Events

The Distinguished Speakers Committee, the Law and Feminism Research Group, and the Gender and the Law Association welcome Pamela Cross to Western Law for a public lecture.

Gender-based violence, including both intimate partner and sexual violence, persists across the globe, despite numerous attempts to build systemic responses to it. Law has been at the centre of many of these attempts. In this talk, Pamela will explore where the law has been helpful and where it has not in both responding to GBV and preventing it, through the lens of her work as a feminist lawyer on the frontlines of this serious epidemic.

Pamela's book "And sometimes they kill you: Confronting the epidemic of intimate partner violence" will be available for purchase at the lecture for $30 by cash or e-transfer. 

The Legal History Research Initiative welcomes Professor Jim Phillips to Western Law for a public lecture on his forthcoming book I Did Not Commit Adultery: Marital Conflict and the Law in Ontario in the 1870s and to introduce students to the mission of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History.

Phillips is is a Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, cross-appointed to the Department of History and the Centre for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies. His book is a detailed study of how the law governed married women in the later nineteenth century, and along the way also looks at the operations of the civil courts, the forensic skills of leading members of the Ontario legal profession, constitutional law, and parliamentary divorce, the last a topic never before examined in detail by Canadian historians.

Please join us for this event in collaboration with the Middlesex Law Association for an insightful evening of networking and socializing with your future peers in the legal profession. The first portion of the evening will feature a panel of talented lawyers from different practice areas, including In-House, Government, Criminal, Real Estate, and Small Firms, who will share their experiences navigating their careers.

The discussion will focus on the transition from "Backpack to Briefcase: Navigating 5 Areas of Law". This event is also an excellent opportunity for students to connect with professionals, gain valuable insights into the practice of law, and get inspired for the next steps in their careers. After the panel discussion, there will be a reception with light refreshments and drinks to be provided.

Panel Speakers:

Callie Hill (Crown's Office)
Grace Smith (London Life)
Liam Thompson (Cohen Highley LLP)
Susan Toth (Spero Law)
Zach Remen (Drake Law)

Western Law welcomes Professor Michael C. Dorf, Robert S. Stevens Professor Law, Cornell Law School to present the annual Coxford Lecture.

"With the rule of law under threat throughout the democratic world, and especially in my home country of the United States, this may seem a particularly inopportune time to criticize recent decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court that eliminate deference to administrative agencies and generally substitute judicial for executive judgment. Rather, one might think it a stroke of good luck that courts are currently empowered more than ever to rein in a lawless administration. And yet, criticize the decline of deference I shall. In my Coxford Lecture, I shall argue that deference to other legal actors is the very essence of the rule of law." - Professor Dorf

The Legal Philosophy Research Group welcomes Professor Daniel Weinstock, Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy in the Faculties of Law and of Arts at McGill University for a public lecture on Subsidiarity as Philosophical Concept.

Professor Daniel Weinstock's research interests have spanned widely across a wide range of topics in contemporary moral and political philosophy – from the just management of ethnocultural and religious diversity in modern liberal democracies, to state policy with respect to children, families, and educational institutions. His main research interests at present have to do with the problem of health equity, and with issues of justice and inclusion as they arise in the organization of modern cities.