January 24, 2023 Book Launch and Panel Discussion — Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2027, Osgoode Hall Law School Remote participation (by Zoom) also available Registration Required: https://bit.ly/LRSTAkande Please join us for this book launch and panel discussion of Professor Rabiat Akande's new book, Entangled Domains. Set […]
January 26, 2022 “Neutralizing Secularism: Religious Liberty and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” Professor Rabiat Akande Via Zoom Register: https://bit.ly/LRSTJAN26 Contestations pitting the notions of secularism and religious freedom against each other are ubiquitous in the contemporary world. This tension was, in fact, integral to the making of the modern notion of religious liberty in […]
December 3, 2021 “Jews, Justice, and U.S. Indian Law” Professor David S. Koffman Via Zoom Register: https://bit.ly/LRSTDEC3 This talk analyzes the work of a cadre of American Jewish lawyers, civil servants and intellectual New Dealers who turned centuries-long anti-Indian policy on its head and created the most progressive pro-Native policy the U.S. had ever known. Drawing from extensive, original […]
November 24, 2021 - Co-sponsored with the IFLS “Unmasking the Hypocrisy of the Niqab Bans” Dr. Miriam Zucker Via Zoom Register: https://bit.ly/Niqabban In the last fifteen years many European countries have passed laws that ban the wearing of full-face Muslim veils in public places. In several cases reaching the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR),the […]
November 25, 2020 “In Your Face: Law, Justice and Niqab-Wearing Women” Professor Natasha BakhtVia Zoom Register: bit.ly/LRSTNOV25 "The niqab is incompatible with gender equality.” "Women are forced by the men in their families to wear the niqab.” "Wearing a niqab makes living together impossible." This talk will examine such claims made by the majority to constrain the […]
October 21, 2020 “Buddhist Religious Freedom, in Victory and in Defeat” Professor Jolyon ThomasVia Zoom Register: bit.ly/LRSTOCT21 U.S. officials who occupied Japan after World War II claimed that the defeated country totally lacked religious freedom. However, this tidy narrative masked a messy history. Japan’s 1889 constitution had guaranteed religious freedom, and over subsequent decades Japanese clerics […]
October 22, 2019 “Do Rivers Have Rights? Indigenous Sovereignty on the Klamath River" Dr Dana Lloyd (Washington University at St Louis)12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp This paper rethinks the notion of Indigenous sovereignty through the story of the Yurok Tribe of Northwest California and its ongoing efforts to heal […]
March 5, 2019 “Rabbinic Law as Culture: How the Rabbis Transformed Jewish Law into a Way of Talking about Everything" Prof Chaim Saiman (Villanova University) 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2010 Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp Though typically translated as “Jewish law,” the term "halakhah" is not an easy match for what is usually thought of […]
October 23, 2018 "Historicizing the Global politics of Religious Freedom" Professor Matthias Koenig (University of Göttingen) 12:00pm to 2:00pm, Room 318 Jackman Humanities Building Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp Religion has become an increasingly salient marker of symbolic and social boundaries in nation-states across the world. In both immigration […]
November 21, 2018 “Reforming Islamic Family Law in Lebanon: A Political Anthropology of Religion" Dr Jean-Michel Landry (McGill University) 12:30pm to 2:00pm, Room 2027 Osgoode Hall Law School RSVP Required: www.osgoode.yorku.ca/research/rsvp What does legal activism tell us about the way Islamic family law is constructed and applied in the Middle East? Over the last decades, […]