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Bridging Disciplines: Insights from the Critical Times Summer School at the University of Lucerne
Bridging Disciplines: Insights from the Critical Times Summer School at the University of Lucerne By Steph Belmer This…
CNLH Presents: Poetic Conjuration: Shakespeare’s Legal Rhetoric
CNLH Presents: Poetic Conjuration: Shakespeare’s Legal Rhetoric Room 111, Allard Law, UBC or on Zoom Monday, March 24…
CNLH & CFLS Co-Present: Anatomy of a Fall: Telling Feminist Truths through Courtroom Drama with Professor Suzanne Bouclin
https://vimeo.com/1061450499?share=copy#t=0 This is a recording of a February 25, 2025 CNLH and CFLS co-sponsored lecture with Professor Suzanne…
The Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice With Gillian Calder: The Importance of Creativity, Empathy and Imagination to Legal Education in Canada
https://youtu.be/P9guCvm6U-E?feature=shared This is a recording of the February 27, 2025 Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice with Professor…
CNLH Presents with the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies: Anatomy of a Fall: Telling Feminist Truths through Courtroom Drama
CNLH Presents with the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies: Anatomy of a Fall: Telling Feminist Truths through Courtroom…
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Life and Law in a Land Where the Music has Stopped
To begin by way of analogy, listening to John Borrows lecture is like joining a feast after one has just eaten. You think you’re secure in a satiated state, but then he offers you more; the lawyer as the new Indian agent, pedagogy as learning to walk, law as a verb (and NOT as a noun). And all of those are from just a few moments in a two-hour talk replete with ideas that set my mind alight. I was left with that distinct impression that Professor Borrows has forgotten more about law than I had ever learned…and I’m a student at a place some consider among the foremost institutions for the study of law in Canada.…
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