Critical Analysis of Law Workshop Series
presents 

Rohit De
Yale Department of History 

Husna Bai’s Profession: 
Sex, Work and Freedom in the Indian Republic 

Tuesday, April 5, 2016
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

Rohit De is a historian of modern South Asia and is particularly interested in legal history. Rohit received his Ph.D from Princeton University, where he was elected to the Society of Woodrow Wilson Scholars. His dissertation won the Law and Society Association Prize in 2013. He was the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for History and Economics and at Trinity Hall at the University of Cambridge before coming to Yale in 2014.  Rohit received his law degrees from the Yale Law School and the National Law School of India University, Bangalore.  Rohit is currently completing a book that explores how the Indian constitution, despite its elite authorship and alien antecedents, came to permeate everyday life and imagination in India during its transition from a colonial state to a democratic republic. Mapping the use and appropriation of constitutional language and procedure by diverse groups such as butchers and sex workers, street vendors and petty businessmen, journalists and women social workers, it offers a constitutional history from below. His other research projects include charting how constitutional ideas circulated through postcolonial nations of Asia and Africa, the emergence of the idea of an economic crime in India and investigating the impact of the partition of the Indian subcontinent on property regimes in India and Pakistan.  Rohit is also interested in comparative constitutional law. He has assisted Chief Justice K.G. Balakrishnan of the Supreme Court of India and worked on constitution reform projects in Nepal and Sri Lanka. He is an Associate Research Scholar in Law at the Yale Law School and the co-curator of the History and the Law digital archive. (http://www.histecon.magd.cam.ac.uk/history-law/index.html).  Rohit teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in South Asian history; postcolonial histories of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh; on Indian constitutional culture and political thought, as well as courses on global legal history, law and colonialism and law and society.

 A light lunch will be provided. 

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca

Hello Health Law enthusiasts!

The Health Law Club is recruiting two executive members for the 2016-2017 academic year. We are a group of law students who are interested in a diverse array of health law topics, Previous events that we've hosted include a career panel, tours to law firms specializing in areas of health law, and seminars on health law-related topics. 

If you are interested in joining the Executive, please send a brief statement of interest (maximum 250 words) and a resume to utflhealthlawclub@gmail.com by May 2, 2016.

Please register for this program under the "events" tab of www.utlawcareers.ca

This program is intended to provide first year students with an overview of the various recruitment activities that take place during second year (including clerking and articling recruitment), the timing associated with each cycle and a sampling of the programs that will be offered by the CDO next year for second year students.  We strongly encourage all first year students to attend.

10:00 – 10:30 – Address by Chantelle Courtney

• Critical tips and recruitment advice from an expert!
• Chantelle has years of experience in legal recruitment and professional development at several Bay Street law firms, such as Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, Stikeman Elliott LLP and Goodmans LLP

10:30 – 11:00 – Brief Second Year Overview

• With accompanying month-by-month handout
• Second year is a marathon and not a sprint. Recruitment starts in July (with applications for New York positions due) and won’t conclude for many of you until March.
• This session will provide you with an understanding of the various recruits that take place in second year and the timing associated with each, so that you can start to map out your summer, Fall and beyond.
• There is something for everyone in this session!

11:00 – 12:00 – Government and Public Interest Upper Year Panel

• Think that only Bay Street firms recruit during the Fall of second year? Think again.
• Not sure what type of public interest and public sector positions you will be able to apply to during second year and what distinguishes those positions from private practice? This is the session for you. 
• This workshop will provide you with the opportunity to hear from upper year students who have worked in a variety of public interest positions about the process, the work and their choices.

12:00 – 1:00 – Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary Summer Recruitment Upper Year Panel

• 97% of the class will apply for at least one position during the Fall recruit in Vancouver, Calgary or Toronto. 
• This session will provide attendees with an opportunity to learn about the breadth and depth of opportunities available in each of these markets. Think only Bay Street firms recruit during the Fall? You are mistaken. So too do a number of small and midsize firms, including boutiques. 
• You will also walk away with a sense of the timing of these recruits (which start in the summer), the opportunities available during the Fall recruit, how to prepare your application materials, and have the opportunity to ask questions of, and get tips from, upper year students who have gone through the process.
• Slides with recruitment dates and deadlines will be presented

1:00 – 2:00 – Lunch

2:00 – 3:00 – New York Summer Recruitment Upper Year Panel

• Think you want to work in New York? This session is a must attend.
• Hear from associates and students at each of the firms participating in our New York OCIs in August about the type of work you will do, the opportunities available, what distinguishes practice in New York from opportunities elsewhere, and what they are looking for in applicants. 
• Slide with recruitment dates and deadlines

3:00 – 4:00 – Beyond Fall Recruitment and Clerkships with Upper Year Panel

• Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the plethora of interesting and diverse opportunities that arise outside of the various Fall recruits.
• Not sure if you want to participate in the Fall recruit (or whether you will be successful therein), but want to know what else is out there? This is the session for you.
• We will also discuss Clerkships, including highlighting the clerkships to which you can apply, application requirements, and the timing of the application processes.

For more information about this program, please contact ann.vuletin@utoronto.ca.

The Jackman Humanities Institute Working Group on Creative Labour is pleased to present a public talk by Matt Stahl, University of Western Ontario

Details of the talk:

Creative Labour, Race, and R&B Record Royalties: “I’ll Never Never Never Be Able to Retire, No Matter How Many Records I Sold?”

Matt Stahl, University of Western Ontario

April 6, 2016

4-6 p.m.

Jackman Humanities Building 100

170 St. George St.

Between the mid-1980s and the early 2000s, a number of aging R&B singers—and a handful of political, legal, and celebrity advocates—undertook a series of efforts referred to at the time by sympathetic journalists as “royalty reform.” Royalty reform confirmed and detailed practices of fraud and exploitation at work in the 1950s and ’60s R&B record industry and achieved several landmark victories. Nevertheless, royalty reform has gone unaddressed by scholars until now. This presentation examines one of these episodes, the nine-year class action lawsuit initiated by Sam Moore (of Sam & Dave) against AFTRA’s Health and Retirement Funds. A central conceit of the presentation (and the broader research project it represents) is that royalty reform not only gave voice and some measure of reparations to a racially and economically marginalized group, it also provides scholars with a new window on royalties as a core mechanism or apparatus of the racialized political economy of music- and culture-making.

Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of the United States, at the Munk School of Global Affairs and the Jackman Humanities Institute Creative Labour Working Group

Matt Stahl is an Associate Professor of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, where he is a member of the Digital Labour Research Group. His 2013 book, Unfree Masters: Recording Artists and the Politics of Work (Duke University Press), received the International Association for the Study of Popular Music’s 2013 Book Award. Stahl has published widely in media studies, popular music, and labour-focused scholarly journals and edited volumes. Before undertaking an academic career, Matt Stahl composed and performed with numerous indie rock groups in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Event Poster

Thu Apr 7, 2016: 8:00 pm

Frederic Alden Warren Lecture: Simon Stern, On the Margins: Visualizing Legal Authority and the Nature of Law

Location: George Ignatieff Theatre (GIT)
Contact: Graham Library
Email: fotl@trinity.utoronto.ca

Thursday, April 7th, 2016: The 15th Frederic Alden Warren Lecture: Simon Stern, On the Margins: Visualizing Legal Authority and the Nature of Law

Description

Lawyers are well known for being particularly obsessive about citation. Their writings are heavily burdened with footnotes, and they have unusually elaborate rules for proper footnote format. This lecture will consider how developments in sixteenth-century law publishing and print technology facilitated the proliferation of footnotes in legal writing. As the number of citations to cases, statutes, and treatises increased, a doctrinal universe emerged in which these legal authorities could be seen as embedded in a web of relations, rather than standing in isolation.

About the speaker

Professor Stern teaches and researches in the areas of civil procedure, law and literature, legal history, and criminal law. His research focuses on the evolution of legal doctrines and methods in relation to literary and intellectual history. Current research topics include the development of the “reasonable man” standard (and its precursors and analogues) since the eighteenth century, and the changing conception of legal fictions between the renaissance and the present. He is co-chair of the Critical Analysis of Law Workshop, and is co-editor of Critical Analysis of Law. His research has been funded by SSHRC and the Foundation for Legal Research. Stern was the recipient of the SLS Partnership Award, bestowed by the U of T Students’ Law Society in recognition of faculty members who have shown a commitment to student-friendly initiatives and student advocacy.

Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

Seminar Series

Economic Sanctions

Cecile Fabre

Senior Research Fellow

All Souls College, Oxford

Monday, April 4, 2016

4 – 6 pm

Room 200, Larkin Building

15 Devonshire Place

Cecile Fabre is a political philosopher and Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She is currently working on three research projects, at various stages of advancement: (1) The ethics of war and peace; (2) The ethics of foreign policy; (3) The ethics of incarceration.

In this talk she discusses economic sanctions as a tool of foreign policy.

Making Sense of Crime in the United States and France:

Intelligence Analysis, Police, and Security

Professor Jacqueline Ross University of Illinois College of Law

Matthew Torigian (Commentator) Deputy Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services, Ontario

April 7, 2016 Noon to 2 p.m.

Munk School of Global Affairs | 315 Bloor Street West

Professor Jacqueline Ross is the Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Scholar in Law at the University of Illinois College of Law, and researches in the fields of evidence and criminal law and procedure. In this lunchtime lecture, Professor Ross will speak about her recent research on how French and American police use local security partnerships as sources of intelligence. Professor Ross has published extensively on undercover policing and local security partnerships in the United States and Europe and is currently working on a book examining undercover policing in a comparative context for the Oxford University Press. This book offers a sustained look at how the United States, Germany, Italy and France conceptualize and regulate covert operations, and is based on over 250 interviews conducted in the United States and Europe with covert agents, liaison officials, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and judges.

Light lunch will be provided | Registration required: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/20327/

Sponsored by The Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto Centre for the Study of the United States, University of Toronto Centre des Études de la France et du Monde Francophone, University of Toronto Global Justice Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Event Poster

The Centre for Ethics at the University of Toronto is hosting a two-day international workshop on the theme "Approaches to Public Goods: Solidarity and Social Justice", May 13-14, 2016. Registration is available here.
 

In addition, we have one or two spots available for presentation of work-in-progress on public goods, solidarity and/or the solidarity economy. If you wish to present on one of these topics, please send a title, short abstract and short bio to Dr. Avigail Ferdman avigail.ferdman@utoronto.ca by April 15. 

Questions and inquiries can be forwarded to avigail.ferdman@utoronto.ca.

"Approaches to Public Goods: Solidarity and Social Justice" International Workshop

University of Toronto Centre for Ethics, May 13-14, 2016

For over forty years, inequality and distributive justice have been two of the primary concerns of political philosophers. One of the most pressing, yet unacknowledged, problems in distributive justice is the need to account for the distribution of public goods. Standard distributive-justice approaches either neglect public goods or treat them as private goods. This may lead to a systematic bias against minorities, to the privatization of public spaces, and to illegitimate state coercion in the form of unjustified use of tax payers’ money.

The workshop will address the following questions: Should we conceive of public goods as the aggregation of private preferences or is there a way to decide which goods to prioritize? Must a theory of public goods rest on perfectionism, e.g. the view that there is an objective standard for assessing what does or does not promote human flourishing? The workshop will also consider whether this way of framing the question is problematic insofar as it assumes that property is naturally private and therefore public property is something that requires justification.

A key theme of the workshop is the theory of solidarism.  Solidarism is a strand of left-republicanism that emerged in France in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It was intended as an alternative to two dominant ideologies: laissez-faire liberalism and socialism. Solidarism rests on the claim that the modern division of labor creates a social product that does not naturally belong to the individuals who control it as their private property.  Property is “common wealth” which is divided into individual and public shares. According to the solidarists, when the wealthy appropriate a disproportionate share, they have a quasi-contractual debt to society that they are obliged to repay. The commonwealth is a concentration of value created by past generations that can be used to endow public goods or to remedy unfair allocations of goods on the market. 

Solidarity can also be an important motivation for mitigating inequality. In solidaristic societies, shared common values such as a shared culture, language or heritage are expected to create conducive conditions for cross-subsidization. Yet this entails that solidarity is a precondition for a socially-optimal distribution of public goods.  In fragmented or divided societies, where different sub-groups are not expected to willingly-cross subsidize each other, the distribution of public goods will likely be less than socially-optimal. This can also trigger injustice, as it creates a bias in favour of wealthy or powerful sub-groups, who can either dominate the political process and outvote minorities, or have enough resources of their own to maintain a stable provision of their desired public goods.

With the relationship between solidarity and social justice in mind, this workshop seeks to prompt an examination of the place of solidarity as a component of social justice; to examine whether it complements or competes with other principles in democratic societies (e.g. equality broadly defined, support for multiculturalism). The purpose of this workshop is to bring together philosophers, political scientists, and social theorists, who are writing about public goods and social justice.  The workshop will facilitate the exchange of research between scholars from the Greater Toronto Area and prominent Canadian and international academics.

The Insolvency Section of the OBA is pleased to call for submissions for The Michael MacNaughton Student Writing Award for Insolvency Law. 

Full eligibility criteria is described in the attached poster.

The winner of the Award will be selected by the Executive of the OBA Insolvency Section.  In addition to having his or her paper published, the winner will be invited to, and presented the Award at, the Commercial List/OBA/OAIRP Education and Golf Day.  This is a signature event in the insolvency community in Toronto and well attended by Judges of the Commercial List and leading insolvency practitioners in and around Toronto.

Papers written for class assignment are eligible for submission. 

The Insolvency Section is excited about this initiative and looks forward to reviewing submissions from students at your law school.  We ask that you please circulate and/or post this Call for Nominations as appropriate within your respective organizations.

Please note the submission deadline of April 15, 2016 at 5:00 pm.

oba_mm_award_flyer.pdf

The Faculty of Law and the Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism at McGill University are proud to announce the Baxter Family Prize in Federalism. The overarching goal of this prestigious bi-annual essay competition is to advance research and foster informed debate on federalism by law students, as well as law PhD candidates, junior legal scholars and junior lawyers from around the world.

Competition finalists will be given an opportunity to present their papers at a Symposium organized by the McGill Faculty of Law, in Montreal in the spring of 2017. Prizes will be awarded by an International Jury. First-, second- and third-place winners will receive prizes of $5,000, $3,000 and $1,000 respectively.

Participants are invited to submit an original essay related to an aspect of federal theory or practice by September 30, 2016. Given that the Baxter Family Competition on Federalism is being launched to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation of 1867, submissions that examine the past, present and future of Canadian federalism from comparative angles are particularly encouraged. Further details are included in the attached call for papers. Alternatively, view the call for papers online at https://www.mcgill.ca/law/channels/news/baxter-competition-federalism-2016

baxter_essay_contest_on_federalism_2016.pdf