涩里番

Le contrat d茅bord茅 : les maladresses du droit civil face aux interm茅diaires paracontractuels

For this final lecture, the Centre welcomed Alexandra Bahary-Dionne, a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre d鈥櫭﹖ude des mouvements sociaux de l鈥櫭塩ole des hautes 茅tudes en sciences sociales, for her presentation entitled: 鈥楲e contrat d茅bord茅 : les maladresses du droit civil face aux interm茅diaires paracontractuels鈥�.

Abstract: Le droit civil qu茅b茅cois reconna卯t, aux articles 1440 et suivants听du Code civil, que听le contrat produit ses effets听entre les parties contractantes. Il admet que听le contrat puisse avoir certains effets听脿 l鈥櫭ゞard听des tiers, et que l鈥檕bligation puisse听faire l鈥檕bjet d鈥檜ne听transmission ou听de mutations qui en modifient听les titulaires ou lui听substituent une听nouvelle obligation. Ce que听le cadre conceptuel听du droit civil appr茅hende听plus difficilement, c鈥檈st听la figure inverse, soit celle d鈥檌nterm茅diaires听qui d茅terminent l鈥檈xistence听et les conditions du contrat听de l鈥檈xt茅rieur, sans en 锚tre听parties, sans le devenir, et sans que听le contrat ou听la loi听ne leur conf猫re explicitement ce pouvoir. Cette pr茅sentation听examine ce ph茅nom猫ne听脿 partir听de deux instruments que je qualifie听de paracontractuels听dans le contexte听du cr茅dit听脿 la consommation听: le pointage听de cr茅dit, produit听par des agences听externes qui d茅cident, avant m锚me听la formation du contrat, qui peut emprunter听et 脿 quelles听conditions ; et la titrisation, qui fait intervenir une听constellation d鈥檌nterm茅diaires听鈥� v茅hicules听ad hoc, investisseurs, agences听de notation 鈥� susceptibles d鈥檌nfluencer听les pratiques d鈥檕ctroi听sans jamais appara卯tre听dans la relation contractuelle. Ces dispositifs sont听certes encadr茅s juridiquement, mais听sous d鈥檃utres听r茅gimes et avec d鈥檃utres finalit茅s que听la protection des droits contractuels听de la partie d茅bitrice听: protection de la vie priv茅e, protection des investisseurs听et stabilit茅听financi猫re.

This workshop took place online on 28 May 2026, from 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm.

Histories of Legal Reception: Museums of Accidents?

For its sixth and penultimate civil law workshop, the Centre welcomed Amy Preston-Samson to deliver her lecture entitled 鈥楬istories of Legal Reception: Museums of Accidents?鈥�.

Amy Preston-Samson recently completed her doctorate at 涩里番's Faculty of Law, where she was supervised by Professor Shauna Van Praagh. Her thesis, entitled Layering Down the Law: Four Histories of the Myth of the Reception of English Law in Australia, examines the methodologies that a curious legal scholar might employ to interrogate the founding myth that English law arrived in Australia in the legal baggage of the colonists. Through a careful reading of court decisions, books, lost law libraries, and the silences of legal history, Amy traces how this myth has been constructed, disseminated, and rewritten across time and space. Beyond her doctoral work, she continues to explore the relationships between different genres of texts and communities鈥攔eal and imagined鈥攁nd the practices that structure, enable and frustrate collective communication. Her work is also attentive to the role of contingency in legal history鈥攈ow accidental alignments of texts, institutions, and actors can give rise to narratives that later appear intentional or inevitable.

Abstract: This paper reflects on the author鈥檚 doctoral research on the reception of English law in Australia, focused through the lens of accident and informed by theories of accidental art. Inspired by Paul Virilio鈥檚 observation that 鈥渢o acquire a tool鈥�is to acquire a danger, a particular risk; it is to open one鈥檚 door to expose one鈥檚 intimacy to hazards, slight or major,鈥� and his idea that 鈥渆xhibiting the accident鈥� involves 鈥渆xposing what is improbable, what is unusual and yet inevitable,鈥� it brings together a series of reception artifacts and moments, which represent both accidents themselves and the measures taken to avoid or protect against them. Rather than simply drawing on the thesis, the paper reflects on its methodology, which somewhat unconsciously involved collecting and curating accidents as a means of understanding legal reception. What might be gained by a more self-conscious consideration of these moments not as marginal errors outside reception, but as conditions that make reception itself possible? Attending to accidents in this way also invites us to rethink intentionality and authority in legal texts. What kinds of legal histories, and what kinds of relationships to legal texts, could a museum of accidents make possible?

This workshop took place on 10 April, from 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm in the Stephen Allan Scott Room (16) in the Chancellor-Day Building at 涩里番鈥檚 Faculty of Law.

Le droit comme maison hant茅e

To bring the autumn session to a close, the Centre was delighted to welcome Aur茅lie Lanct么t, who gave a talk entitled 鈥楲e droit comme maison hant茅e鈥�

Aur茅lie Lanct么t is a professor in the Department of Legal Studies at UQAM and a PhD candidate in Law at 涩里番.

Abstract: Cette pr茅sentation propose d鈥檃border les maladresses du droit 脿 travers la notion de hantise, en examinant certains jeux sur la narration dans le droit. Le proc猫s 茅crit l鈥檋istoire, fait le r茅cit, mais il le d茅fait tout aussi facilement afin de restituer le sens, voir l鈥檌nventer l脿 o霉 il se d茅robe. En menant son enqu锚te, en effectuant son travail d鈥檃djudication, le proc猫s construit et d茅construit les r茅cits en resignifiant jusqu鈥檃ux intentions des acteurs. Or ce jeu sur la narration n鈥檈st pas sans p茅ril : il fait surgir des fant么mes. Dans cette pr茅sentation, nous explorerons des cas de figures en appui 脿 cette proposition, en explorant le potentiel de l鈥檋antologie comme 芦 m茅thode 禄 pour l鈥檃nalyse juridique.

The conference took place online on Friday 28 November, from 1 pm to 2.30 pm.

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La cat茅gorisation maladroite des 艙uvres d'art

For the autumn session, the Centre was delighted to welcome Fran莽ois Le Moine, who gave a lecture entitled 鈥楲a cat茅gorisation maladroite des 艙uvres d'art鈥�.

Fran莽ois Le Moine specialises in art and cultural heritage law. He is a professor of private law at the University of Ottawa. He is a graduate of the Sorbonne, the 脡cole des hautes 茅tudes en sciences sociales and 涩里番. He is also a member of the Quebec Bar and practises at the law firm R猫gles de l鈥檃rt, where he has acted in numerous cases involving international trade, restitution and museum policy.

Abstract: les 艙uvres d鈥檃rt sont l鈥檕bjet de qualifications juridiques diverses selon les branches du droit. Hormis les objets sacr茅s, le droit priv茅 ne distingue pas l鈥櫯搖vre d鈥檃rt des autres biens ; le droit international, quant 脿 lui, reconna卯t et prot猫ge les 芦 biens culturels 禄 ; tandis que le droit d鈥檃uteur assure une protection sp茅cifique 脿 certaines 芦 艙uvres 禄, mais pour une dur茅e limit茅e. Il ne s鈥檃git pas d鈥檜n simple exercice de nomenclature. La classification juridique d鈥檜ne 艙uvre d鈥檃rt affecte sa protection, en particulier en ce qui concerne le commerce, la restitution et la pr茅servation. De fait, au fil de l鈥檋istoire moderne, la protection offerte par le droit priv茅 et celle issue du droit international emprunt猫rent des trajectoires inverses. Cette conf茅rence souhaite revenir sur l鈥櫭﹙olution historique de la protection des 艙uvres d鈥檃rt et plaider en faveur d鈥檜ne approche plus harmonieuse.

The workshop took place on Friday 31 October from 1.00 pm to 2.30 pm in the Stephen Allan Scott Room (16) in the Chancellor-Day Building at 涩里番鈥檚 Faculty of Law.

When it comes to the law, the clumsier the better &听The law is clumsy because it is, well, the law

For the second and third lectures, the Centre welcomed James Martel, Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University, and Johan van der Walt, Professor of Law at the University of Luxembourg.

The workshop took place on Friday 28 February from 1.00 pm to 3.30 pm n the Stephen Allan Scott Room (16) in the Chancellor-Day Building at 涩里番鈥檚 Faculty of Law.

L'introduction du genre dans le Code civil : une maladresse du droit civil qu茅b茅cois?

To launch the civil law workshop series, the Centre was delighted to welcome L茅a Decaster, who gave a talk entitled 鈥楾he introduction of gender into the Civil Code: a misstep in Quebec civil law?鈥�

L茅a Decaster is a researcher at the Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law, working on a project to compile a dictionary of personal law. As a PhD candidate in a co-tutelle program between Qu茅bec and France, her research focuses on the identification of individuals through the recording of gender in civil status records and on the protection of fundamental human rights through this same recording.

En r茅sum茅: en 2022, le l茅gislateur qu茅b茅cois, en adoptant la Loi portant sur la r茅forme du droit de la famille en mati猫re de filiation et modifiant le Code civil en mati猫re de droits de la personnalit茅 et d鈥櫭﹖at-civil, a introduit la notion de genre dans le Code civil du Qu茅bec et reconnu aux personnes non-binaires la possibilit茅 d鈥櫭猼re identifi茅es par une troisi猫me mention du sexe 脿 l鈥櫭﹖at-civil. Cette 茅volution est majeure, car elle rompt avec la binarit茅 qui fondait les r猫gles qu茅b茅coises d鈥檌dentification sexu茅e des personnes, mais elle pose 茅galement de nombreuses questions. Qu鈥檈n est-il de la notion de sexe ? Doit-elle 锚tre abandonn茅e ? Le maintien de la notion de sexe aux c么t茅s de celle du genre, n鈥檈st-elle pas maladroite ? Comment assurer le respect des droits fondamentaux de toutes les personnes et maintenir une coh茅rence dans les r猫gles civiles d鈥檌dentification ?

The workshop took place on Wednesday 12 February from 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm in Room 202 of the Chancellor-Day Building at 涩里番鈥檚 Faculty of Law.