CFLS Fall 2015 Lecture Series
September 22, 2015 – Dr. Trish Luker, University of Technology Sydney
“Animating the Archive: Artefacts of Law”
October 06, 2015 – Shelly Johnson, Mukwa Musayett, University of British Columbia School of Social Work
“Take No Prisoners: Indigenous Women Leaders in the Provincial First Nations Court”
October 20, 2015 – Alison Symington, Co-Director of Research & Advocacy, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
“Consent: HIV Non-Disclosure and Sexual Assault”
October 27, 2015 – Karey Brooks and Elin Sigurdson, legal counsel for Trevor Loke in Loke v. Minister and the LGBTQ Coalition in TWU v Law Society of British Columbia, with special appearances from members of the LGBTQ Coalition.
“The Fight for Equal Access to Law School, the Legal Profession, and… the Courts? The Legal Challenges Involving Trinity Western, the Minister of Advanced Education, the Law Society, OUTLaws and Trevor Loke”
November 3, 2015 – Irene Tsepnopoulos-Elhaimer, Executive Director, and Adrienne Moya, Victim Services Medical Support Worker, Women Against Violence Against Women
“Consent and Women’s Experience, Discourse and Legal Dilemmas: Where do we go from here?”
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CFLS Spring 2016 Lecture Series
January 26, 2016 – Tonie Beharrell, Legal Services, Health Sciences Association, and Anne Bhanu Chopra, Equity Ombudsperson for the Law Society of British Columbia
“Panel Discussion: Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession”
March 1, 2016 – Patricia Cochran, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria
“Not Judging: Restraint and Refusal in the Exercise of Legal Judgment”
March 8, 2016 – Emma Cunliffe, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
“Gendered Racial Violence: R v Barton and the Death of Cindy Gladue”
March 22, 2016 – Margot Young, Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
“Section 7 and Housing Justice”
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Special Lectures, 2015-2016:
October 29, 2015 – Annual Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice
Kim Pate, Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights, University of Saskatchewan College of Law, Executive Director, Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies
“The Terrible Truth about Canadian Crime: No Justice for Indigenous Women”
February 10th, 2016 – Inaugural Lecture for Professor Janine Benedet
“A Revindication of the Rights of Women”
March 10, 2016 – Paz and Knute Buttedahl Memorial Lecture
Co-sponsored by UBC’s Department of Educational Studies and the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. Shelagh Day, “The National Inquiry on Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: What Is It? How Should It Work?”
