York’s Graduate Program in Socio-Legal Studies presents the SLST 2015/16 Speaker Series, Fall 2015:
“Reading Testimonies of Abduction Across Time and Place”
Talk by Prof Annie Bunting and PhD Candidate Emily Lockhart
Monday, November 2, 2015
2:30-4pm
Ross South 701, York University
h/t Amanda Glasbeek
Monday, September 22, 2014, 2:30pm-4:00pm
IKB 2027(Osgoode Hall Faculty Common Room)
Dr. Sarah Keenan, SOAS, University of London
(Book Launch, co-sponsored with the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode)
“Subversive Property: Law and the Production of Spaces of Belonging”
Monday, September 29, 2014, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Ross South 701
Dr. Ian Green, School of Public Policy and Administration
“The Supreme Court’s Rights Revolution: Section 7 of the Charter and Aboriginal Rights”
Monday, October 27, 2014, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Ross South 701
Dr. Richard Weisman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Social Science
“Reflections on the Role of Remorse in Law and Directions for Future Research”
Monday, November 10, 2014, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Ross South 701
Dr. Susan Dimock, School of Public Policy and Administration
“Intoxication in Canadian Criminal Law”
Monday, November 17, 2014, 2:30pm-4:00pm, Ross South 701
Dr. Miriam Smith, Law and Society, Department of Social Science
“Explaining the Failure to Act: The Employment Non-Discrimination Act in the U.S., 1994-2014″
The Socio-Legal Studies 2013-2014 Speaker Series
Friday, November 22, 2013 2:30 – 4:00pm
Ross South 701
Faculty of Law University of British Columbia
Women and Wrongful Convictions: Learning from Difference
Dr. Emma Cunliffe is an Associate Professor in the UBC Faculty of Law. Dr. Cunliffe’s research focuses on medical, scientific and behavioural evidence in criminal trials; and more generally considers the interplay between expert knowledges, common sense and legal reasoning. She is the author of Murder, Medicine and Motherhood (Hart Publishing, 2011) which examines the case of Kathleen Folbigg, a mother who was convicted of murdering her children based on misleading medical evidence. Her book demonstrates how legal process, medical knowledge and expectations of motherhood work together when a mother is charged with killing infants who have died in mysterious circumstances. With funding from SSHRC, she is working with Professor Christine Boyle on a project examining child homicide cases in Canada. Dr Cunliffe is a member of the editorial board for the International Journal of Evidence & Proof. At UBC, she teaches criminal law, evidence and a graduate seminar in research methodologies and has won the Killam Award for Teaching Excellence and the George Curtis Memorial Award for Teaching.
Co-Sponsored by: Criminology and the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies