Mature Student and Students with Children Lunch

January 28^th, 12:30-2pm in the Betty Ho Classroom.

All mature students and students with children and invited to a casual lunch with Assistant Dean Alexis Archbold and fellow students to eat, chat, and connect.

RSVP to: sara.hubbard@utoronto.ca

U of T Law Skating Party
Date: Friday, February 1st
Time: 12-2pm
Location: Varsity Arena
(enter from Bloor Street at Bloor and Bedford, only a 2-minute walk from the law school)

The event is FREE to students, staff, and faculty in the Faculty of Law. Rental skates are available free of charge at the arena. Students must bring their t-card

Stop by the Rowell Room between 11-12 for a hot chocolate and a brownie

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Dear students:

I hope you are well. I am writing to remind you of the academic supports available at the law school.

Academic Success Program (ASP):The ASP connects 1L students with upper year Academic Advisors who provide one-on-one and small group assistance to those who would like academic support. Our upper year Academic Advisors are Dean’s list students who will provide course-specific advice about summarizing cases, preparing for class, studying for exams, and writing papers.

The ASP is a free and confidential service. 1L students can access the program as individuals or in small study groups. 45 minute sessions are available now.  To book an appointment, please email academic.support@utoronto.ca

Learning Strategist: Students in all years can book one-on-one sessions at the law school with a learning strategist from the university’s Academic Success Centre. Learning Strategists help students tackle challenges associated with heavy reading loads, the lure of procrastination, deadline crunches, and transitioning to a new discipline.

There are three ways to make an appointment:

1. By phone: Call us at 416-978-7970 (September-June hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; July-August hours: 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.)
2. In-person: Visit us at the Student Success Front Desk, located in the Koffler Student Services Centre building (214 College Street, Room 150)
3. Online Chat: By using our online chat tool during available hours

Writing Instructor: Students in all years can book one-on-one sessions at the law school with an academic writing instructor from the university’s Woodsworth College Writing Centre. Instructors assist students with general writing skills. During a session, an Instructor will read a work-in-progress and offer feedback on organization, documentation, grammar, structure and punctuation.  To book an appointment, please go to jbarbararose@sympatico.ca

For more information about all of these services, please go to our Academic Support webpage.

Both Assistant Dean Sara Faherty and I are available to meet with students who would like to discuss how they are doing academically. Please email me at alexis.archbold@utoronto.ca to book an appointment.

Best regards

Alexis

Alexis Archbold LL.B

Assistant Dean, J.D. Program

The Forensic Science Group will be hosting the first annual Expert Witness Colloquium on Friday, February 8, 2019 (from 9AM - 2PM), where leading expert witnesses and lawyers will present case studies on the three most common areas of forensic science investigation in litigation: collision reconstruction, digital forensics and product liability. The Expert Witness Colloquium will be presented with valuable guidance from the University of Toronto Department of Materials Science and Engineering.  Please register for the event using the link below:

https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/expert-witness-colloquium-tickets-54219792860?fbclid=IwAR1uNtQRVIYFKclHjZylFVA3MMrWwOj79J9xUZuDNEPV_XGtYfbXffJmy-E

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW WORKSHOP

presents:

Beatrice Jauregui
University of Toronto
Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies

Enemy within the state: illicit police unionism and asymmetric lawfare in postcolonial India

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

The rights of public police to unionize diverge significantly across time and space. In parts of postcolonial India, a few police professional associations are officially recognized as legitimate, especially organizations for senior officers understood to be “purely social” (read: “not political”). However, at the federal level, police unions—and by proxy, police unionism, or social movements by officers to form or join labor organizations—have been outlawed since 1966 by an act of parliament. Even so, for decades police unionists have been active across the country, and at the center of both non-violent protests and lethal uprisings related to issues of police welfare and institutional reform. This essay examines how the state in northern India has responded to past and present attempts by police to form legally registered and officially recognized unions, through statutory and executive bans, and also through administrative, judicial, and even militarized repression. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic and archival research, I demonstrate how these government responses to police unionist protest and litigation constitute a form of “asymmetric lawfare” that reflects and reinforces pervasive structures of social inequality that work beyond organizational disciplinary hierarchies. This longue durée analysis of the legal politics of police unionism in a post colony reveals fundamental contradictions in concepts of democratic governance, public welfare, and social justice.

Beatrice Jauregui is Assistant professor at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of
Toronto. Her research is concerned with how the lived experiences of persons working in police, military and
other social organizations reflect and shape dynamics of authority, security and order. Jauregui’s book Provisional
Authority (University of Chicago 2016) is an ethnography of everyday police practices in northern India.
She is also co-editor of Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency (University of Chicago 2010) and The
SAGE Handbook of Global Policing (Sage 2016), as well as author of numerous chapter contributions and
research articles published in American Ethnologist, Asian Policing, Conflict and Society, Journal of South Asian
Studies, Law and Social Inquiry, and Public Culture.

For more workshop information, please contact Events at events.law@utoronto.ca

Populism and the Contemporary Human Condition 

Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

Lecturer, Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs 

(http://jackson.yale.edu/person/daniel-steinmetz-jenkins/)

Most explanations for populism today are political or economic in orientation. If the political party system better represented its members the populist temptation would be quelled. Or if there was a better system of wealth distribution and less wealth inequality the populist temptation would not be as appealing. This talk argues that the religious and existential dimension of populism has been under analyzed. The world wide populist revolt might also signifying a crisis of the human condition, which might in part explain why so many religious believers find authoritarian populist leaders so meaningful. The paper argues that those on the Left would do well to turn their attention to the existential/religious dimension of the populist revolt. As such, it suggest that an older attempt to make existentialism compatible with Marxism is in need of renewal today.

Comment: Gene Zubovich, Visiting Fellow, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto

Jackman Humanities building

170 St. George St. Suite 530

February 14, 2019, 12nn-2pm 

Lunch will be served 

Brought to you by: Law, Religion and Democracy Lab -Faculty of Law, Department for the Study of Religion, Institute of Islamic Studies

The Charity Law Interest Group (U of T) and the Osgoode Charity Law Association (Osgoode Hall) with support from Law Union, Animal Justice, and others, have teamed up to create an exciting conference opportunity for law students interested in learning about and pursuing public interest legal work. This half-day charity law conference will feature lectures and panels from industry leaders delving into the past, present, and future of political activities in the charitable sector. The legal landscape regulating the operations of charitable organizations was turned on its head by a Supreme Court case and new legislation in 2018, and this conference will explore what this means for the next generation of public interest lawyers.

This is not just a student event; it is a publicly advertised professional conference that will be attended by lawyers and organizations working in and for the non-profit sector. Major sponsoring firms such as Torkin Manes LLP, Mills & Mills LLP and Iler Campbell LLP will be represented. As such, there will be excellent networking opportunities for students looking to connect with the sector and identify future public interest opportunities.

The conference lectures and panels will take place in J250, and the Networking Reception will take place afterward in the Rowell Room. Catering will be provided. Printed programs will be available throughout the event.

This is a ticketed event, but students’ tickets are free. Non-students’ (general) tickets are $10 each plus service fee. Space is limited. Please register for a ticket to ensure you gain entry the day of the conference.

TICKETS: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-past-present-and-future-of-charities-and-political-activities-tickets-54776681529?utm-medium=discovery&utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&aff=escb&utm-source=cp&utm-term=eventcard

We would like to extend particular thanks to our generous Presenting Sponsor, the Muttart Foundation: https://www.muttart.org/

On Thursday, January 31 from 12:30-2:00, the SLS will be collecting feedback and fostering discussion about your student experience. What will we be discussing? That’s completely up to you! Please fill out this Google Form to highlight some topics you’d like to discuss:

https://goo.gl/forms/gb7WTAfC133xBCof1

Come share your thoughts on topics like access to resources, mental health, the CDO, or whatever else you’d like. Food will be provided. The event will be located in J140.

The event will be located in J140

Risk, Intersectional Inequalities and Racial Proxies: How Is Machine Learning and Big Data Shaping Legal and Criminal Justice Analysis of “Risk”? 

Kelly Hannah-Moffat
University of Toronto
Criminology & Sociolegal Studies

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin

Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Mobilization in China  

Dr. Sida Liu, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law at the University of Toronto Faculty and Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation

In authoritarian contexts where the state is the primary performer in the public sphere and political mobilization is constrained and repressed, activists often seek to carve out a public space to confront the frontstage and backstage of the state’s performance in order to pursue collective action. Comparing the online mobilization of feminists and lawyers in China, this project investigates how performance arts are used by activists to challenge the authoritarian state in the age of social media. Performing “artivism” is to create conspicuous spectacles in the public eye for the purposes of exposing the state’s illegal or repressive backstage actions or promoting alternative values and social norms different from the official ideology. By subversively disrupting the evidential boundaries set by the state, Chinese activists were able to gain momentum and public support for their collective action. However, it was precisely the success of their “artivism” that contributed to the government crackdowns on both feminists and lawyers in 2015.

Date: Friday, February 1^st, 2019
Time: 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Location: Ericson Seminar Room (room 265)

A light lunch will be served at 12:00 noon in the Lounge.


The talk will begin at 12:30pm in the Ericson Seminar Room (room 265)
Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies,
14 Queen’s Park Crescent West, Toronto, ON Canada, M5S 3K9


If you are a person with a disability and require accommodation, please contact Anjelica Cole at 416-978-3722 x226 or email anjelica.cole@utoronto.ca and we will do our best to make appropriate arrangements.

Deviance, Deviants, and Dirtbags: Toward a Neo-Institutional Criminology of Rock Climbing

Sociologists have long recognized that all social groups have their own sets of rules and norms and thus their own sets of deviants. Unfortunately, the sociology of deviance itself has become rather deviant in recent decades, relegated to criminology, where it is likewise a fairly marginal topic (when it is considered separately from criminal activity). In this project, I first describe the various reasons why deviance studies has become marginalized (especially in US sociology), focusing on the problem of a lack of theoretical vigor. Next, I outline a new approach to studying deviance, building on the neo-institutional tradition from organizational theory. I illustrate this approach using the case of rock climbing. After contextualizing rock climbing as a sport that began as a marginal, countercultural, and deviant endeavor that has since become mainstream, I trace the evolution of rock climbing ethics—focusing on the right way to climb and the right way to be a climber. I then apply neo-institutional theory to several specific episodes from the 1950s to today to understand how field-level dynamics help render certain activities deviant or normal. This neo-institutional framework distinguishes between rational considerations and cultural-cognitive considerations in ethical debates about the right way to climb and the right way to be a climber. It also explores the role of funders, regulators, experts, and particularly successful climbers in resolving these questions. Although rock climbing is a unique and rather colorful sport, many of the issues that come up will be familiar not only to other sports but also to other areas of leisure, work, and social life.

☛ please register here

Ashley Rubin
University of Toronto
Sociology

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin 

What Does It Take To Be “Truly One of Us”? Lessons from the History of a Toronto Public School

In 2017, the Pew Research Organization released a study of citizen attitudes to immigration and integration across thirteen countries, Canada among them.  This paper attempts to understand the Canadian take on what it means “to be truly one of us.”  To understand the Pew findings, I suggest that it may be helpful to take a longer view of debates over citizenship in Canada.  One such example is furnished by the history of a gateway public school in Toronto, the Clinton Street Public School.  Using Clinton Street School as a microcosm, I try to make sense of the Pew study by linking it to broader arguments about ideas of citizenship, especially those I develop in Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity (UTP, 2017).

☛ please register here

Robert Vipond
University of Toronto
Political Science

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building 

I am one of the Co-Presidents of the JD/MBA Students' Association at Osgoode/Schulich, along with my colleague Max Steiner (CC'ed). Each year, the JD/MBA students' Association hosts a conference that explores prominent themes and issues at the intersection of business, law and public policy. Our conference attracts roughly 120 students from the law and business faculties, in addition to alumni and industry professionals. This year, our 22nd Annual Conference—"Into the Weeds"—centres around the business and law of the cannabis industry. It will feature four panels covering a range of issues including cross-border implications working and investing within the cannabis industry, international growth opportunities, marketing, public health implications, disclosures and valuation, among other topics. The conference will be held on February 8th from 9am-4pm, at Thomson Reuters located at 333 Bay Street. 

The link to the ticket sales platform can be found here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/into-the-weeds-the-business-and-law-of-cannabis-tickets-55038045275?ref=ebtn.

Kind regards,

Jasmine

Jasmine Godfrey

JD/MBA Candidate '19 | Osgoode Hall Law School & Schulich School of Business

Greetings!

The contest for the sixteenth annual Harvey T. Strosberg Essay Prize is on: we are seeking papers that focus on class actions from Canadian students in undergraduate, graduate, or professional programs. The value of the prize for the best essay is $10,000. The paper will be published in the Canadian Class Action Review.

As many of your students will be eligible to submit a paper, we kindly request that you remind students about the competition and the deadline of April 8, 2019. More information, including submission details, is available by visiting the Harvey T. Strosberg Essay Prize link at www.irwinlaw.com/harvey-t-strosberg-essay-prize or by contacting me at my email address below.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

Lesley Steeve

Senior Editor
CCAR Managing Editor
Irwin Law Inc.

lsteeve@irwinlaw.com

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