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Counting Outsiders: A Critical Exploration Of Outsider Course Enrollment In Canadian Legal Education, Natasha Bakht, Kim Brooks, Gillian Calder, Jennifer Koshan, Sonia Lawrence, Carissima Mathen, Debra Parkes Oct 2015

Counting Outsiders: A Critical Exploration Of Outsider Course Enrollment In Canadian Legal Education, Natasha Bakht, Kim Brooks, Gillian Calder, Jennifer Koshan, Sonia Lawrence, Carissima Mathen, Debra Parkes

Sonia Lawrence

In response to anecdotal concerns that student enrollment in "outsider" courses, and in particular feminist courses, is on the decline in Canadian law schools, the authors explore patterns of course enrollment at seven Canadian law schools. Articulating a definition of "outsider" that describes those who are members of groups historically lacking power in society, or traditionally outside the realms of fashioning, teaching, and adjudicating the law, the authors document the results of quantitative and qualitative surveys conducted at their respective schools to argue that outsider pedagogy remains a critical component of legal education. The article situates the numerical survey results …


Choice, Equality And Tales Of Racial Discrimination: Reading The Supreme Court On Section 15, Sonia Lawrence Oct 2015

Choice, Equality And Tales Of Racial Discrimination: Reading The Supreme Court On Section 15, Sonia Lawrence

Sonia Lawrence

No abstract provided.


The Most Difficult Right, Sonia Lawrence Oct 2015

The Most Difficult Right, Sonia Lawrence

Sonia Lawrence

No abstract provided.


Book Review: Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections Of Race And Class For Women In Academia, Sonia N. Lawrence Oct 2015

Book Review: Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections Of Race And Class For Women In Academia, Sonia N. Lawrence

Sonia Lawrence

This is a book review of Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. Gonzalez, and Angela P. Harris, eds., Boulder, CO: Utah State University Press, 2012.


Panel 4: Civil Liberties, Nathalie Desrosiers, Fay Faraday, Sonia Lawrence, James Stribopoulos Oct 2015

Panel 4: Civil Liberties, Nathalie Desrosiers, Fay Faraday, Sonia Lawrence, James Stribopoulos

Sonia Lawrence

PANEL IV: CIVIL LIBERTIES: Moderator:James Stribopoulos, Professor, Osgoode HallLaw School; Speaker: Nathalie Desrosiers, General Counsel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association & Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, "The Advocacy Function in Canada and the Role of Non-Government Organizations"; Speaker: Fay Faraday, McMurtry Clinical Visiting Fellow, Osgoode Hall Law School, "Civil Society and Rights Litigation: Grassroots Nourishing the Charter Tree"; Discussant: Sonia Lawrence, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School.


Interpretation And Accommodation, John Borrows, Colleen Sheppard, Sonia Lawrence Oct 2015

Interpretation And Accommodation, John Borrows, Colleen Sheppard, Sonia Lawrence

Sonia Lawrence

John Borrows, University of Minnesota, Faculty of Law, presents "Aboriginal and Treaty Rights and Violence against Women." Colleen Sheppard, McGill University, Faculty of Law, presents "Inclusion, Voice, and Process-Based Constitutionalism." The discussant is Sonia Lawrence, Osgoode Hall Law School.


A New Subtlety In Judicial Supremacy: Review Of Constitutional Cases, The 2003-04 Term, Sonia Lawrence Oct 2015

A New Subtlety In Judicial Supremacy: Review Of Constitutional Cases, The 2003-04 Term, Sonia Lawrence

Sonia Lawrence

No abstract provided.


Feminism, Consequences, Accountability, Sonia Lawrence Oct 2015

Feminism, Consequences, Accountability, Sonia Lawrence

Sonia Lawrence

No abstract provided.