Instructor(s): Brenda Cossman, Kerry Rittich

Note: Students cannot take more than one workshop for credit in a given year.

The Critical Approaches to Law workshop is designed to survey the rich tradition of critical approaches to legal analysis, and to consider what possibilities they open up and what challenges they face at this time.  The workshop will meet 8 to 10 times throughout the academic year.    

Past speakers have included David Kennedy (Harvard Law School); Mikhail Xifaras, (Sciences Po); Karen Engle (University of Texas); Maneesha Deckha (University of Victoria) ; Nicholas Blomley (Geography, Simon Fraser University); Marianne Constable (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley); Paul Halliday (History, University of Virginia); Bernard Harcourt (Law & Political Science, Columbia University); Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comparative Literature, Princeton); Timothy Hyde (Architecture, Harvard University); Samuel Moyn (Law & History, Yale University); Jennifer Christine Nash (American Studies, George Washington University); Annelise Riles (Law & Anthropology, Cornell University); Mariana Valverde (Criminology, University of Toronto).  

For a complete list of previous workshop guests, please consult the CAL Workshop’s webpage (https://www.law.utoronto.ca/scholarship-publications/workshops-and-seminars/critical-analysis-law-workshop). 

Evaluation
Students who wish to enroll for academic credit are expected to attend all the workshops. In addition, students will prepare comments of about 500 words on four workshop papers (2 per term) and will submit a final paper of 2,000-2,500 words (50%) relating to the themes are approaches of the workshops, (due on the last day for the submission of written work in the second term). Evaluation will be based on comments on papers (40%); final paper (50%); and attendance (10%). Note: Students must pass all components of the course to receive credit for the workshop.
Credit note
1 credit per term
Academic year
2024 - 2025

At a Glance

Both Terms
Credits
2
Hours
2
Perspective course

Enrolment

Maximum
20

17 JD
3 LLM/SJD/MSL/SJD U

Schedule

Th: 12:30 - 2:00 pm