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November 2, 2016 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law聽

The LLDRL and the Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law hosted a lecture聽by Dr. Janelle Diller, Paul Martin Sr. Professor of International Affairs and Law at the聽University of Windsor, on聽workers' rights and corporate social responsibility. At the time of this lecture, Dr. Janelle Diller was on leave from her聽post as Senior Counsellor to the Deputy Director-General for Policy of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

Ms. Diller's career has been extremely prolific: 鈥婮anelle Diller is聽the former Legal Advisor of the ILO and legal director of the NGO International Human Rights Law Group, based out of聽Washington, D.C.聽She has regularly advised聽governments, regional organizations, and UN bodies on international human rights and labour law. Ms.聽Diller聽worked with the ILO to develop the multi-stakeholder arrangement for compensation for several thousand victims of the Rana Plaza building collapse in Bangladesh,听contributed to the international law analysis leading to development of the UN Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement, and authored the complaint on forced labour in Myanmar that led to a commission of inquiry and ILO sanctions. She has represented human rights victims before UN regional bodies and tribunals and acted as amici curiae on human rights law issues before the US Supreme Court and Federal courts.聽

October 26, 2016 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law聽

This lecture by O'Brien Fellow in Residence Mr. Faisal Siddiqi, organized jointly by the LLDRL and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, provided students, practitioners, and scholars with an unparalleled聽opportunity to learn more about the legal ramifications of the聽Baldia Factory Fire in Pakistan - which took the life of 255 workers - from the very man who advocated聽on behalf of victims.聽As counsel for the Baldia Factory victims, and more generally as a聽practicing lawyer of the High Courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan specialized in pro-bono human rights litigation, the聽former Advisor/Consultant to the Attorney General for Pakistan, and聽Board Member of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) in聽Karachi, Mr. Siddiqi shared his unique expertise with audience members. Tracing the national and international struggles and litigation that followed the tragedy, Mr. Siddiqi asked and answered: "What has been learned? What progress has been made?"聽His respondents were聽Dr. Zobaida Khan and Me Danny Kaufer, Ad. E.

October 24, 2016 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law

As part of the Slavery and the Law聽Seminar, historian Carolyn Fick, Associate Professor in the Department of History at聽Concordia University, was invited to participate in an Author-Meets-Readers session to discuss her聽book The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below聽(University of Tennessee Press, 1990). The session provided students an opportunity to engage with the history of slave resistance in Haiti and its many social, cultural, and personal forms, and to learn about the Haitian slaves that paved the way to their own聽freedom and the independence聽of their nation.聽

This lecture聽was part of the 2015聽Author-Meets-Readers seminar series in the Slavery and the Law Seminar.聽To learn more about this seminar series, visit our "" page.

September 19, 2016 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law聽

As part of the Slavery and the Law聽Seminar, scholar, historian, poet and James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies at the University of Dalhousie, Professor聽Afua Cooper聽was invited to partake in an Author-Meets-Readers session to discuss her聽book The Hanging of Ang茅lique:聽The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal聽(University of Georgia Press, 2007). Professor Cooper's book聽tells the astonishing story of Marie-Joseph Ang茅lique, a slave woman convicted of starting a fire that destroyed a large part of Montr茅al in April 1734 and condemned to die a brutal death. During the session, students began to uncover the role of law and the state in creating and sustaining the legal and socio-economic institution that was slavery in Canada, and learned about the immense courage of a woman who refused to accept her indentured servitude and聽resisted this聽institution.聽

This lecture聽was part of the 2015聽Author-Meets-Readers seminar series in the Slavery and the Law Seminar.聽To learn more about this seminar series, visit our "Courses" page.聽

April 14, 2016聽- 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law

As part of the Critical Race Theory Seminar, Professor Audra Simpson, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University, was invited to partake in an Author-Meets-Readers session to discuss her聽book Mohawk Interruptus:聽Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke University Press, 2014). During this session, Professor Simpson invited students to engage critically with the fields聽of Native studies and anthropology and to reflect on the difficulties of articulating and maintaining political sovereignty in Indigenous communities considering聽centuries of settler colonialism, which she herself poignantly does in her book through her example of the Mohawk of聽Kahnaw脿:ke,听a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec.

Professor Simpson鈥檚 visit was聽co-sponsored by the Law Teaching Network and the Annie MacDonald Langstaff Series and was聽supported by the Margot E. Halpenny Fund.聽

This lecture聽was part of the 2016聽Author-Meets-Readers seminar series in the Critical Race Theory Seminar.聽To learn more about this seminar series, visit our "Courses" page.聽

March 18, 2016聽- 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law聽

During this lecture,听Professor聽Osagie Obasogie,听Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and Senior Fellow at the Center for Genetics and Society,听discussed his paper聽"Race as a Risk Factor in Public Health." He presented his findings that race is a risk factor for particular diseases and traced how race is conceptualized in the literature. Professor聽Natalie Stoljar聽(IHSP, Philosophy) chaired the session.聽Professor Obasogie was named one of 12 Emerging Scholars in Academia under 40 by Diverse Issues in Higher Education. His research and writing spans constitutional law, bioethics, sociology of law, and reproductive and genetic technologies. He has written for聽Slate, The聽Los Angeles Times,听The Boston Globe, The聽San Francisco Chronicle, and聽New Scientist.

Professor Obasogie鈥檚 visit is co-sponsored by the聽Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory, the Law Teaching Network, the Institute in Comparative Law, and the Institute for Health and Social Policy.聽

This lecture took place as part of the Institute for Health and Social Policy Seminar Series.聽

March 17, 2016 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law

As part of the Critical Race Theory Seminar, Professor Osagie Obasogie, Professor of Law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law and Senior Fellow at the Center for Genetics and Society, was invited to partake in an Author-Meets-Readers session to discuss his book Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind (Stanford Law Books, 2013). During this exchange, Professor Obasogie engaged students with the question "So what does this mean for how we live and the laws that govern our society?" Obasogie delved聽into these questions and uncovered聽how colour blindness in law, public policy, and culture does not聽lead us to any imagined racial utopia.聽

Professor Obasogie鈥檚 visit was co-sponsored by the Law Teaching Network, the Institute in Comparative Law, and the Institute for Health and Social Policy.

This lecture聽was part of the 2016聽Author-Meets-Readers seminar series in the Critical Race Theory Seminar.聽
To learn more about this seminar series, visit our "Courses" page.聽

February 19, 2016 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law聽

The LLDRL hosted a lecture on economic development and free trade in Sub-Saharan Africa with Dr. 脡lise Panier, post-doctoral researcher at the Interuniversity Research聽Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT). During this lecture, Dr. Panier presented聽her research findings on the creation of export-process zones and the implementation of economic development policies in聽Ghana, Togo, and Benin.聽She offered reflections on聽the聽controversy and dilemmas over work and regulation in these three聽West African countries.聽

October 21 to 22, 2015 - UQAM聽

In October 2015, the R茅seau qu茅becois en 茅tudes f茅ministes (R茅QEF) organized an international conference on feminist perspectives on domestic work and exploitation. The conference was organized in partnership with the Labour Law and Development Research Laboratory (LLDRL), Institut de recherches et d鈥櫭﹖udes f茅ministes (IREF),听Centre d'茅tudes sur le droit international et la mondialisation (CEDIM) and Groupe interuniversitaire, interdisciplinaire de recherche sur l鈥檈mploi, la pauvret茅 et la protection sociale (GIREPS), and received the support of聽UQAM's Faculty of Political Science and Law, Faculty of Social Sciences,听Department of Law and Department of Sociology.

The conference was led聽by prominent feminist labour law scholars, invited to share their research on topics such as "Canada鈥檚 Live-in Caregiver Program," "Combatting Abuse? Domestic Migrant Workers, Unfreedom and Trafficking," "Subordination or Servitude in the Domestic Work Relationship? Understanding Domestic Workplace Law" and "Filipina Domestic Workers Subjected to the Live-in Care Program."

View the conference's full bilingual programme.

October 13, 2015 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law

As part of the LLDRL Speaker Series,听Dr. Einat Albin was invited to present her research on intimate work, domestic work, and service work. Dr.聽Einat Albin is a Lecturer in Law and the Academic Director of聽the Clinical Legal Education Center at the聽Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD聽from Oxford聽University, where she started聽working on the regulation of the service economy in her thesis on workers in the hospitality sector.聽Her research focuses on domestic workers, service work, intimate work, and the inclusion of persons with disabilities in the workplace. Einat has written numerous articles in leading law journals and made聽important contributions in edited books, including Migrant at Work (OUP, 2014) and The Right to Work聽(Hart 2015); she has won numerous prestigious awards.聽

May 20, 2015 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of听尝补飞

As part of the LLDRL Speaker Series, Professor Lorena Poblete was invited to present her research on new regulations for domestic workers put in place in Argentina. Professor Poblete聽is a researcher at Argentina鈥檚 National Research Council (CIS-CONICET/IDES) and Associate Professor at the National University of San Mart铆n (IDAES-UNSAM).聽Her current project, 鈥淩egulatory Innovations: the Influences of the ILO Domestic-Workers Convention in Latin America,鈥� involves the analysis of the mechanisms of labor standards diffusion and the local translations of the ILO's recommendations. Poblete鈥檚 research focuses on labor regulations, social protections, and social stratification.聽

April 17, 2015 - 成人VR视频, Burnside Building

As part of the聽Slavery Old and New: Labour Exploitation Through the Ages and Around the Globe Seminar Series,听Ryszard Cholewinski was invited to present the ILO's perspective on the rights of migrant workers.聽Ryszard Cholewinski works at the Labour Migration branch of the Conditions of Work and Equality Department at the International Labour Organization in Geneva.

This event was made possible thanks to the generous support and contributions of the LLDRL, the Hans and Tamar聽Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, the Harriet Tubman Institute and聽the Institute of Comparative Law.聽

April 10, 2015 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law聽

As part of the Critical Race Theory Seminar, Professor Glen Coulthard, Assistant Professor in the First Nations Studies Program and the Department of Political Science at the University of British Colombia, was invited to partake in an Author-Meets-Readers session to discuss his book Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition聽(University of聽Minnesota Press, 2014). Professor Coulthard's book聽focuses on indigenous experiences in Canada and is immediately applicable to understanding the false promise of recognition, liberal pluralism, and reconciliation at the heart of colonial relationships between indigenous peoples and nation-states elsewhere. During this Speakers-Meets-Readers, Professor聽Glen Coulthard shared his聽remarkably distinctive and provocative look at issues of power and opposition in Canada, as well as the false promise of recognition.聽

Professor Coulthard's visit was co-sponsored by the Law Teaching Network, the Aisenstadt Community Justice Initiative, the Pearson Chair in Civil Society, and the LLDRL. It was made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Aboriginal Law Students' Association and the Women of Colour Collective, two student-led organizations at 成人VR视频's Faculty of Law.

This lecture聽was part of the 2015聽Author-Meets-Readers seminar series in the Critical Race Theory Seminar. To learn more about this seminar series, visit our "Courses" page.聽

March 10, 2015 - 成人VR视频, Faculty of Law聽

As part of the Critical Race Theory Seminar, Professor Tanya Hernandez of the Faculty of Law at Fordham University聽was invited to partake in a Speaker-Meets-Readers session and discuss her book Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law, and the New Civil Rights Response (Cambridge University Press, 2013).聽

The event was organized in partnership with the Black Law Students' Association of 成人VR视频 and the聽Women of Colour Collective, two student-led groups at the Faculty of Law at McGill University. It was made possible thanks to generous contributions from the Law Teaching Network and the LLDRL.

This lecture聽was part of the 2015 Author-Meets-Readers seminar series in the Critical Race Theory Seminar. To learn more about this seminar series, visit our "Courses" page.聽