par Marie-Éloïse Lajoie, LL.B. (cheminement en sciences de la vie) Ce billet a d’abord été conçu dans le cadre du cours Droit de la famille du professeur Michaël Lessard.
Résumé : La sensibilité de l’animal de compagnie est constatée par l’article 898.1 du Code civil du Québec, le distinguant ainsi d’un simple bien. [...]
Few things stir emotions and financial markets quite like artificial intelligence, yet too few people understand how it’s made, how it’s measured, how it intersects with
the law, and what its societal implications may be. The most well-known issues, such as misinformation, hallucinations, “nudify” apps, and the like, are the tip [...]
Presidents have long sought to shape the federal bureaucracy. But few have challenged it as aggressively as Donald Trump. Throughout his political career, Trump has argued
that unelected bureaucrats—the so-called “deep state”—exercise too much influence over government policy. [...]
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Community Court of Justice (ECOWAS Court)’s transformation from an economic tribunal into one of Africa’s leading
regional human rights courts is nothing short of remarkable. Since 2005, when the ECOWAS Court was given a human rights mandate, nearly 90% of the cases it handles [...]
How does law – and, in particular, global law – structure the social space within which we live our lives? My new book, Twa in Rwanda: Situating Global Discourses of Indigeneity,
Conservationism and Development in Daily Life, shifts focus from the top-down framing of global law to how legal power is enacted in everyday practices of living [...]
The twentieth century taught us (at least offered a costly learning opportunity) how to respond to military coups, revolutionary ruptures, and open assaults on democratic government.
The twenty-first century presents a different challenge. Increasingly, constitutional democracy is not dismantled outside the legal order but transformed from within. [...]
What is common in the production of an earring from broken porcelain cups and plates, an evening dress form curtains, a handbag from the cassettes of audio tapes, a lampshade
out of discarded Coca Cola glass bottles, or to decorate jackets with worn but functional scarves? All of these activities represent a form of the phenomenon regularly [...]
Institutional investors have become some of the most influential actors in modern capitalism. They decide where pension savings are invested, which companies receive capital,
and increasingly shape corporate responses to challenges ranging from executive pay to climate change. [...]
“With all the bad news on climate science and climate governance lately, how do you find hope to persevere?” In the past decade, I have been asked this question with increasing
frequency in my climate governance lectures. It usually comes from a disillusioned student struggling to process new developments about climate science projections [...]
A society’s true measure of success is its capacity to deal with failure. In the mid–seventeenth century, this is just what we can observe in the city of Amsterdam, at
the time one of the world’s prime commercial hubs. In the early modern Dutch Republic, a set of legal, cultural, and institutional innovations resulted in a new [...]