On June 8th, Governor General’s Gold Medal recognizes Dr. Hadley Friedland with the highest academic standing.

Professor Chuma Himonga the coinvestigator leading the South Africa team involved in the SSHRC partnership project, with her colleague Elena More wrote a book entitled Reform of Customary Marriage, Divorce and Succession in South Africa: Living Customary Law and Social Realities.

From 14th to 16th of December, prof. Ghislain Otis and prof. Jennifer Corrin attended the International Conference of the Commission on Legal Pluralism. Held at the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, the conference focused this year on emerging areas that have gained momentum due to globalization, the emergence of ‘knowledge economies’, and the evolution of high-tech capitalism. 

Dr. Sergiu Miscoiu was a special guest during the Second Team Meeting, which was held in Montreal last October. He is a lecturer in political science at the Babeş-Bolyai Université in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

We have been publishing interviews conducted during the Second Team Meeting (held in Montreal last October) for a few weeks now. Today, we are introducing an interview with Daniel Lopes, coordinator and young researcher in the research group of the University of Bordeaux.