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Monday, May 16, 2016
Prof. George Rigakos has recently completed a new publication, released via Edinburgh University Press. The book, entitled Security/Capital A General Theory of Pacification, offers a radical social theory of the security-industrial complex, showing how pacification underpins the global economic system. What is security, and what is its... More
Friday, April 22, 2016
Prof. Dale Spencer recently teamed with Prof. Sandra Walklate (Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool and professor of criminology at Mon ash University) to co-edit a new publication, Reconceptualizing Critical Victimology: Interventions and Possibilities. The book includes eleven papers on the forms of... More
Wednesday, February 10, 2016
Prof. Dawn Moore, Prof. Vincent Kazmierski and instructor Lisa Wright have recently been published in a special issue of Social Justice, entitled 'Beyond Mass Incarceration'. The paper is called "Policing Carceral Boundaries: Access to Information and Research with Prisoners". ... More
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Prof. Rebecca Bromwich has announced the launch of her latest book, "Looking for Ashley: Re-reading What the Smith Case Reveals about the Governance of Girls, Mothers and Families in Canada". The launch will take place at the Vista Room - Lago Grill in Ottawa on January 28th at 7pm. About the Book The 2007 death... More
Thursday, October 22, 2015
Congratulations to Prof. Melanie Adrian, whose new book “Religious Freedom at Risk: The EU, French Schools, and Why the Veil was Banned” is now available! The book's official launch took place at Octopus Books in Ottawa on October 15th, where Prof. Adrian introduced the book and signed copies for customers. More information on the book,... More
Wednesday, October 7, 2015
Congratulations to Prof. Rebecca Bromwich, whose new book "Looking For Ashley: Re-Reading What the Smith Case Reveals about the Governance of Girls, Mothers and Families in Canada" has gone to press! More information on the book, which will be available from Demeter Press, can be found... More
Monday, April 6, 2015
The Carleton Law & Legal Studies Society would like to introduce the Carleton University Journal of Legal Studies. Carleton University undergraduate students are invited to submit a paper that they have written to be published in the Fall of 2015 edition of the Journal. This is a great opportunity to show off your hard work and to... More
Friday, March 27, 2015
It is with great pleasure that the Department of Law and Legal Studies announces the successful thesis defence by PhD Candidate Rebecca Bromwich. Rebecca went before the Examination Board on March 26, 2015, in defense of her PhD thesis entitled, "Re-Reading Ashley: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Figures of Ashley Smith as Girl". The... More
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
PhD candidate Stéphane Lefebvre's comprehensive exam paper entitled, "A Brief Genealogy of State Secrecy", has been published in the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (WYAJ)! This article provides a potential explanation to the following question: With over five million government employees and contractors entrusted with state secrets in... More
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
Prof. Dale Spencer has recently published an article entitled, "Corporeal realism and victimology" in the International Review of Victimology. This article introduces corporeal realism to victimology and incorporates work on the sociology of the body to manifest a critical victimology focused on the body–society relationship. It reviews the... More
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Prof. Melanie Adrian, Managing Editor of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society (CJLS), confirmed today that the Journal has received a 3 year SSHRC grant totalling approximately $90,000. The funding will help support the ongoing publishing activities of the Journal, and support the work of two PhD students. Congratulations to the editorial... More
Thursday, November 6, 2014
The latest issue of the Institute for Research on Public Policy's magazine, Policy Options, features an article by Prof. Sebastien Malette. In his piece (http://policyoptions.irpp.org/issues/policyflix/malette/), Prof. Malette explores the question of Métis identity in the context of the film, L’empreinte. The issue is available free-of-charge... More
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