Podcasts
Welcome to Common Law’s Podcast page where you will find our weekly Speakers Series Lectures, special guest lectures and conferences as well as other interesting events being held at the law school.
Lessons Learned by Babes on Bay Street (13-03-2013)
Janet Graham has spent her entire career on Bay Street. As an MBA/CA, she has worked as a Vice President at CIBC, an investment banker at Wood Gundy, and the head of an advisory services/consulting business focused on real estate finance. Today, she is a Corporate Director and the proud founder of babesonbaystreet.com. Babes on Bay Street tells the stories of fifteen senior corporate women. Touching on topics ranging from early life lessons to work-life balance, these stories reveal what it takes to be successful on Bay Street.
Professionalism Speaker Series (11-03-2013)
Professionalism Speaker Series presents:
"Revisiting the Law Society’s Good Character Requirement for Admission to the Bar"
Speaker: Prof.Alice Woolley, University of Calgary
“Technological Neutrality: (Pre)Serving the Purposes of Copyright Law”
Centre for Law, Technology and Society Speaker Series presents:
“Technological Neutrality: (Pre)Serving the Purposes of Copyright Law”
Speaker: Dr. Carys J. Craig, Professeure agrégée | Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
International Law and Social Justice Joint Speaker Series (13-02-2013)
International Law and Social Justice Joint Speaker Series
“The Optics of Bombing: International Law, Civilians, Technology and Fantasies of Visibility”
Prof. Christiane Wilke, Associate Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
Social and Economic Rights: the South African Experience (11-02-2013)
Appointed in 1998 by Nelson Mandela, Justice Zak Yacoob is the author of the landmark Government of the Republic of South Africa v Grootboom judgment among many others. He discussed the significance of social and economic rights as justiciable rights in light of the South African experience.
Guest speaker: Justice Zak Yacoob of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.
The Honourable Richard Wagner
The Civil Law and Common Law Sections of the Faculty of Law held a welcoming reception in honour of the newly-appointed Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, The Honourable Richard Wagner.
Thomas Feeney Annual Memorial Lecture (09-01-2013)
Greenberg and HRREC Speaker Series (21-11-2012)
International Law and the IRLRC Joint Speaker Series (14-11-2012)
International Law and the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child Joint Speaker Series
"A Child of the Nation: The Law and Politics of Inter-Country Adoption "
Speaker: Lisa Kelly, S.J.D. Candidate, Harvard Law School, Trudeau Foundation