The International Law Research Program (ILRP) at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) hosted a one-day graduate conference themed Canada @ 150. This conference examined the history and practices of International Law in Canada over the past 150 years as they relate to each of the ILRP themes: environmental law, economic law, intellectual property law and Indigenous law. This conference sought to determine whether, and to what extent, international law in Canada has grown or has been challenged in the past 150 years and how these challenges can be overcome in the future. This conference featured international law graduate students, researchers and experts who provided insights on law and innovations to support global governance initiatives over the next 50 years.
The purpose of this graduate student conference was to provide ILRP scholarship recipients the opportunity to showcase their research as it relates to current international law rules, instruments and institutions, and to explore how these concepts may be captured over the course of Canada's history. ILRP scholarship students come from a wide array of Canadian legal institutions and brought a breadth of knowledge to these panels. Experts in the field joined the conference as discussants and moderators.