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Friday, July 11, 2014
PhD Candidate Tiffany MacLellan's op-ed piece, 'The wrong way to preserve residential-school history', has been featured in the Montreal Gazette and in the Ottawa Citizen. The article explores the primary goal of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which identifies "sources and [creates] a comprehensive record of the violence in... More
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
The new Chair of the Department of Law and Legal Studies officialy takes office this week. Welcome to Prof. R.P. Saunders! Need to get in touch with the Chair? Please send your message to the *NEW* dedicated email address: lawchair@carleton.ca ... More
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
All are welcome to attend the 4th National Critical Perspectives: Criminology and Social Justice conference, hosted by Carleton University this Tuesday, June 10 through Thursday, June 12. The conference is free and open to all - no registration is required. A number of faculty and graduate students from the Department of Law and Legal... More
Monday, March 31, 2014
The Department of Law and Legal Studies is pleased to announce the Master's thesis defense of MA Legal Studies candidate Rosemary Parker (B.A. Hons., Saint Paul University, 2012). Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014 2:00pm | B454 Loeb Building Rosemary Parker is set to stand before the Examination Board in defense of her MA thesis entitled,... More
Friday, March 21, 2014
The Graduate Committee in the Department of Law and Legal Studies was presented with many outstanding nominations for the Chet Mitchell Memorial Award in Law this year. Out of these outstanding nominees, the Committee concluded that this year the deserving winner of the Chet Mitchell Memorial Award in Law would be Andre Arnet-Zargarian.... More
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Success! The 9th Annual Legal Studies Graduate Student conference was a flurry of discussion, taking place on March 12th. The event, organized by MA Legal Studies and PhD students (including Amanda Swant, Danielle McKenzie, Jerusa Ali, Marsha Ellis, Michael-Anthony Lufty and Monika Lemke), examined the broad topic of Legal Exclusions: Individual,... More
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
As part of the Faculty of Public Affairs' Research month, the graduate students of the Department of Law and Legal Studies present 9th Annual Legal Studies Graduate Student Conference Legal Exclusions: The Individual, Community, and State The theme, Legal Exclusions, concerns a range of exclusions found within the interactions between the... More
Friday, February 28, 2014
Let's open this up for public discourse! An Op-Ed piece written by PhD Candidate Tiffany MacLellan has been published in the Ottawa Citizen. MacLellan's conversation, entitled "Yes, public intellectualism is alive", hosts several theories which aim to explain why academics are on the fringes of public debate. Check out the full item online at... More
Monday, December 9, 2013
On December 9th, The Ottawa Citizen re-published Tiffany MacLellan's Op-Ed "The myth of the apolitical museum" (originally published in Rabble December 3rd). Using the CAPP and Museum of Civilization's new financial agreement as an example, her contribution takes issue with mis-guided claims in media which render museums neutral public spaces.... More
Friday, December 6, 2013
Legal Studies PhD Candidate Jerusa Ali will be attending the Harvard Institute of Global Law and Policy (IGLP) Workshop, in Doha, Qatar (January 2014). Ali will participate in the ‘Legacies of Colonialism for Global Policy’ stream with other doctoral candidates and junior scholars from around the world. She is grateful for this unique... More
Friday, October 18, 2013
The Department of Law and Legal Studies is pleased to announce the Master's thesis defense of MA Legal Studies candidate Mahnam Alipour Malamiry. Malamiry is set to stand before the Examination Board on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013, in defense of his MA thesis entitled, "The General Counsel, Gatekeeping and the Investor Public: Uneasy... More
Monday, October 7, 2013
October 5th marked the anniversary of the kidnapping of James Cross and the early days of what would come to be known as the 'October Crisis'. PhD Candidate, Darren Pacione shares his reflections on the subject in his recently published article entitled, "The FLQ Trials, 1969-1971: Judicial Tensions and Constitutional Questions". This essay sheds... More
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