Landmark Cases
The ONCA found a famous rideshare company's arbitration clause to be unconscionable in this notable 2019 decision.
Heller v Uber
This McGill Law prof delivered the 2017 CBC Vincent Massey Lectures, In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odessey.
Payam Akhavan
This club notoriously holds the year's best Coffee Houses. When they do, be sure to catch Clara twerking in a split on the dance floor.
BLSAM
The grade distribution for this 1L mandatory course: 10 B+'s, 57 B's, and 3 B-'s. Those 10 B+ students probably wrote something creative...
Foundations with Crépeau
This beloved Avocato chef makes a mean chickpea curry.
Sammi <3
The SCC confirmed courts cannot force parties to renegotiate contracts in this landmark case involving a hydroelectric plant in Labrador.
Churchill Falls v Hydro Quebec
This beloved prof has been teaching at the Faculty since 1985 - only two years after completing his/her law degree at McGill.
Queen Rosalie Jukier
This club attracted some criticism for their 2020 photo campaign's theme of "Intersectionality."
LNFB
How to Get Away with Murder meets Grey's Anatomy...
Anatomy of a Murder Trial
This "gendered disturbance" isn't popular amongst all students at the faculty.
The ping pong table
The SCC considered "momentous questions that go to the heart of our system of constitutional government" and explored the "meaning and nature of a number of underlying principles" in this momentous constitutional law judgment.
Reference Re Secession of Quebec
This prof famously cold called Alyssa during a Winter 2020 Property Law lecture.
Professor Geeta Narang
0 Days Since Their Last Scandal
The LSA
Professor Van-Praagh teaches this basket course with which people have a love-hate relationship.
Advanced CML Obligations
The brand of coffee in the Caf
Van Houtte
Can duress be used as a defence to war crimes? We find out in this 1996 PIL case.
Prosecutor v Erdemović
On top of being a full professor, this prof serves at the Director for the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.
François Crépeau
When translated, their name means "between nations" or "between peoples"
Inter Gentes
Professor Kirouack is a practitioner who taught this course in the Fall semester. The law is interesting but difficult to practice...
Family Law
This Liaison Librarian is best known at the Faculty for teaching students various research methods.
Katrina Daniels
Perhaps "an eye for an eye" is given new meaning in this 1990 SCC torts case dealing with negligence, causation, and the removal of a poor patient's cataract.
Snell v Farrell
This McGill Law prof's doctoral thesis was entitled Soft Law as Topos: The Role of Principles of Soft Law in the Development of International Environmental Law 1997-2001.
Feel free to join them in the park to smoke a J and play a round of pétanque!
Club de Poésie et Botanique de la Faculté de droit de l'Université McGill
Prof Fox-Decent teaches this course where students pretty much exclusively read Hobbe's Leviathan.
Jurisprudence
This McGill law grad served as Minister of Environment and Climate Change and now serves as Minister of Infrastructure and Communities.
The Honourable Catherine McKenna