Supporting the Vitality
of Canada's Minority
Language Communities.

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The International Observatory on Language Rights

The International Observatory on Language Rights aims, on the one hand, to promote the vitality of minority language communities in Canada by urging these communities to take part in the development of their rights and, on the other hand, to acquaint other countries with the Canadian experience by sharing with them how Canada has dealt with its official languages problems. Conversely, the Observatory hopes to help Canadians gain better insight into the linguistic situation in other countries, thereby providing an opportunity to learn from their experience, and offering different problem-solving avenues.

For the sixth volume of the Language Law Review

The Language Law Review is an academic journal published by the International Observatory on Language Rights, a research centre at the Faculty of Law at the Université de Moncton. The Review is currently accepting submissions for original texts exploring language rights, in their general sense (the rights of linguistic and cultural minorities, the regulation of linguistic matters through legal means, as well as any other question relating to the relationship between law and language), and related socio-legal issues. The Review welcomes a diversity of methodological approaches, including inter- and pluri-disciplinary, comparative, and critical positivist approaches, and publishes articles on all legal systems, in Canada or elsewhere in the world. The Review publishes articles in both French and English.

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