Mardi, 19 mars, 2024 15:30à19:30

Please join us for a screening of the acclaimed film, Beans, followed by a question-and-answer period with Director Tracey Deer. Beans is the coming-of-age story of a Mohawk girl who must grow up fast and become her own kind of warrior during the armed stand-off known as the 1990 Oka Crisis.

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Jeudi, 21 mars, 2024 09:00à18:00

Join us for the upcoming “Creative Legal Research Workshop”, initiated by doctoral students at McGill’s Faculty of Law. The event proposes a unique space for interactive discussions between graduate researchers in law and the arts on the topics of empirical legal research, transdisciplinary research, research ethics and positionality. Participants will benefit from a unique opportunity for practical training on non-traditional approaches to legal research, as well as the chance to forge new connections with researchers with invaluable insights in these areas.

Vendredi, 22 mars, 2024 10:00à11:30

Hybrid panel discussion Co-sponsored by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the ASILE Project

Vendredi, 22 mars, 2024 13:00à17:00

The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism invites you to their hybrid student colloquium.

Join us for a hybrid bilingual student colloquium, where students from across Canada will present their research work on disability and human rights. The colloquium will also welcome as a keynote speaker, Prof. Stephanie Chipeur, Law and Disability Policy Professor at the University of Calgary.

Lundi, 25 mars, 2024 13:00à14:30

Co-sponsorisé par le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique de McGill et le Centre Crépeau.

Mardi, 26 mars, 2024 08:00à10:00

The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) presents: Training on International and Regional Human Rights Laws on statelessness. This online training is organized by Current CHRLP O’Brien Fellow in Residence Dr. Omotunde Enigbokan. 

Jeudi, 28 mars, 2024 17:45à19:15

Join us for the third and final installment of the Slavery and the Law Speaker Series with Prof. Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon Law School), organized by the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory (LLDRL) and ‘Eating Popcorn Like a Lawyer’ as part of the 2024 Slavery and the Law course. Together with Prof. McKinley we will watch and discuss the episode Follow the Money of the acclaimed 2020 CBC documentary series Enslaved: The Lost History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The episode and our discussion will focus on Latin America.  

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Mercredi, 10 avril, 2024 17:30à19:15

There are currently more than 32,000 people in Canadian prisons—institutions firmly entrenched in law, politics, and the national imagination. However, challenges to the legitimacy of imprisonment grow with its lengthening track record of human rights abuses and resistance to the rule of law, rising awareness of its functional limitations and collateral harms, and—with Indigenous persons now representing one third of the federal prison population, and one half in women’s prisons—its increasingly unequal and colonial character. Reform, these challenges hold, is not enough.   

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Jeudi, 11 avril, 2024 12:30à14:00

The “safe third country” concept emerged in the global asylum governance scene in the late 1980s as an effort to prevent secondary movement of refugees, after they flee persecution and find safety at the closest instance possible. Despite being promoted as a responsibility-sharing tool by its proponents, in reality, safe third country practices aggravate the rights violations that refugees face and obstruct their access to asylum.

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