BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20251012T143316EDT-0167hZhPfV@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20251012T183316Z DESCRIPTION:Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Ryerson University\, the McG ill University Faculty of Law\, and the 9I制作厂免费 Centre for Human Rights & L egal Pluralism present:\n\nGuest speakers:\n\n\n Maria Dugas (Schulich Scho ol of Law\, Dalhousie University)\n Anne-Marie Livingstone (MTL Sans Profil age and McMaster University)\n Joshua Sealy-Harrington (Lincoln Alexander S chool of Law\, Ryerson University)\n Tamara Thermitus (Centre for Human Rig hts & Legal Pluralism\, 9I制作厂免费)\n Reakash Walters (Addario Law G roup)\n Nana Yanful (Black Legal Action Centre)\n\n\nModerator:\n\n\n Sarah Riley-Case (Faculty of Law\, 9I制作厂免费\n\n\nMaria Dugas\n\nMaria D ugas is an Assistant Professor at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University. Her research interests are rooted in critical race legal theor y\, most recently addressing issues of anti-Black racism in the criminal j ustice system and professional sport. She is a proud graduate of the Indig enous Blacks and Mi鈥檏maq Initiative at the Schulich School of Law.\n\nSara h Riley Case\n\nSarah Riley Case is a Boulton Junior Fellow and Incoming P rofessor at the 9I制作厂免费 Faculty of Law. Her research and teaching focus on critical race theory\, slavery and the law\, Black life\, Third World appr oaches to international law\, settler colonialism and governing the natura l world. Professor Riley Case鈥檚 work weaves together law\, history\, conce ptions of justice\, and the arts.\n\nAnne-Marie Livingstone\n\nAnne-Marie Livingstone is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Mc Master University. Her research focuses on the intersection between race p olitics\, public policy\, and racism in Canada. She is a co-author of a 20 18 public report on racism in policing in Montreal\, produced by the team Montreal Sans Profilage.\n\nJoshua Sealy-Harrington\n\nJoshua Sealy-Harrin gton is an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at X University\, where he teaches about legal theory and social change and ac ts as a faculty liaison for the Black Law Students鈥 Association. He is als o a doctoral candidate at Columbia Law School and draws on critical race t heory to explore the ways in which law mediates social hierarchy\, with a particular focus on the promise and limitations of 鈥渋dentity鈥 rhetoric in legal discourse and advocacy concerning race\, gender\, sexuality\, disabi lity\, and class. Lastly\, Professor Sealy-Harrington is a lawyer at Power Law and strategically mobilizes criminal and constitutional law to advanc e the interests of marginalized communities\, including as lead counsel be fore the Supreme Court of Canada\, where he previously clerked for two yea rs.\n\nTamara Thermitus\n\nMe Thermitus Ad.E. is a visiting scholar at the 9I制作厂免费 Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism. She holds a Master of Laws degree (2013) from 9I制作厂免费 on human rights and was the Chi ef Negotiator for the federal government of the Truth and Reconciliation C ommission. Holder of the Queen Elizabeth Jubilee Medal (2012)\, Me Thermit us Ad.E. has received numerous awards including the M茅rite du Barreau du Q u茅bec (2011)\, the first black lawyer to receive this recognition.\n\nReak ash Walters\n\nReakash is a criminal defence lawyer at Addario Law Group a nd a prison industrial complex abolitionist. She is on the board of Women鈥 s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) and has recent publications in th e Canadian Journal of Women and the Law\, the Globe and Mail\, and Rabble. Reakash is an incoming 2022-2023 clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada.\n \nNana Yanful\n\nNana Yanful is the Black Legal Action Centre鈥檚 Legal Dire ctor\, deeply committed to community and legal work related to anti-Black racism and human rights. Nana completed her articles at the Superior Court of Justice as a Judicial Law Clerk and was called to the Bar in Ontario i n 2014\, after which she practiced criminal defence law at Simcoe Chambers in Toronto and appeared before all levels of court in Ontario. Nana鈥檚 wri ting on equity\, policing and the trust-deficit has appeared in various pu blications\, she is a board member of Women鈥檚 Health in Women鈥檚 Hands Comm unity Health Centre\, and she is a recipient of the 2020 鈥淟expert Rising S tars: Leading Lawyers under 40.\n\nRegister here.\n\nSupport for this even t is provided by the聽Law '75 Project Fund\, the Law '77 Project Fund\, and the Macnaughton Lecture Fund.聽\n DTSTART:20220314T200000Z DTEND:20220314T220000Z LOCATION:Zoom. SUMMARY:Carceral Systems and Racial Justice in Canada: A Conversation on Re form and Abolition URL:/law/channels/event/carceral-systems-and-racial-ju stice-canada-conversation-reform-and-abolition-337587 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR