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McGill University law professor Roderick A. Macdonald influenced generations of legal minds. His work paved the way for the legalization of same-sex marriage, and led to Canada's apology to residential school survivors. Through a series of short interviews with him, and testimonies given at a symposium in his honour -- both just before he passed away in the spring of 2014 -- we discover what drove his lifelong passion for justice.

The best way to achieve a harmonious and peaceful society is to recognize that people have within themselves the capacity to do what is appropriate under the circumstances, and that the law should be designed to facilitate their agency. Roderick A. Macdonald

, the Peter M. Laing Chair at the McGill Faculty of Law., an Associate Professor in the McGill Faculty of Law., University of New South Wales Law Faculty., Justice at the Supreme Court of Canada., Dean of the Faculty of Law at McGill., Dean of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie., Justice on the Quebec Court of Appeal., an Associate Professor at the McGill Faculty of Law, Montreal lawyer.