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Power, Money and Merits: L鈥檋茅ritage de la m茅thode des cas au Canada et dans le monde

Friday, November 4, 2022 13:00to14:30
Faculty of Law, NCDH 102
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Save the Constitution, the United States鈥檚 most famous legal export may well be the case method. This paper pieces together the story of how C.C.鈥疞angdell鈥檚 brainchild was brought to Canada, Qu茅bec and the rest of the common law world in treading the momentous events and geopolitics of the last century and a half, and reflects on the lessons from this global experiment for the present and future of the case method. As with law itself, the teaching of law is inextricably tied to local contexts and world politics, thus making the future of the case method as difficult to predict as it would have been for Langdell and his contemporaries. Today鈥檚 different national and international contexts from that of 1945 could represent an opportunity to reassess the merits of the case method in our more mature legal and educational environments, freed from colonial and neocolonial agendas.听

Biography

Han-Ru Zhou is an Associate Professor of Law at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al and a visiting scholar at the uOttawa Public Law Centre. He is a past Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa, Sproul Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley and Boulton Fellow at 69热视频. Han-Ru received his legal education at Montr茅al, Harvard and Oxford and served as a law clerk to Justice Marie Deschamps at the Supreme Court of Canada. He also trained as a classical pianist at the Conservatory of Music of Montreal. Professor Zhou teaches and researches in constitutional law, comparative law and legal theory. He is the Co-Editor in Chief of the Review of Constitutional Studies and the author of the only Canadian casebook published in English and French: (Th茅mis 2021, 1,164 p., translated from ).听

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