2010-2011

DateSpeakerTitle

PLEASE NOTE TIME:
October 7
Thursday
4:10-6:00 PM

Philomila Tsoukala
Georgetown University Law Center

Marrying Family Law to Nation


Co-sponsored by the Globalization, Law & Justice Workshop series.

December 3
Friday
12:30 - 2:00PM

Ratna Kapur
Centre for Feminist Legal Research (New Delhi)

Hecklers to Power? The Waning of Liberal Rights and Challenges to  Feminism in India 

 

January 24
Monday
12:30 - 2:00 PM

LOCATION:
Classroom A
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park

 

 

Mary Eberts, Ph. D. Candidate, Univ. of Toronto
Christine Kung'u, LLM Candidate, Univ. of Toronto
Fiona Sampson, Executive Director, The Equality Effect

 

 

The Legal Protection of Kenyan Girls from Rape:  A Comparative Analysis of the Relevan Canadian and Kenyan Constitutional Provisions

 

 

 

 

 

PLEASE NOTE TIME & LOCATION.
February 17
Thursday

3:00 - 5:00 PM
Faculty Common Room, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park

Gillian Lester
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School

 

Title:  tba

Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop series.

2009 - 2010

DateSpeakerTitle

October 28
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00

Davina Cooper
University of Kent

LOCATION: 
Flavelle Dining Room
78 Queen's Park

Stripping the Public Bare:  Theorizing the Politics of In/Equality from Nudist Encounters

March 19
Friday
12:30 - 2:00

Melissa Murray
UC-Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED

 Marriage as Punishment

2008 - 2009

DateSpeakerTitle

October 30
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00

Maleiha Malik
King's College London

 Complex Equality:  Headscarves and Feminist Responses - The Case of Shabina Begum in the House of Lords

November 2
Monday
12:30 - 2:00

Carol Smart
University of Manchester

 Family Secrets:  Law and Understandings of Openness in Everyday Relationships

November 13
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 
Daphne Gilbert
University of Ottawa
 Privacy's Second Home:  Building a New Home for Privacy Under Section 15 of the Charter

January 16
Friday
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:
Flavelle Dining Room

Alejandro Madrazo
Professor of History of Law and Comparative Law, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), School of Law

and

Legal Consultant re Decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City and Tobacco Control legislation


Co-sponsored by the Constitutional Roundtable and the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Programme, University of Toronto

The 2008 Mexican Supreme Court Decision on Abort

2007 - 2008

DateSpeakerTitle

November 2
Friday
12:30 - 2:00

Linda McClain
Hofstra University Law School

Marriage Pluralism

November 22
Thursday
4:10 - 6:00

Location:
Solarium

Shirin Rai
University of Warwick, Dept. of Politics and International Studies

Co-sponsored with the Globalizaton Workshop.

Feminising Global Governance

November 28
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:09

Laura Spitz
University of Colorado Law School

International commitments, Transnational Imperatives and Intra-National Rights
January 18
Friday
12:30 - 2:00

Laura Rosenbury
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

 

February 1
Friday
12:30 - 2:00

Carol Sanger
Columbia Law School
The Eye of the Storm:  Mandatory Ultrasound and Fetal Confrontation

2006 - 2007

Unless otherwise indicated, all workshops are held
in the Solarium - Room FA2
84 Queen's Park

A light lunch will be served.

DateSpeakerTitle

September 15
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Karen Engle
University of Texas

Calling in the Troops to Save Women: Defining Genocide and Rape

October 6
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Mary Condon & Lisa Philipps
York University

Transnational Market Governance and Economic Citizenship: New Frontiers for Feminist Legal Theory

October 27
(Friday)

12:10 - 1:45

Camille Nelson
St. Louis University Law School

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop series.

Lovin' the Man:  Examining the Nexus of Irony, Hypocrisy and Curiosity

November 17
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Gillian Calder
University of Victoria

Co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop series.

Penguins and Polygamy: The Essence of Marriage in Canadian Family Law

February 2
(Friday)
12:10 1:45

Daphne Barak-Erez
(Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law)

The Feminist Battle for Citizenship: Between Combat Duties and Conscientious Objection

March 2
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Martha Ertman
University of Utah College of Law

Mormon Polygamy as Race Treason

March 8
(Thursday)
12:10 - 1:45

Amy Adler
New York University

Co-sponsored by the Innovation Law & Theory Workshops
Child Pornography Law and the Sexualization of Childhood
March 16
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Kim Brooks
University of British Columbia
Debra Parkes
University of Manitoba

Co-sponsored by the Diversity Worksohp Series

Taking a Break from Feminism?  What's Happened to Critical Perspectives Law Courses?

2005 - 2006

Unless otherwise indicated, all workshops are held
in the Solarium - Room FA2
84 Queen's Park

A light lunch will be served.

DateSpeakerTitle

September 16
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Katherine Franke
Columbia University

Co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop series.

New Location:
Room FA3, 84 Queen's Park
The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage Politics

October 21
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Kate Sutherland
Osgoode Hall Law School

New Location:
Dining Room, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park

Teenagers, Freak Dancing and Sexual Regulation

November 9
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Catherine Dauvergne (University of British Columbia)

Co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop series and the Robert F. Harney Professorship and Program in Ethnic, Immigration, and Pluralism Studies
And yet we are not saved:  Hegemony and the global war on human trafficking

December 2
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Anita Allen
University of Pennsylvania

Co-sponsore by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy.

Disrobed:  The Constitution of Modesty

January 13
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45
Adrienne Davis
University of North Carolina
But It Feels So Good to be Bad: Abjection and Consent in Art and Law

January 25
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Lisa Philipps (Osgoode Hall Law School)

Co-sponsored by the James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshop series.
Partners in Business, Partners in Love:  Tax Law and the Two-Person Career

February 3
(Friday)
12:10 1:45

Kathryn Abrams
University of California, Berkeley
Law in the Cultivation of Hope

March 10
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Leti Volpp
University of California, Berkeley

Co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop Series.

Engendering Culture

 

March 24
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

 

Rebecca Johnson (Univ. of Victoria)
Marie-Claire Belleau (Univ. Laval)

NEW LOCATION: 
Solarium (room FA2)
84 Queen's Park

Dissent, Concurrence and Other Judicial Opinions:  Reason(s) and Passion in the Production of Law

March 31
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Madhavi Sunder
University of California, Davis

The New Enlightenment