McGill Law Journal

McGill Law Journal

The McGill Law Journal is a scholarly legal publication affiliated with the student body of the McGill University Faculty of Law in Montreal, Quebec, published by a non-profit corporate institution independent of the Faculty run exclusively by students. It also publishes the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation[1] (also known as the McGill Guide), Canada’s legal citation reference work. The Journal was ranked as the best overall student-run law journal in the world outside of the United States in 2010 by the Washington and Lee University School of Law [2]

Contents

Overview

Over the years the McGill Law Journal has garnered significant recognition in Canada and around the world.[3] Since its first citations in the early 1970s, it has been cited more often than any other university-affiliated law journal in the world by the Supreme Court of Canada.[4] Subscribers to the Journal reside in over forty countries across six continents. In addition, the Journal actively contributes to the development of Canadian legal methodology by publishing the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, which has become the standard reference work for almost all Canadian law reviews, Canadian law schools, and courts.[5] The McGill Law Journal's citation style became the official style for Canadian legal citation by the Bluebook, America's equivalent to the McGill Guide, before the first edition of the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation.

Students of the Faculty of Law of McGill University founded the McGill Law Journal in 1952,[6] led by Founding Editor-in-Chief Jacques-Yvan Morin. From that founding, the Journal has promoted the development of legal scholarship by appealing to an audience that includes professors of law, practicing lawyers, and law students. Given that the Province of Quebec is a jurisdiction where the legal traditions of common law and civil law intersect in matters of private law, the first editors of the Journal immediately appreciated its potential as a catalyst for the development of civilian legal scholarship published in English. The Journal is recognized as an important forum[7] for the critical analysis of contemporary legal issues in the realms of public law and private law, as well as international law.

The Journal is a bilingual publication. The editorial team includes both francophone and anglophone students tasked with the selection of articles and their preparation for publication. The Journal publishes a variety of articles pertaining to the civil and common law traditions in both of Canada's official languages. Part of its mandate is to contribute to the development of legal research that is comparative or transsystemic in nature.[8]

Similar to its American counterparts and unlike many of its Canadian competitors, the McGill Law Journal is entirely student-run. In order to ensure the quality of its content, all manuscripts selected for publication are peer reviewed by scholars from Canada and around the world using a double-blind system.

McGill Law Journal's Annual Lecture

Since 2000 (and from 1984-92), the McGill Law Journal has invited an important guest each year to provide a lecture to the legal community of McGill and Montreal at large. The lecture is published in the McGill Law Journal and is one of the most important events of the year at the Faculty. Previous lecturers have included Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Charles Gonthier (2000), Philippe Kirsch, President of the International Criminal Court (2001), Canadian Senator Gérald A. Beaudoin (2003), Justice John Gomery (2006), Canadian philosopher John Ralston Saul (2009), Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Rosalie Abella (2010), and iconic Mexican novelist Carlos Fuentes (2011). Before its current incarnation, previous lecturers included Jacques-Yvan Morin (1984) and future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada Beverley McLachlin (1991).

Prominent alumni

Justices

Allan Lutfy - Chief Justice of the Federal Court of Canada

Morris Fish - Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada [9]

John Gomery - Former Justice and head of the Commission of Inquiry into the Sponsorship Program and Advertising Activities, aka the Gomery Commission [10]

A. Derek Guthrie - Former Justice of the Superior Court of Quebec

Nicholas Kasirer – Former Dean of McGill University Faculty of Law, now Justice of the Quebec Court of Appeal

Academics

Stephen Toope - Former Dean of McGill University Faculty of Law, now President of the University of British Columbia [11]

David Lametti - Former Associate Dean of Academics, McGill University Faculty of Law

Geneviève Saumier - Former Associate Dean of Academics, McGill University Faculty of Law

Mayo Moran - Dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Julia E Hanigsberg - Vice President Administration and Finance of Ryerson University

Frank H. Buckley - Professor of Law, George Mason University

Stephen Allan Scott - Professor-Emeritus, McGill University Faculty of Law

Peter Oliver - Professor, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law

Cally Jordan - Associate Professor, The University of Melbourne Faculty of Law

Elo Tulving-Blais - Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Canadian International Lawyer

Michelle Cumyn - Rédactrice en chef of the Les Cahiers de Droit

Businesspeople

David O'Brien - Chairman of the Royal Bank of Canada [12]

Robert Leclerc - Chairman, Minefinders Corporation

Douglas Pascal - Vice-Chairman of Canderel

Practitioners

Robert Vineberg – Senior Partner at Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg

Roy Heenan - Founding Partner of Heenan Blaikie

Daniel Gogek - Former Managing Partner of Hogan Lovells in Moscow, Russia

Daniel Torsher - Managing Partner of Kinstellar SCA in Bucharest, Romania

Government

W. David Angus - Canadian Senator[13]

Elaine Feldman - President of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency[14]

Yoine Goldstein - Former Canadian Senator

Ronald I. Cohen - National Chair, Canadian Broadcast Standards Council

International figures

Dick Pound – Former Chancellor of McGill University, former Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency, Senior Tax Partner at Stikeman Elliott [15]

Editors-in-chief

Vol 1: Jacques-Yvan Morin (Issue One), Fred Kaufman (Issues Two and Three), and William H. Reynolds (Issue Four)

Vol 2: John E. Lawrence

Vol 3: Harold W. Ashenmil[16]

Vol 4: Raymond Barakett[17]

Vol 5: Henri P. Lafleur

Vol 6: A. Derek Guthrie[18]

Vol 7: Norman M. May[19]

Vol 8: Alan Z. Golden[20]

Vol 9: Mark M. Rosenstein[21]

Vol 10: Joseph J. Olivier[22]

Vol 11: Larry S. Sazant

Vol 12: Stephen Allan Scott[23]

Vol 13: Douglas Pascal[24]

Vol 14: Ronald I. Cohen[25]

Vol 15: Leonard Serafini[26]

Vol 16: André T. Mécs[27]

Vol 17: Joel King[28]

Vol 18: Michael David Kaylor[29]

Vol 19: Graham Nevin

Vol 20: F.H. Buckley[30]

Vol 21: Laura Falk Scott[31]

Vol 22: Louise Pelly[32]

Vol 23: Cally Jordan[33]

Vol 24: Neil J. Smitheman[34]

Vol 25: Mona R. Paul

Vol 26: Linda R. Ganong (1979–1980) and Patrick Healy (1980–1981)[35]

Vol 27: F. Jasper Meyers

Vol 28: Stephen Toope[36]

Vol 29: Daniel Gogek

Vol 30: Peter Oliver[37]

Vol 31: Henry K. Schultz[38]

Vol 32: Marc Lemieux[39]

Vol 33: M. Kevin Woodall

Vol 34: Gary F. Bell[40]

Vol 35: Daniel Torsher[41]

Vol 36: Julia E. Hanigsberg[42]

Vol 37: David A. Chemla[43]

Vol 38: Mark Phillips[44]

Vol 39: Erica Stone

Vol 40: Jodi Lackman

Vol 41: Mary-Pat Cormier[45]

Vol 42: Martin J. Valasek[46]

Vol 43: Sébastien Beaulieu

Vol 44: Karlo Giannascoli

Vol 45: Azim Hussain[47]

Vol 46: Robert Leckey[48]

Vol 47: Kevin MacLeod[49]

Vol 48: Carole Chan[50]

Vol 49: Toby Moneit

Vol 50: Fabien Fourmanoit

Vol 51: Kristin Ali[51]

Vol 52: David Sandomierski

Vol 53: Benjamin Moss

Vol 54: Erin Morgan

Vol 55: Seo Yun Yang

Vol 56: Sara Ross

Vol 57: Will Colish

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