Crisis: The Law’s Response

Crisis (noun)

a : an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs in which a decisive

change is impending

   especially : one with the distinct possibility of a highly undesirable

   outcome

b: a situation that has reached a critical phase

Are we in a state of crisis? Everything from Trump’s potential invasion of Canada to wildfires burning down cities to threats to democracy suggest that we are. With myriad crises looming on every front, it seems like an apt time to see how the law can respond to these.

Join us as thirteen Osgoode professors pontificate on the idea of crisis from their unique areas of expertise.

Talks include:

• Saptarishi Bandopadhyay: Disaster and Incarceration in the United States and Canada
• Jinyan Li: A crisis in global tax governance? Tech Lords, Global Giants and Sovereign States
• Carys Craig: Technological Neutrality’ in a Time of Change: Copyright’s AI Crisis
• Hassan Ahmad: The Crisis of the Corporate Person
• Ben Berger: A Hoped-For Crisis in Criminal Responsibility?
• Trish McMahon: Emergency powers in response to crises
• Allan Hutchinson: Crisis and Constitutional Law — Taking The Long Way Home
• Suzie Chiodo: Courts in Crisis: Issues and Responses
• Anthony Sangiuliano: The precautionary principle and public health crises
• Obi Okafor: Globalism, Memory and 9/11
• Craig Scott: The New No Rule of Law: On the Integration of an Unholy Alliance of Manifest Destiny Projects and Transnational Tech Bro Pillage
• Preston Lim: Sino-Canadian Relations and the Securitization of Domestic Law
• Dayna Scott: Hope out of Ruins: Navigating the Backslide in Environmental Law
• Heidi Matthews: Gaza and the crisis of International law

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