Critical Analysis of Law (CAL) is a broad research workshop series that reflects the law school's multifaceted intellectual life and its commitment to interdisciplinary inquiry.

Past speakers have included:

  • Nicholas Blomley (Geography, Simon Fraser University)
  • Marianne Constable (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
  • Paul Halliday (History, University of Virginia)
  • Bernard Harcourt (Law & Political Science, Columbia University)
  • Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comparative Literature, Princeton)
  • Timothy Hyde (Architecture, Harvard University)
  • Samuel Moyn (Law & History, Harvard University)
  • Jennifer Christine Nash (American Studies, George Washington University)
  • Annelise Riles (Law & Anthropology, Cornell University)
  • Mariana Valverde (Criminology, University of Toronto)

See past workshops

If you would like more information about these workshops, please send an email to events.law@utoronto.ca

2019-2020 workshop schedule in PDF format

2019 - 2020

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

September 17
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Rabia Belt - Stanford Law School

Outcasts from the Vote: Woman Suffrage and Mental Disability in the Long Nineteenth Century United States

September 24
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Cindy Ewing - Dept. of History, University of Toronto

Codifying Minority Rights: Postcolonial Constitutionalism in Burma, Ceylon, and India

October 15
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Sabine Tsuruda - Queen's University Faculty of Law

Working as Equal Moral Agents

November 12
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

K- Sue Park - Georgetown University

November 19
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Randall Abate - Political Science and Sociology, Monmouth University

Proposal for Enhanced Stewardship and Rights-Based Protections for the Voiceless

January 21
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Kayanesenh Paul Williams - author of Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace

February 25
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Ashwini Vasanthakumar - Queen's University Faculty of Law

March 10
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45		Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Sarah Seo - University of Iowa Law School

 March 24
Tuesday
12:30 - 1:45		 Solarium 
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		 Catheriine Evans - Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto