On March 14th the Canadian Network of Law and Humanities (CNLH) presented: “Documentary Film and the Law”, a Talk by Professor Ruth Buchanan.

This talk will introduce the study of documentary film as a site for critically engaging with the expanding landscape of visual media in public culture, courtrooms and other legal advocacy settings. Studying how documentary films frame the interconnections between legal, social and political issues is an incentive to re-imagine the study of law not only as a matter of technical proficiency, but also as a locus of social, political, cultural and ethical decision-making. 

Please RSVP to: info@cnlh.ubc.ca

Dr. Ruth Buchanan is an interdisciplinary legal scholar whose work spans critical legal theory, sociology of law and cultural legal studies. Most recently, she edited a special issue of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal “Visualizing Development“ and co-edited, with Sundhya Pahuja and Luis Eslava, the Oxford Handbook on International Law and Development (2023). She recently introduced a new course in Osgoode in which students produce their own short documentaries.