Critical Analysis of Law Workshop

Critical Analysis of Law (CAL) is a broad research workshop series that reflects the law school's multifaceted intellectual life and its commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry.

Past speakers have included:

  • Marianne Constable (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
  • Lindsay Farmer (Law, University of Glasgow)
  • Paul Halliday (History, University of Virginia)
  • Bernard Harcourt (Law & Political Science, University of Chicago)
  • Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comparative Literature, Princeton)
  • Timothy Hyde (Architecture, Harvard University)
  • Shai Lavi (Law, Tel Aviv University)
  • Samuel Moyn (History, Columbia University)
  • Mariana Valverde (Criminology, University of Toronto)

See past workshops

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 (cover note, intro, ch. 3
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
The Lithium People and the Fetish: A Post-Dogmatic Case Study of the Atacama Desert Peoples and the Extractive Industry
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

* CAL Lab