2011-2012
Symposium on Law and Film
(Co-sponsor)
March 2, 2012
Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Place
2:00 – 3:30 pm
Stefan Andriopoulos
Depts. Of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
“The Terror of Reproduction: Early Cinema's Ghostly Doubles and the Right to One's Own Image”
Respondent: James Cahill, French and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto
Stefan Andriopoulos is chair of the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. He is the author of "Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema" (University of Chicago Press, 2008; German version: Fink, 2000), which won the SLSA Michelle Kendrick award for best academic book on literature, science, and the arts. His new publication provisionally titled "Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media," is under contract with Zone Books. His previous work, published in German, includes a monograph "Accident and Crime: Configurations between Literary and Legal Discourse around 1900" (Centaurus, 1996).
James Leo Cahill teaches in the French Department and the Cinema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on early French cinema, documentary and experimental media, and critical theory, with a special interest in the relationships between scientific uses of cinema, cinematic uses of science, and film pedagogy. Cahill is also a co-editor of "Discourse: Journal of Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture."
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Peter Decherney
Dept. of English and Cinema Studies, University of Pennsylvania
“Auteurism on Trial: Moral Rights and Films on Television”
Respondent: Simon Stern, Faculty of Law and Dept. of English
Peter Decherney is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, English, and Communication and the Director of the Cinema Studies Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of "Hollywood’s Copyright Wars: from Edison to the Interne" (Columbia, 2012), and "Hollywood and the Culture Elite: How the Movies Became American" (Columbia, 2005). He regularly testifies before the Copyright Office of the United States, and in 2011, he filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court Case of Golan v. Holder. Prof. Decherney has been an Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Scholar and a fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.
Simon Stern is Assistant Professor of Law and English at the University of Toronto. His research interests include the history of copyright law; legal, literary, and intellectual history in the 18th and 19th centuries; and methodology in interdisciplinary work involving law and the humanities. His work has been published, or is forthcoming, in the "Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities," "Law & Literature," "Law & Social Inquiry," the "Yale Law Journal," and "ELH."
2010-2011
| Date | Speaker | Title |
SEPTEMBER 28 Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00
| Zahr Stauffer
University of Virginia Law School
Co-sponsored by the CILP Innovation Law & Policy workshop Series. | Rethinking Protection for Literary Characters in Intellectual Property Law |
October 21
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:
Faculty Common Room
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park | Carolyn Sale
University of Alberta Dept. of English | The Matter of Heresy and the 'Substance of the Realm': Christopher St. German's Contributions to the 'Battle of the Books' (1532-1534) |
February 8
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Robert Spoo
University of Tulsa Law School & Dept. of English
Co-sponsored by the CILP Innovation Law & Policy workshop series. | Courtesy of the Trade in 19th-Century American Publishing: Social Norms and the Copyright Vacuum for Works Published Abroad
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April 1
Friday
12:30 - 2:00 | Paul Halliday
University of Virginia corcoran Dept. of History | Title: TBA |
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2009-2010
| Date | Speaker | Title |
SEPTEMBER 18
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Edlie Wong
Rutgers University
Dept. of English | The Gender of Freedom before Dred Scott
Co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the U.S. |
NOTE TIME & LOCATION:
November 10
Tuesday
4:00 - 5:30
LOCATION:
Room 100A Jackman Humanities Bldg. 170 St. George | David Steeves
LLM, Dalhousie 2009
| How a Canadian Author Speaks: Some Lessons on Erased Narratives in George and Rue with an Application to Recent Canadian Jurisprudence on Race Co-sponsored by the Department of English |
November 12
4:10 - 6:00
Faculty Lounge
78 Queen's Park | THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED George P. Fletcher
Columbia University Law School | Reading from The Bond: An Educational Novel (Hart 2009)
Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop series. |
November 27
Friday
12:30 - 2:00 | Kenworthey Bilz
Northwestern University School of Law | We Don't Want to Hear It: The Moral and Psychological Legitimacy of Exclusion in the Law |
January 12
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Holger Syme
University of Toronto Dept. of English | A Culture of Mediation: Performance and Authority in Shakespeare’s England Dowload images (PDF - very large - 27 MB) |
January 28
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:
Private Dining Room
Burwash Hall
Victoria University
2nd Floor, 91 Charles St. W. | Mario Biagioli
Harvard University
Department of the History of Science
Co-sponsored by the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies. | Witnessing in Science and Law: Kepler, Galileo, and the Telescope
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February 12
Friday
12:30 - 2:00 | Desmond Manderson
McGill University Faculty of Law | Trust Us Justice: 24, Popular Culture and the Law |
March 10
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Elizabeth Judge
University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Common Law Section | The 'Poor Arts of our Poachers of Popularity': Defoe and the Discourse of Originality, Copyright, and Piracy |
April 1
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Luke Norris
Yale Law School | Legal Order Through Literary Narrative |
2008-2009
| Date | Speaker | Title |
NEW DATE:
OCTOBER 14
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Bruce Hay
Harvard Law School | Earl Warren's Theater of the Absurd |
October 24
Friday
12:30 - 2:00 | Judith Resnik
Yale Law School | Representing Justice: An Iconography of Norms |
November 11
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Lorna Hutson
University of St. Andrews
Dept. of English Co-sponsored by the Centre for Renaissance and Reformation Studies, the University of Toronto Dept. of English, and the Dept of English and the Dean of the Facuty of Arts, York University. | "'Tis Probable and Palpable to Thinking": Law and Likelihood in Shakespeare |
December 2
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Guyora Binder
University at Buffalo Law School | Representing Value: The Meaning of Institutions
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January 6
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Gregg Crane
University of Michigan
Dept. of English Co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States. | Confronting Moral Dilemmas in a Skeptical Moment: Literary Realism, Legal Realism, and Pragmatism
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February 3
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Jamie Taylor
Bryn Mawr Dept. of English | Murder in Norfolk: Neighbors, Witnesses, and the Construction of Community
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March 3
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Alan Ackerman
University of Toronto
Dept. of English | Lillian Hellman, Abortion, and the Right to Privacy |
March 17
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Bernadette Meyler
Cornell Law School | Imagining Revolution in The Laws of Candy
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March 31
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Sara Malton
St. Mary's University
Dept. of English | False Impressions: Law, Authenticity, and History in Nineteenth-century Naval Conscription Narratives |
2007-2008
| Date | Speaker | Title |
September 27
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Stanley Fish
Florida International University | The Intentional Thesis Once More |
November 8
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00 | Bennett Capers
Hofstra University Law School Co-sponsored by Sexual Diversity Studies and the Women & Gender Studies Institute | Cross-Dressing and the Criminal |
January 22
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Mark Rose
Dept. of English
University of California-Santa Barbara Sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy, and co-sponsored by the Law & Literature Workshop. | The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright
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RESCHEDULED:
FEBRUARY 15
Friday
12:30 - 2:00 | Anne Coughlin
University of Virginia Law School Co-sponsored by the Law & Culture Workshop and the Centre for Study of the United States. | Interrogation Stories
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February 28
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:
Flavelle Dining Rm.
78 Queen's Park | Mary Nyquist
English Dept. University of Toronto | Hobbes on Slavery, Gender, and Despotical Rule |
March 18
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00 | Bradin Cormack
University of Chicago, English Dept. | A Power to Do Justice
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April 8
12:30 - 2:00 | Ayelet Ben-Yishai
University of Haifa | Give Me a Precedent: Past, Present and Future in Victorian Fiction and Law |
