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NOTICE

Canadian Law & Society Association Annual Meeting 2008

The CSLA will not be meeting in conjuction with Congress 2008. This year's annual meeting will be held jointly with the American Law and Society Association in Montreal, QC, at the Hilton Bonaventure and Marriott Chateau Champlain hotels, May 29 - June 1.

Are you doing reserach that involves the law or legal sources?

Legal Research Assitance at the E.K. Williams Law Library:

Click here for further details

Support from the following sponsors is gratefully acknowledged:

Univeristy of Manitoba, Institute for the Humanities
Department of History
Department of Sociology
Faculty of Law
CRC Chair in Western Canadian History

Monday 10 March, 2008 2:30-4:00pm
409 Tier
Urban Regulation & Feminist Legal Theory in Canada

Dr. Mariana Valverde is Professor of Criminology and Acting Director of the Centre of Criminology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Valverde is among the foremost socio-legal theorists and feminist legal scholars in Canada. Recent publications include Law and Order: Images, Meanings, Myths (Rutgers, 2006) and Law's Dream of a Common Knowledge (Princeton University Press, 2003). Her current research is looking at the historical sociology of urban regulation. On Monday March 10 she will deliver a talk on this work, entitled "Local Law and the Ethic of Urban Diversity in Toronto".

International Women's Day

On Tuesday March 11, Dr. Valverde will participate in an International Women's Day symposium in conjunction with the Women's & Gender Studies Program. The session will consist of two talks, one by Dr. Tina Chen (History), on "The Im/Possibility of Socialist Romance: Soviet Female Film Stars in China, 1949-1966. After light refreshments, this will be followed by Dr. Valverde's talk: "Twenty Years of Feminist Legal Thought: A Personal Retrospective".

Everyone is welcome to attend all or part of this morning session. Refreshments will be served.

Thursday, 27th September, 2007
3:00-4:00 p.m. 409 Tier
Organizational Meeting

Join us in 409 Tier on Thursday Sep. 27th at 3:00 p.m. for an organizational session where you can meet the others interested in the Law and Society Reserach Cluster. We will discuss the LSRC program for the 2007-08 academic year and get a sense of the general interests of potential cluster members.

We will also be joined by Muriel St. John, Reference Librarian from the E.K. Williams Law Library who will outline some of the resources available in the Law Library to reserachers on campus. Come to hear about the fantastic range of databases now available on line.

Thursday 18 October 2007, 8:00 p.m.
McNally Robinson Bookstore, Grant Park

Book Launch for Roland Penner, A Glowing Dream: A Memoir. With a forward by The Hon. Howard Pawley, P.C., O.C. (J.Gordon Shillingford, 2007).

A former government house leader, Attorney General and law professor, Penner (Law, University of Manitoba) recounts his extensive career in politics and academe.

For details click here>>

Friday 26 October 2007, 12:30--3:30 p.m.
409 Tier
Research Roundtable

A mini-conference where cluster participants will introduce and discuss their ongoing research projects as they relate to the 'Law & Society' theme. 15 minute presentations will be followed by a general discussion and Q&A. Some papers may be pre-circulated on this web site in advance.

All are welcome to attend. Click here to view the program>>

Monday 29 October 2007, 12:00--2:00 p.m.
Robson Hall (Faculty of Law)
The Honourable Madam Justice Rosalie Abella

The Faculty of Law hosts Madam Justice Rosalie Abella (Supreme Court of Canada) who will deliver a public lecture.

Thursday 8 November 2007, 12:00--1:00 p.m.
206 Robson Hall (Faculty of Law)
Labour Law & the Canadian Charter

Co-sponsored with the Faculty of Law Distinguished Speakers Series. Judy Fudge (Landsdowne Chair in Law, University of Victoria) is a leading expert on Canadian employment and labour law, and a leading feminist critic of liberal legal theory. Her recent books include Labour Before the Law: The Regulation of Workers' Collective Action in Canada, 1900-1948 (2004, with Eric Tucker) and Precarious Work, Women, and the New Economy: The Challenge to Legal Norms (2006, with Rosemary Owens).

Professor Fudge will deliver a public lecuture entitled "From Strikes to Rights? The Implications of the BC Health Services and Support Case."

Professor Fudge's talk will be followed by a light lunch reception for L&SRC members. Please R.S.V.P. to Professor Parkes for lunch. All Reserach Cluster members are welcome to attend.

Click here to read the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Thursday 6 December 2007, 1:00--2:30 p.m.
409 Tier
Accusation, Science and the Invention of Criminal Types

Professor George Pavlich (Law and Sociology, University of Alberta) specializes in the areas of sociological jurisprudence, criminological theory, governance studies and restorative justice. His recent publications include Governance and Regulation in Social Life: Essays in Honour of W.G. Carson, ed. Augustine Brannigan and George Pavlich (eds). (Routledge-Cavendish, forthcoming); Governing Paradoxes of Restorative Justice (Glasshouse Press, 2005)

Professor Pavlich will deliver a research talk on the topic Accusation, Science and the Invention of Criminal Types to be followed by questions and discussion.

Focussing on the early development of scientifically-inspired technologies to identify criminals, this paper contextualizes and reads Bertillon's techniques for measuring bodies against Galton's composite portraiture. Both unleashed influential versions of a science to identify subjects as criminals. Directed specifically to subjects enunciated as 'habitual criminals', their respective technologies drew upon physical anthropology to develop discourses of anthropometry and criminal anthropology. Both discourses involved scientific logics; but a closer look at their respective visions of science reveals telling differences. Understanding and naming those differences is important for locating unique dangers associated with each approach, and for broadening discussions of criminal justice beyond the narrow, purportedly scientifically neutral, identification of 'individual criminals.' In this statement one glimpses an underlying concern of what is to follow: how might we re-politicize processes of criminal identification, and accusation, so that they open up to ethical questions of justice?.

Thursday 17 January 2008, 12:00--1:30
and Friday 18 January 2008, 12:00-1:00
Women and the Law in Nazi Germany and the Contemporary West

Dr. Claudia Koonz
Professor of History, Duke University
Co-sponsored by the Law & Society Research Cluster, the Faculty of Law Distinguished Speaker Series and the Department of History

Professor Koonz is a leading scholar in the history of Nazi Germany. Her publications include the award-winning, Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi Politics (St. Martin's Press, 1987) and more recently The Nazi Conscience (Harvard University Press, 2003). She is also interested in the contemporary history of women's rights. Her most recent work explores the role of Muslim women in contemporary European society and the uses of the law to control and monitor the expression of religious views.

Professor Koonz will deliver 3 talks:

"Women in Nazi Germany: Post-war Trials and Feminist Perspectives."
Friday 18 January, 12:00-1:30
206 Robson Hall

All are welcome to attend these presentations.

Thursday 7 February 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Eckhardt-Grammaté Hall
University of Winnipeg
Queering Nations: National Security as Sexual Regulation

A lecture by Dr. Gary Kinsman , Department of Sociology, Laurentian University. Dr. Kinsman has been an activist in gay liberation, AIDS, anti-poverty, anti-war, global justice and anti-capitalist organizing since the early 1970s. He is the author of The Regulation of Desire: Homo and Hetero Sexualities in Canada, and many articles and book chapters on sexual and gender politics.

Dr. Kinsman will also lead a discusion on "Queer Talk and Memory: the Social Organization of Forgetting and the Resistance of Remembering" Friday, February 8, 12:30-1:30 pm, C-FIR Boardroom, University of Winnipeg.

For a detailed poster click here>>

Friday 29 February 2008, 2:30 p.m.
409 Tier
EmploymentPlurality & the Law in Canada

Slavery or Free Labour? Common law of employment or collective bargaining? Historical and contemporary discussions of the legal regualtion of work are shaped by or even limited to such binaries. The actual experience of both work and its regulation is much more complex. In this talk Dr. James Muir will offer a critique of these binaries and their implications, drawing on examples from the last three hundred years and work in history, sociology and law.

Professor Muir is Assistant Professor of History and Law at the University of Alberta. His research is concerned with the connections between the law and the economy in colonial maratime communities, particularly eighteenth-century Halifax.