Faculty Colloquium: Annelise Riles

Faculty Colloquium

Presents:

Annelise Riles
Northwestern University

Zombie Wilderness: Field Guide for a World Without a Centre

Thursday September 7, 2023
12:30pm – 2pm
Falconer Hall, 84 Queens Park
Room: Michael J. Trebilcock Solarium FH103 / FA2 

Critical Analysis of Law Workshop

Critical Analysis of Law Workshop

Presents:

Martti Koskenniemi
University of Helsinki

Rights and the Bourgeois Revolution

Critical Analysis of Law Workshop

Critical Analysis of Law Workshop

Presents:

Adrienne D. Davis
Washington University in St. Louis

Combatting Campus Sexual Assault through a Jurisprudence of BDSM

Yukiko Kobayashi Lui

Yukiko, wearing a grey sweater, smiles in a photograph taken in the Jackman Law Building
SJD Candidate
Thesis title:
Care work, dependence and redistribution in family life and law
Office in Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, M5S 2C5

Yukiko is a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Law with a collaborative specialization in sexual diversity studies at the Mark S. Bonham Centre. Her research interests are in the law governing families and households and the work that happens within them, and in critical legal and political theories. Her doctoral project is about the law and politics of legal relationship recognition, particularly as related to economic dependence, social assistance, and unwaged work during and after relationships. She is interested in how law and social assistance create and police the borders of 'the family' and what implications this has for the material preconditions that make life possible. She also maintains an interest in the law of Hong Kong. Prior to commencing her doctoral studies, she worked in the non-profit sector and in publishing.

Education
LLM (Distinction), The University of Hong Kong
BA (Hons) in Law, University of Cambridge
Awards and Distinctions
Centre for Ethics Doctoral Fellowship (2023-2024)
Mary H. Beatty Fellowship (2023-2024)
Graduate Fellowship in Women's Rights (2022-2024)
Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence (2015-2018)
Professional Affiliations
Law and Society Association
Canadian Law and Society Association
Other information

Co-organiser, Feminist Legal Theory and the Family conference, hosted at the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School (May 2024)

Organising committee, Sex Salon speaker series, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (2023-2024)

Co-organiser, Toronto Law and Political Economy Reading Group (Spring 2023)

 

Research Interests
Comparative Law
Critical Legal Theory
Family Law
Feminist Analysis of Law
Political Philosophy and Theory
Sexuality and the Law
Supervisor
Committee Members
Linda White (Department of Political Science)

Noy Naaman

SJD Candidate
Thesis title:
Queer Reproductive Justice: Time, Border and Affect
Office in Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, M5S 2C5

Noy Naaman is an Ontario Trillium & Connaught International Scholar at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in the collaborative programs of Sexual Diversity Studies and Jewish Studies. His research explores the role of time, borders and affects in conflicts around reproductive rights and parental determination. Noy completed a Master of Law degree (LLM) from Columbia Law School as a Human Rights Fellow and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law.

Education
S.J.D. Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law (2018-present)
LL.M., (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar), Columbia Law School, New York (2017)
LL.B. (Magna cum laude), Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, Israel (2014)
Awards and Distinctions
Ontario Trillium Scholarship
Connaught International Scholarship (declined)
Sarah Weddington Writing Prize co-sponsored by If/When/How, the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law
ICON-S-IL: Junior Researcher Award for Outstanding Research in Public Law
Graduate Fellowships In Reproductive Rights For Developing Southern Countries
David Rayside Graduate Students Award
Granovsky-Gluskin Graduate Scholarship Fund
Israel And Golda Koschitzky Fellowship In Jewish Studies
Jack Hallam Uc'52 Graduate Scholarship In Sexual Diversity Studies
Shiff Family Graduate Student Endowment Funds
Tarek Heggy Graduate Scholarship
University of Toronto Faculty of Law Doctoral Fellowship
Professional Affiliations
Israeli Bar Association
The Law and Society Association
The Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
The Association for Israel Studies
Feminist Legal Theory Collaborative Research Network
Selected Publications

Article

The Non-Marital Presumption, _ The American Journal of Comparative Law (co-authored with Ayelet Blecher-Prigat & Ruth Zafran) (forthcoming 2024). 

 Affective Reproductive Legality,  35(1) Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (forthcoming, 2023-4). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4374756

Parenthood Based on Conjugality: Dual Motherhood as a Case-Study, Tel-Aviv University Law Review (Iyunei Mishpat ) (forthcoming, 2023) (first author, co-authored with Ayelet Blecher-Prigat & Ruth Zafran) (cited by the Supreme Court of Israel) [Hebrew]. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4001994

The Paradox of Same-Sex Parentage Equality, 100 (1) Washington University Law Review (2022). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4048052

Bordering Legal Parenthood, 33(3) Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities (2022) (recipient of the ICON-S-IL Junior Researcher Award for outstanding research in public law). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4057501

Timing Legal Parenthood, 75 (1) Arkansas Law Review (2022) (recipient of the Sarah Weddington Writing Prize for outstanding student research in reproductive rights). https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3993584  

Temporal Analysis of Judicial Parental Order, Mishpat Umimshal (Law and Government) (Haifa University Law Review) (forthcoming, 2022) (cited by the Supreme Court of Israel) [Hebrew]. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3916645

Chapters in Books:

The Abolition of Legal Marriage in Israel as a Potential Queer/Religious Project in Queer and Religious Alliances: Friendship in Family Law and Beyond (eds., Nausica Palazzo & Jeff Redding, forthcoming in Anthem Press, 2022) (co-authored with Ayelet Blecher-Prigat)

Judicial Parental Order as a Means of Recognizing Same-Sex Parenthood – The Israeli View, in 2021 International Survey of Family Law 283 (2021).

Reviews and Comments: 

Queering Family Trees: Race, Reproductive Justice, and Lesbian Motherhood by Patton-Imani Sandra, Law & Society Review 56 (1)  (2022). https://doi.org/10.1111/lasr.12596

Research Interests
Contracts
Critical Legal Theory
Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law
Family Law
Feminist Analysis of Law
Legal Theory
Reproductive and Sexual Health Law
Sexuality and the Law
Supervisor
Committee Members

The Boushie/Baptiste Family's Complaint Against the RCMP

 Originally published on April 6, 2021 in Policy Options

The under-resourced Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP did a valiant job in substantiating the discriminatory treatment of a Cree mother grieving the killing of her son. In its <a href="https://www.crcc-ccetp.gc.ca/en/commissions-final-report-cic-pii-ColtenB..." and interim reports, the commission also raised a number of questions about how the investigation into 22-year-old Colten Boushie’s death was handled by police.

Still, the commission’s recommendations for improvements, including for cultural awareness training of officers, were not terribly ambitious. Indeed, the RCMP in Saskatchewan was able <a href="https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2021/saskatchewan-rcmp-commits-implem...">quickly to respond</a> that all of its recommendations would soon be implemented.

Much more reform of the RCMP is, however, required to improve its relations with Indigenous peoples and respond to systemic discrimination against them. These reforms need to go far beyond cultural awareness. They should attempt to change the very culture and governance of the RCMP.

Critical Analysis of Law Workshop: Mikhail Xifaras

Critical Analysis of Law Workshop

Presents:

Mikhail Xifaras
 Sciences Po Law School, Paris

The Theory of Legal Characters

Thursday February 25, 2021
4:10pm - 6pm
Zoom Meeting

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