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By the beginning of 1964 public debate about the terms on which French and English culture could continue to co-exist within a single Canadian federal state had become intense. Many causes could be assigned for the intensity of the debate, but one of them evidently was the lack of clear formulation of the problems. It was in these circumstances that the Association of Canadian Law Teachers and the Canadian Political Science Association used their annual meeting at Charlottetown in 1964 to get, on each of four aspects of the current problem of Canadian federalism, a vigorously reasoned statement, by a French-Canadian and an English-Canadian scholar, of the essentials of the problem as he saw it and then, by way of invited commentaries, to bring the ideas more fully into play. The four aspects were: competing concepts of federalism, economic problems peculiar to our federal state, legal and political attitudes towards the BNA Act, and institutional problems of a revision of the Act

The discussions at the Warsaw conference concerning socialist law had indicated to Western jurists that if the law is indissolubly linked to democracy, it can appear in various guises, & can differ in content from 1 democracy to another. If bourgeois law & socialist law have many points in common, esp in those aspects concerned with the connection of law to the rights of man & with the protection of subjective rights, there are still important diff's between the 2. These diff's have their origin in the econ & soc structure which provide the nature of rights, in the conception of civil rights & in the system of guarantees. Tr by J. A. Broussard from IPSA.

Often presented as a rule, this axiom or adage in reality is simply a gloss, in other words, a commentary by a lawyer and not a legal rule. To turn it into a legal rule, it would be necessary that the law punish acts of private justice even when they only use means lawful in themselves. Souvent cité comme une règle, cet adage n'est en réalité qu'une glose : commentaire de juriste, et non règle de droit. Pour qu'il en soit autrement, il faudrait que le droit punisse des actes de justice privée même lorsqu'ils n'utilisent que des moyens licites en soi. ; Peer reviewed

Law has hardly influenced the language problem in Switzerland; it merely recognized an existing situation when the gov admitted French, German & Italian as nat'l languages; in 1938, romansch was added, though it was not an official language. But plurilingualism is valid only on the federal level. In the cantons, the regional language prevails. Jurisprudence has decreed that all 3 languages are official; federal authorities speak in their own language, though only French & German are used in Assembly debates. Similarly, in the admin, bilingualism prevails. In differentiating nat'l from official languages, Switzerland wished to recognize the romansch community as an essential element of the state, having a certain autonomy, & which participates in federal life & respects certain rules in the linguistic relations among cantons. (See SA 1330-B4520 & B4523.) Tr & modified from IPSA by.

An essay on juridical aspects of sociol, based on an examination of the relevent literature, Agreement is voices with the view of G. Gurvitch that juridical sociol is the full sci of law & that it includes what has been called the philosophy of law, as well as the general theory of law, juristics, juridical phenomenology, juridical deontology, etc. It does not, however, include juridical logic, which is one of the formal types of logic. Nor does it include juridical & judiciary psychol, which may, however, serve as its auxilliary sci's. Practical res themes of juridical sociol include: the teaching of law; the genesis & evolution of laws; knowledge of & respect for law; egoistic & altruistic aspects of legal relations; private & collective property, etc. I. Langnas.