CNLH Presents Event Recording: Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Movies Room 335, Allard Law, UBC or on Zoom Event recording below from Friday, November 22 at 12:30pm-1:45pm (PDT) https://vimeo.com/1036896075?share=copy#t=0 Abolitionism holds a privileged place in human rights historiography. In scholarship and the wider social world, the abolition of…

CNLH Presents: Law and Black Agency in Memories of Abolition: Human Rights and Slavery Movies Room 335, Allard Law, UBC or on Zoom Friday, November 22 at 12:30pm-1:45pm (PDT) Zoom Webinar Link Here: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/68714254802?pwd=SH2n3mk07bgTIjUKa32OQqYxUWEW1y.1 Come hear Dr. Philip Kaisary talk about about black agency, human rights, and slavery through the 1969 film Burn! The talk…

CNLH Presents: The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies Room 335, Allard Law, UBC or on Zoom Tuesday, October 15 at 1pm-2:30pm (PDT) Zoom Webinar Link Here: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/66788636423?pwd=cxSsVTTTP1eWiJ5UlzmVp0wRrUJhKD.1 Come here the editors of the new Routledge Handbook of Cultural Legal Studies (2024). The talk will be followed by a conversation with the audience and conveners…

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…

On March 4, 2024,the Allard Law Film Society, and the Canadian Network of Law & Humanities came together to co-host a special showing of the timeless classic: “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.”  Embark on a journey to a galaxy far, far away, where we explore how the law can be understood better through the…

On November 3, 2023, Professor John Borrows gave a talk overviewing his work throughout his career. CNLH was immensely grateful to host this event alongside Indigenous Legal Studies at the Peter A. Allard School of Law.  For over 30 years, Professor Borrows has written about the revitalization of Indigenous peoples’ laws, and their relationship to other…

The UBC Legal Theory Speaker Series was pleased to host a Zoom lecture and discussion with feminist critical legal theorist Margaret Davies on March 3, 2023. A recording of the entirety of the lecture can be found here: https://cnlh.ubc.ca/conversations-with-legal-thinkers/

The CNLH invites applications for Writing Graduate Workshop in March 2023. This two-day graduate workshop is open to doctoral students at Canadian universities whose projects, themes, methodology, or approaches are at the intersection of law and the humanities.

The Canadian Network of Law and Humanities hosted its inaugural workshop, “Reimagining ‘the Human’ in Research, Teaching, and Innovation” at Green College. The keynote speaker was Desmond Manderson and featured four workshops.