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The 2014 Program

ɬ﷬ Annual Graduate Conference in Law
“Emerging Scholars, Emerging Scholarship”
ɬ﷬ Faculty of Law
Montreal
May 29 – 30, 2014

Programme and Schedule


DAY ONE | PREMIÈRE JOURNÉE
Thursday, May 29, 2014


Optional Morning Programme

9:00-9:30 - Registration

9:30-10:30 – Skills Development Workshop Part I

"The Art and Science of Academic Presentations"
Convened by Dr. Chris Corkery (Department of Chemistry, ɬ﷬) and Marika Giles Samson (DCL, ɬ﷬)

10:30-10:45 – 𲹰| Pause

10:45-12:30 – Skills Development Workshop ʲII

Start of Conference

12:30-1:30 - Registration

1:30-1:45 – Introductory Remarks | Discours d’ouverture
Prof. Angela Campbell, Associate Dean of Graduate Studies (ɬ﷬) and Kuzi Charamba (DCL), Conference Co-Chair

1:45-3:15 – Panel One: Rethinking Legal Conversation
Chaired by Prof. Shauna Van Praagh

Sabrina Germain (PhD, Cornell University, U.S.)
“Prison-based Education and its new Pedagogical perspective”

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Carlos Rubio (PhD, University of Illinois, U.S.)
“Whose ‘Rhetoric’? A Critical Analysis of the Academic Discourse”

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Jeffrey Smith (DCL, ɬ﷬, Canada)

“The hidden richness of imagination: The role of the legal scholar as public intellectual in Canada”

File jeffrey_smith.docx

3:15-3:30 – Coffee Break | Pause café

3:30-5:00 – Panel Two: Reexamining Regulation
Chaired by Prof. Allison Christians

Tanveer Ahmad (DCL, ɬ﷬, Canada)
“The ICAO’s Basket of Measures to Reduce Emissions from International Civil Aviation that Contribute to Climate Change and Global Warming”

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Ada Kachan (LLM, Boston College, U.S.)
“Self-regulation v. State regulation?”

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Madeleine Conway (LLM, ɬ﷬, Canada)
"Tort Liability for Voluntary Regulation of Human Rights in Global Supply Chains"

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5:00-7:30 – Cocktail andKeynote Presentation: "A Conversation with Professor H. Patrick Glenn"

Prof.H Patrick Glenn with Prof. Marie Manikis and Kate Glover (DCL)


DAY TWO | DEUXIÈME JOURNÉE
Friday, May 30, 2014


9:00-9:30 -Breakfast| PetitéܲԱ


9:30-11:00 – Panel Three: Reassessing Impacts of Resource Extraction
Chaired byProf. Richard Janda

Paulina E. Sikorska (LLM, ɬ﷬, Canada)
“Soft laws equal no laws? The short analysis of the importance of non-binding regulations in the field of environmental law”

PDF icon Paulina E Sikorska Presentation Slides

Michael Mantle (LLM, ɬ﷬, Canada)
“Cancer Clusters In Alberta’s Oil Sands Development: The Improbability of Proving Factual Causation in Toxic Torts”

Stéphanie Roy, (LLM, ɬ﷬, Canada)
“Old Harry: Who will pay for National Damages in case of a spill?"

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11:00-11:15 – Coffee Break | Pause café

11:15-12:45 – Panel Four: Reconsidering Issues in Criminal Law
Chaired by Prof. Frédéric Mégret

Michal Gilad (PhD, University of Pennsylvania, United States)
“The Young and The Helpless: Re-Defining the Term ‘Child Victim of Crime’”

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Marika Giles Samson (DCL, ɬ﷬, Canada)

Vincent Dalpé (LLM, ɬ﷬, Canada)
"The ICC-OTP's Approach to Preliminary Investigations: Complementarity in Action or Complete inaction?"

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12:45-2:00 – Lunch | éܲԱ

2:00-3:30 – Panel Five: Reevaluating Rights - Three Case Studies
Chaired byAnnyssa Bellal, O'Brien Fellow in Residence, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism

John Hursh (LLM, ɬ﷬, Canada)
“Casting a Long Shadow: How the Politics of Independence Shape Women’s Rights in Contemporary Tunisia and Morocco”

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Gabrielle Caceres (PhD, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
"'Reasonable Accommodation' on the Grounds of Religion: Can the North American Example Serve the European Experience?"

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Barbara Andraka (PhD, Indiana University, United States)
“Policy Process Lessons from the Orphan Drug Act: Applications to Future Pharmaceutical Legislation for Neglected Diseases”

3:30-3:45 – Coffee Break | Pause café

3:45-5:15 – Keynote Presentation: Kristine Huskey- "The Responsibility to Do Justice"
(University of Arizona)

5:15-5:30 – Closing Remarks | Remarques de clôture
Shimelis Kene (DCL), O'Brien Fellow and Conference Co-Chair

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