Feminism & Law Workshop: Past Years

PLEASE NOTE TIME:
October 7
Thursday
4:10-6:00 PM

Philomila Tsoukala
Georgetown University Law Center

Marrying Family Law to Nation


Co-sponsored by the Globalization, Law & Justice Workshop series.

December 3
Friday
12:30 - 2:00PM

Hecklers to Power? The Waning of Liberal Rights and Challenges to  Feminism in India 

January 24
Monday
12:30 - 2:00 PM

LOCATION:
Classroom A
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park

Mary Eberts, Ph. D. Candidate, Univ. of Toronto
Christine Kung'u, LLM Candidate, Univ. of Toronto
Fiona Sampson, Executive Director, The Equality Effect

The Legal Protection of Kenyan Girls from Rape:  A Comparative Analysis of the Relevan Canadian and Kenyan Constitutional Provisions

PLEASE NOTE TIME & LOCATION.
February 17
Thursday

3:00 - 5:00 PM
Faculty Common Room, Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park

Gillian Lester
University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall Law School

Title:  tba

Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop series.

October 28
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00

Davina Cooper
University of Kent

LOCATION: 
Flavelle Dining Room
78 Queen's Park

Stripping the Public Bare:  Theorizing the Politics of In/Equality from Nudist Encounters

Melissa Murray
UC-Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law
THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED

 Marriage as Punishment

October 30
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00

Maleiha Malik
King's College London

 Complex Equality:  Headscarves and Feminist Responses - The Case of Shabina Begum in the House of Lords

Carol Smart
University of Manchester

 Family Secrets:  Law and Understandings of Openness in Everyday Relationships

January 16
Friday
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:
Flavelle Dining Room

Alejandro Madrazo
Professor of History of Law and Comparative Law, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), School of Law

and

Legal Consultant re Decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City and Tobacco Control legislation

Co-sponsored by the Constitutional Roundtable and the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Programme, University of Toronto

The 2008 Mexican Supreme Court Decision on Abort

November 2
Friday
12:30 - 2:00

Linda McClain
Hofstra University Law School

Marriage Pluralism

November 22
Thursday
4:10 - 6:00

Location:
Solarium

Shirin Rai
University of Warwick, Dept. of Politics and International Studies

Co-sponsored with the Globalizaton Workshop.

November 28
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:09

Laura Spitz
University of Colorado Law School

Laura Rosenbury
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

February 1
Friday
12:30 - 2:00

September 15
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Calling in the Troops to Save Women: Defining Genocide and Rape

October 6
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Transnational Market Governance and Economic Citizenship: New Frontiers for Feminist Legal Theory

Camille Nelson
St. Louis University Law School

This workshop is co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop series.

November 17
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Penguins and Polygamy: The Essence of Marriage in Canadian Family Law

February 2
(Friday)
12:10 1:45

The Feminist Battle for Citizenship: Between Combat Duties and Conscientious Objection

March 2
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Mormon Polygamy as Race Treason

March 8
(Thursday)
12:10 - 1:45

Kim Brooks
University of British Columbia
Debra Parkes
University of Manitoba

Co-sponsored by the Diversity Worksohp Series

September 16
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

October 21
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Teenagers, Freak Dancing and Sexual Regulation

December 2
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Anita Allen
University of Pennsylvania

Co-sponsore by the Centre for Innovation Law & Policy.

Disrobed:  The Constitution of Modesty

January 25
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45

February 3
(Friday)
12:10 1:45

March 10
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Leti Volpp
University of California, Berkeley

Co-sponsored by the Diversity Workshop Series.

Engendering Culture

March 24
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Rebecca Johnson (Univ. of Victoria)
Marie-Claire Belleau (Univ. Laval)

NEW LOCATION: 
Solarium (room FA2)
84 Queen's Park

March 31
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Madhavi Sunder
University of California, Davis

The New Enlightenment