Research Events

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Osgoode Office of Research presents conferences, seminars, and events that allow for an enhanced research environment among the law school’s faculty, students, visitors and community. These events bring forth the best legal minds and practitioners from across the globe to share their ideas, insights and challenge common perceptions on a myriad of topics.

April 2013
April 10	Faculty Research Seminar Series: TBD - Kate Sutherland 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: FRS9
April 1	Osgoode Guest Seminar Series: The Cosmopolitan State - Patrick Glenn (McGill University) 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School
March 2013
March 27	Faculty Research Seminar Series: TBD - Patricia Hughes 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: FRS8
March 27	Osgoode Guest Seminar Series: Hockey Violence and the Law: Recent Developments: Moore et al v. Bertuzzi et al - Tim Danson (Danson Recht LLP) 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Room 2003, Osgoode Hall Law School
March 20	The Pierre Genest Memorial Lecture: “Duress and Duty: Evaluating Erdemovic” - Victor Tadros (Warwick) 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2003, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: GENEST3
March 15	Nathanson Centre Seminar Series: Discussion of Antony Duff’s 2012 ‘Or ‘Emet Lecture - Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism - Antony Duff 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Room 2010, Osgoode Hall Law School
March 14	‘Or ‘Emet Lecture Public Lecture: "In Whose Name? The Authority of International Criminal Tribunals" - Antony Duff 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Room TBD, Osgoode Hall Law School
March 8	Osgoode Colloquium on Law, Religion & Social Thought: TBD - Larry Sager 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: LRST6
March 8
March 7	Osgoode Guest Seminar Series: Prosecuting the Holocaust: The Limits and Potential of the Law in Postwar Europe - Devin Pendas (Boston College) 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School
March 6	YCPPL Re-chartering Roundtable Discussion 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School
March 1	Nathanson Centre Seminar Series: "Refugees: Obligations and Responsibilities" - Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism - Serena Parekh McGushin 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Room 2010, Osgoode Hall Law School
February 2013
February 27	Faculty Research Seminar Series: TBD - Dan Priel 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: FRS7
February 25	The Pierre Genest Memorial Lecture: “Immigration and the Civil Rights Agenda” - Cristina Rodríguez 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2001, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: GENEST2
February 15	Osgoode Guest Seminar Series: Crazed Glass, Alligatoring, and Other 'Surefire' Signs of Arson: The Wrongful Conviction and Eventual Exoneration of David Gavitt - David Moran (Michigan Law School) 12:30 pm – 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School
February 14	Nathanson Visiting Fellows Seminar Series: "Human Rights: Whether to Treat Persons as Individuals or Group Members in Criminal Proceedings" - Anthony Amatrudo 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 1004, Osgoode Hall Law School
February 12	Osgoode Guest Seminar Series: TBD - Justice Zak Yacoob 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: ZAK
February 11	Law.Arts.Culture Colloquium: R v. Kikkik, Take 5: Law/Art/Culture and the Canadian National Imaginary - Rebecca Johnson (University of Victoria) 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School
February 8	Nathanson Centre Seminar Series: "The Duty to Obey and the Right to Fight". Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism - Massimo Renzo 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Room 2010, Osgoode Hall Law School
February 7	Symposium Honoring John McCamus & Cocktail Reception 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, Room 1014, Osgoode Hall Law School
February 6	Osgoode Guest Seminar Series: Considerations of Fairness and Conflicts of Interest in the Regulation of Financial Markets - Dr. Michelle Welsh (Monash) 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: WELSH
February 4	Osgoode Colloquium on Law, Religion & Social Thought: "Regulating Intimacy: Religion, Sex, and Secular Cunning" - Mayanthi Fernando 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: LRST5
February 4	Research Celebration Event (Osgoode Hall Law School & Lassonde School of Engineering) Theme: Cross Faculty & Interdisciplinary Research 2:15pm - 4:15pm, Room 1014
January 2013
January 30	Faculty Research Seminar Series: Getting Our `Fix`: Fossil Capitalism And The Implications Of The New Pipeline Proposals For Environmental Justice In Canada - Dayna Scott 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: FRS6
January 28	Law.Arts.Culture Colloquium: SEEING THE FOREST AND THE TREES: The Laws of the Kelly Lake Cree Nation, Canadian Legal Cognition and the Problem with Paradigms - Tracey Lindberg (Ottawa) Time: 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm, Room: 2003, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: adrgs@osgoode.yorku.ca
January 25	Symposium on Human Rights Review 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm, Room 1014, Osgoode Hall Law School
January 18	Nathanson Centre Seminar Series: "Political Legitimacy, Territorial Boundaries, and Historical Injustice". Legal Philosophy Between State and Transnationalism - David Lefkowitz Respondent - Dan Priel 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Room 2010, Osgoode Hall Law School
January 16	Faculty Research Seminar Series: “Valour Rather Than Prudence”: Hard Times And Hard Choices For Canada’s Legal Academy - Harry Arthurs 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: FRS5
January 15	Nathanson Centre Guest Seminar: "Judging Social Rights" - Jeff King 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 4034, Osgoode Hall Law School
January 9	Nathanson Centre Special Forum: Evidence of Torture in Canada: The New Normal of Official Complicity? Speakers: Ron Atkey, Amir Attaran, Benjamin Berger, Ray Boisvert, Murray Brewster, David Cole, Walter Dorn, Barbara Jackman, Anil Kapoor, Chris Madsen, Kent Roach, Craig Scott, James Stribopoulos, François Tanguay-Renaud, Lorne Waldman, and others. 12:30pm - 6:00pm, Room 1014, Osgoode Hall Law School
December 2012
December 10	Nathanson Visiting Fellows Seminar Series: "Iniuria Migrandi: Criminalization of Immigrants and the Basic Principles of Criminal Law" - Alessandro Spena 12:30pm, - 2:00pm, Room 2028, Osgoode Hall Law School
December 5	Faculty Research Seminar Series: Lorne Sossin 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: FRS4
November 2012
November 29	TSAI Lecture: "Legitimacy, Crime Control and Democratic Politics"- Ian Loader 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2003, Osgoode Hall Law School
November 28	Faculty Research Seminar Series: Pooja Parmar 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2003, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: FRS3
November 27	Nathanson Centre Guest Seminar: “Subverting the Settled Order of Things”: Sedition and Crimes against the State - Lindsay Farmer 2:30pm - 4:30pm, Room 2008, Osgoode Hall Law School
November 26	Osgoode Colloquium on Law, Religion & Social Thought: "Putting Faith in Hate: Religion as the Source and Subject of Hate Speech" - Richard Moon 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: LRST4
November 26	Book Launch: "Hunger, Horses, and Government Men: Criminal Law on the Aboriginal Plains, 1870-1905", Shelley Gavigan 7:00pm - 9:30pm, Black Skirt Restaurant RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: GAVIGAN
November 22	Meet the Author Panel: "Still Counting the Dead: Survivors of Sri Lanka's Hidden War" - Frances Harrison 12:30pm-2:00pm, Room 1014, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: http://abstract.osgoode.yorku.ca/osgresrsvp.nsf/start, Event Code: FRANCES
November 21	Challenging Conventions! Speaker Series: "TWAIL and Environment" - Usha Natarajan 12:30pm - 2:30pm, Room IKB 2004, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: osgoodeworkshop@gmail.com
November 21	Osgoode Guest Seminar Series: Transnational Business Governance Interactions: Analyzing Competition, Coordination and Conflict in Transnational Business Regulation - Julia Black 3:30pm - 5:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: adrgs@osgoode.yorku.ca
November 14	Book Launch & Guest Seminar: Property on Trial: Canadian Cases in Context - "The Right to Discriminate”: Kenneth Bell versus Carl McKay and the Ontario Human Rights Commission", Karen Schucher & Frank Luce 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: PROPERTY
November 2	Challenging Conventions! Speaker Series: Re-Igniting Critical Race Symposium 9:00am - 5:30pm, Room 1014, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: osgoodeworkshop@gmail.com
October 2012
October 31	Faculty Research Seminar Series: “Canadian Mining in Guatemala: CSR Does Not Bring Back the Dead” - Shin Imai 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: FRS2 Link to full article: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2143679
October 24	Book Reading: "28 Seconds" - Michael Bryant 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 1003, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: BRYANT
October 22	Osgoode Guest Seminar Series: "The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits" - Kent Greenfield 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: KENT
October 18	A Conversation about a Law and Society Research Network on South Asia: Pooja Parmar 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: LSRN
October 10	Osgoode Guest Seminar Series: "Public Employee Speech and the Privatization of the First Amendment" - Adam Shinar 12:30pm - 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: SHINAR
October 3	Challenging Conventions! Speaker Series (CCSS): "The Local Self of the International: Ethnographic Encounters with International Law Within and Beyond" - Luis Eslava 12:30pm - 2:30pm, Room 2004, Osgoode Hall Law School
October 1	The Pierre Genest Memorial Lecture: "The Gorilla in our Midst: Inattentional Blindness to Sanctioned Brutality in Criminal Law" - Ngaire Naffine 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 1003, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: GENEST1
September 2012
September 26	Faculty Research Seminar Series: "Can it be Ethical to Act Unethically?" - Allan Hutchinson - CANCELLED 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: FRS1
September 24	“The Legal Person After the Sexual Revolution: Criminal Law, the Church and the Family" Professor Ngaire Naffine (University of Adelaide) 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: LRST3
September 19	The James Lewtas Lecture: “Is There a Constitutional Right to Die?” - Joseph Arvay, Q.C. 1:00pm to 2:30pm, Room 2003, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: LEWTAS2012
September 14	OHLJ Constitutional Rights Symposium Friday, September 14 9:00 – 5:00, Room: IKB 1014, Osgoode Hall Law School
April 2012
April 11	Guest Seminar: uk Radmilovic 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School
April 9	Faculty Lunch Seminar: "The Rule of Law on Trial: Police Powers, Public Protest and the G20" - James Stribopoulos 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School
April 2	The Challenging Conventions! Speaker Series: "Law against Fairness? International Environmental Law, Disciplinary Bias, and Pareto Justice" - Mario Prost 12:30pm to 2:30pm, 2008 Osgoode Hall Law School
March 2012
March 27	The Challenging Conventions! Speaker Series and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law: "From the White House to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Legal Policymaking” - Nicholas Rathod 12:30pm to 2:30pm, 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School
March 26	Faculty Lunch Seminar: "Social Rights. South Africa and the Second-Wave Cases" - Brian Ray 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School
March 23	Nathanson Centre: "Undocumented Immigrantion and Moral Equality" - Michael Blake 2:30pm to 4:30pm, 4034 Osgoode Hall Law School
March 21	Conventions on Work & Labour Speaker Series: "Regulating Work: Between Universality and Selectivity" - Guy Davidov 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School
March 19	"The Power of Pluralist Thinking: Why the Idea of Religious Freedom Persists" - Courtney Bender 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School
March 14	Law.Arts.Culture Colloquium: "Unsettled" - Ruthann Robson - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
March 12	Faculty Lunch Seminar: "Criminalizing the State" - François Tanguay-Renaud - THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
March 7	Genest Global Lecture: "Slutwalk Couture: The Politics of Feminism Lite" - Ratna Kapur 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2001 Osgoode Hall Law School
February 2012
February 28	Book Launch: "Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law" - François Tanguay-Renaud, James Stribopoulos 2:00pm to 4:00pm, 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School
February 27	"Critiquing Rights and the Political Economy of Food in Third World States" - Opeoluwa Badaru 12:30pm to 2:30pm, 2008 Osgoode Hall Law School
February 17	Nathanson Centre: Discussion of Prof. Christopher Kutz's 'Or 'Emet Lecture 2:30pm to 4:30pm, 4034 Osgoode Hall Law School
February 16	'Or 'Emet Lecture: "Is Democracy a License for War?" - Christopher Kutz 2:30pm to 4:00pm, 1014 Osgoode Hall Law School
February 13	Osgoode Colloquium on "Law, Religion & Social Thought" - Winnifred Sullivan 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2010 Osgoode Hall Law School
February 8	Genest Global Lecture: "Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies" - David B. Wilkins 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2001 Osgoode Hall Law School
February 1	Law.Arts.Culture Colloquium: "Pathetic Fallacies Human Rights, The Humanities, and Being Human" - Joseph Slaughter 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2010 Osgoode Hall Law School
January 2012
January 31	IFLS: Betcherman Lecture - Regina Austin 2:30pm to 4:00pm, 2003 Osgoode Hall Law School
January 27	Nathanson Centre: "Killing in the Fog of War" - Adil Haque 2:30pm to 4:30pm, 4034 Osgoode Hall Law School
January 27	Toronto Group Conference: Contests in Security and Risk: Releasing the Legal Imagination January 27 & 28 9:00am to 6:00pm, 1003 Osgoode Hall Law School (Moot Court)
January 26	"The Aims and Limits of International Criminal Law: Towards an Aretaic Theory of International Adjudication?" - Paul K. Clark 12:30pm to 2:30pm, 2028 Osgoode Hall Law School
January 19	Book Launch: The Payment Order of Antiquity and Middle Ages - A Legal History - Benjamin Geva 12:30pm to 2:00pm, 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School
January 18	Law.Arts.Culture Mid Day Performance 12:30pm to 1:00pm, Mixing Area
November 2011
November 1	OHLS: "The City of Toronto Act, Five Years Later: Has it Met Expectations?" 4:00pm to 6:00pm, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto
October 2011
October 21	IP Osgoode: Copyright Conference "Can Canada Learn Anything from Europe?" 9:00am to 5:00pm, webcast @ OHLS
September 2011
September 19	Watch the Genest Global Lecture here.
December 1969
December 31	Law.Arts.Culture Colloquium: R v. Kikkik, Take 5: Law/Art/Culture and the Canadian National Imaginary - Rebecca Johnson (UVic) Time: 2:30pm - 4:00pm, Room: 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp, Event Code: LAC4