Allard School of Law’s own Professor Margot Young will be speaking in the final lecture of the Centre’s Spring lecture series on section 7 of the Charter and housing justice. She will discuss how the struggle for the “soul” of section 7 is an uphill one, requiring that standard shibboleths of liberal legalism—the distinction between positive and negative rights and concerns around justifiability—be faced down.
In PDF: Lecture Poster 03.15.16 Margot Young
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This week, on International Women’s Day, Tuesday, March 8th, Professor Emma Cunliffe will speak in the CFLS lecture series on “Gendered Racial Violence: R v Barton and the Death of Cindy Gladue”. This talk will critically examine the trial transcripts from Barton’s trial. It will explore how Gladue was depicted by witnesses and lawyers, and trace the operation of racialized and gendered stereotypes throughout the case.
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The 2016 Paz and Knute Buttedahl Memorial Lecture will take place Thursday, March 10, 2016 at 7- 9pm in Allard Hall Room 104, co-sponsored by UBC’s Department of Educational Studies and the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies.
The lecture will feature Shelagh Day, speaking on “The National Inquiry on Murders and Disappearances of Indigenous Women and Girls: What Is It? How Should It Work?”.
In PDF: Buttedahl Memorial Lecture Poster 2016
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Coming up next Tuesday, Patricia Cochran will be joining us from the University of Victoria to talk about “Not Judging: Restraint and Refusal in the Exercise of Legal Judgment.” She will be exploring this theme in the context of the 2015 Supreme Court of Canada decision in Kahkewistahaw First Nation v Taypotat.
In PDF: Lecture Poster 03.01.16 Patricia Cochran
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We have an exciting lecture to look forward to when we come back from reading week! Former Supreme Court of Canada Justice, the Honourable Marie Deschamps, will be speaking about the review she conducted of policies on sexual misconduct in the Canadian Armed Forces. Her lecture is titled “Taking Action on Sexual Misconduct” and will take place in room 122 at 12:30pm next Tuesday, February 23rd.
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