Caring for Our World - Margot E. Halpenny Memorial Lecture with Jane Glenn
Join us for an Annie Macdonald Langstaff Workshop with Professor emerita Jane Glenn, in conversation with DCL candidates Sandrine Ampleman-Tremblay and Laura Baron-Mendoza, and moderated by Professor Shauna Van Praagh. This year's theme for the Annie Macdonald Langstaff Workshops series is “Mothers-in-law”: Intergenerational Dialogues on Women and Human Rights, and is organized in collaboration with the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism.
About the speaker
Jane Glenn, now retired from her position as Professor Emerita in McGill’s Faculty of Law, was a trailblazer in 1971 as the first full-time woman law professor at McGill. Over her long career, Professor Glenn’s scholarly interests included land use planning, agriculture, land tenure and access to housing, socio-economic rights, water rights, environment, and mixed jurisdictions in the Commonwealth Caribbean. In 1972, she was jointly appointed to the School of Urban Planning at McGill and, in 2001, she joined the McGill School of Environment as an Associate Member. She taught McGill’s Barbados Fall Field Semester from 2003 to 2008 and was a visiting scholar at numerous universities around the world throughout her career. She was elected as Associate Member of the International Academy of Comparative Law in 1995, and served as Vice-President for North America, Central America and the Caribbean of the Union mondiale des agraristes universitaires (UMAU). Prior to coming to McGill with her late husband and colleague, H. Patrick Glenn, Professor Jane Glenn earned her B.A. with honours in 1963 from Queen’s University, her LL.B. in 1966 also from Queen’s, and her doctorate in 1973 from Université de Strasbourg. As a law professor, she taught courses related to property law, land use planning, and international development to generations of McGill students, served as Associate Dean Academic, and has been for decades an important role model and mentor to women students, scholars, and fellow professors.
About the theme
The theme for the 2021-2022 Annie MacDonald Langstaff Workshop series - “Mothers-in-Law: Intergenerational Dialogues on Women and Human Rights” - underscores the value of conversation across generations for enriched knowledge and understanding, meaningful commitment to equality, and inspired feminist action. As was the case in 2020-2021, the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism is co-sponsoring the Faculty of Law’s series dedicated to the memory of Annie MacDonald Langstaff, the first woman to graduate in law from McGill. Following the same format as last year, women jurists who are leaders and mentors in their respective fields of study and practice are invited to engage in dialogue with women doctoral students associated with the Centre. The intergenerational conversations will focus, in turn, on “Finding Voice”, “Changing the Rules”, “Confronting Violence”, and “Caring for our World”.
