2021 - 2022 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

September 16
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
In Person 

Introduction: What are Critical Approaches to Law?

**This first workshop is for students only

September 30
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
In Person

Heidi Bohaker – History, University of Toronto

"Doodem and Council Fire: Governance Through Alliance."

October 14
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
In Person

Ronit Dinovitzer, Sida Liu, and Abdi Aidid –Dept of Sociology & Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

"The Future of the Legal ProfessionA Conversation"

October 28
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
Online Event

Senthorun Sunil Raj - Manchester Law School

"Feeling Queer Jurisprudence: Intimacy, Injury, Identity"

November 18
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM 
TBA

Chantal Thomas - Cornell Law School

"Race as a Technology of Global Economic Governance"

January 27
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
FL 219

Kamari Clarke – Criminology and Socio Legal Studies, University of Toronto

"Affective Justice"

February 10
12:30 - 2:00 PM
J225

Hila Shamir –The Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv Univ.

“Saving sex workers by criminalising clients? Governance feminism and the passage and impact of end demand legislation in Israel”

March 3
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
FL 219

Veena Dubal - University of California Hastings College of Law

"The New Racial Wage Code"

March 24
4:10 PM - 6:00 PM
FL 219 Mikhail Xifaras – Sciences Po Law School, Paris/NYU Abu Dhabi

"Kant on the law and the political: critical (French) views" 

 

2020 - 2021 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

September 16**
Wednesday
4:30 PM - 6 PM
Online Event

1969 Criminal Law Reforms

Dean Robert Leckey, McGill University
Professor Kyle Kirkup, University of Ottawa
Professor Ummni Khan, Carleton University
Professor Brenda Cossman, University of Toronto

October 1
Thursday
4:10 PM - 6 PM
Online Event

Professor David Kennedy, Harvard Law School 
A World of Struggle: How power, law and expertise shape political economy - Afterward

October 15
Thursday
4:10 PM - 6 PM
Online Event

Professor Karen Engle, Minerva House Drysdale Regent Chair in Law, University of Texas
The Grip of Sexual Violence in Conflict:  Feminist Interventions in International Law

October 29
Thursday
4:10 PM - 6 PM
Online Event

Professor Maneesha Deckha, Lansdowne Chair in Law, University of Virginia
Animals as Legal Beings: Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders

November 19
Thursday
4:10 PM - 6 PM 
Online Event

Professor Mira Siegelberg, Cambridge University 
Statelessness: A Modern History

January 28
Thursday
4:10 PM - 6 PM
Online Event

Professor Julie Cohen, Mark Claster Mamolen Professor of Law and Technology, Georgetown Law Center 
Between Truth and Power: The Legal Constructions of Informational Capitalism

February 4
Thursday
4 PM - 6 PM
Online Event

Professor E. Tendayi Achiume, UCLA School of Law; UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance 
Racial Borders

This event is co-sponsored by the WGSI Research Seminar and Harney Program 

February 25
Thursday
4:10 PM - 6 PM
Online Event

Professor Mikhail Xifaras, Sciences Po Law School, Paris
The Theory of Legal Characters

March 12
Friday
12pm - 2pm
Online Event

Professor Guenter Frankenberg, Goethe University, Frankfurt
Helena Alviar Garcia, Science Po Law School, Paris
Bojan Bugaric, University of Sheffield

The rise of authoritarianism and populism: Challenges to critical analyses of law

 

2019 - 2020 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

September 17
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Rabia Belt - Stanford Law School

Outcasts from the Vote: Woman Suffrage and Mental Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century United States

September 24
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Cindy Ewing - Dept. of History, University of Toronto

Codifying Minority Rights: Postcolonial Constitutionalism in Burma, Ceylon, and India

October 15
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Sabine Tsuruda - Queen's University Faculty of Law

Working as Equal Moral Agents

November 12
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

K- Sue Park - Georgetown University

The Transformation of the Mortgage in Early American Colonies

November 19
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Randall Abate - Political Science and Sociology, Monmouth University

Proposal for Enhanced Stewardship and Rights-Based Protections for the Voiceless

January 21
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Kayanesenh Paul Williams - author of Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace

Indigenous Legal Orders and the Common Law

February 25
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Ashwini Vasanthakumar - Queen's University Faculty of Law

Exiles as Stakeholders

March 10
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Sarah Seo - University of Iowa Law School

The Automotive Fourth Amendment

March 24
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Catherine Evans - Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

Lovers, Monsters, and the Problem of Evil: Moral Insanity and Criminal Responsibility in the British Empire

 2018 - 2019 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

September 18
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Christoph Burchard - Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
From Open Normativity to Normative Openness – or on Addressing the Elephant in the Room (i.e. the fact of justificatory pluralism in ICJ)
September 25
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Doreen Lustig - Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law
Judicial Review in the Contemporary World: Retrospective and Prospective (co-authored with Joseph H. H. Weiler)
October 9
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Nomi Stolzenberg, University of Southern California, Gould School of Law
Blindspot: Faith-Based Discrimination and the Misinterpretation of  Sherbert v. Verner

October 23
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Amy Bell, Huron University College, Western University
English Crime Scene Photographs as  Documentary Images

November 13
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Efrat Arbel, University of British Columbia, Peter A. Allard School of Law

November 27
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Joseph  Fischel, Yale University, Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Capability without Dignity?

 

January 15
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45

Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

 

Janet Halley, Harvard Law School

January 29
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
 Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Beatrice Jauregui, University of Toronto, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies

February 26
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Emily Nacol - University of  Toronto, Political Science Department

March 26
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
 Room FL219
John Willis Classroom
78 Queen's Park

Joshua Nichols, University of Alberta Faculty of Law

2017 - 2018 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

September 19
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Elizabeth Anker - Cornell University Department of English
South African Constitutionalism and the Architecture of the Nation
October 17
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Talia Fisher - Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law
Contractual Ordering of the Procedural Arena

October 24
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Lionel Smith, McGill University Faculty of Law
Parenthood is a Fiduciary Relationship

November 7
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Benjamin Kahan - Louisiana State University Women's and Gender Studies
"The Walk-in Closet: Situational Homosexuality, Lillian Hellman v. Mary McCarthy, and the Legal Consensus Against Immutability”

January 16
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Torrey Shanks - University of Toronto Political Science Department
The Rhetoric of Self-Ownership

 February 6
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
 Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Vanessa Ogle - University of California, Berkeley History Department
Legalizing the Offshore World: Tax Havens and The Architecture of Global Capitalism, 1950s-1970s

February 13
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
 Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Mireille Hildebrandt - Vrije University, Brussels
Privacy as the protection of the incomputable self:  Issues of data protection law in a date-driven environment

2016 - 2017 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

September 20
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Yishai Blank - Tel Aviv University, Buchmann Faculty of Law
In Search of the Secular: A Socio-Legal Journey

September 27
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Anver Emon - University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Codification and Islamic Law: The Ideology behind a Tragic Narrative

October 11
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Sikander Ahmed Shah - Lahore University of Management Sciences
The Hegemonic Structuring of International Law and its Contribution to Conflict (in Pakistan)
November 15
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Kristen Stilt - Harvard Law School
Constitutional Animal Protection
November 1
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Jedidiah Kroncke - FGV Sao Paulo School of Law (Brazil)
The Futility of Law and Development:  China and the Dangers of Exporting American Law

With responses by Mariana Prado, Michael Trebilcock, and Kerry Rittich

January 10
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Pascale Fournier - University of Ottawa Faculty of Law (Civil Law)
Reframing Secularist Premises:  Divorce Among Traditional Muslim and Jewish Women within the Secular State
January 24
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Brian Connolly - University of South Florida Dept. of History
Law and the Archive of Sovereignty
February 3
Friday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Martti Koskenniemi - University of Helsinki Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights
Sovereignty, Property and Empire:  Early Modern English Contexts 
February 28
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Renisa Mawani - University of British Columbia Dept. of Sociology
Law, Settler Colonialism, and “the Forgotten Space” of Maritime Worlds

March 21
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Christopher Warren - Carnegie Mellon University Dept. of English
2015 - 2016 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

October 2
Friday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
David Armitage - Harvard University, Department of History
Worlds of Civil War: Globalizing Civil War in the Late Twentieth Century
October 20
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Arnulf Becker - Brown University, International Studies
Mestizo International Law: a global intellectual history. 1842-1933
November 10
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Kim Brooks - Dalhousie University, Schulich School of Law
The Law of the Everyday
January 19
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Jacco Bomhoff - London School of Economics, Law Department
Situating Proportionality: Thinking Comparatively about Constitutional Review and Punitiveness
February 9
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Ronald Niezen - McGill University, Faculty of Law
Templates and Exclusions: The Making of Cultural Genocide in Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools
March 1
Friday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Jennifer Pitts - University of Chicago, Political Science
The Turn to Positivism in International Law? Vattel and His Nineteenth-Century Reception
April 5
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Rohit De - Yale University, Department of History
Husna Bai's Profession: Sex, Work and Freedom in the Indian Constitution
2014 - 2015 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

September 30, 2014
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Aya Gruber, Law, University of Colorado - Boulder
Neofeminism [cover memo]
November 11
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Justin Marceau, Law, University of Denver 
Killing for Your Dog 
November 25
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Khiara Bridges, Law & Anthropology, Boston University
The Poverty of Privacy Rights 
December 2
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Nicholas Blomley, Geography, Simon Fraser University
Disentangling Law: The Practice of Bracketing
 
February 24
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Jennifer Christine Nash, American Studies, George Washington University
The Institutional Life of Intersectionality 
March 13
Friday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Robert Gordon, Stanford Law School
Markets, Morals and Lawyers
March 24
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Prabha Kotiswaran, Law, King's College London
Beyond Sexual Humanitarianism: A Postcolonial Approach to Anti-Trafficking Law

2013 - 2014 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER & TOPIC

September 10
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Roy Kreitner, Tel Aviv University
The Political Career of the Dollar, 1862-1913
October 15
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Talia FisherTel Aviv University
Statistical Evidence: The Case for Sensitivity
[co-sponsor: Criminal Law Sciences Club] 
October 22
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Hadley Friedland, University of Alberta
Indigenous Legal Traditions: Roots to Renaissance 
(with Val Napoleon) [co-sponsor: Criminal Law Sciences Club
* October 22
Tuesday
4:00 - 7:30
Alumni Hall 
VC 112 Old Vic
91 Charles St W
The Law in These Parts, Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Ra'anan Alexandrowicz, feat. Kent Roach and Markus Dubber (flyer) [co-sponsor: Criminal Law Sciences Club]
November 19
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Jonathan Yovel, University of Haifa
Language and Power in the House of the Law 
January 21
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Fleur Johns, University of Sydney
The Laws of Lists and the Demos of Data

February 25
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Alison LaCroix, University of Chicago
The Interbellum Constitution: Federalism in the Long Founding Moment
March 11
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Amy Adler, New York University
The Meaning of Transformation and the Transformation of Meaning
March 25
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Paul KahnYale Law School
Freedom and Method

2012 - 2013 SCHEDULE

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER & TOPIC

* September 10
Friday
2:00 - 3:00
Faculty Lounge 
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park
Robert Wintemute, King's College London
Same-Sex Partners and Parents in the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights
September 25
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
David Grewal, Yale Law School
The Invention of the Economy: A History of Economic Thought
October 9
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Brad Snyder, University of Wisconsin Law School
The Real Progressive Constitutionalist
November 13
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
James Q. Whitman, Yale Law School
Laying Just Claim to the Profits of War
November 27
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Mark Antaki, McGill University Faculty of Law
Genre, Sentiment, and the Critique of Human Rights
January 15
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Martin Loughlin, London School of Economics Dept. of Law
The Concept of Constituent Power
* January 25
Friday
3:00 - 4:15
Faculty Lounge 
Flavelle House 
78 Queen's Park
Alonso Barros, Universidad Nacional Andrés Bello, Santiago, Chile
February 5
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Suzanne Stone, Cardozo School of Law
The Interaction of Religion and Human Rights Discourses: Babel or Translation, Conflict or Convergence?
March 12
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
John Mikhail, Georgetown Law School
“Any Animal Whatever”: Harmful Battery and its Elements as Building Blocks of Moral Cognition 
April 2
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium 
Falconer Hall 
84 Queen's Park
Elizabeth Emens, Columbia Law School
Compulsory Sexuality

2011 - 2012 SCHEDULE

Date & Time

Place

Speaker and Topic

September 29 Thursday
12:30 – 2:00

Classroom A (FLA) Flavelle House
78 Queen’s Park

Bernard Harcourt – University of Chicago Law School Against Public Policy: A Critique of Economic Cost-Benefit Analysis

October 25 Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00

Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

Gary Edmond – University of New South Wales Faculty of Law
Advice for the Courts: Criminal Justice, Expertise and the Crisis in Forensic Science and Medicine

November 25 Friday
12:30 – 2:00

Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

Samuel Moyn – Columbia University History Department From Antiwar Politics to Antitorture Politics

January 31 Tuesday
12:30 – 2:00

Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

Mikhail Xifaras – Law, Sciences-Po Paris
Legal Stylistic Constraints

February 8 Wednesday
12:30 – 2:00

Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

Hanoch Dagan – Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
The Character of Legal Theory

February 15 Wednesday
12:30 – 2:00

Solarium (room FA2)F alconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

Annelise Riles – Cornell University Law School
Collateral Knowledge: Legal Reason in the Global Financial Markets

March 13
Tuesday
12:30- 2:00

Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

Rande Kostal – University of Western Ontario Law School Allied Planning for the Denazification of German Law, 1944-45: Problems of History and Theory

March 22 Thursday
12:30 – 2:00

Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

Marianne Constable – UC Berkeley Rhetoric Department Our Word Is Our Bond: How Legal Speech Acts

2010 - 2011 SCHEDULE

September 17
Friday
12:30 - 2:00

Mariana Valverde
Criminology, University of Toronto
'The Honour of the Crown Is at Stake': Aboriginal Land Claims Litigation and the Epistemology of Sovereignty*     

October 15
Friday
12:30 - 2:00

Lindsay Farmer
Law, University of Glasgow
Disgust, Respect, and the Criminalization of Offense*

November 11
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00

Timothy Hyde
Architecture, Harvard University
’Mejores ciudades, ciudadanos mejores’: Law and Architecture in the Cuban Republic
Co-sponsored with the Faculty of Architecture

January 14
Friday
12:30 - 2:00

Daniel Heller-Roazen
Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Pirates and the Limits of Universality 

February 1
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00

Shai Lavi
Law, Tel Aviv University
Rethinking the Crisis of Legal Scholarship* 

March 31
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00

Paul Halliday
History, University of Virginia
Habeas Corpus in Imperial Perspective

* CAL Lab

For more information, please contact
Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto or any of the workshop conveners (Markus Dubber, Angela Fernandez, Karen Knop, Simon Stern).