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CNLH Presents: Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Movies
CNLH Presents: Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Movies Room 335, Allard…
CNLH Presents: The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies
CNLH Presents: The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies Room 335, Allard Law, UBC or on Zoom Tuesday,…
Feminist Interventions: Reading Social Justice and Human Rights Through Art with Dr. Asma Sayed
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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.…