Critical Analysis of Law Workshop: Past Years

2011 - 2012

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

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

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).