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2022 Program

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Day 1 / Jour 1 - 05/05/2022

9:00 - 9:30Opening Remarks at the 2022 ɬ﷬ Graduate Law Conference | Ouverture de la Conférence des étudiant.e.s des cycles supérieurs en droit de ɬ﷬ de 2022

Sandrine Ampleman-Tremblay (VP Academic GLSA/Vp-académique AEDCS)

With guests of honour/avec les invités d’honneur.

  • Dean Robert Leckey (Faculty of Law, ɬ﷬)
  • Professor Andrea K Bjorklund (Associate Dean Graduate Studies, Faculty of Law, ɬ﷬)
  • Miroslaw Michal Sadowski (President, Graduate Law Students Association)

ROOM/PIÈCE: Moot Court

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Meeting ID: 815 3585 8533 - Passcode: GLSA2022


9:45 - 10:45 Keynote Speech / Invité d’honneur

By Justice Harry Laforme

ROOM/PIÈCE: Moot court

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Meeting ID: 873 0843 8558 - Passcode: GLSA2022


11:00 - 12:15General Conference, Panel I:State, Culture and Adaptation

Moderator:GLSA President Mirosław M. Sadowski(Faculty of Law, ɬ﷬)

Paolo Galdenzi -Sapienza University of Rome

Cultural Relations among States: is a Legal Adaptation Required?

Eleonora Iannario -Sapienza University of Rome

Citizenship laws between globalization and survival of national identities

Ilenia Falcetta -University of Turin

Right to culture and self-determination of indigenous law systems: from reception to adaptation under the curtain of international public law

Professor Stefania Parisi,University of Naples Federico II

Michela Tuozzo,University of Naples Federico II

& Francesca Niola Sapienza University of Rome

ROOM/PIÈCE: 102

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Meeting ID: 85345852714 - Passcode: GLSA2022


11:00 - 12:15General Conference Panel II:Adapting Law, Ethics and Risks Regulation to Local and National Realities

Moderator: Prof. Pearl Eliadis (Max Bell School of Public Policy, ɬ﷬)

Olakunle Sunday Williams and Martins Ehikioya Ukpetenan -University of Ibadan

Policing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Corruption, Judicial Excesses and How to Rebuild the Trust: Nigeria Case Study

Michael Thomas Kowalsky -Université de Montréal

A Safe Wager: Risks & Regulation of Cycle-Couriers

Cesar Steven Ramirez Salazar - Cornell University

ROOM/PIÈCE: 101

Zoom:

Meeting ID: 841 5215 7661 - Passcode: GLSA2022


11:00 - 12:15 General Conference Panel III:New Technologies as a Means of Adaptation or in Need of Adaptation? | Nouvelles technologies comme modes d’adaptation ou en besoin d’adaptation ?

Moderator: Me. Allen M. Mendelsohn (Lecturer at Faculty of Law, ɬ﷬)

Jonathan Brosseau-Rioux - Sorbonne Law School

The Rules on the Service of Process on a Foreign State: Adapting to New Realities and Technologies

Lowri Davies - Swansea University

Enhancing equitable global access to Covid-19 vaccines

Mariangela Barletta - Sapienza University of Rome

Law and technology: Adapting international standards and ethical principles to New Reproductive Technologies (NRTs) and scientific advances

Manon Ferrand - Université de Montréal

Du papier au virtuel : La lente avancée du notariat québécois vers l’acte notarié technologique

ROOM/PIÈCE: Moot Court

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Meeting ID: 844 3266 5638 - Passcode: GLSA2022


12:15 - 1:00Lunch Break / Pause diner


1:00 - 2:15General Conference Panel IV:Decision Making: from Citizens to Courts

Moderator: Professor Shauna Van Praagh (Faculty of Law, ɬ﷬)

Tomer Kenneth - New York University School of Law

Law and Political Epistemology

Aurélie Lanctôt- ɬ﷬

«ON SE LÈVE ET ON SE BARRE » Le mouvement #MoiAussi comme politique du refus et comme pratique de l’autodéfense

Chantelle van Wiltenburg - Yale Law School

A Jurisprudence of Numbers

Jérémy Boulanger-Bonnelly - University of Toronto

Jurisdictional Fault Lines: Rethinking Section 96 to Protect Access to Justice

ROOM/PIÈCE: 101

Zoom:

Meeting ID: 871 8216 3976 - Passcode: GLSA2022


1:00 - 2:15 General Conference Panel V:New Approaches to Human Rights: Striving for Adaptation

Moderator: Professor Nandini Ramanujam (Faculty of Law, ɬ﷬)

Rukayat Ibrahim - Dalhousie University

Bridging the gap for adaptation: International Investment Law as a catalyst for economic downturn and human rights violations in developing countries

Patrick Leisure - Masaryk University

Strasbourg, Schools, and the European Convention of Human Rights

Maame Efua Addadzi-Koom - University of Cape Town

No Jab, No Entry’: A Constitutional and Human Rights Perspective on Vaccine Mandates in Ghana

Stéphanie Pépin - ɬ﷬

Rethinking Rights Review and Human Rights Institutions in Canada

ROOM/PIÈCE: 102

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Meeting ID: 882 5590 4970 - Passcode: GLSA2022


2:30- 4:00Panel VI: Arbitration, Trade & Financial Risks: Conciliation and Adaptation

Moderator: Professor Fabien Gélinas (Faculty of Law, ɬ﷬)

Yueming Yan- Singapore Management University School of Law

Institutionalizing the trade-labor nexus in free trade agreements

Sophie Eastwood - Georgetown University Law Center

Investment Arbitration and Public Law: Irreconcilable Interests or Mutual Adaptation

Lucas Clover Alcolea - Cornell University

The arbitration of consumer and employment disputes in the US and Canada: A tale of two jurisdictions

Guillaume François Larouche - University of Ottawa

Adapting the WTO Legal Paradigm on “Like” Products to Include Environmental Considerations: Towards a Green World Trade Organization

Frantisek Liptak - Independent Researcher

Legal adaptation of Special Economic Zones

ROOM/PIÈCE: 101

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Meeting ID: 842 0101 9451 - Passcode: GLSA2022



2:30 - 3:45General Conference Panel VII:Adaptation, Climate Changes & Environmental Issues I

Moderator: Ivan Vargas (PhD, ɬ﷬, Associate Director of CICADA)

Grace Tian - University of Calgary

A Study of Legal Adaptability in China's Wind Power Development

Paolo Tamase - Yale Law School

A Critical Assessment of Climate Change Litigation before National Human Rights Institutions

Bradley Por - ɬ﷬

Semá:th Lake, Sumas Lake, Sumas Prairie: A Place With Many Lessons

ROOM/PIÈCE: 102

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Meeting ID: 848 2540 1408 - Passcode: GLSA2022


12:45 - 5:00

Dean Maxwell and Isle Cohen Doctoral Seminar in International Law/ Séminaire Doctoral du Doyen Maxwell and Isle Iohen en Droit International

Jury: Amy Preston-Samson, Chintan Nirala & Laura Baron-Mendoza.

Opening Remarks by Joanne Sulzenko

Gianluigi Mastandrea Bonaviri (Sapienza University of Rome) in conversation with Andrea Maria Pelliconi (City Law School, University of London)

Cinema and International Humanitarian Law

Luter Atagher (ɬ﷬) in conversation with Chenghuai Xu (University of Edinburgh School of Law)

Beyond Formal Treaty Reforms – Adapting International Trade Law to Environmental Objectives

Federico Suárez Ricaurte (ɬ﷬) in conversation with Gaurav Mukherjee (European University)

Constitutional Law and International Investment Law: 30 Years of Institutional Adaptations in Latin America

Antoine de Spiegeleir (Yale Law School) in conversation with Mariangela Barletta (Sapienza University of Rome)

Dynamics of Legal Invasion: Non-Binding Instruments in Strasbourg

Shuyu Chu (University of Hong Kong; Georgetown University) in conversation with Upasana Dasgupta (ɬ﷬)

Persuaded Return: An Alternative to Extradition with Chinese Characteristics?

Milagros Mutsios Ramsay (Yale Law School) in conversation with Professor María José Lubertino (Buenos Aires University)

The understanding of “otherness”. An application of the hermeneutic theory to the prior consultation right in Peru


Closing Remarks by Isabella Spano (DCL Candidate, ɬ﷬) & Awards ceremony with Ms Joanne Sulzenko

ROOM/PIÈCE: Moot Court

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Meeting ID: 844 0382 6949 - Passcode: intlaw2022


Cocktail Event / 5@7

Venue/emplacement: Faculty Club, 3450 McTavish, Montreal (QC)

From 5:00 to 7:30 – Appetizers & (2) drinks included

De 5:00 à 7:30 – Canapés & (2) breuvages inclus

Optional/optionnel

*For participants, moderators & jurors

* Pour les participant.e.s, modérateur.trice.s et membres des jurys


Land Acknowledgement

English:ɬ﷬ is located on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous Peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. ɬ﷬ honours, recognizes and respects these nations as the traditional stewards of the lands and waters on which we meet today.

As this conference is a hybrid event, we also wish to acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous Peoples whose presence marks the lands on which our participants are today standing. These groups include but are not limited too: the Onundagaonoga (Onondaga), the O-ga-xpa Ma-zhoⁿ (O-ga-xpa) (Quapaw), the Chikashsha I̠yaakni’ (Chickasaw), the Mik’maq Peoples, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, and the Wendat Peoples.

French:L’Université ɬ﷬ est sur un emplacement qui a longtemps servi de lieu de rencontre et d’échange entre les peuples autochtones, y compris les nations Haudenosaunee et Anishinabeg. ɬ﷬ honore, reconnaît et respecte ces nations à titre d’intendant traditionnel des terres et de l’eau sur lesquelles nous nous réunissions aujourd’hui.

Cet évènement ayant une composante virtuelle, nous reconnaissons et remercions également les diverses communautés autochtones qui ont pris soin et marqué l’histoire des terres sur lesquelles nos participant.e.s se retrouvent aujourd’hui. Ces communautés inclus notamment les peuples Onundagaonoga (Onondaga), O-ga-xpa Ma-zhoⁿ (O-ga-xpa) (Quapaw), Chikashsha I̠yaakni’ (Chickasaw), Mik’maq, Mississaugas of the Credit, Chippewa et Wendat.

Day 2 / Jour 2 06/05/2022

9:00 - 9:20Opening Remarks by the Sustainability Committee / Ouverture du second jour de la conférence par le comité de développement durable

ROOM/PIÈCE: Moot Court

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Meeting ID: 853 2788 7342 - Passcode: GLSA2022


9:30 - 10:45General Conference Panel VIII:Adaptation, Climate Changes & Environmental Issues II

Moderator: Gabriel Lopez (General Director Instituto de Resiliencia y Conservación Global, PhD (University of Leeds))

Francesca Niola - University of Naples “Federico II”

‘Climate adaptation’: the New Challenge of Law Between Science and Jurisprudence

Chenghuai Xu - University of Edinburgh School of Law

Re-examining the Basel Accord: regulatory adaptation to climate related financial risks

Marie Desaules - Université de Neufchâtel

Enforcing international climate change law trough national courts: adaptation(s) at the national level

Room/pièce: 102

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Meeting ID: 81521571545 - Passcode: GLSA2022


9:30 - 10:45General Conference Panel IX:Adaptation & Cultural Heritage

Moderator: Professor Tina Piper (ɬ﷬)

Debarati Pal - NALSAR University of Law

Trans-boundary legislative impact assessment of the Kailash Sacred Landscapes: Interpreting legal adaptation through the cross-stakeholder interface

Julia Salamądry - University of Wrocław

Perception of cultural heritage in the light of major changes - examples stemming from the dissolution of Yugoslavia

François Le Moine - ɬ﷬

Adaptation, altération ou déformation ? La convention UNESCO 1970 au Canada.

Mirosław M. Sadowski & Mohammad Amin Zavarei - ɬ﷬

Adapting Established Concepts for Non-Western Contexts: Transitional Justice, Cultural Heritage and the Case of Iran

ROOM/PIÈCE: 101

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Meeting ID: 846 9350 3844 - Passcode: GLSA2022


11:00 - 12:00Keynote Speech / Invitée d’honneur

Dr. Ljiljana Biukovic (Professor at Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia)

ROOM/PIÈCE: 101

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Meeting ID: 826 1980 7203 - Passcode: GLSA2022


12:15 - 1:00 Lunch Break / Pause Diner


1:00 - 2:15General Conference Panel X:Air & Space Law in Times of Adaptation

Moderator: Ermanno Napolitano (DCL Candidate, ɬ﷬; Fellow Harvard University Solar Geoengineering Research Program)

Stefan-Michael Wedenig - ɬ﷬

Air-Rail Alliances in the Context of Liability and Environmental Protection: Selected Legal Issues

Xiaodao Li - University of Hong Kong

How to Develop International Norms of Safety Zones: Based on an Analytical Framework of the Legal Choice

Andrew Simon-Butler - University of British Columbia

Humankind's Legal and Astronomical Lens

ROOM/PIÈCE: 102

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Meeting ID: 864 7679 5539 - Passcode: GLSA2022


2:30 - 3:45 General Conference, Panel XI: The Lacunas and Potential of International Law Regimes: climate change refugees, ANSAs and feminist movements

Moderator: Professor René Provost (Faculty of Law, ɬ﷬)

Lena Riemer - Yale Law School

The Need for Legal Adaptation: How climate change reveals the urgency to reform refugee law to address social and economic rights

Hani El Debuch - Sapienza University of Rome

Armed Non-State Actors in International Humanitarian Law: The Need of Definition for Legal Adaptation

Mariana Romanello Jacob & Alessia Zornetta - ɬ﷬

“Feminist Approaches to International Law” Thirty Years Later: Brief Considerations from a North-South Dialogue

Andrea Maria Pelliconi - City Law School, University of London

Changing legal climate: The need to adapt legal regimes to increasing protection needs of weather-related migrants

ROOM/PIÈCE: 102

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Meeting ID: 896 9891 4167 - Passcode: GLSA2022


4:00 - 5:00 Introduction by Dana-Kay Matthews (Scotiabank Scholarship Recipient)

Followed by

5:00 - 5:15 Prizes Ceremony of the Graduate Law Conference & the Scotiabank Seminar

Remise des prix Hosted by Maria Rodriguez
Awards Presented by the Andrea K Bjorklund (Associate Dean Graduate Studies)
Best Contributions to the Scotiabank Seminar (3)
Coups de coeur of the Committee (General Conference) (2)

ROOM/PIÈCE: Moot Court

ZOOM:
Meeting ID: 835 0244 0962 - Passcode: GLSA2022

Jurors:Dana-Kay Matthews (Scotiabank panels I, II, III), Christina Refhilwe Mosalagae (Scotiabank I), Dr. Olivia Smith (Scotiabank panel I), Professor Frédéric Mégret (Scotiabank panel II), Dr. Kariuki Kirigia (Scotiabank Panel II), Maria Adelaida Bedoya (Scotiabank panel III), Dr. Camilo Gomez Chaparro (Scotiabank panel III) & the Conference Committee (General Conference).


Scotiabank Seminar on adressing Anti-Racism, Diversity and Inclusion/ Séminaire de la Banque Scotia pour contrer le Racisme et promouvoir la Diversité et l’Inclusion

9:30 - 10:45 Scotiabank Seminar Panel I: Protection, Equality & Inclusive Justice / Protection, égalité et justice inclusive

Moderator: Professor Vrinda Narain (Faculty of Law, ɬ﷬)

Yukio Sakurai - Yokohama National University

Adult Support and Protection Legislation in Japan: An Idea of Adaptation in An Aged Society

Alexandrine Lahaie - ɬ﷬

Les femmes en situation de pauvreté au Canada, analyse des lacunes du droit à l’égalité au regard de l’arrêt Gosselin c Québec

Lydia Babcock - University of Memphis

Policing in the Name of ‘Public Health’ and Reproducing Poverty: What COVID-19 legal scholars can learn from Anti-HIV laws

Yuri Alexander Romaña-Rivas - ɬ﷬

Legal Pluralism, Transitional Justice, and Ethnic Justice Systems: The Story of How Colombia is Building a Transitional Justice System Observant of Legal Pluralism

ROOM/PIÈCE: Moot Court

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Meeting ID: 899 4482 0342 - Passcode: GLSA2022


12:45 - 2:15Scotiabank Seminar Panel II: Adapting the Law & Legal Education: Towards Inclusiveness and Anti-Racism

Moderator: Tanya Monforte (Concordia University)

Chante Barnwell - York University

Hate in The Digital Sphere: Zoom Bombing Educational Settings and The Implications on Black Canadian Communities

Gaurav Mukherjee - European University; University of Oxford

The Law & Politics of the Right to Education: Social Movements, Backlash, and the Judicial Role

Akshat Agarwal - Yale Law School

LGBT+ Rights Claiming for Marriage Equality and the Possibilities of Transforming Indian Family Law

Michael Poon - ɬ﷬

Those Who Teach Must Also Do: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion from Legal Education into the Canadian Armed Forces

Ajey Sangai - ɬ﷬

Future of Legal Education: On the intersection of needs, intelligences and capabilities

ROOM/PIÈCE: Moot Court

Zoom:

Meeting ID: 899 4482 0342 - Passcode: GLSA2022


2:30 - 3:45Scotiabank Seminar Panel III: Adaptation in the Context of Indigenous Peoples Legal Orders

Moderator: Luisa Castañeda-Quintana (DCL candidate, ɬ﷬)

Georgia Storm - James Cook University

Indigenous cultural competence and legal practice in Australia

Chantelle van Wiltenburg - Yale Law School

“The Center Cannot Hold”: Nation and Narration in American Aboriginal Law

Emily T. Behzadi - California Western School of Law

Erasing Columbus from Latin American Cultural Heritage

Esteban Vallejo Toledo - University of Victoria

Legal pluralism and Indigenous legal orders v l’article 7 de la Loi du 30 ventôse an XII

ROOM/PIÈCE: 101

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Meeting ID: 823 1991 4786 - Passcode: GLSA2022


4:00 - 5:00Closing Remarks of the Graduate Law Conference and the Scotiabank Seminar

Cérémonie de fermeture et invité d’honneur
Justice Michael Tulloch of the Ontario Court of Appeal
Introduction by Dana-Kay Matthews (Scotiabank Scholarship Recipient)

Followed by:

5:00 - 5:15 Prizes Ceremony of the Graduate Law Conference & the Scotiabank Seminar


Remise des prix Hosted by Maria Rodriguez
Awards Presented byAndrea K Bjorklund (Associate Dean Graduate Studies)
Best Contributions to the Scotiabank Seminar (3)
Coups de coeur of the Committee (General Conference) (2)

ROOM/PIÈCE: Moot Court

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Meeting ID: 835 0244 0962 - Passcode: GLSA2022

Jurors:Profeesor Evan Fox-Decent (Scotiabank panel I), Clara-Élodie De Pue (Scotiabank panel I), Dr. Olivia Smith (Scotiabank panel I), Professor Frédéric Mégret (Scotiabank panel II), Christina Refhilwe Mosalagae (Scotiabank panel II), Dr. Kariuki Kirigia (Scotiabank panel II), Maria Adelaida Bedoya (Scotiabank panel III), Dr. Camilo Gomez Chaparro(Scotiabank panel III), XXXX (Scotiabank panel III) & the Conference Committee (General Conference).


7:00Scotiabank Diner – Souper de la Banque Scotia

Venue/emplacement: Lola Rosa Lounge, 276 Ste-Catherine Ouest

Optional/optionnel
(Starter, Main Course, Dessert & (2) Drinks included – Registration Needed
Entrée, plat principal, désert & (2) boissons incluses – inscription requise)


Land Acknowledgement

English: ɬ﷬ is located on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous Peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. ɬ﷬ honours, recognizes and respects these nations as the traditional stewards of the lands and waters on which we meet today.

As this conference is a hybrid event, we also wish to acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous Peoples whose presence marks the lands on which our participants are today standing. These groups include but are not limited too: the Onundagaonoga (Onondaga), the O-ga-xpa Ma-zhoⁿ (O-ga-xpa) (Quapaw), the Chikashsha I̠yaakni’ (Chickasaw), the Mik’maq Peoples, the Mississaugas of the Credit, the Chippewa, and the Wendat Peoples.

French: L’Université ɬ﷬ est sur un emplacement qui a longtemps servi de lieu de rencontre et d’échange entre les peuples autochtones, y compris les nations Haudenosaunee et Anishinabeg. ɬ﷬ honore, reconnaît et respecte ces nations à titre d’intendant traditionnel des terres et de l’eau sur lesquelles nous nous réunissions aujourd’hui.

Cet évènement ayant une composante virtuelle, nous reconnaissons et remercions également les diverses communautés autochtones qui ont pris soin et marqué l’histoire des terres sur lesquelles nos participant.e.s se retrouvent aujourd’hui. Ces communautés inclus notamment les peuples Onundagaonoga (Onondaga), O-ga-xpa Ma-zhoⁿ (O-ga-xpa) (Quapaw), Chikashsha I̠yaakni’ (Chickasaw), Mik’maq, Mississaugas of the Credit, Chippewa et Wendat.

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