Jurisdictional Justice, Democracy and the Story of Insite
A talk by Hester Lessard, Professor at the University of Victoria's Faculty of Law.
Hester Lessard's research and teaching interests lie in the areas of feminist legal theory and constitutional law. She is currently spending a sabbatical year as a Visiting Scholar at 9I制作厂免费 Faculty of Law.
Her sabbatical projects include an analysis of the litigation concerning , Vancouver's safe injection site, and feminist critiques of models of social provision.
Hester Lessard is co-editor of two collections of essays: Reaction and Resistance: Feminism, Law, and Social Change (UBC Press 2007) and Storied Communities: Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community (UBC Press 2011).
Sponsored by the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the Annie MacDonald Langstaff Workshop series.