Law and Humanities as Theory, Pedagogy and Method

When: May 21-22, 2021
Where: via Zoom

Conveners: Julen Etxabe, Michelle LeBaron, and Mary Liston

PARTICIPANTS: Mark Antaki, Ruth Buchanan, Gillian Calder, Patricia Cochran, Stacy Douglas, Julen Etxabe, Rebecca Johnson, Michelle LeBaron, Mary Liston, Val Napoleon, George Pavlich, Sara Ramshaw

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A two-day workshop hosted by the newly founded Canadian Network of Law and Humanities.

Legal academics engaged in a round-table discussion addressing  the avenues, challenges, and perspectives related to pursuing law and humanities work in Canada. Participants were invited to reflect on their diverse ways of understanding and approaching law & humanities as a form of theorizing, law-teaching, and everyday praxis.

A guest lecture by Val Napoleon and Rebecca Johnson of the University of Victoria’s Indigenous Law Research Unit discussed how to incorporate the humanities into teaching and research. They shared ways to introduce students to principles of indigenous law through the graphic novel Mikomosis and the Wetiko.