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Almost Persons: Life on Trial

Thursday, March 14, 2013 17:00to18:00

A Great Trials Lecture with Prof. Wendy Adams (Law) Law’s most aspirational claim is the guarantee that every person is equal before law.Westmount Public Library, 4574 Sherbrooke Street West,...

The Trial of Wall Street

Thursday, February 28, 2013 17:00to18:00

A Great Trials Lecture with Prof. Peter Gibian (Dept of English) Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” takes place not in a courtroom but in the office of a Wall Street law firm.Westmount...

Through Lizzie Borden’s Mirror: Reflections on Women and Law

Thursday, February 7, 2013 17:00to18:00

A Great Trials Lecture with Prof. Shauna Van Praagh (Law). “Lizzie Borden took an axe, Gave her mother forty whacks, When the job was nicely done, She gave her father forty-one!”Westmount Public...

Spies and Lies: Cold War Psychiatry, the CIA, and the Case Against Ewen Cameron

Thursday, January 24, 2013 17:00to18:00

A Great Trials Lecture with Prof.Westmount Public Library, 4574 Sherbrooke Street West, Westmount, QC, CA/lawCategory: Inst. for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI)...

"Trial of Error": The Impeachment with no Conviction of Bill Clinton

Thursday, January 10, 2013 17:00to18:00

A Great Trials Lecture with Professor Gil Troy (History). This lecture will explore the extraordinary mess Bill Clinton stumbled into when he carried on an affair with a White House intern,...

Innocence McGill Conference with David Milgaard and Peter Edwards

Tuesday, February 12, 2013 18:00to19:30

Innocence McGill will be hosting David Milgaard, who was wrongfully convicted of a murder and rape in 1969 and spent almost 23 years in jail, and Peter Edwards, the Toronto Star reporter who...

Equality and Health: Reaching for Resolution in the Realms of Disability Rights?

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 16:30to18:30

The Research Group in Health and Law and the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism are pleased to welcome Anna Lawson, Deputy Director, Interdisciplinary Centre for Disability Studies,...

Defending Battered Women on Trial: the Challenges & Complexities - A Discussion with Kim Pate

Friday, November 23, 2012 12:30to14:00

Every six days a woman in Canada is killed by an intimate partner. Too often, such deaths have been tied to inaction or inappropriate action on the part of the criminal justice authorities. Women...

DCL Thesis Defense: Maureen Duffy

Thursday, December 6, 2012 14:00to16:30

DCL Candidate Maureen Duffy will be defending her doctoral thesis, Turning the kaleidoscope: fractured narratives and altered presumptions in anti-terrorism detention practices, which was prepared...

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