Monday, October 30, 2023 - 6:30pm to 9:00pm
Location: 
Torys LLP (79 Wellington St W, Suite 3300, Toronto, ON)

The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History invites you to our inaugural student event -- 'Women's Fight for Legal Personhood: The Persons Case in Historical Perspective.'

 

Professor Jim Phillips will moderate a panel discussion between The Honourable Robert J. Sharpe, Professor Patricia McMahon, and Professor Sonia Lawrence about the Persons Case (Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General), 1929 CanLII 438 (UK JCPC). Panellists will discuss the socio-legal context behind the constitutional challenge, the relationship between constitutional interpretation, gender, and the law, and an evaluation of the contemporary significance of the Famous Five.

 

This event is organized by the Student Representatives for the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. Law students and articling students are particularly encouraged to attend. Students who register will receive a free year-long membership to the Osgoode Society.

 

To register, please visit https://www.osgoodesociety.ca/event/womens-fight-for-legal-personhood/.