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CUS Droit Law AUTOMNE 2019 F[O]CUS droit law AUTOMNE 2019 Fièrement enracinés à Montréal, we reach out to the world In this issue 2 16 14 24 FEATURES COMMUNAUTÉ DE DIPLÔMÉ.E.S 2 Tech @ McGill Law 5 Alumni in Senior Roles Entrevue avec les professeurs Fabien Gélinas et Ignacio Cofone 8 LGBTQ2+Alumni and Allies Launch Everett Klippert Scholarship 12 Actions, connexions, inspirations! 18 Young Alumni to Watch Un regard sur le Programme L.E.X. 21 The appeal of McGill Law 29 Alumnotes 14 Un honneur suprême 35 Événements des diplômé.e.s en photos A look back at the distinguished legal career of 43 Annual Giving – Class Success Stories Justice Nicholas Kasirer, BCL’85, LLB’85 44 The Chancellor Day Circle 16 McGill Bicentennial: Leading in Law across Time FROM THE FACULTY A snapshot of the Faculty of Law’s Bicentennial Project 1 Le mot du doyen 4 Faculty News 24 En vedette : Le Centre 9 Featuring Grad Studies – de développement professionnel The Clive B. Allen Fellowship Un coup d’œil sur comment le Centre aide les etudiant.e.s 10 Student Experiences Here and Abroad à intégrer au marché de l’emploi 28 Collation des grades du printemps 2019 [ ] droit law RÉDACTRICE EN CHEF PHOTOGRAPHES DESIGN ET MISE EN PAGE F O CUS Sarah Huzarski David Beyda Steven McClenaghan Claudio Calligaris McGill Graphics Design EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Owen Egan Lysanne Larose Focus Law est publié par Lysanne Larose Robert Leckey l’équipe des communications Nicolas Morin Brian Peebles de la Faculté de droit de McGill. Taurus Multimedia Heather L. M. Powers David Woolfall Faculté de droit CONTRIBUTORS Université McGill PROOFREADERS Philip Fine 3644, rue Peel Hayley Juhl AUTOMNE 2019 Lysanne Larose Montréal (Québec) H3A 1W9 Serge Lamarre Annick Poitras, BCL/LLB Student Cover Illustration by www.mcgill.ca/law Mark Witten TRANSLATION Sébastien Thibault [email protected] McGill University Translation Services DEAN’S MESSAGE Le mot du doyen @DeanLeckey It’s been an another extraordinary year for your Looking to McGill’s third century, we focus on how Faculty of Law. Within these pages, you’ll find stories we can best cultivate the leaders of tomorrow. We aim and images of many inspiring initiatives and accom- to prepare our graduates to deal with uncertainty, plishments by our faculty, students, and alumni. to adapt swiftly to change, and to bring creativity, While we celebrate the achievements of the past year, appreciation for the rule of law, and sensitivity to differ- my mind is on the future. We and other faculties are ence to their endeavours in public and private sectors, preparing to celebrate McGill’s bicentennial. While the wherever they go. In our teaching and research, we Faculty of Law wasn’t established until 1848, McGill focus on how we can shape a better world by address- was founded in 1821. To mark this milestone, the ing some of our time’s most pressing issues. These university has launched Made By McGill: the Campaign challenges include regulating artificial intelligence for Our Third Century. and other evolving technologies, assuring peaceful J’ai été témoin d’une parcelle de cette histoire. Depuis interactions in outer space, facilitating everyone’s full que j’ai accepté le décanat, j’ai eu le privilège d’engager participation in society through universal access, and de nombreuses conversations avec des membres including Indigenous traditions in Canada’s overdue de la communauté mcgilloise du droit, à Montréal et efforts toward reconciliation with First Nations. ailleurs dans le monde. Ils m’ont raconté ce qu’ils We’re concerned with how to transform our spaces avaient tiré de leur passage à la Faculté de droit, into learning environments commensurate with our ainsi que les contributions qu’ils avaient apportées innovative, world-class legal education. à celle-ci et à nos collectivités. J’ai eu des discussions The participation of you, our alumni — who love McGill particulièrement intéressantes et stimulantes avec and have deep experience in these areas — improves des professeur.e.s, des membres du personnel, des each of these conversations as we dream the Faculty of étudiant.e.s et des diplômé.e.s sur ce que nous pouvons Law that McGill will have during its third century and accomplir ensemble dans le cadre de notre travail. work to build it. McGill can make much more than any Ces échanges nous ont permis de définir ce qui of us can individually. Where will you engage in the distingue notre Faculté. Je la décris comme la faculté conversation? What future solution will you help to be de droit la plus internationale au Canada : fièrement Made by McGill? What will we make together? enracinés à Montréal, nous rayonnons dans le monde. Robert Leckey Dean & Samuel Gale Professor 1 FEATURE Tech @ McGill Law by Mark Witten Les professeurs Fabien Gélinas et Ignacio Cofone LE PROFESSEUR FABIEN GÉLINAS Lorsqu’il s’agit d’utiliser les technologies de l’infor- La Plateforme d’aide au règlement de litiges en ligne mation pour améliorer l’efficacité et l’accessibilité du (PARLe) a permis de régler des différends relatifs système de justice, le professeur Fabien Gélinas, Ad. E., aux petites créances entre des consommateurs et des fait figure de pionnier. En 2010, après une décennie de commerçants, en plus d’être utilisée par le Tribunal de collaboration sur le règlement en ligne des différends, l’autorité du secteur des condominiums de l’Ontario. Fabien Gélinas et Karim Benyekhlef, professeur de « Certains des premiers projets dans ce secteur ont fait l’Université de Montréal, ont cofondé le Laboratoire de fausse route parce que le développement des outils cyberjustice de Montréal, un projet concerté de McGill numériques était mené par les concepteurs de logiciels et de l’UdeM. Leur vision : procéder à une refonte plutôt que par les parties prenantes. Nous en avons tiré numérique et à une simplification des processus judi- des leçons, et nous avons pu concevoir de meilleurs ciaires, et élaborer des outils permettant aux citoyens outils pour l’Office de la protection du consommateur et citoyennes de résoudre un vaste éventail de litiges et le Tribunal de l’autorité du secteur des condominiums en ligne. « Les technologies promettaient d’améliorer en écoutant les utilisateurs et en passant beaucoup davantage l’accès à la justice que les approches de temps avec eux à chaque étape du projet », ajoute adoptées par le passé », explique M. Gélinas, professeur M. Gélinas. titulaire de la chaire Sir William C. Macdonald et expert du règlement des différends internationaux et en ligne. 2 FOCUS LAW / FALL 2019 / MCGILL UNIVERSITY Le professeur Gélinas est emballé par sa participation L’utilisation d’algorithmes dans le contexte juridique au projet Autonomisation des acteurs judiciaires par pose toutefois des problèmes éthiques. « Pour que nos la cyberjustice (AJC), qui réunit de nombreux cher- outils soient déployés de manière responsable, nous cheurs et partenaires internationaux afin de mettre devons comprendre ces enjeux, par exemple ceux la simulation et l’intelligence artificielle (IA) au service que soulève l’utilisation de l’IA par les commissions de la prévention et de la résolution des conflits. « L’idée de libération conditionnelle pour déterminer si une d’autonomisation nous est venue de cette tendance personne représente un danger pour la société. » observée sur le terrain, où toutes sortes d’outils et Si la communauté juridique et le système de justice ont d’applications juridiques en ligne sont développés pour longtemps été réfractaires au changement, le profes- faciliter la tâche aux usagers des services de justice. Par seur Gélinas croit que le vent tourne : « Le moment est exemple, nous travaillons sur des outils d’IA pour aider maintenant propice. Les gouvernements et le système les nombreuses personnes qui n’ont pas les moyens judiciaire ont à cœur d’améliorer l’accès à la justice, d’être représentées par un avocat – y compris celles de et ils sont conscients du potentiel de la technologie. la classe moyenne – à mener elles-mêmes leur dossier. » Utilisée à bon escient, celle-ci a un pouvoir égalisateur. Ces outils peuvent ouvrir bien des portes aux groupes marginalisés de la société ». PROFESSOR IGNACIO COFONE Ignacio Cofone, an assistant professor specializing in “Privacy harm is related to financial, physical, information privacy and technology law, is researching emotional, and reputational harms,” Cofone notes. privacy harms and the ways in which the law could be “People sometimes think ‘If I have nothing to hide, adapted to give people greater legal protection when then I have nothing to lose.’ But you do have something their personal information is used in harmful ways. to lose if your personal information is used in socially “One way the law can make the use of technology more inappropriate ways.” He’s developing a theory that will responsible is by ensuring the voices of all stakeholders help determine privacy harm in torts, so people will be are heard. In public-policy deliberations about able to sue and be appropriately compensated when information privacy, victims are the voice least heard,” they suffer harm and judges will be able to assess Cofone says. those claims objectively. Cofone cites the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook Another of Cofone’s intriguing projects focuses on the scandal as a high-profile example of a situation where responsible use of artificial intelligence and personal millions of unwitting victims’ personal information was information in decision-making. Take as an example used in socially inappropriate, unauthorized ways. Amazon’s experimental AI recruitment tool, which He maintains that a regulatory approach that relies was shut down after it became clear that it discrimi- only on consent to safeguard against inappropriate use nated against female job candidates.
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