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November 2, 2016 - 不良研究所, Faculty of Law听

The LLDRL and the Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law hosted a lecture听by Dr. Janelle Diller, Paul Martin Sr. Professor of International Affairs and Law at the听University of Windsor, on听workers' rights and corporate social responsibility. At the time of this lecture, Dr. Janelle Diller was on leave from her听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听the former Legal Advisor of the ILO and legal director of the NGO International Human Rights Law Group, based out of听Washington, D.C.听She has regularly advised听governments, regional organizations, and UN bodies on international human rights and labour law. Ms.听Diller听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.听

October 26, 2016 - 不良研究所, Faculty of Law听

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听opportunity to learn more about the legal ramifications of the听Baldia Factory Fire in Pakistan - which took the life of 255 workers - from the very man who advocated听on behalf of victims.听As counsel for the Baldia Factory victims, and more generally as a听practicing lawyer of the High Courts and Supreme Court of Pakistan specialized in pro-bono human rights litigation, the听former Advisor/Consultant to the Attorney General for Pakistan, and听Board Member of the Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) in听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?"听His respondents were听Dr. Zobaida Khan and Me Danny Kaufer, Ad. E.

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October 24, 2016 - 不良研究所, Faculty of Law

As part of the Slavery and the Law听Seminar, historian Carolyn Fick, Associate Professor in the Department of History at听Concordia University, was invited to participate in an Author-Meets-Readers session to discuss her听book The Making of Haiti: The Saint Domingue Revolution from Below听(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听freedom and the independence听of their nation.听

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

September 19, 2016 - 不良研究所, Faculty of Law听

As part of the Slavery and the Law听Seminar, scholar, historian, poet and James Robinson Johnston Chair in Black Canadian Studies at the University of Dalhousie, Professor听Afua Cooper听was invited to partake in an Author-Meets-Readers session to discuss her听book The Hanging of Ang茅lique:听The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montreal听(University of Georgia Press, 2007). Professor Cooper's book听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听resisted this听institution.听

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

April 14, 2016听- 不良研究所, 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听book Mohawk Interruptus:听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听of Native studies and anthropology and to reflect on the difficulties of articulating and maintaining political sovereignty in Indigenous communities considering听centuries of settler colonialism, which she herself poignantly does in her book through her example of the Mohawk of听Kahnaw脿:ke,听a reserve community in what is now southwestern Quebec.

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

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

March 18, 2016听- 不良研究所, Faculty of Law听

During this lecture,听Professor听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听"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听Natalie Stoljar听(IHSP, Philosophy) chaired the session.听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听Slate, The听Los Angeles Times,听The Boston Globe, The听San Francisco Chronicle, and听New Scientist.

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

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

March 17, 2016 - 不良研究所, 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听into these questions and uncovered听how colour blindness in law, public policy, and culture does not听lead us to any imagined racial utopia.听

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

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February 19, 2016 - 不良研究所, Faculty of Law听

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听Centre on Globalization and Work (CRIMT). During this lecture, Dr. Panier presented听her research findings on the creation of export-process zones and the implementation of economic development policies in听Ghana, Togo, and Benin.听She offered reflections on听the听controversy and dilemmas over work and regulation in these three听West African countries.听

October 21 to 22, 2015 - UQAM听

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听UQAM's Faculty of Political Science and Law, Faculty of Social Sciences,听Department of Law and Department of Sociology.

The conference was led听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."

The conference's full bilingual programme is available听here.

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October 13, 2015 - 不良研究所, 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.听Einat Albin is a Lecturer in Law and the Academic Director of听the Clinical Legal Education Center at the听Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She holds a PhD听from Oxford听University, where she started听working on the regulation of the service economy in her thesis on workers in the hospitality sector.听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听important contributions in edited books, including Migrant at Work (OUP, 2014) and The Right to Work听(Hart 2015); she has won numerous prestigious awards.听

May 20, 2015 - 不良研究所, Faculty of听Law

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听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).听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.听

April 17, 2015 - 不良研究所, Burnside Building

As part of the听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.听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听Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, the Harriet Tubman Institute and听the Institute of Comparative Law.听

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April 10, 2015 - 不良研究所, Faculty of Law听

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听(University of听Minnesota Press, 2014). Professor Coulthard's book听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听Glen Coulthard shared his听remarkably distinctive and provocative look at issues of power and opposition in Canada, as well as the false promise of recognition.听

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 不良研究所's Faculty of Law.

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

March 10, 2015 - 不良研究所, Faculty of Law听

As part of the Critical Race Theory Seminar, Professor Tanya Hernandez of the Faculty of Law at Fordham University听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).听

The event was organized in partnership with the Black Law Students' Association of 不良研究所 and the听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听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.听