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Consideration of the child protection, crime prevention, and criminal law response to youths’ production and distribution of digital sexual imagery, the limits of the emerging construction of consensual sexting as ‘self-exploitation’ and the relationship of this rhetoric to mounting fears about the so-called ‘sexualization of culture’. Conclusion: criminal law is too blunt a tool to [...]

Defining the line on cyber-bullying and cyber-harassment. Shariff argues for a need to engage young people in critically assessing the impact of their online postings through dialogue and interactive projects that help them “define the line” as well as increased sensitization of the legal community to the realities of young people’s modes of communication. She [...]

After a decade as Principal, Heather Munroe-Blum reflects on the lessons of her term and the serious challenges facing Quebec’s universities in a speech at the Canadian Club in Montreal, March 11, 2013.

On October 24, 2006, PRAM welcomed special guest speaker Lawrence Green, formerly of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta and author of the PRECEDE-PROCEED Ecological Model of Health Program Planning & Evaluation.

This conference and roundtable engage the public in an effort to address many of the media, political and social themes that have transpired during the months-long Occupy protests. Keynote address by Chris Hedges: journalist, author, war correspondent, and public intellectual. His most recent book is The World As It Is (2011).

Judith E. Heumann is Special Advisor for International Disability Rights to the U.S. Department of State and former World Bank Advisor on Disability and Development. Steven Estey is former Human Rights Officer at Disabled Peoples International and Chair of the International Committee of the Council of Canadians with Disabilities.

The Student Exchanges and Study Abroad office asked McGill students Amanda, Marc and Olga to talk about their experiences studying abroad on student exchanges.

In this footage from the “Learning to Teach” workshop, designed for graduate students and postdoctoral students who are presently teaching or hope to one day teach, Professor Frédéric Mégret offers some closing remarks on teaching to wrap up the workshop.

In this footage from the “Learning to Teach” workshop, designed for graduate students and postdoctoral students who are presently teaching or hope to one day teach, Professor Ken Ragan speaks about the unique challenges of reaching students in a large lecture course.

Robert Leckey, qui présente ici l’étude « Families in the Eyes of the Law: Contemporary Challenges and the Grip of the Past » qu’il a menée pour l’IRPP, est professeur adjoint à la Faculté de droit de l’Université McGill. Pour plus d’informations ou pour télécharger l’étude, veuillez visiter le site www.irpp.org.

Robert Leckey is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Law at McGill. He is also the author of the IRPP study, “Families in the Eyes of the Law: Contemporary Challenges and the Grip of the Past.” This podcast is part of the IRPP’s Interview with the Author series. For more information, or to download [...]

Il est parfois difficile de séparer le vrai du faux à propos de maladies comme la grippe H1N1. Cette vidéo réfute certains mythes colportés à ce sujet, et notamment l’idée voulant que cette grippe est somme toute bénigne et que le temps d’attente est très long aux centres de vaccination.

It can sometimes be hard to separate fact from fiction when it comes to diseases like H1N1. This video debunks some of the myths surrounding the disease, such as the common misconceptions that it’s not really that big of a problem, or that getting vaccinated takes a long time.

Tony Blair, on behalf of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation, announces that McGill is the first Canadian university, and only the fourth in the world, to join its groundbreaking Faith and Globalization Initiative.

On October 3, 2009, McGill hosted a presentation by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on education and ethics in today’s world. Faculty of Education students from six Quebec universities attended. Following the talk, His Holiness responded to questions.

At a ceremony in which he receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from McGill University, former U.S. President Bill Clinton urges his audience to tackle world issues by fostering a “communitarian consciousness.”