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DESCRIPTION:Join us for the 2013 Michel Proulx Memorial Lecture in Criminal
  Law with Benjamin L. Berger\, Associate Professor\, Osgoode Hall Law Scho
 ol\, and présidente d'honneur\, the Honourable Sophie Bourque\, Superior C
 ourt of Quebec.  RSVP by March 29\, 2013 to alumnioffice.law [at] mcgill.c
 a or 514-398-7934.  This event has been accredited by the Barreau du Québe
 c for 1.5 hours of CLE.  Abstract  Recent high-profile cases\, as well as 
 the Federal Government's crime agenda\, have drawn our collective attentio
 n to the relationship between mental health and the criminal justice syste
 m. These developments are attracting debate on their own terms\, but they 
 also gesture to the way in which criminal law doctrines regarding mental d
 isorder have always served as cyphers for social understandings of crime a
 nd attitudes toward blame.  This talk will examine the criminal law's pers
 istent failure to account for mental conditions that\, on the most compell
 ing theoretical accounts of criminal responsibility and blame\, ought to c
 oncern us deeply.  It will argue that this gap – the gap between how we th
 ink about criminal responsibility and what is actually addressed by the la
 w of mental disorder – is best understood as a marker for the criminal law
 ’s central social function: the laundering and containment of blame.  Ulti
 mately\, peering through this gap provides a line of sight into the symbol
 ic and communicative role of the law of mental disorder\, and the criminal
  law more generally: it is a mechanism for concealing collective responsib
 ility for complex social problems.  About the speaker  Benjamin L. Berger 
 (BA\, LLB\, LLM\, JSD) is an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law Schoo
 l\, York University. Professor Berger teaches and researches in areas of c
 riminal and constitutional law and theory\, law and religion\, and the law
  of evidence.    He has published broadly\, and his work has appeared in m
 ultiple legal and interdisciplinary journals and edited collections. He is
  a Former Law Clerk to the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin\, Chief Jus
 tice of Canada. Professor Berger is active in professional and public educ
 ation\, is involved in public interest advocacy\, and has appeared before 
 the Supreme Court of Canada.  About the Michel Proulx Memorial Lectures  A
  shrewd judge\, a great lawyer and a learned professor of law\, the Hon. M
 ichel Proulx devoted his life to the improvement of the criminal justice s
 ystem and to the advancement of human rights in Canada. To honour his memo
 ry\, family and friends created the Michel Proulx Memorial Lectures in cri
 minal law.
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LOCATION:Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (room 100)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, Q
 C\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Mental Disorder and the Instability of Blame in Criminal Law
URL:/law/channels/event/mental-disorder-and-instabilit
 y-blame-criminal-law-225279
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