Menaka Guruswamy, lead lawyer who represented LGBTQ Indians in fight to decriminalize gay sex in India, gives the 2018 Goodman Lecture

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

By Peter Boisseau

When India’s Supreme Court recently changed its position and struck down a nearly 155-year-old colonial era law criminalizing gay sex, it had as much to do with shifting perceptions of love as with new legal interpretations, one of the lead lawyers representing petitioners in the case told an audience at the 2018 David B. Goodman Lecture.

Goodman Lecture: Dr. Menaka Guruswamy, “Irrational, indefensible, and manifestly arbitrary”

2018-19 Annual David B. Goodman Lecture

Dr. Menaka Guruswamy

Dr. Menaka Guruswamy
BR Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia Law School

“Irrational, indefensible, and manifestly arbitrary” 

SJD student Daniel Del Gobbo co-authors article in Policy Options on modernizing the criminal justice system in the wake of #MeToo

Tuesday, April 24, 2018

SJD student and Trudeau Scholar Daniel Del Gobbo has co-authored (with Vathsala Illesinghe) a commentary in the magazine Policy Options, "The #MeToo movement has exposed inequalities in the legal system that disadvantage women. Restorative justice could help in certain sexual violence cases" (April 23, 2018).

Read the full commentary on the Policy Options website, or below.

Special issue of U of T Law Journal on "Transfiguring Justice: Trans People and the Law"

Friday, January 19, 2018

The new issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal is a special issue devoted to the topic of "Transfiguring Justice: Trans People and the Law."

Constitutional Roundtable: Athanasios Psygkas

Constitutional Roundtable Presents 

Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas

Lecturer in Law
University of Bristol Law School

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