In Memoriam I explained how the Law Commission of Canada developed a law reform model that sought to respond more effectively to the gap between law and reality and to democratize the process of law reform itself. The Law Commission situated its work directly at the interstice between law and action and experimented with different ideas about democratizing its research agenda, its networks of partners and its output. The LCC decided to firmly engage with interdisciplinary and community-based scholarship in the definition of its plan of action (from legal categories to dynamic social facts), in its research process (from legal expertise to social sciences and humanities and to action-based research) and its product (from legislative responses to mechanisms of empowerment). In Memoriam II is organized around four themes: first, that a democratized law reform project requires a process of “translation” between different audiences, second, that it necessarily implies a painful exercise of destabilization of the intellectual status quo, third, that it must support the empowerment and capacity building of the different social actors to embrace and demand change and fourth, that it must do so with care. The paper includes testimonies and case studies derived from the work of the LCC.