Annie MacDonald Langstaff workshop 2024 | Film screening with Tracey Deer
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.
Creative Legal Research Workshop
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.
Asylum for Containment: EU Cooperation with Tunisia and Turkey for the Externalization of Asylum
Hybrid panel discussion Co-sponsored by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the ASILE Project
Disability and Human Rights Student Colloquium
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.
Code de la famille marocain : une évolution contrastée en matière de droits
Co-sponsorisé par le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique de McGill et le Centre Crépeau.
Training on International and Regional Human Rights Laws on statelessness
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.
Atelier de droit civil 2022-2024 | Démasquer la personne en droit privé : Disposer du corps mort d’autrui
Disposer du corps mort d’autrui. Après sa mort, la volonté d’une personne prime au sujet de la disposition de son corps. Toutefois, à défaut de volontés exprimées par la personne décédée, le droit civil québécois s’en remet à des substituts qui revêtent un masque momiforme afin de décider pour elle. Ceux-ci reprennent le flambeau de la personne décédée pour traverser les catacombes des décisions corporelles. Ces substituts décident alors du mode et du lieu de disposition du corps
Slavery and the Law Speaker Series - Professor Michelle McKinley (University of Oregon Law School)
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.
The Annual Proulx Roundtable 2024 | Prison Abolition in Canada: Abolitionist Lawyering, Activism, and Intimacies
There are currently more than 32,000 people in Canadian prisons—institutions firmly entrenched in law, politics, and the national imagination.
Safe Third Country Practices as a Tool for Containment of Human Mobility
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.