About Genest Global Faculty

Genest Lectures 2011-2012

September 19, 2011: Eying the Promised Land: The Wearisome Quest for an Effective Regional Human Rights Enforcement Mechanism in Africa by Professor Nsongurua J. Udombana, University of Uyo, Nigeria

October 24, 2011: Crime Ink: Of Law and Improvisational Aesthetics in Public Sites by Professor Alison Young, University of Melborne

February 8, 2012: Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies by Professor David B. Wilkins, Harvard Law School

March 7, 2012: Slutwalk Couture: The Politics of Feminism Lite by Professor Ratma Kapur, Geneva School of Diplomacy & International Relations

Pierre Genest Memorial Fund

The Pierre Genest Memorial Fund was established to honour the memory of Pierre Genest, who died in 1989.  He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1954 and became one of the finest counsel in Canada, respected not only for his gifts as a lawyer and an advocate, but also for his honourable and generous personal qualities.

The Pierre Genest Memorial Fund supports the invitation of distinguished legal scholars who are integrated into the academic life at Osgoode Hall Law School. The Genest Global Faculty teach a series of intensive workshops, lectures and seminars at the Law School on cutting-edge research topics related to comparative law, constitutional law or some other topics contribute to the greater understanding of Canada’s diverse character. Through the Genest Global Curriculum, Osgoode students enjoy a unique learning experience from a comparative and transnational perspective, taught by some of the World’s finest legal scholars.

In the first years of its existence, the Fund supported a distinguished lecturer program at the Law School. During the 2007-2008 academic year, internationally recognized legal scholars were invited to research and teach at Osgoode during the Fall or Winter term. As of 2008-09, Genest Global Faculty have led a number of reading groups, courses and research consultations in Osgoode’s Genest Global Curriculum, a new program aimed at enhancing the research culture and providing Osgoode students with a unique teaching format on comparative and transnational perspectives, taught by some of the world’s finest legal scholars.