The Critical Approaches to Law workshop (part of the Faculty of Law Colloquium) 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.  This year, the workshop will be offered in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute, and it will have a special focus on issues of diversity, citizenship and transnational law. 

See past workshops

If you would like more information about these workshops, please send an email to events.law@utoronto.ca

Faculty of Law Colloquium

Winter/Spring Term 2025
12:30pm – 2:00pm

Location: Falconer Hall, 84 Queen’s Park, Michael J. Trebilcock Solarium (FA2)

Date / Time

Workshop

Speaker and Topic

Jan. 9

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Critical Analysis of Law/Legal Theory

Elizabeth Anker – Cornell Law School

Left Crit Theory goes to Washington: The Anti-Liberal Ideology of the Roberts Court

Jan. 16

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Law and Economics

Henry Smith – Harvard Law

Combining Property and Contract

Jan. 23

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Critical Analysis of Law/Legal Theory

Naiomi Metallic – Dalhousie University

Addressing the Elephant in the Room: Crown Sovereignty and how UNDRIP provides a conceptual off-ramp

Jan. 30

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Critical Analysis of Law

Carolyn Strange – The Australian National University

The Politics of Abolition: Reframing the death penalty’s history in comparative perspective

Feb. 6

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Law and Economics

Manisha Padi  – Berkeley Law

Title: TBA

Feb. 13

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Legal Theory

Eric Adams – University of Alberta

The Challenge of Exile: Japanese Canadians and the Wartime Constitution

Feb. 27

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Critical Analysis of Law

Aya Gruber – USC, Gould School of Law

Sex Exceptionalism

Mar. 6

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Law and Economics

Tom Ginsburg – University of Chicago

Title: TBA

Mar. 13

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Legal Theory

Jennifer Nadler – Osgoode Hall Law School

Consideration and its Problems: A Re-Interpretation

Mar. 20

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Critical Analysis of Law/Legal Theory

Hugh Collins – LSE Law School

Title: TBA

Mar. 27 

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Law and Economics

Natasha Sarin – Yale Law School

Title: TBA

Apr. 3

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Critical Analysis of Law

Katya Assaf – The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Take it to the Streets: Re-Imaging Urban Spaces as Sites of Individual Expression

Apr. 10 

12:30 – 2:00
Room: Solarium

Legal Theory

Danielle D’Onfro – Washington University School of Law

Title: TBA