Workshop: Faculty Colloquium (LAW221Y1Y)

This workshop course is designed to survey the rich tradition of critical approaches to legal analysis, to consider what transformative possibilities they open up and what challenges they face at this time.  Topics in recent years have included: race and borders; Indigenous legal traditions; sex work, sexuality and reproduction; the digital revolution and algorithmic governance; and citizenship, transnational and international law. Students in the course will attend those 8 to 10 meetings of the Faculty Colloquium whose speakers’ work engages in this tradition. The specific meetings will be identified in the course syllabus. 

Past speakers include:  David Kennedy (Harvard Law School); Karen Engle (University of Texas); Hila Shamir (Tel Aviv University); Maneesha Deckha (University of Victoria); Aziza Ahmed (Boston University); Brishen Rogers (Georgetown Law Centre); Tendayi Achiume (UCLA School of Law); Lea Ypi (London School of Economics); Mikhail Xifaras (Sciences Po); Kamari Clarke (Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto); Martti Koskenniemi (University of Helsinki); Nicholas Blomley (Geography, Simon Fraser University); Marianne Constable (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley); Bernard Harcourt (Law & Political Science, Columbia University); Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comparative Literature, Princeton); Timothy Hyde (Architecture, Harvard University); Samuel Moyn (Law & History, Yale University); Jennifer Christine Nash (American Studies, George Washington University); Annelise Riles (Law & Anthropology, Cornell University); Mariana Valverde (Criminology, University of Toronto).

For a complete list of previous workshop guests, please consult the CAL Workshop’s webpage (https://www.law.utoronto.ca/scholarship-publications/workshops-and-seminars/critical-analysis-law-workshop).