The Faculty of Law welcomes back Professor Joanna Harrington of the Faculty of Law, who recently presented at the annual conference of the Canadian Council on International Law in Ottawa as part of a panel presentation marking the attainment of 50 years for the Canadian Yearbook on International Law. The Canadian Yearbook on International Law is a well-respected scholarly journal, published by UBC Press, and co-sponsored by the Canadian Council on International Law (since 1972) and the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association (since 1961-62).
Harrington's presentation built upon a feature article written for the fiftieth volume of the Yearbook, due to be out soon. In that article, Harrington draws upon the Yearbook's contributions to international legal practice, as well as archival material, to trace the Yearbook's founding to the efforts of Canadians who had fought in World War I and II and hoped for a future international legal order where law, and lawyers, had a leading role. The Yearbook was intended as a means to further a national interest in international legal affairs and to popularize the understanding of international law as law, with practitioners and scholars collaborating together, in French and English, in matters of both public and private international law.
A blogpost about the panel can be found here.
A copy of the slides from the presentation can be found here.