Louise Lalonde, professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Sherbrooke, will be animating a discussion on the topic of "Interdisciplinarity as 'contexts'; magnifying glass or binoculars?". 

Different contexts within contemporary legal research seem to impulse and justify the use of interdisciplinary approaches by legal researchers; a complexification of the legal phenomenon, theoretical advances pushing the boundaries of what is legal, and, from a practical standpoint, conditions of subsidized financing and expected transformations of the role of the jurists. A context of a call to interdisciplinarity within contemporary legal research seems to be emerging, and appears appealing to numerous jurists.

However, before venturing further in this direction, clarifications are needed and furthermore perhaps, it seems necessary to ignite or reignite a reflection on the conditions for the possibility of this approach. Of which interdisciplinarity are we talking about, or could we talk about, in response to such contexts? What uses might be made of interdisciplinarity, or more modestly of other disciplines, by contemporary legal research? What is presupposed by this interdisciplinary relation with the knowledge of jurists?

The avenues of interdisciplinarity as an "explicative context", "ontological context" and "epistemological context" must be reflected upon. Does the other's gaze allow for a double gaze, a double and blurred vision, a new view in perspective, or is the other simply oneself? Interdisciplinarity as contexts appears as an interesting voice to be offered to jurists in order to better speak about law, and thus respond to its contemporary impulses; a modulation path for their own voices perhaps, rather than another voice?

Where: Sherbrooke : A8-122 & Longueuil : L1-4688