16th Annual McGill Graduate Law Conference - Law & Prejudice
Law is often perceived to affect attitudes and behaviours beyond its instrumental consequences. Legal rules can shape public behaviour beyond deterrence, which makes law a powerful tool for communicating norms and values. Law is assumed to mirror social consensus, which is why scholars have wondered whether law might change prejudice and, consequently, affect domains beyond the law’s grasp. However, while changes, movements, voices and issues may develop and alter the social fabric, it is possible that the law may be slow to catch up. The resulting redundancy in law may, sometimes, go unnoticed and shackle the very people or issues the law was enacted to protect. Subjects such as climate change, gender equality issues, and invasion of privacy, in addition to many others, increasingly challenge our existing conceptions of legal normativity. Identifying the prejudices in law and criticizing them in relation to the current social reality is, thus, indispensable and, arguably, necessary.
Abstracts
Cohen Seminar: Abstracts and bios - Law and Prejudice
General Conference: Abstracts and bios - Law and Prejudice
Scotiabank Seminar: Abstracts and Bios - Law and Prejudice
Scotiabank Seminar: Abstracts and Bios - Law and Prejudice
Biographies of panelists
Keynote speaker - Vasuki Nesiah
Keynote speaker - Diane Desierto
Schedule
Conference Schedule: Thursday, 4th May 2023 / Programme de la conférence : Jeudi 4 mai 2023
(1) General Conference/ Conférence générale, and (2) the Scotiabank Seminar on Addressing Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion/ Séminaire de la Banque Scotia sur l’antiracisme, la diversité et l’inclusion
9:00AM – 9:30AM: Opening Ceremony/ Cérémonie d’ouverture
9:45AM – 10:45AM: Keynote Speech by Prof. Diane A. Desierto/ Discours de la Professeure Diane A. Desierto (Notre Dame Law School)
11:00AM – 12:15PM: Session I
General Conference Panel 1: Culture, Heritage and the Cities
General Conference Panel 2: Challenging Convention – Breaking Free from the Shackles of Prejudice
General Conference Panel 3: Prejudice in Contours of Criminal Law and the Criminal Legal System
12:15PM – 1:00PM: Lunch/ Dîner
1:00PM – 2:15PM: Session II
General Conference Panel 4: Prejudice in the Digital Era
General Conference Panel 5: Post Colonialism and Prejudice in the East-West Narrative
Scotiabank Seminar on Addressing Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion Panel 1: Striving for Equality Across Legal Latitudes
2:30PM – 3:45PM: Session III
General Conference Panel 6: Artificial Intelligence – the Road to Resolution or the Perpetrator of Prejudice?
Scotiabank Seminar on Addressing Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion Panel 2: Disability, Identity and Prejudicial Discrimination
Scotiabank Seminar on Addressing Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion Panel 3: Addressing Structural Injustice through Inclusion and Diversity
4:00PM – 5:15PM: Session IV
General Conference Panel 7: Prejudice in Theoretical Notions and State Affairs
General Conference Panel 8: Prejudice and the Planet – Overcoming Environmental Concerns and Climate Change
Scotiabank Seminar on Addressing Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion Panel 4: Indigenous People and Prejudice Among Communities
5:30PM – 6:45PM: Session V
General Conference Panel 9: Constitutional Identity – Cohesion or Exclusion?
7:00PM Onwards: Cocktail and Networking Event (For participants, moderators & jurors)/ Cocktail et rencontre (pour les participant.es, modérateur.ices et les juré.es)
Conference Schedule: Friday, 5th May 2023 / Programme de la conférence : Vendredi 5 mai 2023
Dean Maxwell and Isle Cohen Doctoral Seminar in International Law/ Séminaire Doctoral en Droit International du Doyen Maxwell & Isle Cohen
10:00AM – 10:15AM: Opening Remarks by Ms. JoAnne Cohen Sulzenko (on behalf of the Maxwell and Isle Cohen family)/ Remarques préliminaires de Mme JoAnne Cohen Sulzenko (au nom de la famille Maxwell et Isle Cohen)
10:20AM – 10:50AM: Session I
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Suzana Rahde Gerchmann (City, University of London) in discussion with Sarah Groszewski (University of Portsmouth) |
Gendered Subjectivity, Law and Capitalism: Identity, Gender Pricing, Women’s Oppression and the Role of Law in Emancipation |
10:55AM – 11:25AM: Session II
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Guy Priver (Harvard Law School) in discussion with Mirosław Michał Sadowski (McGill University) |
The Turn to the Local in International Law: Development for Whom? |
11:30AM – 12:00PM: Session III
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Janakan Muthukumar (Carleton University) in discussion with Giusto Amedeo Boccheni (McGill University) |
Ukraine v Russia: A Positivist Approach of International Law |
12:15PM – 2:30PM: Lunch/ Symposium – Baxter Family Competition on Federalism Dîner/ Symposium - Concours de la famille Baxter sur le fédéralisme (McGill Faculty Club and Conference Centre, 3450 McTavish Street)
3:00PM – 3:30PM: Session IV
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Bahareh Jafarian (University of Ottawa) in discussion with Federico Suarez (McGill University) |
Multi-faceted Conceptualization of the Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in North-South Free Trade Agreements: Where post-colonial Fears Collide with Environmental Obligations in International Trade |
3:35PM – 4:05PM: Session V
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Karinne Lantz (Dalhousie University) in discussion with Leanna Katz (McGill University) |
Mind the Gap: Toussaint and the Reception of International Human Rights Law in Canada |
4:15PM – 5:15PM: Keynote Speech by Prof. Vasuki Nesiah/ Discours de la Professeure Vasuki Nesiah (New York University)
5:15PM – 5:45PM: Closing and Award Ceremony/ Cérémonie de clôture et de remise des prix –
7:00PM onwards: Scotiabank Dinner/ Souper de la Banque Scotia (Registration Required/ Inscription obligatoire)