Copyright as a Publicity Right? Stories from the UK in the Nineteenth Century
The Centre for Intellectual Property Policy welcomes Dr Elena Cooper, Orton Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge and a Member of Cambridge University's Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law.
Please contact Mr. Francis Lord (francis [dot] lord [at] mail [dot] mcgill [dot] ca) to confirm your participation.
Future Royal Society of Canada library to be named after Professor Rod Macdonald
On November 16, 2012 at an event at the Ottawa Convention Centre to mark the 130th anniversary of Royal Society of Canada (RSC), Governor General David Johnston announced the creation of a new library at Walter House, the RSC’s new headquarters in Ottawa. “I am equally delighted to announce that this new reading room, with the support and encouragement of his many friends, colleagues and loved ones, is to be named in honour of Rod Macdonald,” he added.
Almost Persons: Life on Trial
A Great Trials Lecture with Prof. Wendy Adams (Law)
Law’s most aspirational claim is the guarantee that every person is equal before law. The extent to which this claim remains forever out of reach is reflected in the very concept we consider essential for its success, that of legal personhood. We use legal personhood to decide whose life will count in law, thus acknowledging some claims will fail, else the category would not be required. Personhood does not instantiate a self-evident demarcation between persons and things.
The Trial of Wall Street
A Great Trials Lecture with Prof. Peter Gibian (Dept of English)
Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” takes place not in a courtroom but in the office of a Wall Street law firm. This experimental tale doesn’t narrate a literal trial, then, but its overall effect is to put the Wall Street law office itself—an epitome of dominant mid-nineteenth-century American notions of law, economics, politics, and cultural authority—on trial.
Through Lizzie Borden’s Mirror: Reflections on Women and Law
A Great Trials Lecture with Prof. Shauna Van Praagh (Law).
“Lizzie Borden took an axe,
Gave her mother forty whacks,
When the job was nicely done,
She gave her father forty-one!”
Spies and Lies: Cold War Psychiatry, the CIA, and the Case Against Ewen Cameron
A Great Trials Lecture with Prof. Andrea Tone (History and Social Studies of Medicine).
This talk revisits the political, legal, and medical controvery surrounding Ewen Cameron and the CIA-funded research/therapy he did on psychiatric patients at the Allan Memorial Hospital in the 1950s.
"Trial of Error": The Impeachment with no Conviction of Bill Clinton
A Great Trials Lecture with Professor Gil Troy (History).
This lecture will explore the extraordinary mess Bill Clinton stumbled into when he carried on an affair with a White House intern, Monica Lewinsky. The title reflects the American people's ultimate verdict - they thought the President was being unfairly tried for an error of judgment not a crime; while the subtitle captures the ugly partisanship - with little consistency or conviction - that shaped most politicians' reaction to the scandal.
Innocence McGill Conference with David Milgaard and Peter Edwards
Innocence McGill will be hosting David Milgaard, who was wrongfully convicted of a murder and rape in 1969 and spent almost 23 years in jail, and Peter Edwards, the Toronto Star reporter who covered the Milgaard case almost from the start. Together, they will be telling their stories. Peter Edwards, who co-wrote Joyce Milgaard's memoir, A Mother's Story: The Fight to Free my son David, will also discuss wrongful convictions in Canada from a reporter's perspective.
Equality and Health: Reaching for Resolution in the Realms of Disability Rights?
The Research Group in Health and Law and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism are pleased to welcome Anna Lawson, Deputy Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Disability Studies, University of Leeds, who will be giving the Fifth Annual Lecture in Health and Law on the subject of Equality and Health: Reaching for Resolution in the Realms of Disability Rights?
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