Past Events
2016
- Coffee and Comparative Law with Prof. Shauna Van Praagh - Thursday, April 7th, 2016
- McGill Law Student Research Mini-Conference - Friday, April 1, 2016
- Osagie Obasogie, "Race as a Risk Factor in Public Health" - Friday, March 18, 2016
- Coffee and Comparative Law with Prof. Kirsten Anker - Tuesday, February 16, 2016
- Yuval Sinai and Benjamin Shmueli, “Maimonides and Contemporary Tort Theory: Law, Religion, Economics and Morality” - Tuesday, February 2, 2016
2015
- Afua Cooper, "Aspects of the Triangular Slave Trade in Canada" - Wednesday, November 25, 2015
- Jean-François Niort, “Legal Frameworks and Economic Practices Around Slave Labour in Colonial Society: The Case of the French West Indies (Guadeloupe-Martinique) in the 18th Century” - Wednesday, November 4, 2015
- Joel Quirk, “The Fictive Coherence of Global Struggle: Combating ‘Modern-Day Slavery’ in Rhetoric and Practice” - Monday, September 28th (via video-conference)
- Coffee and Comparative Law with Professor René Provost - Tuesday, July 7, 2015
- Asya Ostroukh, “Challenges and Rewards of Teaching Comparative Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean” - Tuesday, June 23, 2015
- Richard Cholewinski, "The Rights of Migrant Workers: An ILO Perspective" - Friday, April 17, 2015
- McGill Law Student Research Mini-Conference - Friday, March 27, 2015
- Kendra Strauss, "Placing Unfree Labour" - Thursday, March 19, 2015
- Adrian A Smith, "Historicizing ‘Food Labour’ and Law" - Friday, February 13, 2015
- Elizabeth Elbourne, McGill University (History) - "After abolition : British humanitarian colonialism, the Niger Expedition and the drive to remake African labour"
Monday, Jan 19, 2015, 1-2:30pm, Burnside Hall, 805 Sherbrooke West, Room 107
2014
- Professor Hans Lindahl: "Fault Lines of Globalization: Legal Order and the Politics of A-Legality" - October 31, 2014
- Coffee and Comparative Law with Professor Hoi Kong - October 23, 2014
- Coffee and Comparative Law with Professor Robert Leckey - June 25, 2014
- Presentation with Professor Ariela Gross: "All Born to Freedom? Comparing the Law and Politics of Race and the Memory of Slavery in the U.S. and France Today" - April 8, 2014
- Coffee and Comparative Law with H Patrick Glenn: "Which Comparative Law?" - March 19, 2014
2013
- "Contemporary Slavery, Women's Oral Histories, and the Case of Conjugal Slavery in War" - January 8 2013
- Posner on French Law: Foreign Law in US Courts and the Role of Expert Witnesses - September 11, 2013
- Europe and the Financial Crisis - March 27, 2013
- Religious Arbitration: A Measure of Legal Multiculturalism - February 26, 2013