Schedule

Thursday, May 5th, 2016
Founders College Common Room
York University

1:00PM	WELCOME
1:05PM	DOUG’S WORK, DISCRETION, AND CERTAINTY CHAIR: Shelley Gavigan (Osgoode Hall Law School) SPEAKERS: Patrick Connor (York University) “Royal Clemency, Race, and the Law in Upper Canada.” Carolyn Strange (Australian National University) “Majesty in the Republic? Vivifying the Wraithlike Presence of Doug Hay’s Mercy Analysis in U.S. Historiography.” Lisa Kerr (Queen’s University) “Life Imprisonment as Penal Alternative.” James Muir (University of Alberta) “Justice from Injustice: Documenting wrongful convictions, 1988-2015.”
2:30PM	REFRESHMENT BREAK
3:00PM	LAW AND MEDICAL SCIENCE CHAIR: Molly Ladd-Taylor (York University) SPEAKERS: Blake Brown (Saint Mary’s University) “Doctors, Lawyers, and Medical Malpractice in Late-Nineteenth-Century Canada” Elizabeth Koester (University of Toronto) “A Surprising History: Eugenics and Law in Ontario, 1910 to 1939.”
4:00PM	BREAK
4:10PM	LAW AND LABOUR CHAIR: Paul Craven (York University, Emeritus) SPEAKERS: Christopher Frank (University of Manitoba) “Female Factory Inspectors, the Courts, and the Struggle Against Workplace Fines and Deductions, 1893-1913.” Eric Tucker (Osgoode Hall Law School) “When Wage Theft Was a Crime.”

Friday, May 6th, 2016
Ignat Kaneff Building, Room 1014
Osgoode Hall Law School

9:00AM	ENGLISH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE, 17-19TH CENTURIES CHAIR: Jim Phillips (University of Toronto) SPEAKERS: Karen Macfarlane (University of Toronto) “Religion and class concerns about perjury and oaths in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England.” Randa Helfield (Independent Researcher) “Let the Facts Speak for Themselves: The Empiricist Origins of the Right to Remain Silent.”
10:00AM	REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:15AM	BRITISH NORTH AMERICA IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY CHAIR: Philip Girard (Osgoode Hall Law School) SPEAKERS: Anna Jarvis (York University) “Duelling, Honour, and the Unwritten Law.” Blaine Baker (McGill University) “Musings of an Eighteenth-Century Chief Justice.” Jim Phillips (University of Toronto) “Exile for Offenders: Banishment and Transportation from British North America, 1750-1850.”
11:30AM	REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:40AM	MILITARY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW CHAIR: Stephen Brooke (York University) SPEAKERS: Tracey Dowdeswell (Osgoode Hall Law School) “At the Threshold of International Law: The Brussels Conference of 1874.” Jennine Hurl-Eamon (Trent University) "Power, Agency and the Eighteenth-Century Military Courts"
12:40PM	LUNCH BREAK
2:00PM	GENDER AND THE LAW CHAIR: Kathryn McPherson (York University) SPEAKERS: Karen Pearlston (University of New Brunswick) “Avoiding the Vulva: Judicial Interpretations of Lesbian Sex under the Divorce Act, 1968.” Yael Machtinger (York University) “Legal History‘s Utility: Investigating the Commensurability of Seemingly Contradictory Legal Orders.”
3:00PM	REFRESHMENT BREAK
3:10-4:30PM	RACE, SPACE, AND THE LAW CHAIR: David Koffman (York University) SPEAKERS: Eric Adams (University of Alberta) and Jordan Stanger-Ross (University of Victoria) “The Promise of Law: The Legalized Racism of Dispossession of Japanese Canadians.” Sarah Hamill (Osgoode Hall Law School) “Sex, Race, and Motel Guests: Another Look at King v. Barclay.” Douglas C. Harris (UBC) and Fergus McDonnell (Fasken Martineau) “Private Property and Public Fisheries on the Douglas Lake Cattle Ranch.”
6:00-7:15PM	RECEPTION Prop Italian Restaurant 770 St. Clair Avenue West (at Arlington)
7:15PM	DINNER (RSVP Required) Prop Italian Restaurant 770 St. Clair Avenue West (at Arlington) After-dinner remarks: John Beattie (University of Toronto), Nick Rogers (York University), and Eric Tucker (Osgoode Hall Law School).