The Dean of the Law Faculty of University of Montreal Gives a Lecture on the Reform of the Legal System in Canada at CASS Law Institute

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On the morning of March 6, 2018, Professor Jean-François Gaudreault-Desbiens, Dean of the Law Faculty of University of Montreal, Canada, visited CASS Law Institute and held a meeting with Professor Chen Su, Director of CASS Law Institute, on the cooperation between the two institutions and the activities of the CASS-Montreal University Center for China Studies. After the meeting, Professor Gaudreault-Desbiens gave a lecture on “the Reform of the Legal System in Canada” in the Conference Hall of CASS Law Institute. The lecture was presided over by Professor Zhou Hanhua, Assistant Director of CASS Law Institute and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Global Law Review, and attended by over 40 scholars and students of CASS Institute of Law and CASS Institute of International Law.

  

In the lecture, Professor Gaudreault-Desbiens introduced and commented on the reform of the legal system in Canada mainly from the point of view of the daily operation of the system. He first introduced the legal reform at the federal level. Then he analyzed the situation of legal reform in the Province of Quebec, which is the only province in Canada that has a continental law tradition. Finally, through the comparison of the legal reform at the federal level and that in the Province of Quebec, demonstrated the influence of legal tradition on the approach and effect of legal reform. After the lecture, Professor Gaudreault-Desbiens carried out in-depth discussion and exchange with the audience on such issues as the integration of the common law tradition and the continental law tradition in Quebec and the differences between the continental law and the common law in legal concepts.