Critical Analysis of Law Workshop

The Critical Approaches to Law workshop is designed to survey the rich tradition of critical approaches to legal analysis, and to consider what possibilities they open up and what challenges they face at this time.  This year, the workshop will be offered in conjunction with the Max Planck Institute, and it will have a special focus on issues of diversity, citizenship and transnational law. 

The workshop will normally be held on Thursdays, from 4:00-6:00 . 

Past speakers, and perspectives, have included:

• Nicholas Blomley (Geography, Simon Fraser University)
• Marianne Constable (Rhetoric, UC Berkeley)
• Joseph  Fischel (Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Yale)
• Paul Halliday (History, University of Virginia)
• Bernard Harcourt (Law & Political Science, Columbia University)
• Daniel Heller-Roazen (Comparative Literature, Princeton)
• Timothy Hyde (Architecture, Harvard University)
• Martti Koskenniemi (Law, University of Helsinki)
• 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)
• Kayanesenh Paul Williams (author of Kayanerenkó:wa: The Great Law of Peace)

See past workshops

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