Centre for Feminist Legal Studies Lecture Series

This lecture series normally takes place during term time on WEdnesdays, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.. Occasional lectures also take place at other times during the year. The lunch-time sessions start off with presentation by invited guests and develop into wide-ranging discussions. Speakers include academics, lawyers, judges, and community workers offering a variety of feminist perspectives on the legal system.

Current Lecture Series

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Past Lecturers

Past speakers in the CFLS lecture series have included Canadian and international academics, lawyers, judges and community workers. We have been fortunate to have presentations from distinguished visiting scholars to the Faculty of Law. The mix of national and international speakers, theory and practice, and lively discussion makes the series a welcome enhancement to the study of law at the Faculty of Law.

Past lecturers have included:

• Rebecca Johnson, University of Victoria, “On Bars, Breasts, and Babies: The Moral Regulation of the Nursing Mother”


• Shelagh Day, Human Rights Expert and Community Scholar, “Women’s Social and Economic Rights: Working at the United Nations”
  
• Nitya Iyer, Practioner, Heenan Blaikie, “Negotiating Work and Family: Feminism After Law School”


• Madam Justice Lynn Smith, B.C. Supreme Court, “The Legal Profession and Women’s Equality”


• Gwen Brodsky, Lawyer and Researcher, “Women and Poverty: What’s New in the Supreme Court of Canada?”


• Sanda Rodgers, University of Ottawa, “Institutional Abuse and Alternative Remedies: Constructing a Feminist Process for Compensating Survivors”


• Doris Buss, Keele University (U.K.), “Whose Right? Children, Sexuality and the Religious Right”


• Margot Young, Visiting Owen Professor, “Equality in Times of Cutbacks”


• Sylvia Tamale, Makerere University, Uganda, “Women and Parliamentary Politics in Uganda”


• Audrey Kobayashi, Queen’s University, “Achieving Employment Equity: Legislation or Persuasion?”


• Hester Lessard, University of Victoria, “Academic Equity, Anti-Harassment Policies, and Backlash”

E-MAIL NOTIFICATION OF UP-COMING EVENTS

If you would like to receive e-mail notification of upcoming events and lectures sponsored by the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, please contact the CFLS at: 604 822 6523 or cfls@law.ubc.ca.