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).