Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture
After the Storm: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Future of Private International Law, by Professor Catherine Walsh
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 5:30 P.M.
The seventeenth Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture will take place on Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 5:30 PM in the Mary Louise Lynch Room (Room 2A/2B) at Ludlow Hall. Professor Catherine Walsh will deliver the lecture, "After the Storm: The Impact of the Financial Crisis on the Future of Private Internationl Law". A light reception will follow the lecture.
The Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture Series is made possible by generous donations from the Canadian National and from Abraham Calp and family.
Biography of Professor Catherine Walsh
This year's lecturer, Professor Catherine Walsh, is a graduate of the Law Faculty of the University of New Brunswick. After obtaining her B.C.L. from Oxford, she clerked for the Chief Justice of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal. Following a brief period as an Associate at the firm of McKelvey McCauley Machum, Professor Walsh moved to the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law in 1981, where she taught primarily in the areas of private international law, commercial law, secured transactions and comparative law. In 2001, she joined the Faculty of Law at McGill University. From 1999 to 2002, she was Counsel at the firm of Stewart McKelvey and from 2003 to 2005, she was the Associate Dean (Academic) at the Law Faculty at McGill.
Professor Walsh has a long-standing commitment to law reform, and has been actively involved in a number of national and internationl reform initiatives, including two multilateral legal insturments developed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, co-authored with Ronald Cuming (Saskatchewan) and Roderick Wood (Alberta), it was published by Irwin Law in 2005.
Before commencing her law studies, Professor Walsh worked as a CUSO volunteer in Ghana, an experience that contributed to her ongoing interest in law and development.
Ivan C. Rand (1884-1969)
Ivan Cleveland Rand--jurist, scholar, public servant and educator--was a towering figure in the life of the law of Canada during the crucial middle decades of the twentieth century. Trained at Harvard prior to the First World War, he was catapulted onto the national stage in the midst of the Second, with his appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada after 25 years of distinguished practice, particularly as counsel to the Canadian National Railway. At the Court, Rand demonstrated a penetration of mind and firmness of principle in a body of timeless judgments rendered from 1943 to 1949. Rand also engaged in important acts of public service as a Royal Commissioner and an arbitrator. In his later life, Rand become the Dean of Law at the University of Western Ontario and was a Visiting Professor at the University of New Brunswick.
As a jurist, rand is universally recognized as Canada's greatest civil libertarian in an era when our constitutional theory was still bounded by the British legacy of parliamentary supremacy. At the same time, he was a passionate exponent of the federal principle. Rand was celebrated as a judge of considerable wisdom, for whom law and justice were intimately intertwined. His voice will resonates even in our most recent constitutional jurisprudence in questions of federalism, civil liberties and social justice.
