Quiet Rebels is a group biography of the 187 women who were called to the Ontario bar between 1897 and 1957, detailing their experiences as a tiny number of women students and often the only woman lawyer in many Ontario communities. Most of these women lawyers were Protestant, white and middle class, although the stories […]
Dr. Thomas (Tom) Adams is an associate professor in the Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, as well as a tutorial Fellow at St. Catherine’s College. He works in the philosophy of law, with special interest in questions relating to social ontology, as well as theoretical aspects of constitutional and administrative law. It is commonly […]
IP Osgoode Speaks: A Public Lecture by Dr. Cheryl Foong Dr. Cheryl Foong, senior lecturer at Curtin Law School and a visiting scholar at Osgoode Hall Law School, is the author of The Making Available Right: Realizing the Potential of Copyright’s Dissemination Function in the Digital Age. In SOCAN v ESA, 2022 SCC 30, the Supreme […]
IP Osgoode, Reichman University and Microsoft are pleased to invite you to the first Bracing for Impact event to be held in person since 2019! The topic for this year’s conference is “The Future of AI for Society“. Advancements in the field of artificial intelligence are progressively taking up more space in the world’s collective […]
Tuesday, April 12 is Equal Pay Day, a global event to draw attention to the gender pay gap. To mark Equal Pay Day this year, as co-chairs of the Equal Pay Coalition, Assistant Professor Fay C Faraday and Jan Borowy (Osgoode graduate) have organized a Provincial Party Leaders’ Debate on Women’s Economic Equality moderated by journalist […]
Featuring Professor Allan Hutchinson, Osgoode Hall Law School This talk will explore how law has been affected by the pandemic and the Emergency Powers Act specifically. What are its implications on Canadian civil liberties in the current situation? How does it empower the federal government? What are the powers available to federal and provincial governments? […]
Mid-Career Conversations were created with alumni like you in mind — alumni who have several years experience and are now considering (or have already made) an important transition. Each event will focus on a specific mid-career transition and feature a fellow alumni speaker sharing their own personal story and experiences. There will be the opportunity […]
Janet Mosher, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School Many survivors of intimate partner violence, especially when they leave or attempt to leave an abusive relationship, must navigate two or more legal domains — among them family, criminal, child welfare, and immigration law. While there is a sizeable body of Canadian research on access to justice […]