Faculty of Law
Queen's UniversityVisiting Speakers and Lecturers 2012-2013
Brochure - Winter 2013
Winter 2013
Monday January 21, 2013
1pm, Room 201 Macdonald Hall
Dayna Scott
York University
Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
Winaaptae (It is Blowing Dirty): A Corporeal Feminism for Environmental Justice
Monday January 21, 2013
1pm, Room 515 Macdonald Hall
Howard Chang
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Endogenous Decentralization in Federal Environmental Policies (co-authored with Hilary Sigman & Leah Traub)
Monday January 28, 2013
1pm, Room 211 Macdonald Hall
Cynthia Estlund
New York University School of Law
Douglas Cunningham Visitor in Labour and Employment Law
What Is Democracy For in China? The Case of Trade Union Elections
Friday February 1, 2013
11:30am, Room 202 Macdonald Hall
Justice Thomas Cromwell
Catriona Gibson Memorial Lecture
Access to Civil and Family Justice: The Implementation Gap
Monday February 4, 2013
1pm, Room 211
Roger Martin
Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
Douglas Cunningham Visitor in Labour and Employment Law
Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works
Friday February 8, 2013 (cancelled)
1pm, Room 211
Richard Brooks
Yale Law School
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Distinguished Lecture in Business Law
Assembly, Association and Form: A Comparative Analysis of Political Regulation of Business Form
Monday February 11, 2013
1pm, Room 515
Stephanie Stern
Chicago-Kent ITT Law
Osler Distinguished Visitor in Law
The Dark Side of Town: The Social Capital Revolution in Residential Property
Monday February 25, 2013
5:30 - 7:30, Student Lounge
Book Launch: The Concept of Law, 3rd Edition (edited by Leslie Green)
Featuring Wil Waluchow (McMaster Philosophy), Christine Sypnowich (Queen's Philosophy), Christopher Essert (Queen's Law), and Leslie Green (Oxford/Queen's Law
Event Poster
Tuesday February 26, 2013
1:30pm, Room 202
Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella
Anything But a Lecture
Wednesday February 27, 2013
1:30pm, Room 400
Belinda Bennett, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
Vulnerability: An Issue for Law and Policy in Pandemic Planning?
Thursday February 28, 2013
2:30pm, Room 201
Professor Isabel Karpin, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Relational Identity for Women with Embryos in Storage
Background reading
Friday March 1, 2013
1pm, Room 515
Jeffrey Rachlinski
Cornell University Law School
Predictably Incoherent Justice
Friday March 1, 2013
9am, The University Club
Belinda Bennett
Faculty of Law and Medicine, University of Sydney
Principal's Development Visitor
The Future of Women's and Health: The Impact of Globalization, Health Law and Ethics
Friday March 1, 2013
1pm, The University Club
Isabel Karpin
Technology University, Sydney, Australia
Willis G. Cunningham Lecture in Law
Implications for Women of Laws to Protect Future Children's Welfare
Friday March 1 - Saturday March 2, 2013
10:30am - 5:00pm, The University Club (Friday)
9:00am - 5:00pm, The University Club (Saturday)
Feminist Legal Studies Queen's Conference
Bodies of Law: Women's Health & Equality Conference
Monday March 4, 2013
1pm, Room 515
Dan Puchniak
National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
Law '80 Visiting Lecturer
The Derivative Action in Asia: A Complex Reality
Monday March 11, 2013 (CANCELLED)
1pm, Room 515
Dan Schwarcz
University of Minnesota Law School
Osler Distinguished Visitor in Law
Toward More Transparent Insurance Markets
Friday March 15, 2013
1pm, Room 202
Jeremy Waldron
Oxford University/New York University
J.A. Corry Lecture
Jurisprudence for Hedgehogs
Watch a video of the lecture
(500 meg file, please allow time for video to buffer)
Monday March 18, 2013
1pm, Room 515
Kathy Idensohn
University of Cape Town, Faculty of Law
Shifting Sands: Worker Participation in South African Corporate Law and Governance
Friday April 5, 2013
1pm, Room 515
Martin Stone
Cardozo Law School and the New School University Graduate Faculty
Topic TBA
Fall 2012
Friday September 14, 2012
1pm, Room 211 Macdonald Hall
Edward Iacobucci
University of Toronto
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Distinguished Lecture in Business Law
On the Questionable Importance of Corporate Fiduciary Duties
Monday September 17, 2012
1pm, Room 202 Macdonald Hall
Pamela Cross
National Association of Women and the Law
Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
Custody and access in cases involving violence against women: In the best interests of whom?
Background Reading
Friday September 28, 2012
1pm, Room 211 Macdonald Hall
Tamar Frankel
Boston University
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Distinguished Lecture in Business Law
Toward Universal Fiduciary Principles
Monday, October 5, 2012
1pm, Room 515 Macdonald Hall
Professor Kristin Henrard
Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of Law
Differential protection of the right to equal treatment for religious and ethnic minorities: international law and historical perspectives
Friday October 12, 2012
2:30pm, Room 515 Macdonald Hall
Jerry Mashaw, Sterling Professor of Law
Yale Law School
Joint with Policy Studies
Accountability, Time and Institutional Design
Monday October 15, 2012
1pm, Room 201 Macdonald Hall
Kim Pate
Executive Director, Canadian Association of E. Frye Associations of Canada
Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
Forgotten Sisters? Why women are Canada's fastest growing prison population; and, why you should care
Background Reading
Friday October 19, 2012
3pm, Room 211 Macdonald Hall
Lionel Smith
McGill University
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Distinguished Lecture in Business Law
The Structure of Fiduciary Obligations
Monday October 29, 2012
1pm, Room 201 Macdonald Hall
Patricia Hughes
Executive Director, Law Commission of Ontario
Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
Legal Education in Violence Against Women: Taking it to Law Schools and Communities
Monday November 5, 2012
1pm, Room 515 Macdonald Hall
Ethan Leib
Fordham Law School
Osler Distinguished Visitor in Law
A Fiduciary Theory of Judging
Monday November 12, 2012
1pm, Room 201 Macdonald Hall
Kerri Froc
Adjunct research professor, Carleton School of Canadian Studies, and Ph.D. candidate, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University; Vanier and Trudeau Scholar; former staff lawyer for LEAF
Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
Seasons of With(l)er? A Reflection on the Supreme Court's Record on Distributive Justice from Gosselin to Today
Background Reading
Friday November 16, 2012
3pm, Room 211 Macdonald Hall
Lyman Johnson
Washington & Lee University School of Law
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Distinguished Lecture in Business Law
Unsettled and Unsettling Issues in Corporate Law
Monday November 19, 2012
1pm, Room 515 Macdonald Hall
Jacob Cogan
College of Law, University of Cincinnati
The BRICS States and the Scope of International Law
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All lectures are held in Macdonald Hall unless otherwise noted.
- For more information contact Cherie Metcalf or Chris Essert.
The Faculty of Law gratefully acknowledges the financial contributions to the visitors program of The Law Foundation of Ontario and Queen's University Principal's Fund for International Visitors.