TERMINOLOGY AND PROPERTY MODELS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Quebec research Centre of Private and Comparative Law Workshop

The Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law will hold a workshop on the topic “Terminology and Property Models in the 21st Century”, on September 21st and 22nd, 2006 at the Faculty of Law of McGill University (Room 16, Old Chancellor Day Hall, 3660 Peel Street). Property in its various forms will be examined from jurilinguistic and comparative perspectives.

Organizing Committee:  Nicholas Kasirer Dean, McGill University, Faculty of Law  Jean-Guy Belley Full Professor, McGill University, Faculty of Law  Yaëll Emerich Assistant Professor, McGill University, Faculty of Law  Alexandra Popovici Student at the École du Barreau du Québec in Montreal and Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law Scholar, McGill University, Faculty of Law

Workshop Objectives

The main objective of the workshop is to examine terminological and linguistic questions pertaining to property models in the 21st century. This workshop carries forth an on-going collaboration with the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.-C.E.C.O.J.I., Paris), on the topic of “Property Models in the 21st Century”.

The notion of Property is frequently invoked in different areas of the law, be it in intellectual property, incorporeal property in general or cultural property, thus extending its boundaries to cover new forms of appropriation and reservation.

A study of the terminology used in the context of property will help to better define the outlines of the notion of Property, a notion which lies at the heart of Property Law and is of ever-growing importance to the whole of private law. Legal vocabulary is always changing, within a specific socio-linguistic context, and jurists should take these transformations into account.

Bilingual and bijuridical terminology, which is characteristic of Quebec private law, provides fertile ground for a terminological study. The reflection around the terminology related to property models will be enriched with its transposition into French law, adding a comparative dimension to the project.

The workshop also aims to stimulate reflection on the future of Canadian private law in a bilingual and bijuridical setting, while also developing exchanges between different legal systems, as well as between Canadian and foreign universities. Moreover, such a reflection should help improve and develop pedagogical tools for transsystemic teaching. Programme

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 ST 2006

(13h00) Participants’ Arrival (13h30) Welcoming Address

M./Mr Jean-Guy Belley  Director of the QRCPCL; Sir William C. Macdonald Professor of Law, Faculty of Law of McGill University

Mme/Ms Isabelle de Lamberterie  Director of Research at the Centre d’études sur la coopération juridique internationale (CECOJI) Poitiers-Paris

First Panel:

Présidence / Chair : Paul-André Crépeau  Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University  Founding Director of the QRCPCL

14h00-14h30: Sylvio Normand, « Du droit de superficie à la propriété superficiaire »  Full Professor, Faculté de droit, Université Laval,

14h30-15h00: Yaëll Emerich, « Propos sur le bien et la propriété en droit civil et en common law : concepts et théorie »  Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University,

Pause – Break 30 min

Présidence / Chair : Élise Charpentier  Assistant Professor, Faculté de droit, Université de Montréal

15h30-16h00: Lionel Smith, “Is the Common Law Trust a Patrimony?”  Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University  James McGill Professor of Law

16h00-16h30: Nicholas Kasirer, « La propriété et le patrimoine : transpositions nécessaires, traductions impossibles ? »  Dean, Faculty of Law, McGill University  James McGill Professor of Law

17h-18h30: Cocktail FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 ND 2006 9h00-9h30 Accueil – Welcome

Second Panel:

Chair: Alexandra Popovici  Student at the École du Barreau du Québec in Montreal and Scholar, QRCPCL McGill University, Faculty of Law

9h30 : Opening of Day Two

9h30-10h00: Laurent Pfister, « Domaine ? Propriété ? Droit de propriété ? Observations historiques sur quelques incertitudes terminologiques »  Professor, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines

10h00-10h30: Roderick A. Macdonald, “Fruit Salad”  Full Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University  F.R. Scott Professor of Constitutional and Public Law

Pause – Break 15 min

10h30-11h: Aileen Doetsch, « Approches terminologiques comparées: le langage propriétaire au Canada et dans l’Union européenne »  Master Student in Comparative Law, Université Robert Schuman, Strasbourg

12h00-14h00: Déjeuner – Lunch

Third Panel

Chair: Patrick Forget  Associate Director, QRCPCL

14h00: Reprise des travaux – Continuation of Day Two

14h00-14h30: Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse, « La propriété : un acte de foi - Discours sur l'idée de propriété dansl'évolution de la propriété intellectuelle »

 Ph.D.  Wainwright Junior Fellow, Faculty of Law, McGill University

14h30-15h00: Tina Piper, “Intellectual Property as a Property Model in Flux”

 Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University

Pause – Break 30 min Chair: France Allard  Avocate générale droit comparé, Justice Canada

15h30-15h00: David Lametti, “The Objects of Virtue”  Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, McGill University

16h00-16h30: Marie Cornu, « Les notions frontières entre droit de la création et droit du patrimoine »  Director, CECOJI (CNRS-Paris)

Summary: Jean-Claude Gémar  Emeritus Professor, Département de Linguistique et de Traduction, Université de Montréal

17h00-18h00 : Vin d’honneur – Reception