The current Academic Director of the Revue générale de droit is Professor Michelle Giroux, who took over the role in 2020, and who is the primary investigator on the new grant. Under Professor Giroux’s guidance, the Revue began a collaboration with the Civil Law Section’s visual advocacy and knowledge mobilization platform, Jurivision, to create short documentaries with authors on topics explored in their published articles. An example is Ghislain Otis’s recent exploration of the ancestral rights of Indigenous Peoples connected to the historic James Bay agreement. A second video features the work of Catherine Piché and Shana Chaffai-Parent on the fundamental importance of efficiency in the administration of justice in a crisis. More videos with Jurivision will be featured soon.
This recent collaboration is indicative of a larger reorientation of the editorial policy of the Revue over the last ten years, as it strives to give more prominence to authors who represent interdisciplinary perspectives and topics that contribute significantly to the development of law through critical approaches. Articles published over the last two years deal with major economic and social issues, such as the regulation of the carbon market and Canada's role in the protection of human rights in the Americas, to name just two.
Within the past ten years, the Revue also partnered with the online platform Érudit to make all of its issues, past and present, available online, in open-access format. This has not only expanded the reach of the journal beyond Canada, but also vastly improved the ease with which readers can access articles, which has been an important asset during the COVID-19 pandemic.
SSHRC’s Aid to Scholarly Journals grants support Canadian scholarly dissemination while enabling journals to explore and expand innovative activities. With this new funding, the Revue générale de droit will continue to innovate in how it makes its content available to users, while also expanding opportunities for emerging researchers to have their work published.
Congratulations to Professor Giroux and the entire team at the Revue générale de droit!