Alice Goffman – On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Department of Sociology at UBC. On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City The War on Crime didn’t just send millions of Black young men to prison and return them home with felony convictions. It created a little known surveillance state […]
Alice Woolley – The lawyer as advisor: advocate, judge or… friend?
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Faculty of Law. When lawyers advise clients they help the law to accomplish both its function as a system of social settlement, and the respect for the governed reflected in its processes and structure – i.e. the rule of law. A […]
Renee Cochard – Unmarried Cohabitants’ Property Entitlements: A Gendered Approach
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the UBC Faculty of Law. Until the late seventies/early eighties, women who were separating from their spouses had no right to claim property acquired during marriage unless it was registered in their names. The SCC decision of Murdoch v. Murdoch rendered in 1975 […]
Judith Mosoff – Child Protection and Mental Disability: When Will ‘Bad Mothering’ Be in the DSM?
With a particular interest in mothers with mental disability UBC Law Professor Judith Mosoff analyze child welfare decisions about continuing custody orders made in British Columbia in recent years. These cases depict families that are deeply troubled. Virtually every decision portrays these characteristics: the mother is a lone parent, characterized as having a mental illness, an addiction or both; the family is poor; at least one of the children is said to have a disability; mothers lose their children.
Bonnie Sherr Klein – I Am Who You Are (Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice)
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Law’s Centre for Feminist Legal Studies as part of the Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice. Bonnie Sherr Klein is a documentary filmmaker and long-time activist in the feminist and disability movements. In this lecture she shares her lived experience […]
Margaret Blair – Making The Hard Call: The Unheralded Role of Corporate Boards of Directors
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Law. It has become part of the accepted corporate governance wisdom in the U.S., as well as in numerous other countries, that boards of directors of publicly-traded corporations should include some, and perhaps a majority of “independent” directors. Yet to-date […]
Ron Deibert – Under Cover of the Net: Surveillance, Privacy, and the Dark Side of Cyberspace
Professor Deibert is Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto. The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary research and development hothouse working at the intersection of the Internet, global security, and human rights. He was one of the authors of […]
Stephen Lewis – Faculty Colloquium Talk at UBC Law
"Chew On This"- The Business Case Behind Sustainable Food Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Law. Stephen Lewis is a Co-Director of AIDS-Free World, a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, and the board chair of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. He is also a […]
The New Canada Hong Kong Tax Treaty: Issues and Opportunities
With recent changes to the law, this panel discusses: general purpose and structure of tax treaties; domestic tax systems in Hong Kong and China; key features of the treaty; and opportunities for investment to and from Hong Kong and China. Speakers: Wei Cui, David Duff, Barry MacDonald (Partner, Tax Services, PwC), Lori Mathison (Managing Partner, Dentons) […]
Claire Young – Taxing Times for Lesbians and Gay Men
Webcast sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by the Faculty of Law. This talk revisits the issue of including lesbians and gay men as spouses for tax purposes. It highlights existing concerns about this policy, including the fact that it results in a privatization of economic security within relationships. The lecture […]