UBC Law Faculty Colloquium
Held Friday afternoons through the academic year, the Law Faculty Colloquium features presentations and discussions of faculty research. All are welcome to join the continuing conversation on ideas about the law.
2011 - 2012 Fall Semester Schedule
Fridays, 3:00 - 4:15
Allard Hall 121
Refreshments served
September 9: Gordon Christie "Making Sense of Aboriginal Rights"
September 30: Ian Townsend-Gault and Clive Schofield "Competing Claims and the Weight of History: Encouraging Order in the Fractious South China Sea"
October 14: Steve Wexler "Legal Anomaly"
October 21: Lee Godden (Melbourne University) "'Playing with Fire': Indigenous interests under carbon emissions offset regimes - can there be property in fire and carbon?"
October 28: Assaf Hamdani, Hebrew University Exchange Scholar "Indirect Conflicts and Corporate Law"
November 4: Janis Sarra "Manoeuvering through the Insolvency Maze"
November 18: Michael Jackson "Revisiting the Berger Inquiry"
November 25:
December 2: Ian Loader (Oxford University) "Beyond Lamentation: Reinventing a Social Democratic Politics of Crime and Justice"
January 6: Rumee Ahmed (Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, UBC) "Narratives of Islamic Law: The Creative Logic of Islamic Legal Theory"
January 13: Joel Bakan Childhood Under Seige: How Big Business Targets Children Author Meets Critics
January 27: Shi-Ling Hsu The Case for Carbon Tax: Getting Past Our Hang-ups for Effective Climate Policy Author meets critics
February 3: Isabel Grant and Emily MacKinnon "The Supreme Court of Canada Set to Reconsider the Criminalization of Non-Disclosure of HIV Status: Can the Competing Interests be Reconciled?"
February 10: Efrat Arbel (Harvard Law School) "The Borders of Rights Protection in Refugee Law: Examining the US-Canada Safe Third Country Agreement Litigation"
March 2: Emma Cunliffe "Judges and Experts: Applying the Mohan rule to expert witnesses in BC"
March 9: John C. ("Jack") Coffee (Columbia University), NCBL Faskens Visiting Scholar: Credit Rating Agencies: A Gatekeeper Who Failed - and Why?
March 16: Cristie Ford "Prospects for Scalability: Relationships and Uncertainty in Financial Regulation"
March 23: Bruce MacDougall "Making It Better Now: Gay-Straight Alliances in Schools"
March 30: Rhys Kesselman (SFU) and Claire Young "The Politics, Economics, and Mathematics of Tax Policy: Income Splitting"
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