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J o u r n a l d e s é t u d i a n t - e - se n d r o i t d e l ’u n i v e r s i t é M c G i l lM c G i l l L a w ’s W e e k l y S t u d e n t N e w s p a p e rVo l u m e 3 2 , n O 52 6 o c t o b r e 2 0 1 0 | O c t o b e r 2 6 t h 2 0 1 0QUID NOVI3661 Peel StreetMontreal, Quebec H2A 1X1514 398-4430hp://quid.mcgill.ca/EDITORS IN CHIEFCourtney ReerChanel SterieIN-HOUSE DIVACharlie FeldmanQUID ONLINE REPORTERSCharlie FeldmanKae WebberWEBMASTERRyan SchwartzASSOCIATE REVIEWERSAshley AdamsAngelina BalashStefanie CarsleyIvana CescuEliza CohenKelly CohenMichelle FelskyRodrigo GarciaFaizel GulamhusseinDaniel HabouchaAllison JaskolkaElizabeth KigutaBonnie KingAlexandra LazarMarie-Pier LeducKimberly Lee-LouisAida MezouarJames NowlanCorey OmerLaura ScheimEva WardenWHAT’S INSIDE?QUEL EST LE CONTENU?ÉDITO 3Les bulles 4RE: Has the Quebec Polical Class Met Its Waterloo? 5Actually, Quid Editorial Sta, You Do Believe In Censorship 6Symbols, Labels and Languages: Monkey Read, Monkey Use 8APLAM Speaker Series 9Where Did That Tip Jar Go? 10Rapport concernant les limites de mots (word counts) 11Hello From the 4th Floor 13Are You Ready for Law School of Rock? 14Why Don’t We Care About Pakistan? 15“Canadian Judges Free North Carolina Negro” 16Comment le rose fait parfois bien les choses 18Ingérée par la forêt (Part 1) 19A Leer To All Second Year Students 19Educaonal Equity Commie/ Comité d’équité pour l’éducaon 20Fitness For Law Students (Part 1) 21Student Well Being 23Cartoon 23Student Well-Being Commiee 24Law Libary Newsleer 25The Graduaon Commiee 25Not Rocket Surgery 26Keep Learning 27Je saurai à quoi m’aendre 28The CDO Lexicon 29Fitness for Law Students 30Upcoming Newsworthy - SAO 32Legal Froners is Back 33Droit à l’image 36Word Search 41LAYOUT EDITORSNicholas ChoinièreKarine EigenmannBenjamin FreemanThomas Gagnon-van LeeuwenAfrica SheppardSTAFF WRITERSChase BarletKirk EmeryAriane LauzièreLee McMillanAlexandra MeunierMichael ShorWANT TO TALK?TU VEUX T’EXPRIMER?Envoyez vos commentaires ou articles avantjeudi 17h a l’adresse : quid.law@mcgill.caToute contribution doit indiquer le nom del’auteur, son année d’étude ainsi qu’un titrepour l’article. L’article ne sera publiee qu’a ladiscretion du comite de redaction, quibasera sa decision sur la politique deredaction.Contributions should preferably be submitted asa .doc attachment (and not, for instance, a“.docx.”).The Quid Novi is published weekly by the students of the Faculty of Law at McGill University. Production is made possible through the direct support of students. All contents copyright 2010 Quid Novi.Les opinions exprimees sont propres aux auteurs et ne refletent pas necessairement celles de l’equipe du Quid Novi. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the views of the McGill LawStudents’ Association or of McGill University.

É D I T OQUID NOVIEDITORIALSTAFFEditorial (Uncensored):Please note: The following editorial isin response to Tim Bottomer’s articlewhich can be found on page 6 of thisissue.Tim Bottomer’s article of this week,“Actually, Quid Editorial Staff, You doBelieve in Censorship” provides a goldenopportunity to elucidate our EditorialPolicy [“Policy”], available onour website at:http://quid.mcgill.ca/edpolicy.php.The Quid has had – since its inception– a policy on submissions. The currentPolicy was published in the first issueof this semester and has been in operationsince its adoption this pastMarch. Previous changes to the Policymay have gone unremarked – the lastmodification was in early 2009 whenthe ban on anonymous submissionswas lifted. One of the benefits to you,the reader, of the new Policy is that itrequires us to inform readers ofchanges and proposed changes whereasbefore such changes could occurwith no announcement and at anytime.Prior to the current Policy, the reviewprocess was unclear, as the Editors-in-Chief had essentially possessed unfettereddiscretion over content and howto process submissions. There were alwayspublished guidelines to editors –such as signaling the use of racist orsexist language for review by the Editors-in-Chief– but a full protocol andprocess was not spelled out until thispast spring. That said, what appears inthe Policy now has essentially beenthe custom and practice of the QuidNovi since the 1980s.When a submission is received, it goesto a Reviewer, the first person to applythe Policy to the submission. Concernsare flagged for the review of the Editors-in-Chief.If there is a concern thatneeds to be addressed with the author,an Editor-in-Chief (or the Ombudsman)will contact the student todiscuss the matter. The Policy permitsthe Editors-in-Chief to pursue one offour options: [a] accept the submissionas is; [b] accept the submission withminor edit(s) to be completed by theEditors-in-Chief; [c] return the submissionto the author for modificationwith suggestions provided at the discretionof the Editors-in-Chief, or, alternatively,[d] reject the submissionwithout providing modification suggestions.This review process has sparked manyfruitful discussions with authors in thepast. Usually, if there is a concern, theauthor is more than happy to make aminor change here or there – and it’susually something about which the authorhad reservations already. It is extremelyrare that someone isblindsided by a call that there is aconcern over the submission – in mostcases the person is aware somethingmight be problematic, or even forewarnsus in their submission e-mail(i.e. ‘I’m not sure if this one part isokay’). Usually, a minor change is suggested,accepted, and the article isprinted. Indeed, only ONE article inthe last three years has been rejected;conversely, hundreds of items havebeen published in that time.Mr. Bottomer’s quoting of the Editorialpublished three weeks ago skips aline we would like to emphasize. Between“Simply put, we are against censorship”and “That said, we have adelicate balance to strike”, there is aline reading “We want to publish whatyou send our way”. This is truly howwe feel. We cannot publish everythingyou send for a host of reasons, including,for example, the well-establishedlaws restricting what one may publishin Canada.Does the Quid censor? What is censorship?Merriam-Webster says to censoris "to examine in order to suppress ordelete anything considered objectionable".Clearly, the Quid has publishedplenty of objectionable material. Arguably,the most interesting articleswe publish have something objectionablein them.Continued on page 42...QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 3

L a w ITHOMASGAGNON-VANLEEUWENLES BULLESQuand j'ai visité la ville de New York pour la premièrefois, quelque chose m'a irrité. Ce n'était pas qu'il yavait énormément de gens (j'aime les gens), qu'il faisaittrop froid (je suis habitué) et certainement pasqu'il y avait de l'art partout (il ne peut jamais y avoirtrop d'art).C'était que tout était en anglais.Les rues, les panneaux, les conversations autour demoi, les dépliants du Metropolitan... Tout. Je n'avaisjamais été immergé à ce point dans l'anglais et aprèstrois jours, j'ai ressenti un certain soulagement à lavue du "Bonjour! Québec" à la frontière.De la maternelle au Cégep, j'ai toujours appris enfrançais, lu en français et écrit en français. Oui, biensûr, dans mes cours d'"Advanced English", j'ai luShakespeare et composé des Short Stories — quisemblaient vraiment géniales à l'époque, soit dit enpassant. But that's a far cry from an English education.Heureusement pour le bilingue que je suis, j'ai étéélevé par une mère francophone et un père anglophone.J'ai toujours eu autant d'amis anglophonesque francophones. C'est au point où je change lalangue de mon clavier d'iPod touch chaque cinq minutes(non, je ne veux pas écrire "thé", je veux écrire"the"!).C'était donc seulement naturel que je choisisse lafaculté de droit de McGill. Dans une université 100%inglishe, je souffrirais sans doute de mon particulierétouffement new-yorkais. Et en français? Soyonshonnêtes, le Québec n'est qu'une bulle francophonedans notre vaste continent. C'est beau la Gaspésie,mais parfois on veut pousser jusqu'à la Baie deFundy. Bref, McGill : des cours en français et enanglais, un amalgame de droit civil et de CommonLaw, des envois administratifs bilingual to a fault (nonmais really!)... Je devrais être dans mon élément,non?En réalité, à la manière du Québec en Amérique duNord, le français existe à la Faculté de droit dans desbulles. Des bulles dynamiques et fréquentes, maisnéanmoins entourées d'une atmosphère distinctementanglaise. Quand deux francophones se rencontrent,une bulle. Quand un étudiant pose unequestion en français, une bulle. Une lecture enfrançais? Elle est peut-être ardue, peut-être courte,mais dans la plupart des cours, c'est sans doute unebulle. Exagération? Feuilletez le Quid que vous tenezdans vos mains... Cet article est une bulle en soi.À la fin de ma première semaine à McGill, j'ai rencontréChanel, charmante co-éditrice en chef duQuid Novi. Pendant toute une soirée, on a discuté detout et de rien. Au retour, marchant à la limite deMontréal et Westmount, je lui demande: "So, if youwent to Cégep de l'Outaouais, would you be francophoneby any chance?— Euh... oui. Et toi?— Moi aussi..."Deux francophones se parlent en anglais pourplusieurs heures croyant que l'autre était plutôt anglophone.Trouvez l'erreur.La langue par défaut, c'est l'anglais. Si on approchequelqu'un dont on ne connaît pas la langue maternelle,c'est toujours en anglais qu'on le fera. If youwant this in contract law terms — I know you do —English is damages and French is specific performance:the latter is only used if there's good reasonnot to use the former.Je ne suis pas naïf. Je ne croyais certainement pastrouver une division linguistique 50/50, et je ne prétendspas que ce ratio est le bon. On s'attend à unemajorité anglophone dans une université anglophone,transsystémique ou pas. Et je suis le premierà reconnaître que nous Montréalais faisons d'atrocespartenaires pour pratiquer le français : c'est avec empressementque nous switchons à l'anglais à la premièretrace d'accent. Politesse excessive ou désir deparader notre flexibilité linguistique? L'effet est lemême : nous décourageons la pratique de notre proprelangue chez des gens bien intentionnés et compétents.Je n'ai rien contre les bulles. C'est léger, c'est festif, çabrille, ça virevolte et ça s'envole... Mais, tôt ou tard,ça éclate.Et alors c'est comme si ça n'avait jamais existé.4 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

TIMBOTTOMERL a w I VACTUALLY, QUID EDITORIAL STAFF,YOU DO BELIEVE IN CENSORSHIPIn their last edition, the Quid Editorial Staff claimed that:“[s]imply put, we are against censorship”. If this were true, Iwould not be writing this article. Unfortunately, this kind of proformaclaim in support of free speech is common to those whoare engaged in violating it and, sure enough, they follow this upwith: “[t]hat said, we have a delicate balance to strike”. Note toeditors the world over: You can’t claim to be categorically in favourof something and then follow it up with a “but” statement.We are wise to your game.So, more accurately: Simply put, the Quid censors stuff. Theymay only censor some stuff some of the time, but they certainlycan’t claim to be broadly against censorship. This may seem as aspurious attack, after all, almost everyone (including the courts)agree that there are limits to free speech (e.g. libellous statements,hate speech). But the Quid’s policy is much broader thanthat.Many of you might be surprised to hear that the Quid even has aformal policy on the acceptance of submissions. I certainly was,but I’m willing to give them a pass on that since it is publiclyavailable on their website (http://quid.mcgill.ca/edpolicy.php)and people’s lack of familiarity with it is almost certainly linkedto the fact that no one really cares about that sort of thing untilit blows up. The current policy has been in place since 2010 andit is unclear whether any similar policy existed before this date.The policy starts off well. The preamble proclaims that “whereverpossible, the Quid publishes everything submitted” and laterreaffirms that “all submissions are presumptively publishable”.Caveats are provided. To encourage a climate where studentsfeel comfortable sharing their work, “in extreme cases” articlesmay be refused and potentially criminal or libellous speech willbe flagged by reviewers and must be justified by the author.Seems reasonable, but one can already detect some warningsigns. Why, for instance, does potentially criminal or libellousspeech get the chance to be justified, while material can be barredat the mere discretion of the editors-in-chief if they think itmight make someone feel uncomfortable sharing their work?It gets worse. In the body of the policy, there is further clarificationof what review by an editor can entail. Basically, if an editorthinks that an article is potentially offensive or potentially notsuitable for publication they flag it. Offensive is not defined, but“not suitable for publication” apparently, for our purposes,means defamatory or “have the potential to create a hostile environment”.The flagged article is then discussed with the editors-in-chief,and if one of them agrees with the editor thearticle is pulled. Modifications can be suggested to the author,but if the author does not want to make the changes, the articlewill not be published in the form the author intended it to be.This appears to be the process followed regarding the mysteriousarticle submitted last week in response to Lee MacMillan’spiece (full disclosure: I am NOT the author of that piece, but Ihave read it and in my opinion, it was eminently publishable andfar from the “ad hominem attack” alleged in the Quid’s editorial).The response was flagged. A majority of the editors “feltthat it was too harsh” and various modifications were suggestedto the author. The author refused to make these modificationsas they changed the whole nature and point of the article and –regrettably unwilling to push the point – withdrew the submission.Bizarrely, the Quid Editorial Staff seem quite happy with this result.Particularly, “as they were relieved of the burden of havingto decide how to modify [the article]”. I have filled enough thanklessvolunteer positions in my time to have some sympathy fortheir position; that being said, this is a burden they brought entirelyon themselves, so my sympathy for their “plight” is distinctlylimited.As far as I can tell, no one has ever asked them to review submittedmaterial for its content. The editorial policy may permit suchinterference, but there does not appear to have been any outsidestudent involvement in the creation or revision of this policyand following it does not absolve the Quid Editorial Staff of responsibilityfor their censorious actions. No burden was removed.By asking an author to revise the content (rather than grammaror length) of his article, the Quid was guilty of censorship. Thefact that they demanded modifications rather than rejecting thesubmission outright does not change this analysis.Why do we even have this policy? What’s the worst that couldhappen? Someone could be offended? This is a Faculty of Lawand we are adults. We should be treated as such. If someonewants to write a fatuous article full of turgid prose and mangledmetaphors, they should be permitted to do so. If someone elsethinks that article is fatuous and full of turgid prose and mangledmetaphors, they should be allowed to say so in the same forum.“Offense”, as has been proved time and again in the real world,is impossible to apply consistently. Its use as a standard only empowersthose willing and ready to take offence.The dicules of applying “oence” as a standard are well illustratedby the current controversy. Apparently, at least two of theeditors felt that the response to Lee’s arcle would “oend” himor potenally create a “hosle environment” (what does thiseven mean?) for him at the Faculty. That’s fine, everyone is entledto their opinion. But the editors failed to apply this samestandard to the original arcle.6 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

Let’s see, Lee called law school “the ulmate deal with the devil”,termed lawyers “pseudo-intellectuals with no interest in thinkingfor thought’s sake, but opportunists who seek educaon as ameans to ends they rarely even queson”, made fun of thosewho want to change the world and quesons the legimacy oftheir beliefs (“I would be tempted to contend that this isn’t evenyou speaking, it’s the 2000 hours of Sesame Street…of the 760Sunday School sessions you aended”), mocked the AmericanConstuon (actually the Declaraon of Independence) and U ofT’s Faculty of Law, stated that the religious spend their me“praying to the equivalency [sic] of a unicorn” and finally, insultedPeaches fans by denying her song-wring credit for “Fuckthe Pain Away”.Clearly, people could have been oended (and were) by some orall of this, but the Quid Editorial Sta don’t seem to have agreed.But why do they get to decide what oence(s) to privilege? Whydoes the policy on oence seem to be reacve? Do I get to saywhatever I want if I do it first and then no one gets to respond?None of this is to argue that Lee’s arcle should not have beenpublished. Of course it should have been. But so should the responseforum (in fairness to Lee, it should be noted that at nopoint has he expressed the view that his noonal oence shoulddictate what should be published, the decision was enrely thatof the Quid Editorial Sta). This is a diverse faculty and you can’tpredict who may or may not be oended by what views or beliefs.Nor should we care. Unpopular or oensive speech is thevery type of speech that ideas like freedom of expression are intendedto protect. Milquetoast remarks about how cute puppiesare do not require protecon because no one is likely to care. Itis only when speech oends, makes people uncomfortable orchallenges accepted wisdom or tradion that it must be foughtfor and defended.One’s personal oence is one’s own issue to deal with, not society’s.Should we go out of our way to oend others? No, but onlyout of politeness. There should be no formal barriers to thosewishing to do so. The social response of their peers will be theircross to bear.Don’t invite the author to your next party. Write a response forthe Quid. But your oence should not get to decide what doesand does not get published in a public.A censorship-free Quid delivers many other benefits beyondphilosophical support for freedom of expression. Most importantlyand as the Quid editorial points out in a very mixed kind ofway, it promotes faculty-wide discourse on important subjects.A great example of this was provided last year by the whole“African Baby” debacle (and it is only one of many possible examples).For those of you who are new to the Faculty, the“African Baby” debacle involved an inial arcle by one studentimplying that another student was a racist colonizer and a seriesof responses to that arcle, a number of which implied that theauthor of the inial arcle was a. Sure, feelings were hurt andpeople were doubtless oended, but the Faculty is sll standingand it provided an opportunity for discussion of issues thatwould otherwise not have been raised. Also, it was hilarious.This kind of debate is what makes the Quid maer. This is whatmakes it the only student newspaper, I and many others at thisFaculty, have ever read with any regularity. This is why facultymembers, as well as students, read and write arcles for it; becauseit is messy; because it is no holds-barred and because peoplecan say whatever they want, even when it might oendothers.The Quid claims to be the law students’ newspaper. But in orderto remain the law students’ newspaper, it needs to let us, itsreaders and writers, be law students. And we law students, weargue, we write, we vehemently disagree, we get over it. It’swhat we’ll spend much of our career doing and there’s no sensenot leng us start now.So, let’s get the Quid Editorial Sta to stop being ridiculous, takeaway their power to force their views of oence on the rest of usand open up the discussion at this Faculty.Some potenal responses if you feel oended by an arcle in theQuid? Tell your friends you think the author is a douchebag.SEXUAL HISTORY AND THERAPEUTIC RECORDS APPLICATIONSProfessor Blair CrewOctober 29th, 2010- McGill Faculty of LawRoom 204 NCDH, 12h00-15h00Interested in criminal law and criques of Sexual Assault Law?Come to Blair Crew’s October 29th lecture on Sexual History and Therapeuc Records Applicaons.Specifically, Blair Crew will examine the following cases: R. v. Seaboyer and R. v. Mills.This lecture is part of the guest lecture series organized and sponsored by the Sexual Assault Law Student Iniated Seminar.Please refer to the following link for material that Blair Crew has collected on this subjecthp://www.commonlaw.uoawa.ca/en/courses/courses/sexual-assault-law.htmlQN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 7

LEEMCMILLANL a w ISYMBOLS, LABELS AND LANGUAGE:MONKEY READ, MONKEY USEWhat else is Naheed Nenshi’s mayoral upset but a political mindfuck?At least that seems to be the implication forwarded by DonMartin, who, in writing for the National Post, has already describedthe phenomenon as ‘The Nenshi Effect’. More like theObama Effect.Perhaps the bigger mind-fuck is how inward-looking provincialpolitical commentary can read. Should the fact that this win wasso unconventional, or that it was received with such shock andawe, not be the real point of focus here? What can people dobut react indignantly when, in trying their best to take for grantedthe pluralistic values of their country, are met with a commondiscourse that is on a completely different wavelength?Especially when, at least if the politics to the south are any indication,all the symbolisms at the surface (age, gender, skin colour,sexual orientation) rarely flesh out meaningfully in thepolicy itself. Some might look to this as yet another example ofhow politics in the Western world has not existed for quite sometime, of how it has been ousted by a kind of ‘management’ tothe point where it is normal for us to feel that elections are predictable,or better yet, state of the economy six quarters fromnow. Perhaps it would be easier to bring about real change if thepromulgators of news spent less time telling their readers whatto expect and more time encouraging them to think for themselves.Perhaps the problem has something to do with the way individualsin the Western world think, about their own identity forexample. The title of Don Newman’s article: ‘Nenshi Victory PutsCalgary’s Cowtown Image to Rest’, is illustrative here. What isCowtown? Obviously it is a rich symbol charged with manyconnotations; the sum of which some might say constitutes thelayers of Calgary’s identity. But how often are individuals encouragedto peel away the most conspicuous of these layers to seewhat is underneath? How do our assumptions differ from thereality on the ground? What is it about Nenshi that might causeus to think he is somehow unrepresentative of Calgary as awhole?The minute we delve beneath the surface, beneath the label asit exists as a whole, and start to look at its parts, it becomes increasinglyapparent how broken these devices become as genuinetools for communication. In fact, to call them ‘devices’ atall is to rob them of their organic nature; it is to pretend they aresomehow fixed and immutable givens. ‘Cowtown’ for examplewas an empty cliché long before Nenshi stepped onto the scene.One might ask why this image took so long to bury in the firstplace. Ideally, labels should be living, breathing reflections of thehuman beings and the traits that encompass them; capable ofadaptability, change, and qualification. In the same vein, there isan obligation each person shares in actively interpreting therange of symbols he or she encounters on a day-to-day basis,and from a variety of angles. This is something print journalists inparticular should keep in mind, at least if they are going to continuethe practice of using ‘packaged’ terms to describe the politicsof the day.In many respects legal jargon heads in the opposite direction. Byattempting to trap the minutiae of life into neat, communicablecategories (or words), it can create the illusion of a positive system,or comprehensiveness. This is the idea that, the more wecontinue to fragment and specify our language, the more territorywe are covering. Meanwhile, there are a great deal of intelligentpeople who feel un-empowered because of their lack offamiliarity with legalese, despite the close bond justice seems toshare with common sense. If both law and common sense areboth beaming with Reason, why the discrepancy between thelanguages both employ? Obviously, this is just one aspect of thelaw viewed from a limited perspective, and it would be silly toconclude that an opposite perspective could not stake an equallylegitimate claim to the truth.My previous article ‘And Now What?’ tried to peel back the veilof authority the law, and lawyers more generally, seem to enjoy.Since it was published I have received some flak, mostly from4Ls, over its tone and content. Without sinking into a polemic Iwould just ask these individuals to keep an open mind as to whatthose words meant, in what contexts, and to which individuals.The wider a scope an article takes, the more risks there are formisinterpretation, and given my article’s subject matter, it isfairly obvious that its scope was large. Indeed, one might arguethat there is no such thing as a single, true interpretation of anygiven piece of written work, particularly a work that is selfconfessedlyconfused. But to conclude from my article that “Leehates lawyers” or that “Lee hates McGill”, and to tell me so to myface, is to shirk ones obligation to empathize with the variousstrains of meaning that might have shown to flow through it. Theperspective was an outsider’s, the audience was 1st year students,the types of truths it dealt with were paradoxical.Nevertheless, I could not help but notice the different reactionsmy article provoked, and the purposes that were served. Shouldnewspaper articles merely confirm the reader’s conventionalopinions, or challenge them heuristically? Sure, while 4Ls wereless sympathetic and in some senses outraged, at least one ofthem was distraught enough to think hardly about it before hereplied. At minimum, it caused him to reflect on his own assumptionsabout the law in a critical manner. In my opinion certainprint media tend to do the opposite, they feed the babywhat the baby wants to be fed, even if it is made up of nothingbut candy. In the case of Don Newman’s article, published in anational newspaper, the consequences are very real.8 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN QN • 5 OCTOBRE 2010 • 8

Commentators seldom escape their bubble of Albertan policallingo. Readers go about their day regurgitang the opinions theyread as opposed to quesoning them. Calgarians in the streets ofMontreal are forced to dy up their city’s image.The lecture Professor Boaventura de Sous Santos recently gaveus was concerned with many of the same issues: what is goingon inside peoples’ minds when they read about polics and thelaw? His lecture was about the need for dierent epistemologicalapproaches to understanding the law. While it was somewhatironically presented through Cartesian lenses, the thrust of ProfessorSous Santos’ argument was clear: we in the Westernworld have to stop looking at these overly formalisc approachesAPLAM(legal or otherwise) to truth as holding a monopoly over academicauthority. If we are not going to conflate non-occidentalepistemologies into our curriculums, we at least have an obliga-on to respect their legimacy as equally valid approaches. Myconcern with law school (as an outsider) was that it might, likecertain news mediums and to varying degrees, a) serve to spreada paral picture of reality; b) teach people to follow tradionsand/or convenons blindly; and c) discourage people fromthinking for themselves. McGill Law presented itself as the lesserof the evils, and it remains to be seen whether it will in fact turnout evil.Oral version of arcle can be found at:hp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-scVSiSTJjUAPLAMSPEAKERSERIESThe first presenter in the Asia Pacific LawAssociaon of McGill (APLAM) SpeakerSeries was given by Caroline Bérubé, a McGill Law grad whofounded her own internaonal law firm in Singapore. The talkwas entled “From McGill to Guangzhou, Singapore and Shanghai”.Me. Bérubé was introduced by Dean Jutras, who knew her as ayoung student out of Cegep at the Faculty of Law. He rememberedthat she was looking for adventure when he encouragedher to go on exchange to NUS in Singapore. While on exchange,she decided that she wanted to create a future for herself inAsia. Leveraging her bilingual abilies, she was hired inially by aFrench law firm in Singapore, and re-hired when that firm wastaken over a Brish firm. She was admied to pracce law in Singaporewhich she did for several years before deciding to makethe move to China to work for a Chinese law firm. Three yearslater, knowing that she did not want to wait years to become apartner at a law firm, she started her own firm – HJM Asia Lawand Co which now has oces in Singapore, Guangzhou andShanghai. Today, Me. Bérubé travels constantly around Asia, Europeand North America giving conferences on Asian legal issues.As founder and managing partner of this successful bouque lawfirm, she has created a unique and excing internaonal careerfor herself.Me. Bérubé brought a powerpoint presentaon on “Pialls ofDoing Business in China” but decided on the spur of the momentto take us through her experiences doing business as a Westernlawyer in China instead (her slides are available by email fromcaroline.klinkho@mail.mcgill.ca). She began with some encouragingwords about McGill’s name recognion around the world,and then got straight in to the praccal details of working inChina. Her advice was frequently illustrated with anecdotesdrawn from her personal experiences, and we thought thesewould be the most accessible and memorable way to convey thesubstance of her talk. We’ve reproduced the best of them below:• As much as possible, develop client networks in ciesyou enjoy, since you will end up spending a lot of me in thoseplaces. In her case this was Chicago and Milan, which allowedher to spend business me in places she adored.• Praccing law in China is not always glamorous. Becausefood safety standards are uneven in some parts of China,and since you can’t aord to get sick while working on big deals,somemes you end up eang McDonalds and drinking largeamounts of Coca Cola in a bid to avoid food poisoning whiletouring remote areas.• There is no correlaon between speaking Chinese andbeing a successful business lawyer in China.• Adaptability to local culture is key. As Me. Bérubé put it“You know, I'm not going to change China... I gave up that ideaup a few years ago. There's 1.3 billion of them. I'm not going tochange my husband, so 1.3 billion people is out of the queson.”This applies to everything from the food, to atudes towardssping, to business pracces (see below!).• Signing day in China does not necessarily mean that thedeal is done. In one memorable scenario, aer weeks of dicultnegoaon, the price of a sale was disputed on the final signingday. The client, a German businessman, became so frustrated atthis last-minute foot-dragging that he began shoung at his Chinesecounterparts. They immediately le the conference roomand had to be coaxed back hours later. The deal was completedat 4 am the next day.• If you know what you want, even if it’s unconvenonal,make it happen for yourself. The tradional lucrave “expatpackages” are becoming extremely rare these days. As she put it“don’t be greedy” – work first and results will follow. In otherwords, if you want to go to Asia- just go!Next in APLAM’s Speaker Series was Marne Vanasse, SeniorVice President and Assistant General Counsel for the Asia LegalDepartment of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Kong Hong. Me.Vanasse completed an undergraduate degree at McGill beforeobtaining a law degree at the University of Sherbrooke. Sheworked for Davies in Montreal for seven years, Cliord Chance inLondon and Singapore and has spent the last decade in HongKong. Marne has a wealth of internaonal legal experience andis a real powerhouse in Hong Kong. Her talk took place on October15. See our website: aplam.mcgill.ca for more details.QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 9

MAROUSSIALÉVESQUEL a w I I IWHERE DID THAT TIP JAR GO?In the midst of exams last spring, the Faculty of Law learnedthat Aramark would run our cafeteria, following abidding procedure. Both the process and the substance ofthis decision are problematic.Insufficient consultationThis decision affects our entire faculty, yet we were notincluded in the process. One representative for 20,000students did not get through to us. An invitation to fill asurvey about food services on Minerva, without context,was an infinitesimal clue as to the stakes behind the ongoingtender process. Moreover, the Faculty had stronglyopposed a similar move some years ago. This indicatorthat the Faculty cared deeply about its food services wasoverlooked. The LSA says they were vaguely informed ofan upcoming bidding process. The publicity of the biddingprocess is a sufficient consultation only if we assumethat McGill members should proactively browse websitesto see if their services will be affected. This is both unrealisticand contrary to a genuine commitment to transparency.The efforts for transparency and Faculty input inthe food-services review committee only appeared postfacto. This serious consultation deficit has affected mytrust in this administration’s ability to reflect the needsand priorities of the McGill community.Process for tenderThe process for tender is part of a larger misguided visionabout outsourcing services. My understanding from meetingwith the food-services review committee is that notonly will McGill not subsidize food services, it also expectsto make a profit from the outsourcing. In the process,it is sacrificing high quality, low price, andemployment standards. It is unacceptable for McGill toexternalize the costs of its food policy onto our healthand wallet, and onto the working conditions of the staff.Those points will be discussed in more detail below.HealthWhile dieticians make the case that Aramark can offerhealthy options, there are reasons to remain sceptical.The company, who also serves prison food in the UnitedStates, is infamous for sanitation violations. We cannotsimply ignore the reputation of Aramark.PriceAramark has raised the price on coffee, its most inelasticproduct – if you don’t know what that is just watch TheWire. The Faculty has fewer options for food than lowercampus. Many Law students spend more than twelvehours at the Faculty and rely on its cafeteria for the bulkof their meals. Accordingly, the repercussions of a priceraise is heavily felt.Matteo’s tolerated students selling food for fundraisingand has even contributed to a plethora of events withcoffee donations. The vibrant student life would be losinga key contributor in funding its activities. The exclusiveagreement with Aramark would even prevent studentgroups from selling food.Workplace safetyIn the process of outsourcing its food services, McGill isopening the door to workplace safety standards degradation.Not unlike Chartwell’s, the current food provider atother locations, Aramark is known for adamantly denyingworker injury compensation, remuneration irregularities,and overall complacency for employee’s well being. Weat the law faculty know all too well that when an employeeearning minimum wage seeks to have her rightsenforced against a big player like Aramark, unequal bargainingpower is a serious cause of concern. By contrast,Matteo’s has shown diligence in ensuring a safe workingenvironment. For instance, Matteo modified the configurationof an oven to rectify a strident noise, after studentsexpressed concerns that the noise was a hazard toemployees. Small gestures like this one make the differencewhen it comes to a healthy workplace respectingthe dignity of the workers. Initial conversations with thefood-services review committee suggest that the contractbetween McGill and Aramark contains provisions ensuringemployee’s rights. Nevertheless, similar provisions inexploitation contracts in other institutions have not preventedAramark from abusing employees. One subtle butunmistakable sign of the changes taking place: the tip jarhas disappeared. What message does this send regardingthe treatment of employees? Our food provider has realignedfrom an emphasis on personal service to a junkfoodlike generic chain. Some may even equate the movewith a downgrading of the economic and symbolic statusof the employees.McGill is expected to pay more than lip service to itscommitment to sustainability. The Faculty of Law is sufferinga serious loss with the replacement of independently-runMatteo’s. The loss is tangible: prices, healthand workplace quality are all noticeably affected. I inviteus all to pay close attention to the changes going ondownstairs, both in terms what affects us directly – pricesand quality – and indirectly – how are employees treated.After all, we are only so great as our ability to take care ofour most vulnerable members.10 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

CLÉMENTCAMIONL a w IRAPPORT CONCERNANT LES LIMITESDE MOTS (WORD COUNTS)Ce rapport vise à proposer une politique facultaire encadrant leslimites de mots pour les travaux et examens à la faculté de Droitde McGill. Alors que le français requiert davantage de mots quel’anglais pour exprimer exactement la même idée, les consignespour les travaux et examens tendent à imposer des limites demots identiques pour les deux langues.En conséquence, moins de place est accordée aux étudiant(e)squi écrivent en français, là où les exigences sont les mêmes, etsans que les auteur(e)s francophones ne bénéficient d’une quelconqueindulgence. De plus, il est possible que leur style et leursyntaxe subissent certaines transformations pour se conformeraux limites fixées par rapport à la langue anglaise.Une exception à la pratique courante existe pour le cours de Méthodologie,dans le cadre duquel Me Lamed accorde 12% supplémentaireaux auteurs francophones.De façon générale, la langue anglaise est la langue d’usage à lafaculté, mais elle est également le point de départ des réflexionslinguistiques : ce sont les francophones qui bénéficient d’une extension,et non pas les anglophones qui se voient imposer unerestriction.A notre grande surprise, l’étude statistique ci-dessous, menéepour les fins du présent rapport, démontre que le taux de variationentre les deux langues avoisine les 30%.MéthodologieLes textes étudiés ont été copiés et collés dans le logiciel WordCounter.Nous avons choisi des textes législatifs et des traités internationaux,certaines versions anglaises et françaises ont le plus souventtoutes deux une valeur officielle. Ces textes ne sont pasparfaitement représentatifs du style employé dans les textes académiques,mais il est difficile d’obtenir des textes académiquesou littéraires qui soient publiés dans les deux langues et dont lesdeux versions soient réputées identiques. Notons que le C.c.Q. aété rédigé en français, puis traduit en anglais, tandis que c’estl’inverse pour la Loi constitutionnelle de 1867.Les propositions qui suivent distinguent entre les travaux courtset les travaux longs. Le chiffre de 3000 mots, suggéré pour établirla frontière entre les deux catégories, est arbitraire et ilconvient de réfléchir sur sa pertinence.Par ailleurs, il faut garder à l’esprit que ce rapport concerne les limitesde mots, et non pas les exigences minimales. Ainsi, l’argumentselon lequel les francophones auraient plus de travail estnul, si l’on considère que la limite n’a rien d’obligatoire. Cette limitedoit donc être considérée, non pas comme un critère d’évaluation,mais comme une marge de manœuvre laissée à ladiscrétion de l’étudiant(e).PropositionsLa question soulevée est de prime importance, compte tenu del’ampleur des chiffres trouvés et de l’iniquité qui en découlepour les auteurs francophones. L’absence de mesure pour y remédiercontribuerait à discréditer la pratique du bilinguisme passiftelle que revendiquée par la Faculté. Depuis le début del'hiver 2010, l’AÉD a tenté d'obtenir, mais en vain, un rendezvousafin d’inclure cette question à l’ordre du jour du prochainConseil de la Faculté. La mise à l’ordre du jour de cette questionsemble retardée sans raison apparente.Les propositions suivantes ont été volontairement scindées, dansle but de montrer qu’un débat est possible pour chaque souspartie.« Considérant le caractère inéquitable de la pratique concernantles limites de mots pour les étudiant(e)s qui écrivent en français,et considérant qu’une politique facultaire encadrant les consignesquant aux limites de mots mettrait fin à cette pratique ;Considérant le fait que les limites de mots sont un maximum queles étudiant(e)s ne sont pas obligé(e)s d’atteindre ;Considérant que les objectifs pédagogiques visés par les travauxde moins de 3000 mots peuvent différer des travaux plus longs ;Il est requis que le Conseil de la Faculté débatte des propositionssuivantes et adopte une politique encadrant les consignesconcernant les limites de mots. »Propositions :• Les étudiant(e)s qui écrivent leurs travaux en françaisbénéficient d’une extension de 30% concernant la limite de mots :- pour tous les travaux.- pour les travaux 3000 mots et moins,- et d’un surplus de 15% pour les travaux de plus de 3000 mots.- et d’un surplus de 12% pour les travaux de plus de 3000 mots.- (pour les travaux de 3000 mots et moins) seulement.QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 11

(Suite)• Les étudiant(e)s qui écrivent leurs travaux en françaisbénéficient d’une extension de 15% concernant la limite de mots :- Pour tous les travaux.- Pour les travaux 3000 mots et moins,- et d’un surplus de 12% pour les travaux de plus de 3000 mots.• Les étudiant(e)s qui écrivent leurs travaux en françaisbénéficient d’un surplus de 15% concernant la limite de motspour les travaux de 3000 mots et moins seulement.• Les étudiants qui écrivent leurs travaux en françaisbénéficient d’un surplus de 12% concernant la limite de motspour les travaux de 3000 mots et moins seulement. »NB: Le fait de disnguer entre les travaux courts et les travauxlongs, ainsi que le fait de ne pas se fier aux chires de l’étude,requièrent d’être jusfiés. De telles jusficaons devraient êtreexplorées par le Conseil de la Faculté.(Voir tableau ci-dessous pour de plus amples détails)TABLEAU DES RÉSULTATSLÉGISLATIONEN FR %diCCQPréambule 84 90 6.67Disposions finales 126 174 27.59Loi complète (Canlii 27 juillet 2009) 199841/274254/27.13Loi Constuonnelle 1982 5842 8528 31.50Loi Constuonnelle 1867 13824 19527 29.21Préambule 131 204 35.78MOYENNE DIFF: 29.28TRAITÉS INTERNATIONAUXConvenon Européenne des Droits de l'Homme (1975) 5398 8126 33.6Convenon de Vienne sur la vente internaonale de marchandises (1980) 13484 19176 29.7Convenon sur l'interdicon des mines anpersonnelles (Traité d'Oawa, 1997) 5902 8861 33.4MOYENNE DIFF: 32.2JURISPRUDENCE de la Cour SuprêmeRe: Droits linguisques au Manitoba, [1985] 1 R.C.S. 721 21594 32490 33.5Renvoi relaf à la sécession du Québec, [1998] 2 R.C.S. 217 26306 41348 36.4Ford c. Québec (Procureur général), [1988] 2 R.C.S. 712 29406 40996 28.3Le procureur général de l'Ontario c. SEFPO, [1987] 2 R.C.S. 2 19384 30021 35.4Renvoi sur l'opposion du Québec à une résoluon pour 8413 12651 33.5modifier la Constuon, [1982] 2 R.C.S. 793Renvoi sur la Motor Vehicle Act (C.-B.), [1985] 2 R.C.S. 486 17533 25561 31.4MOYENNE DIFF: 33.1MOYENNE DIFFÉRENTIELLE GÉNÉRALE 31.53DOCTRINE publiée dans les deux languesF. Gélinas & J.-F. Goudrealt-Desbiens, Opening new perspecves on federalism* 22982 37043 38K. Benyekhlef & F. Gélinas L’expérience internaonale des modalités 7331 11687 37.3de règlement des conflits liés au droit d’auteur dans l’environnement numérique** Les deux versions sont réputées idenques12 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

D o y e n n e a d j o i n t e a u x é t u d e s e t v i e é t u d i a n t eAISHATOPSAKALHELLO FROM THE 4TH FLOORAs Assistant Dean, Student Life & Learning,it is my job to make sure you havethe academic and careersupport you need to makethe most of your time here at the Faculty.I work closely with the staff of the StudentAffairs Office (SAO) and the Career DevelopmentOffice (CDO) to deliver a numberof programs and services to undergraduateand graduate students. These servicesinclude academic and careeradvising, programs and workshops on studentwelfare, as well as referrals to relevantUniversity services for counselingand support.Vous trouverez ci-dessous une descriptiondes services offerts, ainsi que quelquesnouvelles initiatives qui vous seront présentéesau cours de l’année 2010-2011.Comme vous le savez peut-être déjà, lesbureaux du SAO et du CDO (ainsi que lemien!) sont tous situés au 4ième étage duNouveau Pavillon Chancellor Day.Pourquoi prendre un rendez-vous?Si vous vous trouvez dans l’une des situationssuivantes, n’hésitez pas à prendrerendez-vous avec moi:• Vous avez besoin d’aide avecvotre sélection de cours ou pour déterminersi vous voulez graduer en 3, 3.5 ou 4ans.• You are considering doing aMajor, Minor or Honours thesis or youhave questions about the Faculty’s clerkshipsfor credit, mooting competitions orMajor internships. (Or maybe this is thefirst you hear about any of these programsand you want to find out more!)• You are feeling overwhelmed,stressed out, anxious or depressed, or youare dealing with any other health or disabilityissues. I can point you in the directionof the right resources.• Vous craignez que vos notessoient mauvaises et vous aimeriez recevoirquelques conseils dans le but d’améliorervotre performance académique.• You are concerned that your academicperformance has been affectingyour professional opportunities.• Vous voulez partager vos commentairesou donner des suggestionsconcernant les services ou le personnel duSAO ou du CDO.• You have ideas for new initiativesand programming regarding studenthealth and wellness.N’hésitez pas à me poser vos questions.Mes heures de rendez-vous sont indiquéesci-dessous. Vous n’avez qu’à contacterKelly Cassidy par courriel àkelly.cassidy@mcgill.ca, afin de prendrerendez-vous.Lundi et mercredi: 15h30, 16h00 et 16h30Jeudi: 15h00, 15h30 et 16h00NEW initiatives in 2010-2011Here are a number of new Student Life &Learning initiatives that we are launchingthis year (more to come!):• SAO advising drop-in hours: Ifyou have questions for the SAO, considercoming by to see Student Affairs OfficerNancy Czemmel or Student Affairs CoordinatorKelly Cassidy during their new dropinhours.Mondays & Thursdays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00a.m.Tuesdays: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.Wednesdays: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Nancy Czemmel and Kelly Cassidy can provideinformation and guidance to bothgraduate and undergraduate students onthe following: programs, degree requirements,registration, academic advising,course changes and schedules, proceduresfor withdrawal, exam schedules andconflicts, deferred and supplementalexams, rereads, academic standing, leaveof absence or term away, exchanges andgraduation.• CDO and SAO feedback survey: Following any counseling session youhave with CDO and SAO staff, you will receivea brief online survey regarding yourcounseling experience. Please share yourthoughts and feedback on our Faculty’sadvising services. You can find the link tothe survey(http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9MYKV3J) on the SAO and CDO homepages.One question asks for general feedbackon our services and staff, so please feelfree to fill in a survey at any time, even ifyou have not recently had an advising session.Please note that I am the personwho reads the survey responses and youhave the option of submitting anonymouscomments.• Student Life & Learning Seriesfor First Year Students: Developed jointlywith input from LSA President Stefan Hoffmanand a number of Faculty members,this six-part series of information sessionsaims to support students at critical pointsduring their first year of law school. Lesthèmes préalablement choisis sont :conseils sur l’écoute active, la lecture, laprise de notes, les méthodes d’étude etl’écriture juridique, le langage et le vocabulaire,la préparation aux examens et lagestion du stress, le fonctionnement dusystème d’inscription de Minerva, commentchoisir ses cours, les cours hors facultéet les « non-law credits ».• CDO and SAO Q&A Sessions forUpper Years: The CDO and SAO will planvarious Q&A sessions during the year ontopics of interest. The next Q&A sessionwill be held on Monday, November 1st at12:45 in the Moot Court. We will provideinformation on upcoming recruitmentQN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 13

deadlines and answer your questions regardingthe Majors, Minors, Honours andother B.C.L./LL.B. program options.• Initiatives to minimize emails tostudents: Nous sommes conscients dunombre important de courriels que vousrecevez et nous faisons de notre mieuxpour éviter de faire déborder vos boîtesde réception! Dorénavant, l’envoi descourriels sera ciblé par cohorte. De plus,vous recevrez les courriels du SAO les lundis,ceux du CDO les mardis et les miens,les mercredis. Le SAO utilisera égalementle Quid pour vous faire part d’informationimportante.Student health and welfare & McGill StudentServicesIf you are struggling with depression,stress, anxiety or just a general feeling ofuncertainty about your future, rest assuredthat you are not alone. I cannot countthe number of students who have said tome, “I am the ONLY student here whodoes not have it all figured out.” Pleasefeel free to make an appointment with meto discuss your situation if you are feelingoverwhelmed by your personal, academicor career situation. In addition to discussingyour situation with you, I can pointyou in the right direction of University services.Sachez que l’Université McGill offre toutun éventail de services afin d’offrir un milieuqui vous soit accueillant. Parmi cesservices, vous trouverez les services decounselling, d’aide en santé mentale, lesprogrammes de bourses d’études etd’aide financière aux étudiants, ainsi quela Maison des premières nations. Veuillezvisiter www.mcgill.ca/studentservicespour plus de détails ou procurez-vous undépliant au comptoir du SAO.SAO and CDO servicesFinally, for a full listing of SAO services,please visit the “SAO contacts” page athttp://www.mcgill.ca/law-studies/sao/.General enquires may be directed to theStudent Affairs Office at 514-398-3544 orinfo.law@mcgill.ca.If you would like to find out more aboutthe full range of CDO services available toyou, please visit www.mcgill.ca/cdo. Tomake a career counseling appointmentwith CDO Director Catherine Bleau, sendan email to placement.law@mcgill.ca.Please also note that the CDO now has itsown Facebook page, called “McGill Facultyof Law Career Development Office”,to help keep you up to date on the latestrecruitment deadlines and career events.Je vous souhaite une année pleine de succès!N’hésitez pas à me contacter avectoutes vos questions.COMITÉLSORARE YOU READY FOR LAW SCHOOLOF ROCK?Ready to rock? Wish Law School were more like Star Academy? Now it's your me to shine!Law School of Rock is happening November 25th at Club Lambi! Nous avons réservé le bar pour les étudiants de notre Faculté. Veneznombreux après le Coee-house pour une soirée de concerts avec des formaons de vos collègues de la Faculté!Ce sera une soirée pleine de surprises. Veuillez voir notre groupe Facebook et cliquez ATTENDING sur l'invitaon pour Law School ofRock! Nous vous endrons informés sur Facebook et Noce Board dans les semaines à venir, notamment pour la vente des billets.EVEN IF YOU DON'T PLAY AN INSTRUMENT, if you want to help out, give us a shout! Nous avons du matériel (voir les photos del'équipement disponible sur le groupe Facebook). If you want to help sell ckets, design the program or anything else; contact theLaw School of Rock Commiee at: lawschoolofrock@yahoo.comPour les prestaons musicales (groupe ou solo), faites nous savoir ce que vous avez en tête (groupe rock, solo de trombone, beatboxing).Si vous désirez jouer ou chanter lors de l’événement, merci d'informer Steven Jegou :steven.jegou@mail.mcgill.ca, ou Krista Kais-Prial: krista.kais-prial@mail.mcgill.ca. Si vous êtes ala recherche d'une formaon (ex: je joue de la baerie et je cherche quelqu’un qui joue de laguitare), veuillez informer Steven et Krista et on verra ce que l'on pourra faire. In the meanme,whip out your axe, warm up your vocal chords and start praccing!!!!Nous espérons vous voir tous au Law School of Rock – n'oubliez pas vos briquets!14 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

LAEKAISHATREZAL a w I I IWHY DON’T WE CAREABOUT PAKISTAN?1750 dead20 million aected (10 million are children)16,000 villages under water200 hospitals destroyed10,000 schools damaged$30B needed to rebuild (1)Two and half months aer the floods began; millions of peopleare sll in need of food, clean water, medicine and shelter. Deathand disease are on the rise. Rebuilding schools, hospitals, roads,livelihoods and communies will be a long-term challenge. Accordingto Oxfam, the current devastaon is greater than that ofthe Indian Ocean tsunami and the earthquakes in Kashmir andHai combined.The prognosis is not good for Pakistan. Part of the reason is thatthe internaonal community has been slow to respond. Theworld doesn’t seem to care. Why is that?Posts on CBC’s website (2) from readers may oer a clue: “Whywould I donate to a country that puts added risk to our troops inAfghanistan by blocking supply convoys,” “If Pakistan reallyneeds money, it could consider cung funding for madrassasand nuclear war toys,” and “I am proud [sic] to say I donated awhole $0.00 to a country that supports terrorists and only ever isfriendly to us when they want a handout.” The majority of commentswere of this nature and overwhelmingly received more“thumbs up” from other readers than “thumbs down”.Might this type of thinking explain why the law school has donenothing in response to the floods? In early September I wasthinking of organizing something and wrote to the LSA to ensurethere would be no overlap with acvies other people were possiblyplanning. I received no response. I then learned a studentgroup at the law school was thinking of doing something at theend of September. The ming was perfect because there was anOctober 3rd deadline for the federal government’s match program,meaning our donaons would have been doubled. Unfortunately,no fundraiser was organized, and the net eect is, thelaw school collecvely hasn’t done anything.Have you not yet taken or organized a Student Iniated Seminar?Specifically, were you unable to take this semester’s Sexual AssaultLaw Student Iniated Seminar? Are you interested in CriminalLaw? Are you interested in engaging in and facilitang anin-depth analysis of Sexual Assault Law from crical perspec-ves?If you are interested in learning more about this semester’s StudentIniated Seminar on Sexual Assault Law, and in facilitangAt this point, I think we should ask ourselves why. We put ourloonies and toonies together for the vicms of Hai’s earthquakelast year. But we have done nothing for Pakistan. Why is that?Are we really clouded by polics and war propaganda? Do weequate all Pakistanis with terrorists? Are we concerned aboutcorrupon? Don’t get me wrong. I am no more fond of the Pakistanigovernment or lunac extremists than the next person. Icome from a neighbouring country that was brutalized by thePakistani military for two decades. My uncle, a physician, waslured by the Pakistani military on the pretext that civiliansneeded medical aenon, only to be brutally murdered and hisbody stued in a barrel. The woman who raised my mother narrowlyescaped with her life aer being lined up in front of a Pakistanifiring squad. On a three day visit to Karachi in 2004, Iendured two days of bombings by extremists and harassing behaviourby Customs ocials who were clearly annoyed by myheritage. But I don’t hold that against the people of Pakistan. Thepeasant farmer, the displaced mother and the diseased childdon’t deserve to suer because we have a problem with theirgovernment or with extremists within their society. Millions ofregular people will connue to suer from the devastang floodsif we do nothing.For my part, I donated before the government match deadline somy three figure donaon ended up being four figures. The PakistaniStudents Associaon on lower campus has apparentlyraised an impressive $27,000. But more is needed.It’s not too late to help if you haven’t already. For those worriedabout government corrupon or extremists, on-the-groundagencies such as Oxfam, UNICEF or the Canadian Red Cross arebeer recipients of our aid. At the end of the day, people arepeople. And these people desperately need our help.(1 -Stascs are from Reuters AlertNet and UNESCO)(2 - Comments from CBC website:hp://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/10/03/canada-pakistandonaondeadline.html)and organizing this iniave during the coming year, please e-mail the Seminar’s student organizers atsexualassaultcourse@gmail.com and let us know your availabilityfor the following proposed interest meeng mes: Wednesday,November 3rd at 12:30 pm; Monday, November 8th at 12:30pm; and Wednesday, November 10th at 12:30 pm.Thank you very much and we look forward to hearing from you.QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 15

ANTHONYN.MORGANL a w I I I“CANADIAN JUDGES FREENORTH CAROLINA NEGRO”The above is the title of a New York Times article published onMarch 4, 1922. The “North Carolina Negro” being referred to isMatthew Bullock. This is his story:In 1911, Canadian Prime Minister and McGill Law alumnus, SirWilfrid Laurier, passed into law the following provision:"His excellency in Council, in virtue of the provisions of Sub-sectionc of Section 38 of the Immigration Act, is pleased to Orderand it is hereby Ordered as follows: For a period of one yearfrom and after the date hereof the landing in Canada shall beand the same is prohibited of any immigrants belonging to theNegro race, which race is deemed unsuitable to the climate andrequirements of Canada."This law was not repealed until 1962. As such, in the early 1920swhen 19 year old Matthew Bullock, an African-American, andWorld War I veteran, arrived in Hamilton, Ontario to escapebeing lynched in the American South, legally and literally, MatthewBullock was as good as dead.His troubles began in Norlina, North Carolina when Matthew’sbrother, 16 year-old Plummer, attempted to return 10 centsworth of apples which he discovered were rotten soon after theywere purchased. After making his request, an argument ensuedbetween Plummer and the store-keeper, a White man, as the latterrefused to accept the returned apples. So heated the exchangebecame, that threats were allegedly flung by bothPlummer and the store-keeper.Later that evening, a group of armed White men went lookingfor Plummer. In conducting their search, the men confronted agroup of Black men and gun-fire erupted between the twogroups. No one was hurt in the gun-battle. However, the incidentresulted in Plummer and his brother, Matthew, being chargedwith attempting to incite a riot. Both men were shocked to havesuch charges laid against them as they maintained that theywere miles away when the events occurred.The day after the incident, Plummer was arrested and jailed. Thenext morning he was broken out of the jail by a mob of Ku KluxKlan members who, within hours of kidnapping Plummer, tortured,shot, castrated, hung and set fire to the boy. Unaware of thefate suffered by his little brother, on instruction from his father,Matthew fled Norlina, driving north and in hopes finding safetyand security on Canadian soil. Matthew drove directly to Canada,stopping only to sleep, eat and use the bathroom.Matthew only knew Canada as the country famed for being thePromised Land of freedom to which many of his Black ancestorsescaped slavery by way of the Underground Railroad. Thus, onecan only imagine the immensity of the shock, pain and humiliationhe suffered when he finally arrived at the Canadian border:He was denied entry into Canada due to the aforementioned immigrationlaw that banned Blacks from immigrating to Canada.Not to be easily deterred and feeling that his life remained inperil in the US, Matthew decided to take drastic measures to secureentry into Canada. After spending hours observing LakeErie’s flow of ice and water, at a spot just south of the rushingchute of Niagara Falls, Matthew ventured out, literally hopping,skipping and jumping from one ice-patch to the next until he arrivedon Canadian soil; tired, cold and wet, but alas in Canada.Matthew quickly continued his trek north, heading for Hamilton,Ontario where he knew there was a small community of Blacksmade up of the descendants of fellow African-Americans whohad escaped US slavery just a few decades before. When he arrivedin Hamilton, Matthew was quickly able to settle into theBlack community there, adopting a new name and gaining employmentas a skilled construction worker.Not long after his arrival, however, while out one day in early January1922, Matthew was approached by the police who demandedthat he prove that he was not a vagrant. Unable tofurnish satisfactory papers because of his illegal status, he wascharged with vagrancy and entering Canada illegally.The ordeal of Matthew Bullock could have fallen into obscurityat the bottom of the bins of forgotten Canadian history. However,after Matthew’s arrest and the revelation of his true identityin mid-January 1922, a White bounty-hunter in Hamilton decidedto write a letter to the Governor Morrison of North Carolina detailingMatthew’s whereabouts. This led Governor Morrison, aself-proclaimed white-supremacist and advocate of lynch law, toimmediately write to Canadian officials demanding that Matthewbe extradited so that he could stand trial for the chargeslaid against him in North Carolina.The North Carolina Governor’s extradition request resulted inthe ignition of a media frenzy, as major newspapers in Canadaand the US, including the New York Times and The Globe (nowthe Globe and Mail) began to immediately publicize Matthew’sincredible story. The immense publicity sparked intense debatein the public on both sides of the border, as wide media coverageroused many Canadians and Americans who openly expressedtheir views and thoughts on the story and were most16 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

intrigued by the issues it raised.From a black-letter law perspective, the outcome looked verygrim for 19 year-old Matthew. First, the US and the UK had anextradition treaty that bound Canada because our country wasyet to gain full control over its foreign policy. Secondly, there wasCanada’s own federally legislated ban on the immigration ofBlacks enacted a decade earlier. In the face of this legal reality, allMatthew had was his plea and the advocacy of Black and non-Black advocates and citizens which asked that Matthew not beextradited because at best he would not get a fair hearing, andat worst (the more likely result) he would lynched like his youngerbrother before him.Canadian and US media and advocates on both sides of the issueskept the case live and well discussed in the public, especiallysince an NAACP lawyer from New York was hired to defendMatthew, and a collective of White citizens of Hamilton amassedmany signatures on a petition demanding that Matthew be extradited.At the end of the day, however, it was left to an Ontariojudge to rule on the matter.In late-January 1922 an Ontario judge weighed Matthew’scharge for inciting a riot against the fact that he was a 19 yearoldwar veteran who upon arriving in Canada, immediatelycontributed to the country as a skilled employee about whom noone could make anything but positive remarks. Considering this,the judge ruled that Matthew should not be extradited, but releasedand allowed to remain in Canada for having demonstratedhimself to be a good immigrant.Despite a new wave of public excitement that this caused, Matthew’slegal troubles were not yet over. The Ontario judge’s decisioninfuriated American and Canadian white-supremacists. Thisinspired new energy to get Matthew extradited and in result, anew and more serious charge was laid against Matthew. Thistime the charge was for the attempted murder of one of theWhite men who was allegedly shot-at in the incident that startedthis whole chain of events.With this, Matthew was rearrested in mid-February. Judge Sniderof the County court in Hamilton, presided over the extraditionmatter in the face of this new charge. He ultimately ordered thatMatthew be arrested and held until authorities in North Carolinacould present to the County Court evidence showing that theyhad a prima facie case legitimating Matthew’s charge for attemptedmurder.The result of the above stipulation requirement for the releaseof Matthew to US authorities ended up saving Matthew’s life.This is because the State’s case against Matthew relied almostexclusively on eye-witness testimony. Realizing that it would betoo costly and likely found to be unconstitutional to force witnessesto appear before a judge in another country to providetestimony, Governor Morrison gave up his blood-thirsty hunt forMatthew.Thus without any satisfactory evidence presented against Matthewin the Hamilton County Court, Matthew was released as afree man on March 3rd, 1922. Once released, Mr. Bullock changedhis name and literally vanished with some saying he went toEngland, others, that he stayed in Hamilton and more still whosuggest that he moved to Washington, D.C.. In the end though,there are no records to confirm one way or the other.***Before closing, I would like to draw attention to Judge Snider'sruling and note that it does not go as far as it seems when appreciatedat an uncritical level. What it turned out to mean is thefollowing: Even when a person who, upon extradition, faces thehighest probability of being murdered by way of lynching, theymust be extradited to America if US authorities can provide evidenceof a prima facie case legitimating the charge of attemptedmurder.Furthermore, the context of the political climate of the timemust also be considered when assessing this ruling. Especially inlight of the role Canada played in the first World War in relationto the US and England. Thus, we must ask, was this ruling aboutsaving a young Black man or about asserting Canadian sovereigntyand strength in a way that made an effective statementagainst Britain’s imperial control over Canadian foreign policyand America’s perception of Canada as their blindly-obedient sister-stateto the north? In truth, the answer probably lies in agrey-zone between these ambitions.Either way, it is highly unlikely, though still possible (think MaherArar), that such a decision would be rendered or would standunder current Canadian law.As a final word, I must admit that my purpose in sharing thisstory is to write Blacks back into Canadian History; legal andotherwise. You, friends, classmates, professors, staff and Deansat McGill Law sit or will sit in seats of immense power within Canadiansociety. As such, my hope is that I can share Black Canadianhistory with my law school community in a way that willhelp us all fight the impression that is too easily and often accepted:that Blacks have played little to no role in important momentsor events in Canadian history. This widely held (thoughoften innocently so) perception is ultimately damaging to thisgreat country in which we all live and contribute to...together.Quick Sources:Sarah-Jane Mathieu, "North of the Color Line: Migration andBlack Resistance in Canada, ..." - Page 174Vann R. Newkirk, "Lynching in North Carolina: a history, 1865-1941" - Page 44Mark Robert Schneider, "We return fighting: the civil rights movementin the jazz age" - Page 195QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 17

L a w IHÉLIATAHERIINGÉRÉE PAR LA FORÊT (PART 1)Le texte suivant est la première pare d’une série qui s’étallera sur trois semaines.Ingérée par la forêt, elle court, elle court sans tourner la tête; ignorantles branches qui la foueent, elle court. Ingérée par sapeur, elle court, elle court sans tourner le regard, ignorant lescailloux qui mordent ses pieds nus, elle court. Ingérée par l’espoir,elle court, elle court sans se retourner. Peu à peu, elles’estompe dans la noirceur.MercrediSes doigts tremblants défont l’enveloppe tout doucement. Lenom du desnateur n’est pas indiqué, seulement une adresse inconnue;cela la terrifie. Tracassée, elle rere la lere d’un coupsec.« Je t’aime, je t’aimais, je t’aimerai. Il faut que tu le saches. Je net’ai jamais raconté de mensonge et je ne commencerai pas maintenant,aujourd’hui, après tant d’années. Quand je te disais quetu étais belle, je le pensais réellement. Je ne veux pas dire que jene regree pas le passé anéan. Je me suis laissé traîner par lacharree de mes appétences les plus immorales. C’est dur derésister, surtout lorsque le fruit paraît si délicieux. Je regree, jeregree de l’avoir souillé, le fruit de ton âme.Quand mes doigts parcouraient le chemin si soigneusement assouplide ta peau, je sentais le plaisir cru monter en moi. Quandles larmes barbouillaient ton regard, c’était le remords qui commençaità ronger mon être, mais il était trop tard. Il était toujourstrop tard, mes mains ne m’obéissaient plus, mes mainsbesales. Elles ne m’appartenaient plus, elles étaient un tout,une enté sauvage, un être guidé par le désir et aronté par laculpabilité. Elles étaient puissantes et toi, tu étais si facile à manipuler,plus souple qu’une ficelle de pêche. Il fallait aronter latempête à chaque soir. Moi, assis dans la chaloupe de mon désir,je gardais ta tête sous l’eau, je t’étranglais dans une mer depéché. La tempête te faisait mal, elle me faisait plaisir. Quandc’était fini, tu courrais te cacher. Et moi, je te regardais parr, immobile,je songeais à me charcuter les mains, à brûler mon sexe,afin de ne plus te faire du mal. Mais, le lendemain soir, mêmetempête, même histoire. J’étais trop lâche, trop lâche pour mecouper, me brûler, me détruire, et j’ai fini par me démolir. »GABJOSHEE-ARNAL ETMARC-ÉTIENNEOUIMET2 L C l a s s P r e s i d e n t sA LETTER TO ALLSECOND YEAR STUDENTSDear second year class,We would like to address a concern voiced by a few of our colleaguesin the past week, namely the lack (so far) of second yearspecific events.First, let us assure you that this is not the result of a lack of dedicaonto the task on our part as co-presidents. Rather, it is a refleconof a decision we made early on in the process toconcentrate on the organizaon of two large events (an end ofsemester party and an end of year party) instead of organizingmany small acvies. We believe this is the right decision; it isrealisc with regards to our budget, and takes into consideraonthe plethora of other acvies organized by and available toMcGill law students.The end of semester party will be held in the evening of the 21stof December, following the Common Law Property exam. In viewof this, we have visited several possible venues and have begunnegoaons with a few. We have also explored possible sponsorshipdeals, and are trying to find creave ways to get as much“bang out of your buck” as possible. One thing is for sure: whereverthe party takes place, we can promise that it will be asgood, if not beer, than last year’s party.N’hésitez pas à nous contacter si vous avez des quesons oucommentaires par rapport à nos acvités ou quelque autre sujetrelié à notre mandat (ou simplement pour jaser, si vous en sentezle besoin!).Sincèrement,Gab Joshee-Arnal et Marc-Eenne Ouimee2L Class PresidentsQN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 19

THEEDUCATIONALEQUITYCOMMITTEENEWS FROM YOUR EDUCATIONAL EQUITYCOMMITTEE / DES NOUVELLES DE VOTRECOMITÉ D’ÉQUITÉ POUR L’ÉDUCATIONChers et chères collègues, nous tenons à vous présenter le comitéd’équité pour l’éducaon du 2010-2011. Here is the team for thisyear:Ali Marn-Mayer Aisha Topsakal Vrinda Narain Kirsten AnkerMara Verna, 3L Sasha Hart, 3L Cindy Kou, 4LLe Comité d'équité pour l'éducaon (CEE) est composé de membresde la faculté et des étudiants. Nous visons à favoriser un environnementà la faculté qui est inclusif des diverses identés,expériences ethabiletés. Dans le cadre de notre mandat, le CEE ent à informerles étudiants des processus instuonnels par lesquels ils peuventexprimer leurs préoccupaons sur des quesons liées à la diversitéde et l’équité dans la Faculté. Nous vous invitons de soumeretouscommentaires respectueux. Ne manquez pas nos prochaines informaonssur la nouvelle Boîte à suggesons.The Educaonal Equity Commiee (EEC) is comprised of facultymembers and students. Our mandate is to help foster an environmentin the Faculty of Law which is inclusive of diverse idenes,experiencesand capacies. As part of our mandate, the EEC would like to informstudents of instuonal processes through which they canvoice concerns about issues related to equity and diversity in theFaculty.All respecul comments are highly valued and encouraged. Staytuned for more informaon on the forthcoming Suggeson Box.SPEEDMEET6-8An opportunity to meet and network with criminal lawpractitioners in Montreal, including Defence, Crownand Judges.November 2nd, in the AtriumSPACES ARE LIMITEDRSVP at clm.dcm@gmail.com20 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

L a w I IMICHAEL SHORTTDAVID NEWSTONECARLY KLINKHOFFIBRAHIM ATTARFITNESS FOR LAWSTUDENTS (PART 1)IntroBeing a law student involves a lot of work.Classes, extracurriculars, readings, op-onal reading to understand your requiredreadings, finding/making/alteringsummaries, etc.All this to say that most ofus don’t have a lot of spare me. As a result,we’re prone to let non-law acviesfall by the wayside, including maintainingour health.And yet we all know the benefits of stayingin shape. There’s an aesthec side, butalso increased energy and self-confidence,de-stressing and mental clarity, and theability to run up the stairs to the SAO beforedeadlines... The main barrier standingbetween law students and the gymseems to be the belief that staying inshape takes a lot of me. We’re hoping tochange your mind.The exercise program introduced in Parts3 and 4 of this series is designed for peoplewho don’t have a lot of me to workout. It consists of 3 sessions a week eachlasng one hour or less. That’s it,c’esttout. Even the busiest person in the facultycan find three hours a week.Outline of this arcle seriesThis is a four-part arcle series. Part 1,this arcle, provides background informa-on on health and fitness. Part 2, a separatearcle published in this issue of theQuid, provides general ps on weighttrainingand exercise, as well as techniquesto avoid injury or over-training.Parts 3 and 4 each introduce one of thetwo workouts that form the beginner’s exerciseprogram that we have designed,and will appear in the next two issues ofthe Quid.Why focus on weight-training?There are many ways to stay in shape,from playing sports and jogging, to spinningclasses and yoga. We’ve chosen hereto focus on weight-training. Specifically,we’ll deal with circuit training, which is aseries of exercises performed back-tobackwith very lile rest. This approachcombines cardio and resistance trainingand has a number of benefits:• Toning: Circuit training burns fatand builds muscle at the same me,which produces a toning eect (aesthetics)and improves your fitness in a muldimensionalway (emphasizing speed,balance, and endurance in addion tostrength).• Eciency: Because each exerciseis performed intensively and you rotatequickly through exercises for dierentparts of the body, you expend more energyin a shorter period of me, allowingyou to burn calories faster than jogging orother forms of cardio. You also connueto burn calories aer finishing a weighttrainingworkout because your bodyneeds to repair the damaged muscle fibres.So one hour in the gym can spikeyour metabolism for many hours aerward.• Muscle burns calories: Onepound of muscle requires 50 calories aday to maintain. So if you gain fourpounds of muscle, you will passively burnan extra 200 calories a day – a 10% increasein energy demand for the averagefemale (a lile less than that for males).Over me, this translates to losing 2pounds of fat a month from higher metabolicdemand, yet does not require anyaddional eort!• Movaon: Because the workoutsare more intense and involve a varietyof exercises, they’re less boring thanhour-long cardio sessions.Intro to fat lossEach pound of fat represents 3,500 caloriesworth of stored energy. When yourbody uses more energy than it takes in,this creates a caloric deficit. Every methis deficit adds up to 3,500 calories, youwill lose one pound of body fat. So if youhad a 500-calorie deficit per day, youwould lose one pound a week. If you hada 250-calorie deficit per day, you’d loseone pound every two weeks, and so on.Energy output comes from two sources.You expend some energy just to breathe,blink your eyes, and think – this is calledyour basal metabolic rate. It is around1800-2000 calories per day for men and1300-1600 for women, depending onheight and weight. You also expend caloriesdoing things like walking around, typing,playing sports, etc. These are youracvity-based energy demands and areprobably around 300-400 for a typicalschool day. Add these two numbers togetherand you have your energy consumponfor each day. Energy input,obviously, comes from food and is typicallywrien on the packaging, or you cangoogle calorie informaon on just aboutany food item you’re interested in.Intro to muscle buildingWhen you exercise, you put stress on yourmuscles. When this stress pushes musclesclose to their limits, the muscles suer microscopicdamage (this is why they feelsore the following day). Your body interpretsthis damage as a sign that moremuscle is needed. Under the right condi-ons, it not only repairs the damagedmuscle, but also adds extra muscle fibresto ensure that the next me those musclesare stressed, they’re ready to dealQN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 21

(Connued from previous page)with the added demands.But there are also countervailing factorsthat act to limit the rate at which yourbody is willing to build muscle. Muscle requiresa lot of energy to produce andmaintain, so your body is reluctant to addmuscle mass unless it has a really goodreason to do so. How much you eat andthe amount of protein in your diet will influencethe amount of muscle your bodyis prepared to create at a given me.There’s also an important gender eect –men find it far easier to build muscle thando women, parcularly in certain areas ofthe body (like the biceps or back). Incidentally,this program will not causewomen developing “manly” levels of muscle,so if you’re a female reader and areworried about looking too much like abodybuilder, don’t worry.Can you combine simultaneous fat lossand muscle building? Yes and no. Typically,your body’s reluctance to build muscleis reinforced by the caloric deficitneeded to lose weight, which makes muscle-buildingdicult or even impossible.However, beginners can typically do both,at least for a while. You can expect simultaneousgains early on in the process (thefirst 3-6 months) but these will becomeharder and harder to achieve over me.Aer a certain point it makes sense tofocus on either muscle-building or weightloss for a me, then switch to the othergoal. But that’s a long way o for most ofus.Anatomy 101: Your muscles from headto toeThis secon surveys the major musclegroups of the body. We include it becauseit’s important to be an educated consumerof health informaon and thefoundaon of that educaon is knowingwhat names are given to dierent parts ofthe body and what those body parts do.For more informaon, a comprehensivebut somewhat technical source is locatedat: hp://exrx.net/Lists/Directory.htmlTraps: The trapezius muscles are locatedalong either side of your spine from themiddle part of your back all the way up toyour neck. The top parts of your trapeziusare the muscles that slope down fromyour neck to your shoulders. You usethem to shrug and as part of many backexercises.Deltoids (shoulders): Your shoulder musclesare actually divided into 3 parts, eachresponsible for raising your arm through adierent plane of moon. The anterior(forward) deltoid raises your arm in frontof your body, the lateral (side) deltoidraises it to the side, and the posterior(rear) deltoid handles arm movement behindyour body.Back: The back is composed of manysmaller muscles, which together make upone of the most powerful muscle groupsin your body. For our purposes, we’ll simplifythis to the upper and lower back. Theupper back muscles pull your arms in towardsyour body (like rowing an oar),while the lower back flexes and stabilizesyour spine (think of straightening yourback aer bending over to pick somethingup o the ground).Chest: The chest or pectoral muscles areused to move the arms across the body orto extend the arms against resistance(think of a push-up).Triceps: These muscles are located on theback of your arm upper and their funconis to straighten the arm (again, think of apush-up – the chest muscles begin themoon while the triceps finish it).Biceps: The biceps are the muscle on thefront of your upper arm, whose funconis to bend or curl your arm inwardsaround your elbow.Brachialis: The poor and oen forgoencousin of the bicep, this muscle is locatedunderneath it and performs the samefuncon. Depending on the angle of yourwrist, the biceps and brachialis share theeort of curling your arm. The fartheryour wrist is rotated away from its naturalresng state, the greater the share ofwork that is shied to the brachialis.Forearms: The muscles on your armbelow your elbow are mostly used to flexyour wrist in dierent direcons.Core: This term gets thrown around a lotand oen means dierent things to dierentpeople. It typically refers to thedeeper muscles located around your midsecon(like the obliques, abs and somedeeper abdominal muscles), lower backand hips. One of the things that thesemuscles have in common is that they allcontribute to balance. Many of thedeeper ones are dicult to exercise directly.Abs: Your abs are the muscles that giveyou a six pack. They’re used to flex thetorso forwards (upper parts of the abs –think of a sit-up) or to raise the pelvis upwards(lower poron – think of raisingyour lower body into the air while lyingflat on your back). One of the challengesof exercising the abs is prevenng thestronger hip muscles from geng involvedand taking on the lion’s share ofthe work.Obliques: The obliques are the musclesthat run up the sides of your torso, aboveyour pelvis but below your ribcage.They’re responsible for flexing your torsofrom side to side.Hips: Much like the back, there are actuallya lot of dierent muscles located inthe hip region, but for the sake of simplicitywe’ll lump them together. Your hipmuscles swing your legs from side to sideand also control the rotaon of yourpelvis.Glutes: Your bu muscles. The glutes area very powerful muscle group, which islogical since they contain the largest singlemuscle in your body. Your glutes helpmany lower body moons by moving yourhips in various direcons.Quads: These are your thigh muscles.They’re used to extend your leg below theknee and are the most powerful musclesin most people’s bodies.Hamstrings: Your hamstrings are locatedon the backs of your legs above the kneesand are used to bend your legs below theknee. In modern lifestyles, most of ushave weak hamstrings, parcularly comparedto our quads. Strengthening thehamstrings helps improve posture.Calves: Your calves are the large muscleslocated below the knee and they are responsiblefor flexing your feet (think ofstanding on your p-toes).Symmetry: While our bodies are generallysymmetrical, it’s normal for people tohave small dierences in their right andle sides. Typically asymmetries will belocated in the upper body, mostly thearms/shoulders. The exercise program(arcles 3 and 4) is designed to help evenout any asymmetries that may exist (seealso the secons on “Muscular Imbalances”and the “Weak Side Rule” in arcle#2).(Please read on to part 2)22 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

LAWLIBRARYSCIS?Extended HoursThanks to the generosity of the SSMU, the Law Library is oeringextended study hours (unl 01:45 a.m.) earlier this year, starngfrom October the 9th.Databases & PasswordsAt present, Westlaw and QuickLaw are available campus-widethrough the IP access (without passwords). You will need onlyyour student card barcode and Library PIN to access the Westlaw.You also need your student card barcode and Library PIN toaccess Taxnet.pro, DCL, and REJB databases.New Reader’s ExperienceYou can broaden your reader’s experience by borrowing one of10 Sony e-readers available in the Law Library (2 weeks loan with1 renewal). hp://www.mcgill.ca/library/library-using/computers/ereaders/Law Library Goes GreenLaw Library started a pilot energy-saving project. We are changingour light bulbs (probably, you have seen the scaolding in themiddle of the ground floor) for the new “greener” ones.New Locaon of the Reference Collecon and PrintAbridgementsNow, you can find our Reference Collecon (encyclopaedias, dic-onaries, etc.) on the former place of the print CanadianAbridgement, near the windows on the 2nd floor.Print Canadian Abridgement, Annuaire de Jurisprudence duQuébec, and Annuaire de Jurisprudence et Doctrine du Québechave moved on the 3rd floor, rows # 23 - 24.We are starng this weekly column of the Law Library news tokeep you posted about new or improved services, renovaonsnew opening hours, major changes or addions to the print orelectronic collecon, etc. in the Nahum Gelber Law Library. Also,in this column, we would be delighted to answer all your libraryservices-relatedquesons.Please send your quesons to Svetlana Kochkina, Liaison Librarianat the Nahum Gelber Law Librarysvetlana.kochkina@mcgill.caTHEGRADUATIONCOMMITTEE3LS AND 4LS - WE WANT YOU!Do you want to help plan Graduaon Ball? Do you have ideas forwhat our Class Gi should be? Do you have any idea what By-Law 6, 4.3.4 is talking about? If you answered YES to any or all ofthese quesons – the Graduaon Commiee would like to hearfrom you!!Le Comité organise le bal annuel des finissants et a la responsabilitéde choisir un cadeau de promoon des finissants. On abesoin de votre aide afin d’assurer que le bal sera le meilleurévènement du siècle ! On cherche donc des bénévoles qui pourraientnous aider avec la logisque du bal - en contactant des endroitspossibles pour le bal, par exemple. Si cela vous intéresse,veuillez nous contacter !We are aware of the concern many of you have with the date ofthe Graduaon Ball being close to bar exams or bar school admissionexamdates. We are currently eyeing dates in March thatare aer all the LSUC and École du Barreau dates of which weare aware.As for graduaon photos, we will be announcing photo weeksshortly; the goal is to have one week this semester and oneweek next semester. Stay tuned to Noce Board and the Quid forthe details – let's make our photo mosaic complete and awesome!De plus, nous sommes chargés de choisir un cadeau de promo-on pour les finissants – l’année dernière le Comité a créé unCriminal Law Prize. Nous allons vous consulter pour la séleconfinale, mais pour le moment, on sollicite vos idées si vous enavez. Si le choix du cadeau vous ent à cœur et vous voulez assisterle sous-comité dans cee tâche, veuillez nous contacteraussi.Merci bien pour votre collaboraon !-Charlie Feldman, Président - Comité de graduaonCommiee : Viviane Lentz – Présidente, Comité du Bal de graduaon/Tim Boomer – Président, Comité Class Acon / Firas Ayoub –Président, Comité des aaires administraves relaves à lagraduaonQN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 25

MICHAELSHORTTL a w I INOT ROCKET SURGERY -KEEPING IN THE KNOWThis week’s column deals with email liststhat McGill law students should probablybe on. I’ve le out “Noce Law” becauseit’s obvious, but if anyone hasn’t signedup already, do it now. All faculty eventsare adversed there, as well as requestfor summaries, oers to sell books or subletapartments, etc. On the topic of obviouslists, depending on your age, interestsand whether you did Frosh, you may alsowant to sign up for SSMU’s email list orthe PGSS email list. Both contain long listsof upcoming events and pares organizedby the respecve student society.1) Faculty Email Lists: Even if you’renot a student in philosophy, economics,anatomy, etc., you can sll sign up for facultyemail lists (if they have mulple lists,ask to be added to the graduate studentone – it always has the best info). Theselists will then bombard you with informa-on; the poli sci department averages 10emails a day. Most of these emails aren’tuseful, since they deal with job oers,overseas conferences, or calls for journalsubmissions. But these emails will also includeamazing opportunies. In parcular,faculty email lists publicize talks and workshopsgiven at McGill. These lectures are agreat way to keep in touch with your oldmajor, or to broaden your horizons. Forexample, last week I got a chance to heara talk given by Nobel Laureate, Dr.Muhammad Yunus (founder of theGrameen Bank), through a last-minuteemail on the poli sci department list.2) McGill Internaonal StudentsNetwork: Again, this is a list you can joineven if you aren’t an internaonal student.The MISN organizes a bunch ofevents and pares, but the major benefitof being on their list are the trips. MISNtrips are very cheap and involve great des-naons like Québec City and New York.As an example, the MISN trip to QuébecCity two years ago cost only $45 and involveda involved a stop at the ice hotelalong the way!3) McGill Business Law Associaon:I hesitated to put the MBLA on the list,not because it’s not a great list to be on(as you’ll see I think it’s an amazinggroup), but because it was the only lawgroup on the list and I’d hate to create animpression of favourism. So let me saythat the faculty is filled with great organizaonsand I’m merely wring about whatI know.The MBLA email list is one of the mainways you can access events held at firms.These events typically consist of a talk followedby a recepon/cocktail. The qualityof the talks can be highly variable – thepresenters are oen junior lawyers whohaven’t had me to prepare, or old warhorses who just talk about whateverstrikes their fancy that evening. The recepons,on the other hand, are uniformlyamazing. The food is absolutely outof this world and puts even sponsoredcoeehouses to shame. These receponsare also a great way to meet lawyers atthe firms prior to beginning your job hunt(if you’re planning to stay in Montreal), orcan be useful to pracce your networkingskills prior to OCIs for other cies.Tentez votre chance au Sudoku! Chaque ligne, colonne et case doit contenir les chires de 1 à 9, mais juste une fois chaque chire.26 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

NELCYLOPEZCUELLARP h . D C a n d i d a t eKEEP LEARNING -GRADUATE STUDIES IN LAWSome people say that aer one graduatesas a lawyer one never stopslearning law. This is true, I think, butwhat this asseron leaves aside ishow we keep learning law. Aer finishingmy Bachelor`s Degree in Law inmy country, Colombia, I have walkeddierent learning paths. I first clerkedat the Colombian ConstuonalCourt for several years, whichshowed me how a judge is supposedto balance dierent conflicng interests,and the challenges this weighingprocess entails. This hands-onlearning process was not enough forme, at a given moment. Praccegenerated some mind-boggling ques-ons. Mainly, I began to wonder whysome judicial decisions were dicultto implement, and how this implementaonprocess could be improvedin order to have actualprotecon of people’s rights. Thesequesons puzzled me to such an extentthat it was imperave for me totake a break from pracce in order tosolve them.This was the moment in which I decidedto go back to law school. I firstdid my Master`s Degree and my ini-al idea was to get useful insights onhow to solve the problem of noncompliancewith judgments. Complengmy master’s thesis did not answermy queson completely,however. Since the quesons weresll relevant to me, I decided thatthey merited several years of reflec-on. This is why I embarked in a longterm research project at McGill as adoctoral candidate. I am now in myfourth year of doctoral studies and,finally, I am close to finishing my dissertaon!The fruits of this processhave been numerous. For instance, Ihave learned that in order to beerunderstand the queson that iniallypuzzled me so much, that it was necessaryfor me to renounce my role oflegal super-hero. That is to say, insteadof answering how this problemof noncompliance could be solvedand how I could finally make jusce, Ishould have a broader perspecveand think what type of instuonaldynamics of authority non-complianceentails. In addion, I havelearned to be a careful reader and,hopefully, a beer writer. Moreover,I have come to realize that in thislearning process, with a good dose ofintellectual humbleness, one canlearn a lot from professors, peersand, of course, from authors that oneincludes in her research.Now that I am close to finishing mydissertaon, I plan to go into legaleducaon. In addion to my clerkingexperience, my years of study and refleconmake me feel ready to guidelaw students in their learningprocess. This new professional experience,ideally, will lead me, onceagain, into a new and rich legal learningprocess.On Wednesday, November 10, 2010,the CDO has organized a GraduateCareer Day whereby professors fromMcGill and Universies acrossCanada will be giving three shorttalks on graduate studies. The topicsinclude:- Pursuing Grad Studies- Life as an Academic- Finding FundingThe discussions will be taking placeduring the universal break and allwho have contemplated graduatestudies or those wishing to learnmore about what it means to be agraduate student are encouraged toaend.Need proof of registraon?Print a Proof of Enrolment Leer /Graduaon/Credits completed todateStudents who require confirmaon of their status at McGill can obtaina signed leer lisng the terms they were registered at McGill by accessingtheir record in Minerva.1. Login into Minerva2. Log in using your McGill Username/McGill ID and McGillPassword/PIN3. Select the Student Menu4. Select the Student Records Menu5. Click Leers – Proof of Enrolment6. Select the appropriate term(s) and type of leer7. Click Submit/Print8. The leer will open in a PDF file which can then be printedor saved- Nancy Czemmel, Student Aairs OcerQN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 27

L a w IMICHÈLELAMARRE-LEROUXJE SAURAI À QUOI M’ATTENDRE...Suite à l’appel à tous de Charlie pour recevoirdes arcles, j’ai décidé de vousfaire part d’une expérience vécue à la facultéqui, j’ai l’impression, va demeurer imprégnéedans mes souvenirs de monpassage ici.***J’ai assisté à la Conférence «Are gis contracts?»donnée dans le cadre des ateliersde formaon connue en droit civil imposéepar le Barreau du Québec le vendredi8 octobre dernier. Le conférencier,M. Richard Hyland, exposait sa compréhensiondes diérents systèmes delois, tant dans la tradion civile que cellede droit commun, par rapport aux enjeuxque représentent les cadeaux. Pour ceuxqui sont intéressés en la maère, très intéressantepar ailleurs, je vous réfère àson ouvrage sur le sujet cité à la fin de cetarcle. Je ne m’avancerai pas sur lathéorie qu’il a exposée, d’abord parce queje manquerais de place, et ensuite parceque je n’ai pas la prétenon d’avoir biensaisi son exposé. J’aimerais plutôt insistersur l’atmosphère générale et les observa-ons que j’ai pu faire en tant qu’étudiantede première année encore très étrangèreau monde des «intellectuels du droit».Pour commencer, j’étais la seule de cetauditoire qui était hors de tout doute unesimple étudiante. Je me suis rapidementretrouvée entourée de presque tous mesprofesseurs de première année, d’autresprofesseurs et d’avocats praquants. Je neme sentais définivement pas à ma place,surtout quand le doyen m’a jeté un regarddans lequel je lisais clairement (enfin,c’est l’idée que je m’en suis faite) qu’il sedemandait en quelle année je pouvaisbien être. Heureusement, Prof. Jukier estvenue s’asseoir à côté de moi et a fait uneort notable pour m’inclure un tant soitpeu dans la conversaon qu’elle avait avecses collègues.Suite à une introducon plus qu’élogieusedu conférencier, ce dernier a commencéson discours en s’excusant du fait qu’ilavait oublié que les gens qui seraientprésents à la conférence maîtrisaient tousparfaitement les deux langues.Il se sentaitmal de n’avoir préparé son exposé qu’enanglais. Cela m’a arraché un sourire,partagé d’ailleurs par bien des professeurs.M. Hyland a poursuivi avec cequi se rapportait plus à une lecture de sesnotes qu’à un véritable exposé, ponctuédes bruits de tous ceux qui mangeaientautour et des cellulaires qui sonnaient. Ilfaut croire que les professeurs ne sont pasà l’abri des vices qu’ils reprochent auxétudiants.Après avoir mis ses idées sur la table, leconférencier a proposé de répondre auxquesons. Je pense qu’il a pris plus denotes provenant des intervenons desgens que n’importe qui dans la salle enpris durant sa présentaon. Moi quitrouve que les intervenons de mes collèguess’éternisent parfois dans un étalagede faits, concepts, et pseudo-vérités quine font que rembourrer inulementl’essenel de leur queson, ce n’est absolumentrien comparé aux quesons poséespar des intellectuels qui structurentl’ensemble de leur commentaire en fonc-on des théories qu’ils maîtrisent. Unequeson qui prend 5 minutes à formuler,personnellement, je n’appelle plus ça unequeson; c’est un prétexte pour bien signifierà l’autre l’opposion qu’on ressentface à ces idées, ce qui est apparemmenttrès bien accepté dans un contextecomme celui-ci. Certaines intervenonsmontraient grâce à un vocabulaire sanséquivoque des posions claires et biencampées par rapport à diérents enjeuxdu droit. Etje sentais que plusieursréagissaientsoit par un soudain inconfortphysique ou alors par une grimace montrantclairement le branle-bas de combatdans la tête de certain. Malgré ces opinionsqui ne faisaient pas l’unanimité, j’observaistoutefois un grand respect pour lespropos de chacun. Il existe un réel détachemententre la personne et la pensée.Ainsi, chaque commentaire était pris trèsau sérieux par l’invité, qui répondait parl’habituel «Veryinteresngpoint, I’mverypleasedyoubroughhatup» que nousrépondent souvent nos professeurs etdont la connotaon m’est encore incertaine.Ce n’est bien sûr que le point de vue d’unintrus à cee conférence. Cela m’a tout demême permis de découvrir une bellecommunauté de partage et de connaissances,aussi parculière soit-elle. Aumoins, je saurai à quoi m’aendre laprochaine fois.28 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

ANDREWHODHODL a w I I ITHE CDO (CAREER DEVELOPMENTOFFICE) LEXICONA lot of expressions get thrown aroundthe Faculty of Law and many students are(understandably) unsure of their meanings.In response, the CDO has prepared ashort lexicon of career-related terms.Enjoy!Alumni: An alumnus is simply someonewho has received a degree from a school.Graduates of the Faculty of Law are oenreferred to as alumni.Clerkship: A clerkship involves workingclosely with a judge in doing legal researchand wring opinions.OCIs: On-Campus Interview are formal recruitmentprocesses whereby firms andgovernment organizaons from othercies in the US and Canada make theirway to Montreal or Toronto to interviewMcGill students for summer posions. Interviewsare granted on the basis of onlineapplicaons. A summer studentposion oen leads to an arcling posi-on with the employer once studies havebeen completed.Course aux stages: A formal recruitmentprocess whereby Montreal firms recruitlaw students for arcling posions. Interviewsare granted on the basis of onlineapplicaons. Students who obtain a stageare oen expected to work at the firm atleast one summer before they arcle.Summer student: Someone who works ata law firm during the summer. Those whoparcipate in OCIs are looking to becomesummer students.Arcling / Stage: A legal apprenceship.It is a formal requirement for being calledto the bar in most provinces. The lengthof arcles varies from province toprovince (e.g. 6 months in Quebec, 10months in Ontario).Full service firm: A firm that providesservices in many dierent areas of law.Bouque firm: A firm that specializes inone or a few areas of law (e.g. tax law, orligaon).DOJ: The Department of Jusce provideslegal support for the federal government.Students who wish to work for the DOJcan find summer and arcling opportuni-es in many areas of law, including butnot limited to immigraon law, administravelaw, Aboriginal law, environmentallaw, criminal law and tax law.MAG: Much like the DOJ, the Ministry ofthe Aorney General of Ontario provideslegal advice to all provincial governmentministries. Ministries that hire summerstudents include the Ministry of Energy,the Ministry of Infrastructure, the Ministryof Agriculture, the Ministry of Finance,the Ministry of Labour and manymore. Family law, constuonal law andcriminal law are popular areas of law forMAG.Career Days: A day when legal employers(including corporate law firms, governmentagencies, public interest law firmsand graduate schools) come to the Facultyof Law to present themselves to students.There are four Career Days throughoutthe academic year: Graduate Studies andAcademic Career Day, Common Law CareerDay, Civil Law Career Day and PublicInterest Career Day. Career Days normallytake place in the atrium.myFuture: Not the same as myMcGill!Students should use this website to: a)look at job posngs (including summerand arcling posions that are not part ofa formal recruitment process); b) sign upfor events here at the Faculty and elsewhere;c) send in your applicaons formost of the formal recruitment processes.hps://law.myfuture.mcgill.ca/students/CDO website: Students should use thiswebsite to: a) find informaon (includingimportant dates and deadlines) regardingthe formal recruitment processes; b)download various CDO publicaons, includingthe LEH (see below); c) find linksto various job search engines.hp://www.mcgill.ca/cdo/Facebook: Another CDO tool used to remindstudents of events and deadlines.hp://www.facebook.com/law.cdoLEH: The Legal Employment Handbook isa career guide published by the CDO. Itcontains informaon regarding all aspectsof the pracce of law. It also includes tes-monials, sample CVs and sample coverleers. Download all of the CDO publica-ons for free on the CDO website.Pet Guide Jaune: A ny document thatcontains a meline of career-relatedevents for the academic year. Pick one upat the CDO (NCDH 416).CDO Advisory Board: A commiee whosemembers consist of the Assistant Dean,the CDO Director, the CDO Coordinator, aswell as three representaves from theLSA. The commiee meets regularly toensure that the CDO connues to meetthe needs of the student body.QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 29

L a w I IMICHAEL SHORTTDAVID NEWSTONECARLY KLINKHOFFIBRAHIM ATTARFITNESS FOR LAWSTUDENTS (PART 2)IntroThis arcle provides praccal advice onexercise and weight-training. It also laysout the goals and methods behind the beginners’exercise program we’ll be introducingin the next two issues of the Quid.Outline of this arcle seriesThis is a four-part arcle series. Part 1, aseparate arcle published in this issue ofthe Quid, provides background informa-on on health and fitness. Part 2, this arcle,provides general ps onweight-training and exercise, as well as injury-prevenontechniques. Parts 3 and 4each introduce one of the two workoutsthat are part of the beginner’s exerciseprogram that we have designed. They willappear in next two issues of the Quid.What are the goals of this program?This is a general fitness program. It willhelp you lose weight, build muscle andalso improve your endurance, speed andbalance. That said, its primary purpose isweight-loss. Because it’s based mainly onweight-training, you can also expect musclegains, parcularly if you are a male orhave never lied weights before.Who is the program for?This program is aimed at beginners: thosewho have never tried weight-training, orwho have worked out for less than a year.If there’s enough interest, we will comeup with an intermediate program laterthis semester. The program can work foreither men or women, although we acknowledgethat a few of the exercises areslightly more guy-friendly (such as pushups).What’s the me commitment?Three workouts of at most one hour perweek. The me per workout will shrink asyou get beer at the program, becauseyou will be able to perform exercises at afaster rate and you will need less rest betweenexercises. Your workouts will normallytake around 45 minutes and, ifyou’re really, really good, 30-35 minutes.Training objecvesWhen performing the exercises in thisprogram you should have three overarchinggoals in mind: technique, speed, andreps/weight. These goals are ordered;focus on #1 (technique) before moving onto #2 (speed). And don’t start increasingthe number of repeons or the amountof weight you’re liing (#3) unl you’vemastered the first two steps.Technique: This involves two very importantsub-goals: perfect form and a fullrange of moon.Perfect form means following the exerciseinstrucons in Parts 3 and 4 of this arcleseries; that you li in a controlled manner,without momentum; that you maintaingood posture; that you remember tobreathe (inhaling and exhaling deeply);and that you don’t shi weight onto musclesother than the one(s) that you’re targengwith that exercise. This will helpprevent injury and ensure that your exercisesbenefit the correct muscles.Training through a full range of moonmeans compleng the exercise to the limitsof your flexibility. So on a push-up, forexample, you must lower your body almostto the floor, then raise it unl yourarms are fully extended. Training in a fullrange of moon will acvate as much ofyour muscle fibres as possible, resulng inmore calories expended and a greater potenalfor muscle growth. Because yourmuscles are usually weaker at the extremesof their range of moon, you needto pick a weight that is light enough foryou to accomplish this. For guys this maymean checking your ego at the gym door;you will eventually be able to progress toheavy weights, but inially, you shouldkeep things light both to avoid injury andto facilitate developing proper technique.Speed: Once you’ve mastered the properform and full range of moon for each exercise,you are ready to increase thespeed at which you complete the exercise.Increased speed should never come at theexpense of technique.Reps/weight: Once you can complete anexercise at a quick but controlled rhythm,you are ready to increase either the numberof repeons you perform or theamount of weight you li each me. Forexercises that use only your body weight(situps, pushups, etc), we recommend increasingthe number of reps from 15 to 20and eventually to 25. For exercises involvingoutside weight sources (dumbbells,barbells, or machines), we recommend increasingthe weight unl you can only perform10 repeons at me, then buildingback up to 15 reps, at which point you canincrease the weight again, and so on. Thisprogression will help you to gain musclewhile losing fat.Tips for weightliing and exerciseWeak Side Rule: If one side of your bodyis weaker than the other (typically thearms or shoulders) always begin with that30 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

side. Note how many repeons youcould do with your weak side, and thendo at most that many reps with the strongside. By using your weak side as the limitingfactor you ensure that your body developssymmetrically and avoid placingundue stress on the weaker side.Proper breathing: Always inhaledeeplywith the first moon then exhale deeplywith the second. Never stop breathing orlet your breathing labour.Posture: When exercising always keepyour back in its natural posion (norounding or arching of your spine) andavoid placing any strain on your neck. Youshould never feel stress in your neck musclesand you should only feel stress on thelower spine during lower back exercises. Ifyou do feel stress, it’s a sign that you’reusing too much weight (and your body isshiing it to your back/neck muscles)and/or that your exercise technique is oand stress is being placed on the wrongmuscles. The exercise descripons providedin Parts 3 and 4 will contain addi-onal informaon about how to performindividual exercises correctly.Water: You should drink a lot of waterover the course of your workout – ideally1-2 litres. The best strategy is to bring alarge water bole and drain it at the endof the workout if you haven’t done so beforethen. Failing that, you should makesure to use the water fountains duringevery break between exercises and also atthe end of your workout.Clothing: Wear loose, comfortable clothing.Your exercise clothing should not inhibityour movements, nor should it behot or uncomfortable. If you’re worriedabout calluses, you may wish to buy a pairof inexpensive weight-training gloves.They are sold at Sports Experts and othersimilar sporng goods stores.Injury prevenonGood and bad pain: It’s normal to feelsore aer a workout. Somemes this willhappen immediately, but somemes youwon’t feel it unl the next day. This sorenesswill be felt in the muscles themselves,either when you use them, orwhen you apply pressure to them. This isa good sign, because it means that you’vesuccessfully challenged your body andpushed its limits. Any soreness like thiswill go away in 1 to 3 days. You’ll experienceextra soreness when you begin anew exercise program; over me sorenesswill disappear more and morequickly.There is also bad pain. Anything that persistsfor more than 3 days or is sharply uncomfortableis likely a sign of injury.Anyjoint pain is bad, as are poppingsounds (they’re a warning sign). If you experiencejoint pain, take a break from liingweights or acvies that causerepeve stress to the joints (like joggingfor the legs). You may have used toomuch weight or didn’t give your bodyenough me to recover between workouts.Rest days and recovery me: It is importantto give your body me to recover betweenexercise sessions. It takes me torepair damaged muscle fibre and to addnew muscle, and going to the gym beforethat process is completed is both inecientand potenally risky. That’s why ourprogram calls for 3 sessions a week; thisgives your body at least one rest day betweensessions at all mes. We don’t recommenddoing a lot of cardio on youro-days, since this can put your recoveryon hold.Resng between sets: Always take breaksduring your workout when they arescheduled, and don’t be afraid to take addionalbreaks if you feel that you needthem. Listen to your body and trust yourinsncts – it’s beer to progress moreslowly than to risk any kind of injury.Maintaining a balanced physique: Youshould avoid overtraining some musclesrelave to others, which can lead to injurywhen weak and strong muscles are bothstressed at a level appropriate only to thestrong muscle. Follow the Weak Side Rule(above) if you have any right/le imbalances,and don’t cut exercises from theprogram if they target muscles that youdo not exercise oen.Stretching: Always stretch at the end ofeach workout. Emphasize stretching musclesthat have a limited range of moon.Nutrion: Eat a small snack aer yourworkouts to help recover energy fasterand provide you body with fuel to buildnew muscle. Ideally this snack should behigh in protein. Healthy protein choicesinclude nuts, coage cheese, tuna or leanmeats.VocabularyThese are some basic terms that you’ll encounterin Parts 3 and 4 of the arcle series,or in weight-training resources thatyou read online.Reps: A single performance/repeon ofan exercise. 15 reps of push-ups meansdoing a push-up fieen mes.Sets: A group of repeons. 15 reps ofpush-ups represents one set.Superset: Doing a pair of sets back toback. 15 push-ups followed by 15 sit-upsis a single superset.Spoer: An exercise partner who standsnear you when you li heavy weights, andhelps you li them if your own strengthfails. A spoer is generally needed whendoing bench presses and other exercisesthat are dangerous if your strength failsyou.Dumbbell: A short rod with pre-aachedweighted plates on either end. Dumbbellsrequire one hand to use.Barbell: A long bar with separate weightplates placed (and secured with a clip) oneither end. Barbells can be fixed weightsor allow the user to add weight. Barbellsrequire 2 hands to use.Free weights: Dumbbells or barbells; anyweight that isn’t part of a machine.Cables: Machines that allow users to liweights by pulling on a cable handle(rather than a lever, sled, or some othermechanism).Bodyweight: Any exercise performedsolely using the weight of your body(push-ups, chin-ups, sit-ups).QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 31

SAOUPCOMING & NEWSWORTHY• NEW! Advising Drop in Hours (Nancy Czemmel & Kelly Cassidy)Either Nancy or Kelly will be available for advising during the following me blocks:Mondays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.Tuesdays: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.Wednesdays: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Thursdays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.* Appointments may also be made with Asst. Dean Topsakal, Assoc. Dean Lame, NancyCzemmel or Kelly Cassidy. Please contact Kelly Cassidy for all appointments.* We provide informaon and guidance for both graduate and undergraduate students on thefollowing: programs, degree requirements, registraon, advising, course changes & schedules,procedures for withdrawal, exam schedules & conflicts, deferred & supplemental exams,rereads, academic standing, leave of absence or term away, and graduaon.Exchanges• Exchange & Study Abroad Applicaon Deadline:All 2011-2012 exchange and study away programs(Summer term 2011, Fall term 2011, Winter term 2012 and Full year)Friday, 5 November 2010Applicaon must be completed in Minerva; CV must be submied to SAO by 3 p.m.32 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

LEGALFRONTIERSLEGAL FRONTIERS IS BACK! /LEGAL FRONTIERS EST DE RETOUR!Legal Frontiers, McGill's International Law Blog, has started itssecond year of full-time blogging. In the past year we have enjoyedgreat successes from being named Best Club by the LSA toreceiving a nomination for Law Blog of the Year in the 2010 Editionof the Canadian Blog Awards. Vote for us at :http://tinyurl.com/voteforLF (Best Law Blog).We hope to replicate these successes this year by increasing ourFrench article contributions as well as by publishing SpecialContributions from distinguished academics and professionals ininternational law. Topics covered on Legal Frontiers this pastweek are:- litigation as a means of pursuing strategic military or politicalobjectives in the Middle East conflict (Daniel Haboucha)- the Ontario Court of Appeal and France’s ConstitutionalCouncil decisions concerning the niqab (Nafay Choudhury)- the United States’ international responsibility for the intentionalinfection of Guatemalan prisoners and handicapped residentswith sexually transmitted diseases (Keiran Gibbs)Our first Special Contribution was published on Sunday October24th and is authored by Osgoode Hall Professor Aaron Dhir. Hisarticle explores the intersections of corporate, environmentaland social governance with international human rights.Please join us at www.legalfrontiers.ca to read these articles andmuch more!Legal Frontiers, blogue de McGill sur le droit international, entamesa deuxième année de bloggage quotidien. Nous avonsconnu plusieurs succès depuis l’année dernière: Legal Frontiers aen effet été désigné meilleur club par l’Association des étudiantsde droit (AÉD) de McGill, en plus d’être nominé dans la catégoriedu blogue en droit de l’année dans le cadre du Canadian BlogAwards édition 2010. Votez pour Legal Frontiers en suivant lelien : http://tinyurl.com/voteforLF (Best Law Blog).Nous espérons répliquer ces réussites cette année en augmentantle nombre d’articles publiés en français ainsi qu’en publiantdes contributions spéciales de professeurs et de praticiens expertsdu droit international. Parmi les thèmes abordés la semainedernière par Legal Frontiers, vous trouverez:- le recours aux tribunaux comme véhicule d’objectifs politiqueset militaires dans le conflit israélo-palestinien (Daniel Haboucha);- les décisions de la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario et duConseil constitutionnel français concernant le niqab (NafayChoudhury) ;- la responsabilité internationale des Etats-Unis pour l’infectionintentionnelle de ressortissants guatémaltèques à certainesmaladies transmissibles sexuellement (Keiran Gibbs).Notre première contribution spéciale, publiée le dimanche 24octobre, est signée par Aaron Dhir, professeur à Osgoode Hall.Son article porte sur l’intersection entre le droit international desdroits de la personne et la gouvernance corporative, environnementaleet sociale.Joignez-vous à nous à l’adresse www.legalfrontiers.ca pour lireces articles et bien plus encore !FACLThe 4th Annual Federaon of Asian CanadianLawyers (FACL) Fall Conference is fast approaching.This year, the keynote address willbe delivered by Jameel Jaer, Director of theNaonal Securies Project at the AmericanCivil Liberes Union. Other disnguishedspeakers include Lee Akazaki, the first everAsian lawyer to become the president of theOntario Bar Associaon. Workshop hosts willfeature lawyers from prominent law firms suchas: Fraser Milner Casgrain, Goodmans, McMillan,Ridout & Maybee, Glaholt, Miller Thomson,Blaney McMurtry, Gowlings, Fogler Rubino,Mushtaq Law, Edwards Angell Palmer &Dodge and Torkin Manes.This year, the conference will take place at Universityof Toronto, on Saturday, November13th. Student registraon is $20 and $45 moreif you wish to aend the dinner banquet. Addi-onal costs for transportaon, which will becheaper if we can organize group travel.* Registraon Info: hp://www.facl.ca/Fall-Conference2010.html* If you are not yet a FACL member, please fillout a membership form (free) and send it inalong with the conference registraon:hp://www.facl.ca/MembershipMDrive.htmlSend the package to FACL, c/o OBA, 300-20Toronto Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 2B8(specifying your aendance to either the conference,the banquet, or both), or in the alternave,give me your forms and cheque and Iwill send it in along with my own applicaon. Ifyou plan to go, do let us know so we can accountfor the McGill presence.Hope to see you there,Henry Ngan (henry.ngan@mail.mcgill.ca)QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 33

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CHARLIEFELDMANL a w I I IDROIT À L’IMAGEWelcome back!Our hiatus was longer than expected sothere’s way too much to put here, sacrificeshad to be made! Well, either that or Iterrible at collecting this stuff - it wouldhelp if it weren’t a combined compilationeffort involving copy-pasting from e-mailssent to a few different accounts(quid.charlie@gmail.com SVP), facebookmessages, text messages (I’m looking atyou, 2L spy…), my course notes, and randomhallway stops requiring me to jot onscraps of paper I later can’t read and typeup while praying for the best! I hope Ihave most everything Professorial here –student quotes will have to wait a littlewhile longer (so as not to give you 30pages of my section alone!).Before getting into the quotes, I want toquickly address a few random things.First, I’m starting to think the Quid Online(our video reports on facebook) doesn’tmake sense on a regular basis. Katie and Ihaven’t had a video in a few weeks simplybecause there’s been nothing on which toreport between Malpractice Cup and now(well, there should be a new video upMonday about the foosball coffeehouse,but I’m writing this in advance so perhapsthere won’t be). Long story short: It’s amuch better episode when we’re not randomlyscraping clips together or doing interviewsabout things you already know –it’s more enjoyable when there is a narrativethere, and let’s face it – you really justwant to see your classmates say sillythings.On a related note, I will (if all goes well)be graduating this year. It would be greatif both these endeavors (Droit a l’imageand the Quid Online) could continue – ifyou’re a 1L or 2L with any interest in this,please do drop me a line:quid.charlie@gmail.com. This section iseasy enough to do (and quite entertaining,especially for the quotes you getthat Profs ask you not to print). The QuidOnline involves much more effort, but ifyou have iMovie and can do random accents,please do come forward!Since I’m on a roll, let’s just awkwardlytransition now to Skit Nite. I’m hoping thevenue and date are firmed up this week.It’s been less than straightforward thisyear, but once all is resolved prepare foran ambush of Skit Nite announcements allover the place. Profs – get thinking whatyou’d like to do and drop me a line withyour ideas (and, if you want just a walk-onrole with a line or two, I have the perfectskit brewing!).On a final note, you may have seen the e-mail about the two LSA Committees beingformed – one on JD/LLB and one onConstitutional reform. I just want to saythat I’m delighted at how efficient the firstLSA Council meeting was and I’m over themoon that the JD/LLB motion passedquickly. At some point I’ll probably have alonger article in relation to both, but ifyou have any questions on either motion,feel free to holler.And with all that out of the way, on to thequotes! Have a great week, everyone!-CharlieOverheard at the Faculty:Dean Jutras: At most restaurants you payafter you've had food. At McDonald's, youpay BEFORE you've had the food. I'll leaveit to you to figure that out.Prof. [Redacted]: The proofreading in thiscasebook leaves a lot to be desired; youjust can't get away with forgetting the 'L'in 'public'. You just can't.Prof. [Redacted]: I'm trying to imaginewhat other enjoyable uses of a pole youcould have ... I guess you could go up anddown it.Me. Mitchell: Funeral homes do not advertiseto expand the market!Me. Mitchell: Typically, humans are notidiots.Prof. [Redacted]: So, this is something youmight find interesting. Actually, at thispoint, I don't care if you find this interestingor not.Prof. Moyse: Regardez les sites sur lesquelsvous cliquez, je parle des sites professionnels,éducationnels...Prof. [Redacted]: Un vin de Bordeaux semâche et un vin de Bourgogne s'embrasse,se grume. C'est important de fairela distinction!Prof. Jukier: They are not boo-hoo clients -they are big boys!Prof. Moyse: C'est trassique: Traditionnelet classique!Me. Mitchell: Just because there are adsfor cat food does not mean we are all runningout and buying a cat!Prof. Klein: I don’t know how many of youhound those criminal law gossip blogs…Prof. [Redacted]: A wolverine is not a mythicalanimal – it DOES exist! (class dissent)Don’t you tell me it doesn’t exist! Allof you with computers – look it up!Prof. Moyse: Si vous avez besoin d'un décodeurà hiéroglyphe pour comprendrecette définition, c'est normal. C'est la défi-36 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

nition qui fait mal à la tête, la définitiontylénol.Prof. Moyse: Personnalisez votre code,c'est pas high-tech mais low-tech, mettezydes post-it, arrachez des pages quandvous en avez marre...Prof. Klein: I apologize for stringing youalong and playing with your emotions –we will not have the guest speakers thisclass…Prof. [Redacted]: Is it bad if I think thisclass is boring and I’m the one teachingit?Prof. [Redacted]: Let's not be under any illusionsabout what the nobility of the professionmeans. We still need to eat.[pause] We also need to feed our families.Prof. [Redacted]: The only people who dowell with bankruptcy are fraud artists, lawyers,and accountantsMe. Mitchell: Sometimes, judges get carriedaway with doing the right thing.Me. Lamed: If you have a few minutesand you want to amuse yourself you canwatch advertisements by American lawyerson YouTube... Not now of course.owe your client a duty of care to understandthe rule against perpetuities, there'sno sense in teaching it to you.10 minutes after class started:Prof. [Redacted]: … So, I’m going to go geta coffee.Prof. Moyse: Qu’y a-t-il de spécial avec lamarque "Nordiques [de Québec]"?3L : Elle va revenir bientôt !!!L2: What is the format of the ethics quiz?Me. Lamed: I'll ask the questions, youprovide the answers.Prof. [Redacted]: I’m not having the bestof luck with the cops at Station 12…Prof. [Redacted]: Then Bridget Jones usedmy material in her Second Book yearslater and I’m pissed [about that] – getyour own damn material!Prof. [Redacted]: Good value for money israre in the case of lawyers.Me. Mitchell: I once got a call on theweekend from opposing counsel saying"I'm in your client's house!" Needless tosay, it was the most wild Saturday night ofmy life!!!Me. Lamed: Many of you probably wroteabout access to justice in your admissionsletters. It's one of those things that goesalong with motherhood and apple pie...exercising regularly... vegetables...Me. Lamed: Where would you go to figureout which court to apply to??L: The McGill Legal Information Clinic?Me. Lamed: Sure... *draaain* the resourcesof your fellow students.Prof. [Redacted]: Imagine a world whereno family law case goes to court. Soundslike a wonderful society.Prof. Gold: In what way was this a minimaluse of the land?! It was an airport. Ifyou walk across it you could get yourhead chopped off!Me. Lamed: Humility is not commonly associatedwith lawyers. That may be afunction of the role of morality that lawyersare called upon to display - humilityis not always compatible this.Prof. Gold: Murder's the fun part. Whyelse study criminal law?Prof. [Redacted]: Don't assume that becausean article is in the coursepack it'sright. I may have it included it because it'sinteresting … in a really … interesting way.Prof. [Redacted]: (after putting up slideswith small text): You didn't realize it, butyou're at the optometrist today. Everyonehere is going to get fitted for glasses afterclass.Prof. Gold: Has anyone ever seen theword entailed in 19th century novels?No? ... You guys need to read more!Prof. [Redacted]: An American court onceruled that a lawyer was not liable for negligence[due to a faulty contract] becauseno one understands the rule ofperpetuities. So I figured that if you don'tProf. Moyse: C'est à la fin que l'on connaitles champions, c'est au paragraphe 36qu'on y arrive !Prof. Moyse: Toutes les réponses à vosquestions, le Code les a, c'est comme JeanCoutu!Prof. [Redacted]: I’m very limited by mylaw background. You will be too, cheerup!Prof. Moyse: Moi, avant d'être prof dedroit, j'étais jedi.Prof. [Redacted]: A stork is neither a badnor a good purveyor of an easement.[In Legal Ethics after a clip is shown…]2L #1: Wow, that city looks great... is thatNew York?2L #2: Dude, the show is called "BostonLegal"... work that one out...Prof. [Redacted]: You can’t shake a stickin this town without hitting a marijuanagrow-opProf. [Redacted]: I’m talking about gay sexhookups in public bathrooms! DOWNFROM THE META!QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 37

A first-year asked me why this section was called ‘DROIT À L’IMAGE’ and then it hit me – I’ve been incredibly delinquent with myphoto duties! Actually, no, ce n’est pas le cas! Future Shop a pris possession de mon appareil photo il y a quelques semaines pourfaire des réparations, et je n’aime pas le ‘remplacement’ qu’on m’a accordé. Alors, je prends moins de photos ces jours-ci. That said, Ihave been taking them (just fewer of them), and here is a random selection of recent items.The ladies of Community Lawat a recent coffeehouse. Somesay it takes a village, I say all ittakes is a plate topped withdelicious treats! Then again, Ialso say NOM NOM NOM a lot,so I’m thinking there’s somesort of connection… humms….Dean Lametti (left) takes onProf. Moyse (right) during theFoosball Association coffeehousein support of Right toPlay. I don’t know who has thesuperior foosball skills becauseI had to go to class and missedthe end of the match, butgiven both are sporting ‘Rightto Play’ shirts, I hereby challengeboth to support our‘Right to Play’ here by implementingrecess at the Faculty.When and why did we give upon recess?! If there’s one thingthe Atrium needs, it’s tetherball.Also, a hopscotch in thehallway outside the MootCourt would be nice – youknow, just to spice it up. Actually,I just think there shouldbe a Faculty curling tournamentfor charity – I would paygood money… plus there’splenty of room for bad legaltrash talking… Oh yeah? Howbout we let it res ipsa loquituron the ice!!38 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN

I’m not sure if planning is underway for next year’s Malpractice Cup. I won’t even be around to participate, so perhaps it’s useless,but I hope they bring back croquet. That was the most awesome event from Malpractice Cup ’08, and the one during which therewas the most trash talking. No, I’m serious, there was some INTENSE trash talking during what is otherwise thought of as such adainty and quaint game! :-)Prof. Leckey and the magical pumpkin he carved at coffeehouse.Yes, I said magical. I was thinking ‘James and the Giant Peach’ …‘Leckey and the Giant Lemon?’. I’m not sure. As long as we’re onRoald Dahl, why isn’t ‘The Twits’ on the reading list for FamilyLaw? And how come Charlie and the Chocolate Factory isn’t discussedin contract law – (golden) ticket cases, anyone?DO YOU HAVE CLASS OUTSIDE? NO? Sucks to be you. Clearly,Legal Education Seminar rocks! Also, a certain Prof from last yearowes me $20 because he swore I’d never have an outside classwhile in law school (after I made a desperate plea on a gorgeousApril day in a small class last year). Hate to say ‘I told you so’ –only because that’s four words and a picture is apparently wortha thousand so I think I got a bad deal somewhere here…QN • 26 OCTOBRE 2010 • 39

Listen, Captain Unscrupulous – returnthe water fountain’s… spout? We’rethirsty. Actually, I only go to the libraryto watch TV on my computer(bless you, McGill wifi … oh, and beforeanyone asks, the Real Housewivesof Atlanta is SUPEReducational) so this broken waterfountain really doesn’t impact me.But I can imagine how if I actuallyused books I’d be upset.CRAYONS. Yes,they’re mine, but I finallyfelt encouragedto use them in class.Thank you, LegalEducation Seminar!(Wait, TWO photosabout this class inone Quid, both witheffusive phrase forthe course… humm…is Charlie feeling terriblyguilty about somethingLegalEducation Seminarrelated…yes, yes indeed!)40 • 21 JANVIER 2010 • QN

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Continued from page 3...Just because something is offensive or objectionable does notrender it unsuitable for publication. If someone wants to writean article under the heading “Aboriginal law deserves no placein law school”, it would be incredibly unsavoury and we wouldfind it offensive, but it may be perfectly publishable. Conversely,an article under the heading “Aboriginals deserve no placein Canada” may rise to the level of hate propaganda and thereforemust be excluded lest we violate the Criminal Code.So, what are the interests at play here? What makes the Quiddifferent from other publications? Certainly, many more op-edsare sent to the Globe and Mail than it chooses to publish in agiven issue, for example. Is this a form of censorship? Should allpublications be free-for-alls?Further, in this day and age, when anyone can post anything onthe Internet - and indeed, any submission you have in mindcould be a note on Facebook - what unique purpose is servedby this publication? Is there even a point to having the Quid?Simply put, the Quid is an integral part of life at the Faculty. It’sa unique publication that serves law students and faculty, operatingunder unique constraints in terms of budget, resources,and time. Plus, our content is unique - authored solely by personswith a connection to this Faculty, and, more often thannot, publishing something with a tie to the law or Faculty life.De plus, nous sommes une publication bilingue.Ce qu’il est important de noter est que la communauté de personnesqui nous lit est unique. Oui, nous sommes tous bilingues.Nous sommes tous interressés (à des degrés différents,évidemment) par le droit. Nous sommes uniques aussi dansl’optique où on se connait tous ou presque.Given the small size and inter-connectedness of our readership,it is not at all surprising that the author writing about the ‘censored’article is not the author of the original piece. It’s also unsurprisingthat Mr. Bottomer has seen the submission inquestion. Indeed, the Quid is not the only way to disseminateitems at the Faculty.À la faculté, nous partageons une expérience, un environnement.C’est dans l’intérêt de tous de faire un effort pour encouragerune atmosphère dans lequelle chacun se sent confortabled’exister et d’étudier, sans craindre d’ouvrir le Quid et se sentirattaqué. C’est exactement pour cette raison que le Quid a besoind’une politique qui reflète nos valeurs et nous permet decréer une atmosphère désirable.Par exemple, l’interdiction de langage raciste ou sexiste n’existepas parce qu’on n’est pas capable de digérer ces mots. Elleexiste parce qu’on n’a pas à tolérer ce genre de mots. Non, iln’est pas toujours clair ce qui est acceptable ou non, mais à lafin de la journée, il faut prendre une décision, et le pouvoir deprendre cette décision réside entre les mains des rédacteursen-chefs.Tout simplement, les limites telles qu’elles existent, sont le produitd’un dialogue qui se produit par l’entremise de l’échanged’idées entre nos lecteurs. De plus, vos commentaires noustiennent à coeur. Nous apprécions être informés de ce que vouspensez d’un article ou de la publication elle-même. C’est lecorps étudiant qui informe nos décisions et qu’on a en tête toutau long du processus de la rédaction et de l’opération du Quid(que nous faisons non pas pour des crédits, non pas pour l’argent,non pas pour la gloire, mais par pure volonté).We are not experts. We may not always make the “right” call.But, we do our best with what we have in the time allotted.The Policy may not be the most clear at times, but we fullystand behind its purpose, spirit, and use. Indeed, without ourPolicy, the Quid would arguably be a weekly copy and pastesession, freely disseminating information amongst our intimatereadership with no consequences in the event of questionableand possibly inflammatory verbiage. Not only do we need a minimumstandard, we need one that is beyond the bare legal minimum.Our Faculty deserves no less. And, if anything, ourhistory has shown us that the Quidreadership has demandedno less either.The Policy was applied to the submission in question when itwas received. The sequence of events as recounted in Mr. Bottomer’sarticle may not be entirely clear, but, per the Policy, theauthor was told of concerns flagged by the Reviewers and withdrewthe submission—this prior to any conveyance of specificproposed changes.In this case there was no rejection of the article (recall that onlyONE has been rejected in the past three years) and, for whatit’s worth, withdrawals such as this seldom occur. We thinkwith that track record, our Policy hardly qualifies as censorshipand all that connotes - indeed, Mr. Bottomer himself acknowledges“Many of you might be surprised to hear that the Quideven has a formal policy on the acceptance of submissions. Icertainly was.”The Policy has not served as an insurmountable bar to entry,and combined with the feedback we’ve received, you’re comfortablewith the content in the Quid and enjoy your weeklyreading. To us, this means the Policy is working. Of course,whether or not there should be a separate policy on quality ofarticles is a different question for a different day...In closing, recall that anyone on Quid staff can propose changesto the Policy - and if any reader has a concern about the Policyor a specific recommendation to make, we are more than willingto listen - just as we always have, and as we always will.42 • OCTOBER 26 TH 2010 • QN