Toronto Session, September 23-24, 2011
Solarium, Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park Crescent
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Contact information: Professor Sophia Moreau (sr.moreau@utoronto.ca)
Administrative assistance: Ms. Nadia Gulezko (n.gulezko@utoronto.ca)
Schedule
Friday September 23
Breakfast available in the Solarium from 9:30 am
Opening Remarks by Professor Sophia Moreau and Professor Deborah Hellman
Session 1: 10am -noon
Professor Larry Blum, "Racial and Other Asymmetries: A Problem for the Protected Categories Framework for Antidiscrimination Thought"
Commentary by Dr. Joshua Glasgow
Lunch: 12-1pm
Session 2: 1-3pm
Professor Richard Arneson, "Discrimination, Disparate Impact, and Theories of Justice"
Commentary by Professor Thomas Hurka
Coffee 3-3:30pm
Session 3: 3:30-5:30pm
Professor Elizabeth Emens, "Framing Disability"
Commentary by Professor David Wasserman
Reception, 5:30-6:30pm
In the Faculty Common Room, Flavelle House
Conference Dinner, 7pm
At C5 Restaurant, 5th floor of the Royal Ontario Museum
Saturday September 24
Breakfast available from 8:30am in the Solarium
Session 4: 9am - 11am
Professor Michael Selmi, "Has the Disparate Impact Theory Run Its Course?"
Commentary by Professor Samuel Bagenstos
Coffee 11-11:30am
Session 5: 11:30am-1:30pm
Professor Hanoch Sheinman, "The Conventional Meaning of Institutional Discrimination"
Commentary by Professor Christopher McCrudden
Lunch 1:30 - 2:30pm
Colloquium ends