’s rights through the International Human most recent gift highlights the Faculty fluctuate Rights Internship Program run by the of Law, with the objective of advancing McGill Centre for Human Rights and the rights of people with disabilities. The Executive Vice-President of SNC- Legal Pluralism. Through a $500,000 endowed gift, Lavalin, Michael Novak, BSc’76, the Rathlyn Foundation will support BCL’80, LLB’81, recently found inspira- two initiatives related to disability and tion in an unlikely source: the global the law. Beginning this fall, the Rathlyn financial crisis. “I don’t want to dimin- with NGOs and international tribunals. Foundation Fellowships in Law – valued ish the pain and suΩering it has caused Both Novak and Weil are active phi- at $15,000 per year – will be awarded to people,” says Novak. “But it brought lanthropists. “I’ve always been inter- graduate students conducting research home the idea that while the values of ested in social justice,” says Weil, who in human rights, specifically in disability the stock market may go up and down, comes from a socially engaged family. law and policy. The Rathlyn Foundation our fundamental values – such as caring Her father, a doctor, told Weil and her Activity Fund will support student re- for each other – are here to stay.” six siblings: “If you’re going to be happy search and academic activities in human For Novak, those values are the basis in life, you have to give back.” rights and disability law. of building a strong society – a charac- Weil took the lesson to heart. Prior The Faculty is grateful for the teristic he has in common with his wife, to being appointed Minister of Justice in Rathlyn Foundation’s generous contri- the Minister of Justice and Attorney- December 2008, she worked for close to bution. Their gift will go a long way in General for Quebec, Kathleen Weil, 25 years in the public and not-for-profit advancing student support, teaching and BA’78, BCL’82, LLB’82. “One of the sectors, in the areas of constitutional research, as well as the state of Canadian things that Kathleen and I share,” says and minority language rights, health and law in this important field of human Novak, “is that we believe we all have a social services and youth and children’s rights and disabilities. responsibility to contribute to the well- welfare. being of our community.” Investing in human rights interns at The community for Novak and Weil the Faculty of Law was a natural fit. New support for includes their alma mater. “We both “Human rights are the enshrinement of wanted to support the Law Faculty,” says those fundamental values we believe in,” legal education’s Weil. “So much of who we are today is says Novak, whose work with SNC- thanks to our education at McGill.” Lavalin has taken him to 75 diΩerent “nuts and bolts” Earlier this year, the two McGill alumni countries and impressed upon him the established the Michael Novak and importance of protecting those values. Writing and research are two key com- Kathleen Weil Human Rights Intern- Weil agrees: “Human rights are funda- ponents of being a lawyer. They’re also ship Awards to support the Interna- mental for a successful society.” the “nuts and bolts” of legal education. tional Human Rights Internship And, for Weil and Novak, helping At McGill’s Faculty of Law, students Program, where students are able to gain others is fundamental for a happy and develop both in the compulsory Legal hands-on experience doing fieldwork successful life. ]

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 9 Law in the Community | OUR STUDENTS

Bringing Law to Life

Innovative program introduces legal concepts to high school students – and aims to level the playing field of who can go to law school | By Pascal Zamprelli, BCL/LLB’05, with files from Thomas McMorrow, LLM’08

Thomas McMorrow brings passion to his presentation.

At Kahnawake Survival School on “The idea is to put university on the The partnership with each high school Mohawk territory south of Montreal, a radar for kids who’ve never thought is developed over three sessions during high school student takes on the role of about it,” says Charmaine Lyn, BA’96, the academic year. During the first two, Rebecca – a teenager accused of beating BCL / LLB’03, Assistant Dean of Law McGill law students visit the high up another girl for her New York (External AΩairs) and the person respon- schools to engage the students in discus- Yankees jacket. Another student plays sible for getting the project oΩ the sions about the law and activities like Rebecca’s father, who acknowledges he ground three years ago. “Kids who don’t the simulated sentencing circle to help hasn’t been the greatest dad since her have lawyers or university graduates in bring legal concepts to life. mother passed away. Another takes on the family. Kids who are told, and who the role of Rebecca’s boss who says she’s believe, that what you do right after “What we’ve been trying to do is put a good worker, and another the victim’s high school is find a job. That’s the them into the position of decision mak- mother who’s scared it’s becoming more framework.” ers and say look, you’re thinking about dangerous on the streets. Together, the questions of law and justice every day,” KSS students are charged with meting According to Statistics Canada, Quebec says Thomas McMorrow, doctoral out the best punishment for Rebecca, as has among the highest drop-out rates in student and hsop coordinator. “We part of a simulated aboriginal sentencing Canada – and the problem is particularly can’t be their parents, their guidance circle. pronounced in low-income neighbour- counsellors, or their teachers, and we hoods, as well as among the children of don’t want to preach to them either. So Welcome to the High School Outreach recent immigrants and visible minori- what we’ve come in to do is to get them Program – an innovative new initiative ties. Lyn says that’s exactly who the excited about learning and get them to where student volunteers from McGill’s hsop is targeting. think about it a bit diΩerently.” Faculty of Law visit local high schools with above-average dropout rates. The Last year, 40 McGill law students volun- The final session has the high school Program’s goal is to encourage students teered to work with more than 300 high students, like those from the Kah- living in di≈cult socio-economic situa- school students in four Montreal-area nawake Survival School, visit McGill to tions to think about legal concepts – high schools – including Kahnawake Sur- see and learn about its facilities and hear from access to justice, to the distribu- vival School, James Lyng High School in from guest speakers about the links be- tion of wealth and power, and the point St-Henri / Little Burgundy and École tween law and everything from hip hop at which downloading music and movies Secondaire Georges-Vanier in Villeray. culture to high art. Lyn and McMorrow becomes copyright infringement. agree that they want the high > p.12

10 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009 PHOTOS AT KAHNAWAKE SURVIVAL SCHOOL BY JOHN MORSTAD

(and Life to Law)

In a simulated sentencing circle, students from Kahnawake Survival School and McGill’s Faculty of Law are charged with meting out the best punishment for Rebecca – a fictional teenager accused of beating up another girl.

In another exercise, the world’s wealth is represented by 100 pennies. These are distributed amongst participating KSS students to spark a discussion about the distribution of wealth and power within society.

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 11 PHOTOS AT FACULTY OF LAW BY OWEN EGAN

“Law is one of my top interests now.” – Kris Culley, student at James Lyng High School

< school students to think about univer- are “not about a≈rmative action or sity as an option. But they say hsop also changing standards for groups of people. benefits its law student volunteers by It’s about expanding the pool as early as giving them the opportunity to interact possible. You put the idea in a young with disadvantaged kids – many of person’s head that there are choices, whom have had negative experiences that they have options.” with the justice system. “It confronts McGill law students with their own Furthermore, Lyn explains, hsop is the privilege and with direct knowledge of type of program that perfectly reflects how the law often operates,” says Lyn. McGill University’s mission statement, “There is a lot that we get as a commu- in which “service to society” figures nity out of these experiences that is in- prominently. “We have the tools and the valuable. It’s win / win – we are the ability to connect with and serve people beneficiaries as much as anyone.” right on our doorstep,” she says.

She believes that diversifying the pool While hsop currently operates on a of applicants to law school – and univer- shoestring, Lyn believes resources, sity – can enrich the experience of all skills and knowledge can be pooled students who attend, drawing parallels across the University to coordinate and with her own path in life. “I wasn’t sup- expand its outreach mission. “We’re posed to go to law school,” she says. “I’m doing quite a lot on very little, and I coming at it from a personal experience think it’s got phenomenal potential. of having had the benefit of one or two [hsop] is going to make a diΩerence people along the path of my high school in kids’ lives, but this is the tip of the career push me.” The notion of learning iceberg of what we could be doing.” ] from diversity, and programs like hsop,

Above: Graduate student Salman Rana, LLM’09, speaks on law, hip hop and youth culture. Charmaine Lyn, Assistant Dean of Law (External AΩairs).

12 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009 Law in the Community | OUR STUDENTS

Law student Mae J. Through intense lobbying eΩorts, Nam Nam stands beside and her fellow pwc-q volunteers suc- WING YAP a mural by fellow cessfully fought the deportation of Laila pwc-q member and Elumbra, a Filipino domestic worker artist Wing Yap. who came to Montreal under the Live- Entitled “Philippine In Caregiver Program, but fell into a Rhapsody,” it tells coma two months short of the 24 the story of forced required to be eligible for permanent migrations in the resident status. Philippines. Now as a third-year law student, Nam is researching the lives of domestic care- givers with McGill Law professor Adelle Blackett. She is also working to develop a judicial reference on equality rights and Charter cases, under the supervi- sion of Court of Quebec Judge Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré and Court of Justice Maryka Omatsu. Through the pwc-q, Nam is planning to mount a Charter challenge of the Live- In Caregiver Program, which she believes discriminates against Filipino women. “There are so many Lailas in Canada, but the only way for a commu- Domestic nity to strengthen itself is by banding together and working together. We’re focused on empowerment from the Advocate ground up,” she says. The daughter of a domestic worker Nam represents the first generation in her family to go to university – and feels seeks equality through advocacy and tremendously fortunate to be able to go to law school. “I came here to be a bet- charter litigation | By Laurel Baker ter advocate, not necessarily to be a lawyer. But being in law school changed my mind, and I’m excited to work as a Mae J. Nam is determined to use her “Before this program was introduced, Charter litigation lawyer. Law is only legal education at McGill to eΩect posi- most Filipino women came to Canada to one tool, but it’s a really great tool to tive change for vulnerable and exploited work as nurses and teachers,” says Nam. eΩect change in people’s lives.” ] women – especially those of Filipino “They were well-paid and independent. descent. Nam’s mother was born in the But now one of the only ways for Philippines, but came to Canada to Filipino women to come to Canada is work as a live-in domestic worker. Today, through the Live-In Caregiver program thousands of Filipino women come to for domestic workers. They have to live Canada through Immigration Canada’s in people’s homes, are often paid low Mae J. Nam spent the summer working Live-In Caregiver Program. Through her wages, and are essentially on-call 24 for the Ateneo Centre for Human Rights mother’s stories, and through learning hours a day.” in Makati City, Philippines, as part of the about the experiences of other Filipino- International Human Rights Internship Canadian women, Nam has come to un- Nam’s advocacy work began while she Program run by the McGill Centre for derstand the hardships many domestic was still completing her BA at McGill. Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. workers are forced to endure right here She helped found the Philippine Nam is also one of three McGill law stu- in Canada – and has chosen to dedicate Women’s Centre of Quebec, an organi- dents selected for a 2009 Association her life to fighting a program she be- zation dedicated to promoting the of Universities and Colleges of Canada lieves has its roots in slavery. rights of domestic workers in Canada. Students for Development Award.

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 13 Le droit dans la communauté | NOS ÉTUDIANTS « Un signe de Dieu »

Des étudiants de McGill viennent en aide aux Rwandaises Par Marie-Christine Valois

Massacres à la machette et exécutions massives. Un soir d’octobre 2007, quatre survivants de diΩérents génocides se présentent sur une scène de l’Université McGill. Tour à tour, ils racontent le meurtre de leur famille, de leurs amis.

Quand la Rwandaise Esther Mujawayo ouvre la bouche, Anita Nowak est sou√ée. « J’ai senti mes oreilles brûler, comme si elle m’avait parlé directement à moi. Cette femme a perdu toute sa famille. Soixante personnes. Père, mère, oncles, tantes... tous sont morts, sauf ses enfants », dit Anita, étudiante au doctorat en Éducation à McGill. Elle décide alors qu’elle en a assez d’être spectatrice.

A Call to Action: Penny Quelques jours plus tard, Anita et sa sœur Helen, étudiante à and Gordon Echenberg, la Faculté de droit de McGill, conviennent de partir pour le BA’61, BCL’64, made a Rwanda. Elles veulent aider et mieux comprendre les sur- $1-million gift to create the vivants du génocide de 1994, à travers l’organisme Tubahu-

CLAUDIO CALLIGARIS Echenberg Family Confer- murize. « C’est Eloge Butera, un étudiant en droit, lui- même ences on Human Rights at un survivant du génocide, qui nous a parlé du collectif de sa the Centre for Human mère au Rwanda », dit Anita. Rights and Legal Pluralism in McGill’s Faculty of Law. Le collectif, fondé par Jeanne Mwiriliza, aide les femmes The first in the series was Tutsis et Hutus à se sortir de la pauvreté et de situations the Global Conference on d’abus, en leur oΩrant un suivi psychologique, une formation the Prevention of Geno- technique et, dans certains cas, un prêt de 40 $ US pour dé- cide, launched in October marrer une petite entreprise. Le nom de l’organisme, 2007. “It was my call to Tubahumurize, signifie consoler et donner espoir. action,” says Anita Nowak, a doctoral student in Education. Prompted by the words « Quand Eloge nous a parlé du collectif, tout est devenu très of a Rwandan genocide survivor at that inaugural clair, dit Anita. On allait faire des levées de fonds, distribuer conference, Nowak and her sister Helen, a third-year l’argent au Rwanda et évaluer les besoins de l’organisme. On Law student at McGill, travelled to Kigali to work with voulait baser nos actions sur notre connaissance de ce qui se Tubahumurize, a collective that provides counselling and passe sur le terrain. » support to Rwandan women and children. The second Echenberg Family Conference is in the planning stages.

14 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009 Après trois semaines au Rwanda, à assiter à des thérapies de groupes, à interviewer des survivants, ou à tout simple- ment écouter les confidences d’un passager inconnu lors d’un voyage en autobus, les deux sœurs n’en peuvent plus.

RACHEL GRANOFSKY La mémoire du Rwanda est devenue insupportable. « J’ai pris la décision de me concentrer sur du positif, soutient Helen. Et de toute façon, je crois que c’était ça notre but premier en allant au Rwanda. »

Un an après leur voyage, Anita et Helen ont toujours de la di≈culté à répéter les histoires qu’elles ont entendues. « Écouter tous ces gens nous a changées. On ne peut plus revenir à notre ancienne vie comme avant, dit Anita. Je n’ai plus d’excuses pour être complaisante. J’ai maintenant la responsabilité d’être active. »

Depuis leur retour, les deux sœurs ont reçu des lettres de Rwandaises reconnaissantes. Parmi elles, une femme les remercie de l’aide accordé pour démarrer sa petite entre- prise de vente de charbon. Cette Rwandaise peut au- jourd’hui contribuer au revenu familial. Elle a mérité le respect de son mari et il a cessé de la rouer de coups.

C’est ce genre de nouvelle qui pousse Anita et Helen à poursuivre leur travail avec le collectif Tubahumurize. ]

Left: McGill students making a diΩerence. Anita and Helen Nowak (back row) are pictured with third-year law student Nathalie Nouvet (seated in front). Nouvet spent part of the summer in Kigali, working with Tubahumurize, the collective founded by the mother of law student eloge Christian Butera (right). In April, Butera was granted the Young Volunteer En juillet 2008, les deux sœurs posent le pied sur le sol orange Claude-Masson Award and selected for a Sauvé Scholarship de Kigali. Elles veulent rencontrer le plus grand nombre des for his fundraising and activism. He was also one of six people quelques 300 femmes prises en charge par le collectif Tubahu- featured in McGill’s Six Word campaign (sixwords.mcgill.ca). murize. Below: The Nowak sisters in Rwanda with members of the Mais leur descente dans les vertes vallées du Rwanda se trans- Tubahumurize collective. forme peu à peu en une descente aux enfers. « Plus on va pro- fondément dans les vallées, plus les gens sont pauvres. Il n’y a pas d’eau courante, les habitations sont en décrépitude, » dit Helen, qui en est à sa quatrième visite en Afrique. « Lors de mes autres voyages dans d’autres pays, j’entendais souvent de la musique. Les gens fêtaient malgré la pauvreté. Mais au Rwanda, c’était frappant de voir la tristesse dans les yeux de tous les habitants. (...) Là-bas, chaque personne a vécu de près ou de loin la violence du génocide. »

« Au départ, nous avions peur d’être vues comme des Occiden- tales qui se prennent pour des Mères Noël et qui distribuent des cadeaux, dit Anita, mais les Rwandaises nous ont plutôt perçues comme un signe de Dieu. Comme s’Il leur disait: Vous RWANDA PHOTOS COURTESY OF ANITA & HELEN NOWAK êtes importantes. Je vous envoie de l’aide à travers ces deux femmes. »

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 15 16 FACULTY OF LAW OF FACULTY Law in in the AUTUMN 2009 AUTUMN Back to Community Bountiful The community ofBountiful,B.C. By Professor Angela Campbell, BA’ Field notes from Canada’s only openly polygamous community Sarah Berger Richardson, BA’ are married?” state be occupied with how and why people So the question is, to what extent should the is fundamental to its way of living and believing. an entire practice that this community claims just regulating a community, we’re criminalizing of womenviews living in the sect. “We’re not time to it is a crucial examine believes the bell As these criminal prosecutions unfold, Camp- of the Criminal Code with practising polygamy. 2009, two local men were charged under s.293 On January development. one important 7, The year between seen Campbell’s visits has them, but they are not asked for input.” criminalization is said to of polygamy protect exploited and oppressed. But are they? The the “Thewomen law assumes are coerced, derstanding of the women’s own experiences. interested was bell a broader in developing un- Institute of Comparative Law at McGill, Camp- Sarah Berger Richardson. As the director of the dent andLainie second-year Basman law student with two law stu- fourth-year research assistants, toAngela Campbell returned recently Bountiful After a week of fieldwork in 2008, Professor into the “Celestialtates Kingdom.” entry wives leads to a good terrestrial life, and facili- that a membersman’s takingbelieve of plural fundamentalist Mormon denomination whose Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints – a about 1,000 members of the Fundamentalist | OUR FACULTY OUR 06 is home to | 95, BCL’ PHOTOS BY LAINIE BASMAN LAINIE BY PHOTOS 99, “Sorry I didn’t make“Sorry your presentation, but it’s A A, JUNE 4 E N U J DAY, S The R U H T : 1 DAY know tomorrow. attend their wedding ceremony. let us They’ll ence, for time andto ask decide whether we may about to-beour uneasy pres- seem particularly appreciative, others wary. The bride and groom- plain her research project. Some listeners seem community leader’s table at one point, to ex- prayer. Professor Campbell is invited to join the the “brethren”with what andhe calls says a Blackmore, a community leader, takes his seat company tonight. Dinner begins when Winston Most for the seatsare in reserved the dining hall the “company” of 200 is soon accomplished. light work,” and the job of preparing dinner for often said in this community, “many hands make is But, as The quantity of food is mind-boggling. of them. and bags peel, pare, bags boil and mash stay for dinner. Potatoes, potatoes, potatoes! We The women bustling in the kitchen invite us to day.following first-ever wedding “non-traditional” set for the community who’ve come to attend Bountiful’s a Salthere: Lake 200 people from City sister- a crazy weekend!” That’s because “company” is prepped. The women say the same thing,all kitchen,” where meals for multiple families are around. It in the “big out everyone’s turns centre for the presentation, nobody’s wifery visit.on ourBut when welast get to the mid- search to community members we interviewed back in Bountiful, and we want to present our re- ropes and lawn tools. This is our first afternoon green lawnskipping speckled with strollers, else looks the same: sprawling about everything been posted at Bountiful’s entrance, is gone. Just LLB’ no trespassing 99, Lainie Basman, BA’ sign, that just last sign,year that hadjust last 00, DAY 2: FRIDAY, JUNE 5 DAY 3: SATURDAY, JUNE 6 A couple from Salt Lake City greets us in the din- Our hosts are eager for us to attend today’s com- ing hall after breakfast, and we find ourselves in munity rodeo. Women and a few young girls fry an hour-long conversation about the challenges up a huge picnic lunch in the kitchen, and kids they face as a polygamous family living in an practise their riding manoeuvres as the ring is urban setting. They are surprisingly candid, prepped. On top of horse and cattle deliveries, telling us about one of their sons who struggles two new houses are being speedily built by a with substance abuse. They say this isn’t uncom- host of men, boys, and one woman. “Keeping mon in Salt Lake, where some youths turn to busy is the key to happiness,” we’re told on sev- drugs to cope with their alienation from society. eral occasions. Despite the hoopla, several com- In contrast to Bountiful, the Salt Lake commu- munity members say these rodeos used to be nity lives polygamy more discretely, and feels more exciting – before “the split” a few years ago more pressure to assimilate to mainstream between followers of the self-proclaimed Ameri- culture. can “prophet,” Warren JeΩs, and constituents who adhere to the teachings and principles of Before we know it, it’s time for the wedding – Winston Blackmore. The split has divided fami- and yes, we’re invited. What excitement! The lies into two “sides,” but everyone still shares the weather is perfect, and the garden is beautiful same plot of land and lives side-by-side. And at with its decorative arches, bales of hay and flow- the rodeo, the audience compensates for its size ers. The wedding is “non-traditional” by Bounti- with enthusiastic cheering for participants, espe- ful standards, due to the huge number of guests cially the younger, wobblier cowboys and cow- (400-plus), the amount of planning (a year), and girls just learning to ride. > the fact that the bridesmaids and groomsmen are wearing the latest wedding fashions. From our standpoint, the event is both peculiar and entirely conventional. It’s a monogamous wed- ding (as are many in the community), and the bride and groom look like they could have stepped out of the pages of a bridal magazine. But how many weddings have 35 flower girls in matching dresses and Shirley Temple ringlets? And how many ceremonies are filmed by a National Geographic documentary crew?

Professor Angela Camp- bell in conversation with four women from the community.

Opposite: How many weddings have 35 flower girls in matching dresses and Shirley Temple ringlets?

Next page: The members of the wedding party asked the author to mask their identities.

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 17 DAY 5: MONDAY, JUNE 8 we have a long interview with a woman Our first interview of the day is with a we’d met last year. While she had been beautiful, bubbly and educated young extremely guarded the first time around, woman who proudly informs us she’s this year feels very diΩerent, and we see been named valedictorian at her recent a new side to her personality – bright, college graduation. At school, she chose articulate and passionate. She explains to dress just like the other students so as she was originally wary because of expe- not to attract the usual prejudicial atti- riences where she’d felt betrayed by jour- tudes against “plygs.” But she was nalists writing about Bountiful. But she pleased to find that she stuck out any- came to appreciate this project because way – as a respected colleague and class of the space it created for dialogue. leader. She hasn’t gone back to the tradi- tional clothes, preferring jeans and cot- We head to the nearby town of Creston, ton shirts, lives in a nearby town and is stopping at a local coΩee shop. Waiting still in a monogamous marriage. We ask in line, we recognize two teenage girls what remains of “Bountiful values” if not from Bountiful. They’re dressed in jeans polygamy, geography and traditional and fashionable tops, and look just like style? “Just living a good life – you know, everybody else in Creston. We can’t help staying pure and loyal to your spouse, but feel they’re not too happy to be seen being kind and making a diΩerence in by us or to be recognized in this setting. peoples’ lives.” Now for our last stop: to visit S at her That afternoon, we finally have the op- job at a local garden centre, a family portunity to give our special presenta- business she shares with her parents and tion about the research project to nine sister – despite being on opposite sides community women. This quickly of the Blackmore-JeΩs split. This is evolves into a lively discussion about uncommon, but S shrugs it oΩ stating changes in the community over the past that their family bonds are strong. S and year – particularly with respect to prop- her sister take us to the back of the store erty issues and employment opportuni- for an informal chat, where we’re joined DAY 4: SUNDAY, JUNE 7 ties. When we reach the topic of owner- by their mother. The women’s tradi- We’re invited to the home of two ship and property, the room explodes tional long-sleeve dresses stand in stark women who appear to be among the with women’s voices – confounding tax comparison to the coΩee shop teen- most conservative women in Bountiful assessments, child benefit payments agers. The three women tell us how by their dress and manner of speech. gone awry, land trust tensions, embit- angry they are with the former B.C. But they have done one of the most rad- tered ex-members who want “their Attorney General’s campaign against ical things imaginable within their com- share” of the communal goods, and im- polygamy in Bountiful – and with law en- munity: they married each other. But migration problems are thrown into the forcement o≈cials who have come to within Bountiful’s moral code, their mix. Given Bountiful’s particular social question them at work. marriage is not recognized and the only and economic organization – premised marriage they have is with their polyga- largely on communal property rights, It’s getting late, so we head back to mous husband who is “celestially” (but and large, anomalous family arrange- Bountiful to say our goodbyes. We have not legally) married to both of them. ments – the breadth of legal issues is mixed feelings about leaving. What Their home is chaotic and comfortable. dizzying. It’s hard for us to keep up with began as an inquiry into the propriety of Between them, they have a dozen kids, the subtleties, especially since we don’t the criminal law to deal with polygamy who traipse in and out of the small yet fully understand how property rights has expanded to include broader in- kitchen where we enjoy tea and cake operate in this community, or how fam- quiries into tax law, immigration law, and that S baked for L’s birthday. ily squabbles and homegrown solutions law’s conception of marriage and family. help to form the backdrop. We have so many unanswered questions “Forever humble as it may be, there’s no that leave us bewildered, upset, or place like home,” S says. L brings out a DAY 6: TUESDAY, JUNE 9 inspired. For now though, it is time to brand new digital camera – a birthday Today is our last day in the community go. The women of Bountiful are ex- gift from her father. We wonder about and we want to make the most of it! We hausted from a busy week of guests and birthdays in Bountiful. L’s husband start by meeting an avid scrapbooker, activities. Everyone is ready for a return (who has other wives) does not come up. who proudly shows us the album collec- to everyday life. ] We wonder if he’ll see L that day, or if he tions she’s made of her two children – knows it’s her birthday. filled with decorative themes, quotes, and carefully cut out pictures. Later on,

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It was this kind of opportunity that I was chasing when I first joined the McGill Journal of Law and Health, which co-sponsored the Thinking Colloquium. I had been outside the country for eight years, but I knew that saw health care as important to their identity, and I wanted to know more – so I applied to the fledgling mjlh, the brainchild of a group of determined students under the guidance of Professors Angela Campbell and Lara Khoury. The Journal had not yet produced a single issue, and some doubted that it would amount to anything.

Three years and three volumes later, and thanks in large part to the unwavering support of then-Dean Nicholas Kasirer, the mjlh is here to stay. The Journal has grown out of the Faculty of Law’s emerging tradition of scholarship in law and health, reaching out to lead- ing health-law scholars in Canada and beyond. Reflect- ing its interdisciplinary man- date, the mjlh has expanded its staΩ to include students Student-run Looking up at the crowds in the Martin from the Faculty of Medicine. And it organ- Amphitheatre, I was thrilled. As a law stu- ized a truly successful Colloquium! conference dent and organizer of the first McGill Student Colloquium on Health and Law, I had been So as I sat in the Martin Amphitheatre and explores nexus nervous that no one would come, that this looked up at the faces in the crowd, I was interdisciplinary project would fall through both thrilled to see them – and proud to be of health the cracks between departments and facul- among them. Proud to be one of many organ- ties. But I needn’t have worried: students izers of such an inspiring event. Proud to be and law from 17 disciplines and seven universities one of many students whose tireless eΩorts walked through the doors. founded and continues to maintain a journal By Dorian Needham of scholarly calibre. And proud to be one of They had come, as we hoped they would, the many McGill community members who because they recognized that law and health recognize the value and excitement in explor- are vitally interwoven. They had come to hear ing emerging issues about law and health. Dr. Philippe Couillard with ] professors from epidemiology, social work, three McGill students (left law, medicine and management speak on to right): (PhD, Med II), Ilan Shahin topics as diverse as health-care reform, chil- (MBA / Med II) and dren’s rights and leadership training for doc- The first McGill Student Colloquium on Dorian Needham (Law III) tors. They had come to listen to Dr. Philippe Health Law was hosted at the McIntyre Couillard, Quebec’s former Minister of Medical Building on February 7, 2009. Health and Social Services and McGill’s It brought together speakers from Medicine, newly minted Senior Research Fellow in Social Work and Psychiatry, along with Law Health Law. They had come because no one Professors Desmond Manderson, Margaret else had given them such an opportunity to Somerville, Alana Klein and Philippe think and to learn across disciplines. Couillard.

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 19 Le droit dans la communauté | NOTRE FACULTÉ Les Droits

années se sont écoulées depuis Manifestement, vous que John Humphrey, un profes- étiez sur la bonne piste. seur de droit à McGill, couchait En rétrospective, je semble sur papier la première ébauche de en eΩet avoir fait un bon 60 la Déclaration universelle des choix et j’admets en être droits de l’homme des Nations Unies. Depuis, la notion de la très content! Mon travail dignité humaine a fait beaucoup de progrès, mais il reste énor- m’a porté vers le droit mément à faire. C’est dans cet esprit que McGill a accueilli domestique, c’est-à-dire le François Crépeau, un expert des questions du droit interna- droit constitutionnel, les tional des droits de la personne, des migrations et de la globa- droits de la personne et le lisation, comme premier titulaire de la Chaire Hans et Tamar droit administratif. Il m’a Oppenheimer en droit international public. Le professeur également permis d’ex- François Crépeau et Pascal Zamprelli se sont entretenus de plorer les dimensions du droits et de responsabilités, et sur comment changer un droit international des système qui préférerait que tout le monde reste bien sage- droits de la personne et ment chez soi. des minorités.

Pourquoi le droit international? Parlez-moi des liens Au début des années 80 à Paris, j’entamais ma thèse de doc- entre ces dimensions du torat sur le statut du demandeur d’asile, qui était à l’époque droit et la migration. un nouvel acteur sur la scène socio-politique. Auparavant, on La législation en matière disait plutôt un réfugié. Mais quand le nombre de demandes de droits de la personne de statut de réfugié a bondi – au Canada, il est passé de 600 reposait entre autres sur la notion de citoyens restant dans en 1976 à 60 000 en 1986 –, cette nouvelle expression, deman- leurs pays. Le rôle de droit international était d’établir des deur d’asile, a commencé à circuler. La question du migrant ententes entre les pays pour que chacun traite ses citoyens et de la migration a suscité mon intérêt. J’ai constaté que les correctement. Personne n’avait envisagé la question des migrants n’avaient pas d’avantages sociaux et personne ne migrants, car la migration était perçue comme une anomalie. pouvait expliquer adéquatement pourquoi ils devraient y avoir Si tout allait bien dans un pays, les gens ne bougeraient pas – accès ou non. Personne n’avait encore exploré la question. ce qui est, à mon avis, une méprise. Les gens se sont toujours déplacés, que les choses aillent bien ou non. Quand ça va mal, Quels étaient les principaux enjeux liés à la migration à il y a plus de migrants,voilà tout. Vous vous êtes peut-être cette époque? déplacé; je me suis moi-même déplacé. Les êtres humains La plupart des demandeurs d’asile à ce moment-là ne venaient veulent explorer le monde. pas de l’Est, ils arrivaient plutôt du Sud. Ils ne provenaient pas de pays communistes et ils n’étaient pas des combattants de On dirait que l’anomalie, ce sont les frontières, pas que la liberté. Nous ne pouvions pas invoquer les vieilles justifica- les gens les traversent. tions pour les accueillir. Soudainement, 60 000 personnes se Précisément. Depuis le début du 20e siècle, trois pour cent de pressaient à nos portes qui ne luttaient pas pour la liberté, la population mondiale sont en migration à tout moment. mais qui cherchaient plutôt à échapper à la violence généra- C’est une constante de la civilisation. Mais on ne pensait pas lisée, à la pauvreté, etc. Nous ne nous sommes pas montrés ainsi en 1948, alors que s’établissait le droit international des aussi accueillants avec eux que nous l’avions été avec les re- droits de la personne. La notion de citoyenneté était la clé de fuzniks soviétiques ou les victimes des régimes communistes voûte et les États étaient basés sur une population stable. au Vietnam et au Cambodge. Soudainement, nous avions un Les créateurs du droit international des droits de la personne problème non seulement avec leur nombre, mais aussi avec n’avaient pas conçu que, subséquemment, les migrants exi- leurs caractéristiques sociales et politiques. geraient qu’on respecte leurs droits. Avant, le seul droit qu’avait le migrant était celui de retourner au pays. C’est comme cela que j’en suis venu à m’intéresser à la migra- tion et je n’ai pas changé depuis. À l’époque, c’était un choix Il y a eu une prise de conscience que les migrants sont des surprenant et mes collègues ne le comprenaient pas. Il y avait êtres humains comme tout le monde. Leurs droits ne reposent tellement d’autres sujets plus intéressants à traiter, comme la pas sur la prémisse que ces personnes appartiennent à une guerre et la paix, le règlement international des diΩérents, … catégorie administrative bien précise. Les droits de la personne

20 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009 sans frontières sont fondamentaux Une fois de plus, on voit agir ici la notion qu’on peut traiter les pour toute personne, étrangers diΩéremment des Canadiens dans les mêmes circon- Entre Nous avec où qu’elle soit. stances. Toutefois, ce traitement n’est pas crucial à la sécurité. Si vous avez un problème de sécurité avec un ressortissant, François Crépeau, La détresse des pourquoi devriez-vous le traiter plus durement qu’un titulaire de la Chaire migrants suscite- Canadien? Pourquoi lui reconnaissez-vous moins de droits? t-elle davantage Soit c’est une question de sécurité et vous mettez en place des Hans et Tamar l’attention? mesures qui accroîtront la sécurité et vous traitez Canadiens Nous avons commencé et non-Canadiens de la même manière; soit c’est une question Oppenheimer en à aborder ces questions, d’immigration et vous la traitez comme telle. C’est précisé- mais rien n’est encore ment le point que je veux faire : les procédures d’immigration droit international résolu. Les États, les ne devraient pas être utilisées pour régler les questions de gouvernements et les sécurité. public autorités publiques doivent admettre que Ces gens n’ont pas le droit de rester au Canada, car ils sont Par Pascal Zamprelli, ces personnes sont aussi étrangers. C’est encore la règle et cette règle demeurera en BCL / LLB’05 « nous » dans le débat du place tant qu’il y aura des pays. Mais nous ne pouvons pas faire Traduction de « eux et nous ». Une per- n’importe quoi avec eux. sonne qui vit ici, même RACHEL GRANOFSKY Lysanne Larose irrégulièrement, c’est Continuerez-vous à vous intéresser à ces questions en quelqu’un qui paie des tant que nouveau titulaire de la Chaire Oppenheimer? impôts, qui contribue L’interaction constante entre le droit interne et le droit inter- à l’économie et qui a des enfants qui sont peut-être canadiens. national est justement à l’origine de la Chaire Oppenheimer. Ces gens ont des droits, mais nos autorités ne l’admettent pas Je m’intéresse à ces questions depuis près de 19 ans. On ne me encore. demande donc pas de faire quoi que ce soit de diΩérent de ce que je faisais auparavant; on me demande de le faire mieux C’est donc un combat très actuel. encore. La question des migrants est une épreuve décisive pour la démocratie – tout comme les travailleurs industriels l’ont été En décembre dernier, on fêtait le 60e anniversaire de la il y a 100 ans, les femmes il y a 60 ans, les Autochtones il y a 30 Déclaration universelle des droits de l’homme des Nations ans et on peut aussi ajouter les détenus, ainsi que les gais et Unies. Quels progrès avons-nous faits depuis 1948? lesbiennes il y a 10 à 15 ans. De la même manière, on n’admet Je pense que nous avons progressé plus qu’on ne le croyait pas actuellement que les migrants détiennent des droits, qu’ils possible quand la Déclaration a été ratifiée en 1948. Mais si sont assujettis à la primauté du droit, qu’ils sont des sujets et nous pensions régler les questions de droits de la personne pas simplement des objets. simplement en ratifiant déclarations, conventions et autres traités, nous faisions fausse route, car le combat pour les Pensez-vous qu’on finira par respecter les droits des droits de la personne est aussi un combat politique. migrants, tout comme ceux de ces autres groupes auparavant exclus? Les mécanismes et les instruments juridiques sont importants, Oui. C’est lent, mais on y arrive. Pour vous donner un mais ils ne représentent que l’un des outils dans ce combat exemple, même la Cour suprême des États-Unis a changé sa perpétuel, qui exige aussi la mobilisation des communautés, position sur Guantanamo. La Cour a enfin reconnu que les des organisations non-gouvernementales et des juristes. droits des migrants sont en fait des droits de la personne, que leurs droits sont nos droits. Il y a de quoi être optimiste. On Comment faire le pont entre le droit et la politique? commence à comprendre qu’on ne peut faire ce qu’on veut à Les deux travaillent de concert, car les outils juridiques ont quelqu’un simplement parce qu’il est étranger. créé une culture de droits de la personne. Cette culture s’est propagée et plus de gens savent qu’ils ont des droits. Ils savent Que penser du fait que les États-Unis justifient leur traite- qu’il existe des mécanismes et des intervenants pour les aider. ment des étrangers en évoquant la sécurité nationale, Cette culture des droits de la personne est assurément tout comme le Canada l’a fait avec les certificats de l’héritage le plus important que nous a laissé la Déclaration sécurité? universelle. ]

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 21 Le droit dans la communauté | NOS ÉTUDES SUPÉRIEURES La Politique de la porte ouverte Shauna Van Praagh a ouvert une porte… pour cultiver une communauté À droite : Michael Mineiro, étudiante active récipiendaire d’une bourse Boeing, faisant une brève présentation durant la pause-café des doctorants.

À la page suivante : la doctorante Maude Choko et le professeur Ram Jakhu.

Les premiers gestes de Shauna Van Pour cultiver une communauté intel- « Nous voulons être reconnus non seule- Praagh à titre de vice-doyenne furent lectuelle active au sein des étudiants aux ment pour la qualité de notre formation simples : elle a accroché des peintures au études supérieures, madame Van Praagh juridique, mais aussi pour combien nos mur du bureau des études supérieures, a tout d’abord lancé un bulletin électro- étudiants sont bien préparés à une car- elle a installé un portemanteau et, nique hebdomadaire faisant état de con- rière universitaire. Si vous voulez de- surtout, elle a ouvert la porte. « Ça férences, d’événements facultaires, de venir professeur de droit, vous venez semble évident », dit-elle en riant. « Pour- compétitions, de bourses, de dates im- étudier à McGill. Voilà notre but. » tant, la porte avait toujours été fermée portantes et de manchettes utiles aux et les étudiants attendaient dans le étudiants. Convaincue que le mentorat est essen- corridor. » tiel pour tout futur professeur, madame Ensuite, elle a établi un comité qui Van Praagh a réactualisé le cours obliga- Convaincue que « rencontrer la vice- jumelle les nouveaux étudiants de 2e et toire de méthodologie juridique de cycle doyenne aux études supérieures ne de- de 3e cycle avec des professeurs désignés, avancé pour justement permettre « aux vrait pas être compliqué », Shauna Van au lieu d’obliger ces étudiants à se trou- étudiants à passer du germe d’une idée à Praagh voulait que les étudiants soient à ver un superviseur. « Il est essentiel que l’achèvement d’une thèse, avec l’appui l’aise de venir la voir quand ils en sen- chaque étudiant soit apparié à un super- de l’enseignant. » taient le besoin. viseur qui peut aussi agir comme mentor, qui peut le guider tout au long du proces- Bien qu’elle pense que tout étudiant Mais en plus d’ouvrir sa porte, la pro- sus de recherche et de rédaction », ex- doit être bien entouré, madame Van fesseure Van Praagh voulait aussi ouvrir plique-t-elle. « Les professeurs profitent Praagh croit que ceci est primordial d’autres portes afin que les étudiants se eux aussi de l’expérience : idéalement, le pour les candidats au doctorat. L’au- sentent connectés à la Faculté de droit courant passe dans les deux sens. » tomne dernier, lors de la rentrée, elle a et à la communauté universitaire. donc invité la cinquantaine de doctor- Le comité a également cherché à élargir ants de la Faculté à se joindre aux mem- À McGill, les étudiants aux études le réseau de confrères, de mentors et bres du comité des études supérieures supérieures peuvent poursuivre de d’amis de chaque étudiant en fondant pour une petite réception chez elle. grands projets de recherche juridique, des groupes d’intérêt. Se réunissant in- allant de brevets de médicaments en formellement autour d’un membre du « C’est une façon de traiter nos doctor- Afrique du Sud aux relations de travail corps professoral, ces groupes « permet- ants en collègues. Nombre d’entre eux des artistes du Québec, de droit consti- tent aux étudiants de mieux connaître sont loin de leurs familles et font durer tutionnel en Amérique du Sud ou à des leurs confrères, qui peuvent avoir des leurs bourses en vivant modestement. questions de sécurité aérospatiale sur le intérêts de recherche très diΩérents, et C’est donc agréable pour eux d’être plan international. L’ennui, c’est que ces aussi de tisser une relation plus directe reçus dans une résidence familiale », étudiants n’ont pas souvent l’occasion avec un professeur autre que leur super- dit-elle. Elle prévoit d’ailleurs répéter d’échanger sur leurs projets et de parta- viseur », explique Shauna Van Praagh. l’expérience cette année. > p.24 ger leurs idées avec des pairs. Mais elle a a aussi un autre objectif :

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Doctoral candidate The Professor’s Path Maureen Duffy, LLM’05, speaks with Grad Studies graduates to find out how McGill helped pave the way to academia

Now an assistant professor at the Uni- versity of , Nakache describes Provost as having been her link to the U of A. She also credits Provost, along with Professor Lionel Smith, for having been influential during the completion When Christopher David Jenkins all at the same time. And yet despite of her studies – both for their mentor- enrolled in graduate studies at the Fac- these pressures, many graduates of ship, and willingness to discuss issues re- ulty of Law, he wasn’t necessarily think- McGill’s LLM and DCL programs go garding her thesis. In a similar vein, ing about an academic career – nor was on to very successful academic careers. Mario Prost, DCL’09, credits the “avail- he certain that he wanted to continue ability and open-mindedness” of in law. While Jenkins attributes McGill’s Provost – along with former Dean of “stimulating, internationalized and Law Stephen Toope, BCL’83, LLB’83 – And yet, since completing both his welcoming intellectual environment,” for encouraging his decision to advance Master’s (LLM’02) and his doctorate other graduates credit the high level of from the LLM to DCL program. (DCL’05) at McGill, Jenkins has gone on interaction with the Faculty’s professors to lecture at the University of Aberdeen for renewing their enthusiasm in legal Benjamin Perrin, LLM’06, was also im- – and recently accepted a position as studies – and convincing them to con- pressed by Provost’s mentorship. But Assistant Professor at the University of tinue on the road to academia. Perrin cites another reason his supervi- Copenhagen’s Centre for European sor played a pivotal role in his decision Constitutionalization. “Certain professors in particular were to accept his current position as an truly an inspiration in my decision to assistant professor at the University of Looking back, Jenkins says his experi- become a professor,” says DCL’08 grad British Columbia: “By exposing me to ence at the Faculty of Law convinced Marie-France Bureau, a newly minted the interesting and engaged research him of both his interest in the law – and assistant professor at the University of that faculty members at McGill were his desire to pursue an academic career Sherbrooke. “Namely Nicholas Kasirer, involved with on a daily basis.” in that field. “My choice proved right Desmond Manderson, Shauna Van away my stubborn hope that legal Praagh, and Rod Macdonald.” Bureau is Professor Roderick Macdonald is also studies could indeed be intellectually not alone in this respect – doctoral known for leading by example. In the stimulating and imaginative,” he says. students in particular often cite their past decade alone, he has supervised 10 supervisor as central to their decision students who have gone on to become Jenkins’ choice – to become an academic to become an academic. professors at universities around the in law – is a di≈cult path to pursue. world. Macdonald has also provided Professors in today’s world need to be “I owe it all to my supervisor,” says Del- mentorship to countless other students outstanding teachers, mentors, re- phine Nakache, DCL’09, who studied through his Legal Education Seminar, in searchers, writers and administrators – under Associate Professor René Provost. which graduate students gain valuable >

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 23 ) 3 ( < practical experience by actually preparing an entire course syllabus, and designing and teaching a class. OWEN EGAN While many LLM and DCL students move on to academic careers with other institu- tions, so too, do some land jobs right here at the Faculty of Law – and now as professors at the Faculty of Law, do their best to con- tinue the same type of mentorship and one- on-one supervision that inspired them to pursue academic careers in the first place.

Take Desmond Manderson, who obtained his DCL at McGill in 1997, under the super- vision of Roderick Macdonald. Now a law professor and Associate Dean of Research, Manderson is taking his turn to supervise Above: DCL candidate Maude Choko with Professor Ram Jakhu. the next generation of law professors. Previous page: DCL candidate and Boeing Fellow Michael Mineiro speaks about his research in air and space law at coΩee hour in the Common Room. Among Manderson’s most promising stu- dents are Karen Crawley, LLM’07, and Annie < Dans un même ordre d’idée, madame Van Praagh a lancé la pause-café des Rochette, BCL’94, LLB’94. Crawley is a étudiants au doctorat. Chaque semaine, ils se retrouvent au grand salon de la Pilarczyk Fellow, and is already co-teaching Faculté pour parler de leur recherche avec leurs pairs et professeurs dans une the Graduate Legal Methodology course ambiance conviviale. « Ces étudiants sont de futurs membres de la commu- with Shauna Van Praagh, the Associate Dean nauté universitaire et nous les traitons comme tels. » of Graduate Studies. Rochette is completing her DCL thesis on teaching and learning in Même si les programmes d’études supérieures de la Faculté de droit ont pro- Canadian Law Faculties at McGill, and has fité de l’enviable réputation de McGill, madame Van Praagh accorde égale- landed a position as an assistant professor at ment de l’importance à un autre élément pour maintenir cette réputation : l’Université du Québec à Montréal’s Dépar- attirer d’excellents étudiants. « Par le passé, nous n’avons pas eu à déployer de tement des sciences juridiques. grands eΩorts pour recruter. Mais aujourd’hui, la concurrence se fait sentir. » D’ailleurs, pour soutenir ces eΩorts, un nouveau site Web a été lancé à l’atten- As Associate Dean of Graduate Studies, tion des étudiants futurs et actuels de 2e et 3e cycles de la Faculté de droit Professor Shauna Van Praagh encourages stu- (voir l’article en page 4). dents to avail themselves of the full range of resources the university has to oΩer – from « Il faut que ce soit clair pour tous que McGill oΩre une formation juridique auditing a variety of courses to gain insight avancée qui est distincte, dynamique et stimulante. Le fait que nous soyons into diΩerent pedagogical styles, to partici- explicitement bilingues et bijuridiques attirera un corps étudiant multilingue pating in university workshops, to helping et multijuridique. » Elle ajoute : « Quand les gens parlent de la Faculté de droit their professors design and teach courses, to de McGill, ils pensent souvent à notre programme de 1er cycle. Je veux qu’ils attending as many conferences as possible – songent aussi à nos programmes de maîtrise et de doctorat. » including the recently instituted annual General Legal Studies Conference at McGill. Alors qu’elle entame la troisième et dernière année de son mandat, la vice- doyenne Van Praagh n’a pas le moindrement ralenti la cadence. En plus de col- With so many former graduate students now laborer avec le Centre de développement professionnel de la Faculté sur un teaching law, there’s also the opportunity to guide-carrière et un service d’orientation à l’intention des étudiants de cycles reach out to McGill alumni for advice. Van supérieurs, elle travaille actuellement à une initiative qui donnera l’occasion Praagh invites doctoral candidates to be- aux doctorants de peaufiner leurs talents d’enseignants. come part of “a community of colleagues” – both with their fellow students, and with Préférant regarder vers l’avenir, madame Van Praagh admet toutefois qu’elle se members of the Faculty, thus availing them- réjouit des progrès eΩectués depuis qu’elle a ouvert sa porte, il y a deux ans. selves of formal and informal opportunities « Sur le plan pédagogique, nous sommes très forts, mais nous pouvons toujours to prepare themselves for academia. “Teach- faire mieux. En nous concentrant sur le mentorat, la supervision et la prépara- ing experience can come in many forms,” tion de nos doctorants pour des carrières d’enseignants et d’universitaires, she says. ] nous pouvons être les meilleurs. » ] Laurel Baker

24 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009 Law in the Community | OUR GRAD STUDIES SpaceLaws in Space Debris Congress tackles legal void

Last February, an inactive Russian Professor Ram Jakhu of the iasl, who satellite collided with an active commer- specializes in space law and chaired the cial satellite in low-Earth orbit, just 800 Congress, warned that man-made space kilometres above Siberia. The crash particles – some as small as a cornflake, created a cloud of space debris that others as large as a bus – could tear could remain in orbit for decades – through spacecraft, and even break threatening other satellites, the environ- through the Earth’s atmosphere. “They ment and potentially, human security. travel at the speed of about eight or nine kilometers per second – that’s almost 10 Space debris – the term referring to the times the speed of a bullet from a gun,” mass of nonfunctional satellites, launch he explains. “So, they are naturally very vehicles and related objects that orbit dangerous.” Aside from physical danger, the Earth uncontrolled – has become there can be environmental eΩects, such one of the most significant conse- as when, in 1978, a Russian satellite with quences of the space age. But now, grow- a nuclear reactor disintegrated in the at- ing awareness surrounding the issue has mosphere and spread radioactive mate- prompted some space law players to rial in the vicinity of Great Slave Lake, Above (way above): This Long Duration take steps to curb the production of new Northwest Territories. Exposure Facility was used by nasa to study debris through the development and space debris. It was left in low Earth orbit for implementation of mitigation measures. Since the accumulation of debris aug- almost six years, before being retrieved by the ments the risk, the Congress focused on space shuttle Columbia in January 1990. These measures were a central theme developing several key solutions: making at the International Interdisciplinary the existing voluntary mitigation guide- Below: On January 21, 2001, this wayward Congress on Space Debris, hosted in lines mandatory; encouraging spacefar- satellite motor part from a pam-d rocket May by McGill’s Institute of Air and ing nations to boost research on debris engine reentered the atmosphere over the Space Law, in collaboration with the mitigation, identification, and removal; Middle East – landing in Saudi Arabia, 240 Cologne University Institute of Air and and encouraging new insurance and km from the capital city of Riyadh. Space Law in Germany and the Interna- property regimes in space to close PHOTOS COURTESY OF NASA ORBITAL DEBRIS PROGRAM OFFICE tional Association for the Advancement the legal gap, through international of Space Safety in the Netherlands. declarations, codes and treaties. While More than 80 scientists, space experts, Congress organizers plan to continue lawyers and satellite operators from discussions at other fora, Jakhu believes around the globe gathered to assess the the international cooperation exhibited Space Debris Mitigation Guidelines at the Congress will be the key to suc- adopted by the United Nations Com- cess. “Space debris is primarily a global mittee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space issue,” he says. “Global problems need in 2007, examine other international global solutions, which must be eΩec- space safety and security measures, and tively implemented internationally as propose policy and regulatory steps to well as nationally.” ] reduce the growing risks associated with Pascal Zamprelli, BCL / LLB’05 space debris.

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 25 Law in the Community | OUR ALUMNI

“The stench of feces and decay and death and fear.” That’s what Alanna Devine retains from her first Alanna Devine seizure in December 2008, where – as the new head of the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals – she helped liberate hundreds of dogs and cats from cramped wire cages BitesBackbrimming with excrement and carcasses. “I’ve been inside so many of these places since then, but I still think about it, and I get choked up. I still get emotional, but the way I am able to get past that is to take that emotion and anger and use it to fuel the fight.”

For Devine, the fight is against puppy mills – what she defines as “large-scale and sub-standard breeding facilities” where “the sole motivation is profit, where there is inbreeding and where ! animals are treated as a commodity.” With an estimated 2,200 such facilities throughout the province, Devine be- lieves Quebec’s reputation as “the puppy mill capital of North America” is well deserved. “It doesn’t sound like these places could be profitable, but they are. No matter how terribly the adults are treated, a cute puppy in the window of a pet store sells,” says Devine. “So my job is to be both reactive and proactive in trying to push for changes municipally, provincially and federally, to put a stop to the abuse of sentient beings.”

While Devine is only 29 years old, she is well-equipped to take on this task. A criminologist and lawyer by training, Devine had long been passionate about , but was first introduced The law grad behind three major puppy mill raids is to animal law as a student at McGill, through a special course oΩered by calling for big changes to animal law | By Laurel Baker Associate Professor Wendy Adams, the Director of the Centre for Intellectual Property Policy. “Alanna wanted very much to be able to make a diΩerence in this area,” recalls Adams of Devine. “It’s been amazing to see her trajectory, and what she has accomplished in a short Alanna Devine with Layla, her rescued mixed pitbull. period of time.”

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26 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009 At McGill, Devine helped to found a The working group is poised to an- local chapter of the Student Animal nounce short- and medium-term solu- Legal Defense Fund – part of the world- tions – which could include mandatory renowned aldf animal law advocacy registration for all Quebec facilities organization. Then, after graduating where dogs are housed, sold, or bred. with a joint BCL / LLB in 2006, Devine But Devine says knowing where to find COURTESY OF THE CSPCA landed a prestigious Supreme Court potential puppy mills won’t be enough – Clerkship with the Hon. Louise Char- the cspca already has files on 800 facili- ron, where – from 2006 to 2007 – she ties it has identified in the Montreal “got to work with some of the most bril- area alone, but doesn’t have the power liant legal minds in the country.” Devine to shut them down. “My inspectors can returned to her hometown of Montreal walk into a facility and see that it’s really after her Clerkship, determined to use a situation that requires application of her legal education to make the world a provincial legislation and we basically better place. She began volunteering have to call another organization.” regularly at the cspca (which despite the “Canadian” in its name, is actually the While spcas outside of Quebec are spca’s local Montreal branch), and “fell” allowed to enforce provincial legislation into her job. “They were looking for an pertaining to animal well-being, inside active executive director, because there the province it is the responsibility of was no one working here on a day-to- anima-Québec, a non-profit organiza- day basis, so I became one de facto by tion founded by mapaq. While anima- coming in every day.” Québec has the ability to lay charges against facilities breaking the law, it In just eight months, Devine coordi- operates with a skeleton crew of five nated three high-profile raids on facili- inspectors. “In terms of the way the law ties in the Montreal area – no small feat, is applied at a provincial level, it’s not as it can take months to plan seizures, exactly e≈cient, and it’s not very eΩec- gather evidence, obtain warrants, collab- tive,” says Devine. orate with police, and coordinate hun- dreds of volunteers and groomers to cspca peace o≈cers can enforce the work around the clock. Nearly 400 cats Criminal Code, which prohibits cruelty and dogs were rescued in the raids – but to animals in sections 334 and 446. But just as significantly, according to Adams, Devine says federal law is problematic is the fact that Devine and her team got in two respects: firstly because both the attention of the public. Within sections fall under crimes of property weeks of the third raid, a petition with (“meaning the law doesn’t distinguish 55,000 signatures was presented to the between a dog and a chair,” says Devine); From caged ... provincial Liberal government calling and secondly because the Criminal Desperate scenes at puppy mills for stricter animal cruelty laws. In re- Code only targets those who knowingly sponse, the Ministry of Agriculture or recklessly cause unnecessary pain or (mapaq) launched a working group in suΩering, or who cause pain or injury February 2009, aimed at strengthening through criminally negligent conduct. the middle of robbing a bank and basi- measures to prevent pet cruelty. Com- Devine says this mens rea (“guilty mind”) cally saying, ‘Listen, you’re not allowed mittee chair and MNA GeoΩrey Kelley, standard for neglect makes it very hard to rob a bank, so I’m going to be back in BA’81, MA’85, told the media, “It’s [an to prosecute possible perpetrators. three weeks to make sure you’re not rob- issue] that resonates with a large num- “There have been many cases where peo- bing a bank anymore.’” ber of people.” Says Adams: “The politi- ple essentially got oΩ by saying, ‘I didn’t cians are listening now. The legal know I was supposed to feed them this Devine applauds former Justice Minis- landscape for animal welfare in Quebec type of food, I didn’t know they needed ter (and McGill law alumnus) the Hon. is about to change substantially, and I this type of care, I didn’t know you , BA’61, BCL’64, for intro- don’t think it is an exaggeration to say weren’t supposed to keep a dog out- ducing legislation in the House of Com- that this is due in large part to the side.’” As a result, cspca o≈cers spend a mons in 2005 and 2006 to remove > eΩorts of Alanna, and others like her.” lot of their time handing out warnings. “It’s like the police seeing someone in

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 27 “major breakthrough,” but Devine says mistic too. It’s demoralizing work, so there are still strides to be made. “With- you have to find that balance.” out changing the mens rea standard, no one is going to get convicted anyway.” Devine admits her work can be depress- ing – especially when she’s confronted

COURTESY OF THE CSPCA On her to-do list, both federally and with situations where animals are living provincially: push for changes to allow in squalor, but the law isn’t necessarily cspca inspectors to apply the provincial being broken. But she says she is thrilled legislation; expand her own inspection to be using her legal education to eΩect and enforcement department; lobby for positive change. a restructuring of anima-Québec; change the Criminal Code; and launch a “I certainly am aΩected by all the things training program to help the police bet- I’ve seen, but the fact that I feel I will ter recognize what constitutes criminal be able to make a diΩerence enables me neglect. Says Devine: “Police o≈cers to get through it. And I really do hope aren’t properly trained on how to apply that in the next five to 10 years we will the cruelty provision. They call us, and see major changes in this province and ask us how to do it, yet we receive zero in this country. And I really hope that I government funding.” will help make those changes.” ]

Devine is also working to develop test cases to define ‘adequate standards for care.’ “Prosecutors deal with hundreds of other cases – from child sexual assault to murder, and this is just one more thing in their dossier. But I can help to RACHEL GRANOFSKY push the jurisprudence by helping pre- pare dossiers to hand over to prosecu- tors who care, but just don’t have the time.” In a similar vein, Devine has been doing volunteer research (along with two other Faculty of Law alumni, Kurt A. Johnson, BA’87, BCL’91, LLB’91, and Mathieu Bouchard, BCL’00, LLB’00, both from the firm Irving Mitchell Kalichman) for animal rights advocate Nicole Joncas in a lawsuit brought ... to coddled against anima-Québec and mapaq for al- Happy scenes at the spca legedly failing to enforce the law against Lamarche & Pinard, a Montreal-based company they allege runs several puppy mills in Quebec. Animal law at McGill: The Student the mens rea standard, and amend the Animal Legal Defense Fund’s chapter at the Criminal Code so that animal cruelty Despite the number of challenges ahead, Faculty of Law is very active. This spring, oΩences would no longer be classified as Devine remains confident. “The first third-year law student Mary Race (front left) property crimes. But Cotler’s bills (there step is recognition – so we’ve got that won a prestigious Advancement of Animal were several) died unapproved when far. The [provincial] government has Law Scholarship from the aldf, the saldf’s elections were called, or sessions ended. made public commitments to meaning- parent organization and one of the world’s Finally in the spring of 2008, a private ful changes so we’re going to hold them best-known legal advocacy groups. Last year, member’s bill introduced by Liberal Sen- to it,” she says. That, says Professor law student Andrew Brighten was selected for ator John Bryden received Adams, is precisely the kind of attitude an aldf Clerkship in California. Here, Race which raised the maximum penalty for that will enable Devine to transform the is pictured with some of the saldf’s current animal cruelty to five years in prison and legal landscape for animal welfare in members: Ashlyn O’Mara (front right), a $10,000 fine – up from six months in Quebec, and beyond. “She’s highly intel- and (back, left to right) Lauren Pagé, Nick jail and $2,000. Proponents called it a ligent, stubborn as hell, and kind of opti- Melling, and Sophie Gaillard.

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Lawyers Without Borders Canada takes David-Emmanuel Roberge, BCL’01, LLB’01, to Haiti State University

more.” While Roberge and his colleague were there to teach, he says they learned much more from their students. “One of the best ways to understand your own legal system is to compare it to others, so it was more of a sharing experience

PHOTOS COURTESY LAWYERS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA than anything else. It wasn’t only us giv- ing to that community; we got a lot back On the road from Port-au-Prince to Prince, proudly labeled with the Mini- from them.” Jacmel, David-Emmanuel Roberge was stère de l’environnement logo. It was struck by the beauty of the stark hills empty,” says Roberge. Roberge readily admits that Haiti “is stretching as far as the eye could see. not going to see change in a week, or But as Roberge soon discovered, Haiti’s Haiti has tried to address these prob- over the course of a four-year legal stud- striking landscape tells a devastating lems by signing the United Nations ies program.” Even so, he returned to story. “Those hills used to be covered in Convention to Combat Desertification, Montreal inspired by the enthusiasm of trees.” Less than two per cent remains and enacting a thorough environmental the country’s next generation of lawyers. of the virgin forests that once blanketed management decree. But as Roberge By the end of their stay, the Dean of the country, and the consequences are learned on his trip, the country’s envi- Law announced there was su≈cient in- severe: the stripping away of trees for ronmental issues are tied to poverty, terest to add a Master’s degree program fuel has left Haiti vulnerable to flash with 65 per cent of residents living on in environmental law. “Our goal was to floods and landslides with enough power less than a dollar a day. For example, encourage students to get involved in to bury whole villages under mud and municipalities lack the resources to col- environmental law,” says Roberge. sewage. lect garbage, and Haitians use charcoal “Clearly that objective was achieved.” ] from cut trees for fuel because it’s the Laurel Baker Roberge and his colleague Cindy most aΩordable option. This became Vaillancourt were invited to Haiti State common practice as a result of former University last February to teach its U.S. president Bill Clinton’s blockade of David E. Roberge and Cindy Vaillan- first-ever course in environmental law, Haiti in 1993, when there was no other court of McCarthy Tétrault’s Montreal as part of a new partnership between choice. office (pictured above with students Lawyers Without Borders Canada and and faculty members from Haiti State their firm, McCarthy Tétrault. While Despite these challenges, Roberge was University), were in Haiti to participate the university does not yet have a per- struck by the eagerness of Haiti State in an environmental law training mis- manent environmental law course, it has University’s students to find solutions. sion in partnership with Lawyers With- its share of environmental issues the “People literally lined up outside the out Borders Canada, World University legal community in Haiti hopes to ad- classroom to listen through the win- Service of Canada and the State Uni- dress. In addition to deforestation, the dows, because they wanted to learn versity of Haiti, from Feb. 3 to 17, 2009. country faces high pollution, and a about environmental law. We had so McCarthy Tétrault is the first major major garbage crisis. “During our stay many students ask for extra copies of Canadian law firm to become a “Partner we saw only one garbage bin in Port-au- the textbook, we wished we’d brought Without Borders” of LWBC.

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 29 Law in the Community | OUR ALUMNI The Future of Law Mahmud Jamal, BCL’93, LLB’93, on the Canadian legal profession in the global community

As a partner with Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP in Toronto, ing, in particular oΩshore outsourcing of legal services. Third, Mahmud Jamal works as a domestic lawyer who litigates local law I will suggest some implications of these first two develop- before local courts. Yet he argues that the internationalization of law ments for legal education, from my perspective as a consumer has important implications for all legal professionals in Canada – of the output of elite law schools such as this one. and indeed, the world. The following is excerpted from his speech at McGill’s Faculty of Law in February, as part of the 2009 Meredith NATIONALIZATION OF LEGAL PRACTICE Memorial Lectures. Following the theme, “Les professions juri- Since Confederation and even before, the Canadian legal diques sans frontières : Penser globalement, agir localement,” profession has been largely parochial in both constitution and the conference provided an occasion to explore how legal professions orientation. Our Constitution gives regulation of the legal can meet contemporary challenges arising from the movement of profession to each of the provinces over both property and jurists and firms across borders, the outsourcing of legal services, and civil rights (s. 92(13)) and the administration of justice in the the changing role of professional orders. province (s. 92(14)). As a result, we have 10 provincial bars which, for their first 100 years, existed for the most part in We all know that in the last 15 years the world has become a splendid isolation from each other. Not surprisingly, change much smaller place. The dominant paradigm for these changes did not come voluntarily from the law societies themselves, is, of course, “globalization,” a word that did not even exist but rather was imposed upon them, by the Supreme Court of until the middle of the 20th century, and joined the vernacular Canada. In 1989, in Black v. , a bare 3-2 only in the mid-1980s with Theodore Levitt’s Harvard Busi- majority of the Supreme Court held that rules prohibiting in- ness Review article on the “Globalization of Markets.” More terprovincial law firms oΩended the Charter’s guarantee of recently, Thomas Friedman described globalization as a “flat- mobility rights. The national law firms were born. tening” of the earth, in which massive technological change now routinely permits worldwide communication, collabora- But if national firms were given the green light in 1989, tion, and competition. No less vividly, my learned co-panelist, national practices still scarcely existed. That all changed in Faculty of Law Professor H. Patrick Glenn, has described 1994 with the Federation of Law Societies’ Inter-Jurisdictional globalization as a “compression of time and space.” Practice Protocol. The Protocol permitted lawyers in any sig- natory jurisdiction in Canada to provide legal services in any Technology has, of course, been the dominant force in this other signatory jurisdiction for a maximum of 10 matters over compression of time and space. But it is easy to forget how 20 days in any 12-month period – known as the 10-20-12 rule. quickly this force has emerged. When I started as a summer The Protocol was enhanced in 2006 by the Federation of Law law student in a law firm in the early 1990s, only the lawyers Society’s National Mobility Agreement, which further relaxed and the legal assistants had computers. If a student wanted a the conditions for interjurisdictional practice and now essen- memo typed, he or she wrote it out by hand and gave it to a tially provides Canadian lawyers with full mobility rights. legal assistant for typing. And when I joined my present law firm in 1996, one of the first memos I wrote was to the chair What does the emergence of national legal practices have to of my department to explain what the Internet was and why do with globalization or the internationalization of law? it justified the firm shelling out $15 a month. After careful Everything, it turns out. Global clients are increasingly look- scrutiny, my request was approved. ing for one point of contact in any country or region. This is being driven by considerations of cost e≈ciency, but also by a What I’d like to focus on is not the many woes of technology, desire for expertise. From the perspective of a budget- but rather three points that are already aΩecting, or that will conscious general counsel, having to manage 10 groups of increasingly aΩect, the Canadian legal profession. First, I will lawyers is costly and ine≈cient. It makes much more sense discuss how our profession is undergoing a profound change – to have one dedicated counsellor who can be dispatched to a unification – what I will refer to as the “nationalization of battle in 10 boardrooms. legal practice.” Second, I will say something about outsourc-

30 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009 It is increasingly irrelevant whether you learn the “ black letter law of any particular jurisdiction while in law school.” – Mahmud Jamal

ments on even the most routine litigation files. In this envi- ronment, it often simply isn’t feasible to staΩ files with enough internal lawyers. The task must be outsourced. Teams of contract lawyers are quickly interviewed and hired, and work under the law firm’s supervision. This phenomenon is still much more common in the United States than in Canada, but it does occur here.

IMPLICATIONS FOR LEGAL EDUCATION On my third and final point, I oΩer these modest observations tentatively and from the standpoint of a consumer of the out- put of legal education, in that I am very fortunate to work OFFSHORE OUTSOURCING with some of the best and brightest graduates of this law fac- We’ve all heard of outsourcing and experienced the famous ulty and other esteemed law faculties in this province and Indian call centres for our computers or household appliances. around the country. In a legal context, the outsourcing of legal services refers to the transfer of services to lower-cost markets, either within I think if there is one takeway from the nationalization of the jurisdiction or outside it. The latter is referred to as legal practice, it is that it is increasingly irrelevant whether “oΩshore outsourcing.” And of course many law firms have you learn the black letter law of any particular jurisdiction been outsourcing certain non-legal services for some time: while in law school. The obvious reason for this is that you printing of prospectuses, books of authorities, document may be in court in B.C. on Monday, in Quebec on Wednesday, imaging and e-discovery services, to name a few. What’s new, and in Nova Scotia on Friday. Legal practice in such in an envi- particularly in the United States, is the oΩshore outsourcing ronment is necessarily an ongoing process of continuing legal of legal services, predominantly to markets such as India. In education. It makes much more sense to have a structural 2005, a brief prepared by an outsourced lawyer in India was understanding of the law from the outside, rather than being submitted to the United States Supreme Court. Technology, mired in the details from the inside. This is, of course another, again, has been critical to this development. The ability to immensely practical reason for the virtues of transsystemic communicate and send documents over the Internet quickly and comparative approaches to learning the law and legal tra- and cheaply has driven this process. ditions. It is no exaggeration to say that, today, many of us are practising comparative lawyers. To the best of my knowledge, in Canada we aren’t yet out- sourcing factums or indeed any Finally, if you are a lawyer in Houston or perhaps one day in substantial legal services oΩshore. But I think it is just a mat- Montreal who is outsourcing to Mumbai, it certainly doesn’t ter of time before the same cost and savings pressures that hurt and likely helps quite a lot to have an understanding of have led U.S. firms to outsource to India aΩect our market- diΩerent legal systems and traditions – the systems and tradi- place as well. What we are seeing more often in Canada is the tions, that is, of those individuals who are part of your legal hiring of contract lawyers on large litigation files to code and team on the other side of the earth, who are diligently advanc- review documents for privilege and relevance. One of the re- ing your case as you sleep, and whom you are ethically bound sults of the information age is that everything can be stored to supervise in order to deliver competent legal advice to your digitally. This has dramatically increased the number of docu- client. In today’s world, we are of necessity all connected. ]

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 31 Homecoming & Class Reunions ) 5

Every year the Faculty of Law plays host to Class Reunions ( celebrating milestone anniversaries as part of Homecoming festivities. In 2008 the Faculty of Law celebrated reunions for class years ending in 3 and 8. The Faculty wishes to thank the tireless Class volunteers who helped to make these events such a success! Maria Marcheschi JACK MALRIC, JEM PHOTOGRAPHY

Class of 1968

The Class of 1968, with their spouses, met at the University Club in Montreal to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their graduation. Special thanks to David Rosenzveig and Robert Nadeau for organiz- ing the wonderful event, held on October 11, 2008.

Class of 1953

The Class of 1953 celebrated 55 years as graduates at a special dinner with their spouses, hosted at the Montefiore Club in Montreal on October 18, 2008. Special thanks to William I. Miller, QC, and classmates Irving L. Adessky, QC, Arthur I. Bronstein and Herbert C. Salmon. There are already plans for another reunion in the near future!

Class of 1973

The Class of 1973 at their 35th anniversary celebration, hosted at the Faculty of Law on October 18, 2008. Thanks to organizers Ian Solloway, Louis Lacoursière, Peter Martin and Pierrette Sévigny, as well as Faculty Advisory Board Chairman James A. Woods. It was their first reunion, but plans are already underway to hold a 40th anniversary celebration.

Class of 1958

The Class of 1958 celebrated their 50th anniversary as Faculty of Law alumni in the Common Room at Old Chancellor Day Hall, on May 30, 2008. To mark the occasion, this star-studded class made a generous donation to the Fund in Constitutional and Administrative Law, which honours the memory of their late classmate – a popular judge, and McGill law professor (see In Memoriam story, page 37).

Mark Your Calendars for Homecoming 2009: October 14 to 18 Class of 1983 Planning for reunions is underway for The Class of 1983 celebrated the 25th anniversary of their graduation on October 18, 2008. the Classes of 1954, 1959 and 1999. Professor Rosalie Jukier graciously hosted more than 20 classmates at her home for dinner, including Contact Maria Marcheschi for more former Dean of Law, Stephen J. Toope (now President of the University of British Columbia). Many thanks details at [email protected] to Antoinette Bozac, April Kabbash, Isabel Schurman and Susan Zimmerman for their enthusiasm in or call (514) 398-1435. organizing this event.

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Introducing the new New Chancellor Day Hall

The principle that interaction between scholars and students enlivens the pur- suit of knowledge was the basis for the creation of Thomas JeΩerson’s architec- tural masterpiece at the University of Virginia in 1819. His idea of building an “academical village” where learning is a lifelong and shared pursuit amongst all the university’s participants has retained its relevance and inspires university architecture to this day. Everything Old is New Again! For Homecoming 2009, the Faculty of Join the Dean of Law for breakfast and Law will reveal its own attempts to tour the newly renovated floors of create an architectural landscape in New Chancellor Day Hall. which ideas can flourish, with its recent and extensive renovations to New renovations; and a massive skylight La Faculté a fait peau neuve et ce sera Chancellor Day Hall. above a magnificent staircase between l’occasion idéale de découvrir nos the fifth and sixth floors. The third floor nouvelles installations. And don’t miss The project took well over a year to is unique in that it is completely devoted the opportunity to celebrate the complete, and represents an overhaul of to student space – accommodating a Nahum Gelber Library’s 10th birthday! 18,000 sq. ft. over three floors – the multimedia classroom and seminar third, fifth and sixth – of what had origi- room, and providing space for multiple Friday, October 16, from 8 to 10 a.m. nally been the Faculty’s Law Library student clubs, all three student-run law Common Room, 3644 Peel Street before the Nahum Gelber Library was journals, and the graduate students’ constructed, but which, in recent years lounge. The fifth and sixth floors feature No charge! had been given over to other faculties. a stunning conference room, and will But please contact house headquarters for the Faculty’s Gina Sebastiao to register at More than just a repatriation of ncdh, major research centres, as well as o≈ces [email protected] or call the renovation also brings the faculty to- for professors, graduate students and (514) 398-3679. gether in three main flagship buildings visiting scholars. attached by the Atrium: Old Chancellor Day Hall, New Chancellor Day Hall, The project was spearheaded by archi- and the Nahum Gelber Law Library. tect Claude Sauvageau, along with the Faculty’s Space Committee members – Among the many architectural design Professors Rosalie Jukier, René Provost, features at the new ncdh: light-wells to Tina Piper, Stephen Smith, Desmond allow the flow of light throughout the Manderson, Building Director Margaret space; partially-frosted glass partitions Baratta, Assistant Dean (Strategic) to give interior o≈ces a direct sightline Véronique Bélanger and Faculty Admin- to the outside world; preserved book istrator Marie-Hélène Di Lauro. ] alcoves which were uncovered in the Laurel Baker

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THE 60s George Springate, OC, BCL’68, Ian M. Solloway, BCL’73, 48th Jeffrey Edwards, BCL’86, LLB’69, was appointed Senior President of the Lord Reading LLB’86, a publié la seconde édi- Citizenship Judge last October Law Society, recently served as tion de son ouvrage, La garantie by Citizenship and Immigration Chair of the Society’s 60th de qualité du vendeur en droit Canada. He served as a Citizen- Anniversary which culminated in québécois (Wilson & Lafleur) ship Judge in Montreal, a spokes- a gala-dinner attended by over durant l’hiver 2009. Spécialisé person for the Montreal Police 200 lawyers and judges at the en droit de la construction, Department, a member of the Montefiore Club in Montreal. Jeffrey Edwards est chef du Quebec National Assembly and a Specializing in family law, secteur litige au cabinet Tutino founding member and tenured Solloway was elected in 1992 as a Edwards Joseph à Montréal et il Irwin Cotler, OC, MP, BA’61, professor in civil and criminal law Fellow of the International Acad- a été également été chargé de BCL’64, was re-elected to his at the Police Technology Depart- emy of Matrimonial Lawyers. He cours à la Faculté de droit de constituency of Mount-Royal in ment at John Abbott College. also served three mandates as a McGill. Me Edwards agit égale- October 2008. In January 2009, Springate was also a kicker for Commissioner on the Commis- ment comme arbitre et média- he was appointed Special the , and sion d’appel sur la langue d’en- teur auprès de plusieurs centres Counsel on Human Rights & played on the 1970 Grey Cup– seignement du Québec under the d’arbitrage, particulièrement International Justice by Liberal winning team. Charter of the French Language. dans les différends pour les Leader Michael Ignatieff. secteurs de la construction et de THE 70s THE 80s la responsabilité du fabricant. Brian A. Grosman, LLM’67, has been practising law and writing Kathy Fisher, BCL’83, books on employment law, dis- LLB’84, was awarded the Life- crimination and human rights. As long Learning Award in March a senior partner of the Toronto 2009 by the University of firm Grosman, Grosman & Gale, Alberta. In 2007, she was part he is currently editor-in-chief of of CBC’s Poetry Face-off, and in The Employment Bulletin: Legal 2009 she won the Spring Fever Issues in the Workplace, pub- Spoken Word Poetry Competi- lished by Canada Law Book. He Ken Dryden, MP, LLB’73, was Gerry Apostolatos, BCL’88, tion in Calgary. is a former professor at McGill’s re-elected in York Centre last LLB’88, a été nommé à la vice- Faculty of Law and founding October and currently serves the présidence de l’Association du Michael Hamelin, BCL’85, Chair of the Law Reform Com- as the Barreau Canadien, division LLB’86, was reappointed to the mission of Saskatchewan. National Outreach Advisor, Work- Québec, en février 2009, pour un Immigration and Refugee Board ing Families and Poverty, and as mandat d’une année. Gerry Apos- of Canada by Citizenship, Immi- Peter A. Howlett, BCL’66, était the Special Liaison, National tolatos est membre actif de l’exé- gration and Multiculturalism l’une des quatre personnalités Fundraising. cutif de cette association et de sa Canada for a one-year term. honorées lors de la réception section en droit des affaires ainsi Before his first appointment on Hommage aux Grands Montréa- Thomas Mulcair, MP, BCL’76, que membre votant du Conseil November 1997, Hamelin owned a lais 2008 de la Chambre de LLB’77, a été réélu dans la circon- national de l’Association du Bar- private practice specializing in commerce du Montréal métropo- scription d’Outremont en octobre reau canadien. Il est associé chez corporate, commercial, family litain, le 29 octobre, où l’on a 2008. Il siège actuellement au Langlois Kronström Desjardins. and immigration law, as well as célébré son engagement excep- Parlement à titre de chef adjoint general litigation. He is also a tionnel et ses contributions à la du NPD et porte-parole en Steven Chaimberg, BCL’80, founding member of the Parc- communauté (Heather Munroe- matière de finances. LLB’81, qui se spécialise en droit Extension Community Action Blum, Principale et vice-chance- immobilier et en matière de baux Committee. lière de McGill, était honorée Larry Smith, BCL’76, was commerciaux depuis plus de 25 aussi). Peter Howlett est aussi named to the Canadian Olympic ans, s’est joint à Fraser Milner Meg Kinnear, LLB’81, who has président des Amis de la Committee this year, and in Feb- Casgrain à titre d’associé en worked for the Canadian govern- Montagne. ruary was among four recipients 2009. Il a développé une exper- ment since 1984, recently left her of the Desautels Faculty of Man- tise de pointe dans toutes les post as Director General of the Michael D. Levinson, BCL’64, agement’s 2009 Management questions relatives aux relations Trade Law Bureau of Canada to was appointed to the Commis- Achievement Awards, chosen for entre propriétaires et locataires, take over the helm at the World sion de la protection du territoire their leadership, entrepreneur- en plus d’exercer en droit com- Bank’s International Centre for agricole du Québec starting ship, ethics and corporate social mercial général. M. Chaimberg Settlement of Investment Dis- Dec. 1, 2008. Previously, he had responsibility. As a star running est d’ailleurs reconnu comme putes in June 2009. Kinnear will been at McCarthy Tétrault as back for the Alouettes from 1972 avocat émérite en matière de be the first full-time Secretary- counsel. At the time of his through 1980, Smith was part of ocation immobilière dans l’édition General of ICSID; until this point, appointment, he said he was two Grey Cup championship 2009 du magazine Lexpert. the job has also involved acting looking forward to the new chal- teams (1974 and 1977), and went as General Counsel to the World lenge with a sense of excitement. on to work as team President and Bank. Levinson was president of the CEO. He also served as commis- Lord Reading Law Society in sioner of the Canadian Football What’s new? Send your AlumNotes to Laurel Baker, inFocus Editor-in- 2001–02. League for five years. Chief: telephone (514) 398-3424 or email [email protected].

34 FACULTY OF LAW AUTUMN 2009 Richard H. Ling, BCL’83, Dr. Henri Pallard, LLB’84, was THE 90s Comedy Club. He has also per- LLB’86, is Counsel in the Toronto honoured in November with the formed at L.A.’s Comedy Store, office of Borden Ladner Gervais. ’s Research as well as in Canada and the U.K. Prior to joining BLG, Ling was a Excellence Award for 2007–08. senior partner with Ling and A renowned expert in the prac- Martin Jan Valasek, BCL’98, Wong. He has spent extensive tise of French common law, LLB’98, was selected by the time practising corporate law in Pallard is a founding director of International Chamber of Com- China and Canada and currently the Centre international de merce (ICC) as the Canadian sits on the Board of Directors of recherche interdisciplinaire sur representative to the Young Powerstream Inc. and the Sunny- le droit at Laurentian University, Arbitrators’ Forum. Valasek prac- brook Foundation. In 2007, he and has been a professor with Hugo Cyr, BCL’97, LLB’97, a tices in the area of international was also named chair of Cancer the university’s Law and Justice publié en mars un ouvrage s’inti- arbitration at Ogilvy Renault, Care Ontario. Department since ’86. tulant and and serves as both President of Treaty Powers – Organic Consti- Young Canadian Arbitration Jacques A. Nadeau, BCom’79, Claire Holden Rothman, BA’81, tutionalism at Work (Bruxelles: Practitioners and the Regional BCL’82, a été nommé juge à la BCL’84, wrote a fictionalized P.I.E. / Peter Lang, 2009). Hugo Representative for North Chambre de la jeunesse de la account of Maude Abbott, one Cyr est professeur au Départe- America (Canada) of the Young Cour du Québec à Montréal en of McGill’s first female graduates. ment des sciences juridiques de International Arbitration Group, octobre 2008. Admis au Barreau Published by Cormorant in March la Faculté de science politique an organization sponsored by the en 1983, il a pratiqué le droit dans 2009, the novel follows Abbott’s et de droit de l’Université du London Court of International trois grands cabinets montréalais, journey to becoming a renowned Québec à Montréal. Il se spé- Arbitration. principalement en droit du tra- cardiologist and curator of cialise dans les domaines du droit vail, de l’emploi et des droits de McGill’s medical museum – de- constitutionnel et de la théorie THE 00s la personne. M. Nadeau est spite having been initially refused du droit. notamment membre du Conseil admission to McGill’s medical d’administration de l’Association school in the 1800s. Rothman Caroline Ferland, BCL’95, des Centres jeunesse du Québec. works in Montreal as a teacher, LLB’95, a été élue présidente du Il est également l’auteur de translator and writer. Conseil d’administration du plusieurs publications en droit du Centre d’accès à l’information travail. Au moment de sa nomina- Martha Shea, BCL’84, LLB’84, juridique en septembre 2008. tion, il était associé au cabinet was featured as Lawyer of the Le CAIJ a pour mission de rendre Heenan Blaikie. Week in the March 6, 2009 edi- accessible l’information juridique tion of the Lawyer’s Weekly. aux membres du Barreau du William Amos, BCL / LLB’04, Geneviève Marcotte, BCL’86, Shea co-founded the Quebec Québec et de la magistrature, où helped to successfully intervene a été nommée juge de la Cour Collaborative Law Group in 2002, qu’ils soient. Caroline Ferland est before the Supreme Court of supérieure du Québec en août the world’s first francophone col- directrice des Services juridiques Canada in the Ciment du St- 2008. Reçue au Barreau du laborative law non-profit organi- (Corporatif), chez Imperial Laurent v. Barrette case. Amos Québec en 1987, elle exerçait le zation. Tobacco Canada. and a team of pro-bono lawyers droit au sein de la société Heenan from Ecojustice and the firm of Blaikie, après avoir été avocate Joseph-John Varga, BA’87, Douglas W. Garson, BCL’91, Lauzon Bélanger were challeng- chez Lavery de Billy entre 1987 et BCL’91, LLB’91, and his wife LLB’91, was appointed Assistant ing a 1998. Madame la juge Marcotte Edith-Cecilia were blessed with Deputy Attorney General with decision they argued would est spécialisée dans les domaines the birth of their first child, the Department of Justice by the impair the rights of citizens to du contentieux des affaires Joseph-John Varga, Jr in October government of Nunavut. Garson launch class action lawsuits over civiles et commerciales. 2008. Varga has participated in has been living and working in environmental harm. Amos is a many McGill phonathons, and Iqaluit since the mid-’90s. part-time professor at the François Ouimet, BCL’88, served as Professional and Legal uOttawa–Ecojustice Environ- LLB’88, a été réélu député de la Officer for the McGill Association Véronique Hivon, BCL’94, mental Law Clinic. circonscription de Marquette, of University Teachers since 1994. LLB’94, a été élue députée de la qu’il représente depuis 1994, lors circonscription de Joliette lors Ava Chisling, BA’86, BCL / des élections provinciales du 8 Kathleen Weil, BA’77, BCL’82, des élections provinciales du 8 LLB’06, is a long-time magazine décembre 2008. François Ouimet LLB’82, was elected to the Que- décembre 2008 et aussi nommée editor who went into private est actuellement membre de la bec National Assembly repre- porte-parole de l’opposition practice specializing in media Commission des institutions et senting the Montreal riding of offcielle en matière de justice. law, after articling at the Montreal de la Commission de l’Assemblée Notre-Dame-de-Grâce and ap- office of Borden Ladner Gervais. nationale, ainsi que Président de pointed to the Executive Council Robert Keller, BA’97, BCL’01, Her clients range from club DJs la Commission de l’économie et of Quebec in December 2008 LLB’01, not only works as a and rock stars to publishers and du travail et Adjoint parlemen- (see story, page 9). She also sits lawyer in the Big Apple, but has authors, and she is a frequent taire à la ministre de la Justice. on the Comité ministériel du also been spotted performing contributor to the National développement social, éducatif stand-up comedy at some of Magazine of the Canadian Bar et culturel, and serves as vice- New York City’s top comedy Association. Chisling is also the Got a story idea? See contact chair of le Comité de législation. clubs, including Caroline’s, Stand Managing Director of Strut, a information on facing page. Up New York and the Gotham company which produces an

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award-winning magazine and Stephen Gough, BA’98, BCL / an online website for a major LLB’08, was inducted in the New Kudos & retailer. Brunswick Sports Hall of Fame in Saint John on June 6, 2009. Recognitions Jean-Paul Dufour, Today, the medal-winning former BCL’58 speedskater lives in Montreal, 2009 Lifetime Achievement where he coaches the national Award from the Canadian Bruce Cooper, short-track speedskating team in General Counsel BSc’85, LLM’85 preparation for the David P. Miller, Olympics. BCom’72, BCL’75, LLB’76 Arthur Bruneau, BA’47, BCL’49 Gregory Rickford, MP, BCL / 2008–2009 Lexpert’s Julien Fouret, LLM’03, publiait LLB’05, won his first bid for the Leading Lawyers Under 40 ce printemps son Recueil des riding of Kenora during the Eric Levy, Dianne Lillian Dutton, commentaires des décisions du October 2008 elections. He is a BA’91, BCL’95, LLB’95 BCL’91, LLB’91 CIRDI (2002–07) aux Édition member of the House of Com- Bryan C. G. Haynes, Bruylant dans la collection Droit mons Standing Committee on BA’90, LLB’93 Richard F. Pennefather, , et mondialisation, dirigée par le Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Marie-Andrée Vermette BSc’48, BCL’55 titulaire de la Chaire Oppen- Development, as well as the Joint LLB’95, BCL’97 heimer en droit public interna- Standing Committee on the tional, François Crépeau. Julien Library of Parliament. He also WXN 2008 Canada’s Most Fouret est avocat au Barreau de Chairs the All Party Tourism Powerful Women: Top 100 Paris, au sein du cabinet Derains Caucus for the 40th Parliament. Isabelle Courville, Gharavi & Lazareff. BCL’91 Isle A. Cohen Pierre-Etienne Simard, Françoise Guénette, Jeff King, BCL / LLB’03, was BCL’02, LLB’02, was chosen by BCL’76 (née Sternberg), the widow of recently appointed to a four-year the Quebec Government as Professor Emeritus Maxwell CUF Fellowship in Law. King is a “young volunteer of the year” Fellow and Tutor in law at Balliol and was presented with the Cohen (1910–1998), passed College (Oxford) and a Research Claude-Masson Award in a Celebrating Fellow at the Centre for Socio- ceremony on April 22, 2009 in away on Friday Nov. 14, 2008, Legal Studies. Previously, he was Quebec City. As an active volun- Bar Anniversaries a Research Fellow and Tutor in teer, Simard has served on more in . Mrs. Cohen was public law at Keble College than 20 executive committees (2007–08) and Legal Research and boards of directors, notably 50 Years very attached to the Faculty Fellow at the Centre for Interna- as Vice-President of the McGill Harold Ashenmil, tional Sustainable Development Law Students’ Association and BA’54, BCL’57, QC in which her husband served Law (2002–07). Having gone to President of the Montreal Junior Trevor H. Bishop Oxford to read for a DPhil in Board of Trade. ] BA’54, BCL’57 as Dean and had some of 2004, he has been focusing his Lawrence Capelovitch, the finest moments in his research on the role of courts in BA’52, BCL’56 , welfare rights adjudication. Architectural details: Paul Dingle distinguished career as an Old Chancellor Day Hall and BCL’57, QC Nahum Gelber Law Library Irving Finkelberg, international law scholar, a PHOTOS BY GERRY L’ORANGE BCL’57 William N. Gagnon, celebrated teacher and inno- BCL’57 H. David Gregory, vator in university-based legal BCL’57 Harold Gossack, education. The Maxwell and BCL’57 H. Laddie Schnaiberg, Isle Cohen Fund was estab- BA’54, BCL’57, QC lished this year to honour 60 Years the memory of both Isle and Jérôme Choquette, Maxwell Cohen and will be BCL’48, cr P. Emmet Kierans, used to create a graduate BCL’48, QC ] symposium in international

law (see story on page 8). ]

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Tribute Paid to Gerald Le Dain Faculty Mourns Class of 1958 pays homage to popular professor Former Supreme Court Justice passes away at age 80

As a law student at McGill in the ’40s, Charles Doherty Gonthier, BCL’51, Gerald Le Dain studied under noted LLD’90, was known to the legal commu- poet and lawyer F. R. Scott. He later nity as a scholar, philosopher and origi- went on to become a McGill law profes- nal thinker. To us, at the Faculty of Law, sor himself, and eventually a Justice of he was a close friend and role model. the Supreme Court of Canada. Now, just over a year after his death, many of the After graduating from McGill, Charles popular professor’s former students Gonthier was called to the Quebec Bar from the Class of ’58 have joined the Le Dain family in in 1952 and began his legal career in Montreal. He was establishing a new fund designed to support student activi- appointed Queen’s Counsel in 1971, elevated to the Bench ties at McGill’s Faculty of Law. in 1974 and appointed to the Court of Appeal in 1989. The following year he joined the ranks of the Supreme Court of Justice Le Dain’s son Eric called the fund a fitting tribute to Canada, from which he retired in 2003. He then returned his father, who was known for his commitment to young to private practice with McCarthy Tétrault, and brought re- lawyers not only as a professor, but also through his work as newed energy to the Faculty as a Wainwright Senior Fellow, a Supreme Court Justice, where he helped provide guidance and as a governing board member at the Centre for Interna- and inspiration to law students selected for clerkships. “He tional Sustainable Development Law. was particularly fond of his early classes, and took pride in their many accomplishments.” Justice Gonthier is fondly remembered by generations of McGill Law students who were fortunate enough to work The Gerald Le Dain Fund in Constitutional and Adminis- with him as law clerks. Most of them will never forget the trative Law will be used to support student activities splendid summer reunions he organized in the idyllic set- connected to legal education, notably student research ting of his country home. They will remember him as a man assistantships. The endowed fund now sits at $50,000, of extraordinary kindness, humanity and wisdom who including gifts and pledges received over the past year, and possessed a tireless determination to do the right thing. is expected to grow as more donations come in. Après avoir quitté la magistrature, l’honorable Charles Gerald Le Dain was born in Montreal on Nov. 27, 1924. Gonthier a donné un appui considérable à l’élaboration After service overseas during the Second World War, he d’une normativité juridique du développement durable en returned to his hometown and enrolled at McGill’s Faculty consacrant un temps combien précieux au cisdl. Cet appui of Law. He obtained his BCL in 1949, and later that year délibéré s’inscrivait parfaitement dans la philosophie poli- pursued further studies in France. During the 1950s and tique du juge Gonthier qui, à une époque parfois fortement 1960s, Gerald Le Dain practised law in Montreal and also centrée sur l’individu conçu dans l’immédiat, aura souvent taught constitutional law at McGill University for eight rappelé l’importance des valeurs de communauté et de fra- years. He later accepted a position as Dean of Osgoode Hall ternité envisagées sur la durée. La disparition de cette voix Law School. In 1975, Le Dain was appointed to the Federal unique est une perte immense pour nous tous. Court of Appeal and the Court Martial Appeal Court, was elevated to the Supreme Court of Canada in 1984, and made En plus de cette pensée riche et originale, Charles Gonthier a Companion of the in 1989. Justice nous laisse en héritage le souvenir d'un homme empreint Gerald Le Dain died at the age of 83 on Tuesday, Dec. 18, d'humilité, dans un monde où l'orgueil est si répandu. Il 2007, in Toronto. ] était toujours affable et bienveillant et surtout, il montrait un intérêt sincère pour les jeunes juristes auxquels il donnait temps et énergie sans compter. It is for this commitment to For information Melissa Poueymirou young jurists that the Faculty created the Charles D. Gon- on contributing to Interim Director of Development thier Outstanding Young Alumni Award last September (see the Le Dain fund, Faculty of Law story, page 7). please contact: McGill University 3644 Peel Street Charles Gonthier passed away on July 17, 2009. He leaves Montreal qc h3a 1w9 his wife of nearly 50 years, Dr. Mariette Morin, MD, MSc, (514) 398-6611 frcs(c), facog, five sons, and nine grandchildren. ] PHOTO © SUPREME COURT OF CANADA [email protected] Daniel Jutras, doyen intérimaire

FACULTÉ DE DROIT AUTOMNE 2009 37 Agreement 40613662 Publications Mail Canada Post Corporation (see story, page33). devoted to student space Day Halliscompletely renovated New Chancellor The third floor of thenewly Communiquez avec nous/Keep intouch us know where you are andwhat you’re upto. and networking opportunitiesfor itsalumni.To stay connected, let The McGillcommunity offers ahost ofevents, career development Update your contact information online: www.mcgill.ca/law/alumni/stayintouch Or contact theFaculty ofLaw: Montreal QCH3A1W9 3644 Peel Street and AlumniRelations Office ofDevelopment mi [email protected] (514)398-4659 Email (514)398-3679 Fax Phone www.mcgill.ca/law

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