Doctoral Research Dragon鈥檚 Den!
DCL Research Series: MEDIA PITCH
Five Doctor of Law candidates will go head-to-head to compete in the Faculty of Law's first-ever media pitch event. They will be evaluated by a panel of judges and challenged to explain why their research is timely and relevant.
This is the first of a two-part media pitch series. The Winter Semester pitch will include judges from external media.聽All members of the McGill community are invited to attend!
Meet the contestants and their projects
1) Timiebi Aganaba
Overcoming the danger of a "single story" of space actors: The power of narratives in framing law and approaches to law can never be underestimated! As such, the "single story" of who can engage in outer space activities is damaging to aspirational and emerging space actors. Can a new conceptual lens inspired by third world approaches to international law (twail) minimize the danger of a "single story"? The CAIL approach presented in this talk is situAted within this attempt.
2) Alexandra Pasca聽
Portraits du juge et de l'avocat civilistes dans la culture populaire: Mon projet de recherche porte sur l鈥櫭﹙olution du r么le des juges et des avocats civilistes, en particulier dans le contexte des r茅formes r茅centes du syst猫me judiciaire qu茅b茅cois. Ma th猫se est que la fonction symbolique de l鈥檃vocat et du juge 鈥� pr锚tres de la justice 鈥� s鈥檈st 茅rod茅e au 21e si猫cle, laissant place 脿 des fonctions administrative et transactionnelle qui trouvent 茅cho notamment dans la culture populaire (films et litt茅rature). Je m'interroge non seulement sur la culture populaire comme miroir du droit, mais 茅galement quant 脿 son impact sur la pratique du droit, voire sur la red茅finition m锚me de la fonction des avocats et des juges dans la soci茅t茅 contemporaine.
3) Alexander Ezenagu
From Double Taxation to Non-taxation: why developing countries are still under-developed: Tax treaties are the primary means by which countries cooperate to avoid double taxation and counter tax evasion, but they have also become a central means for multinationals to avoid taxation on a global basis. I seek to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of these tax conventions and standards as they affect developing countries, in order to assess the efficacy and viability of harmonization mechanisms, whether developed by the OECD or otherwise
4) Eliza Bateman
Snake oil salesmen for a new millennium? A federal Bill before US Congress proposes to ban LGBTQ conversion therapies. This would make unlawful all clinical interventions to change sexual orientation, on the basis that to offer this change constitutes therapeutic fraud. This is religion and psychology going head to head on the question of biology versus choice in sexuality and equality versus religious freedom rights. Who will blink first?聽
5) Bradley Por
First Peoples' blockades enacting law across Canada: On the unceded lands of BC, and all across Canada, First Peoples' have formed blockades to stop development on their territories, to which they claim Aboriginal title. unable to wait for title claims to be proven in court while their lands are being accessed and developed without consent, First Peoples' at blockades are securing and protecting their territories and enacting their own Indigenous laws.
