Category: UVic Law

Posts about UVic Law: news from and about the faculty and students, events, etc.

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Appeal – Call for Submissions

appeal-call-for-submissions-2017Appeal: Review of Current Law and Law Reform is currently accepting submissions for volume 22, to be published in Spring 2017.

Appeal is a student run law journal published at the University of Victoria’s Faculty of Law. Appeal publishes articles, case comments and book reviews offering insightful commentary on Canadian law and comparative law.

The deadline for submissions is October 7, 2016. Send submissions electronically to appeal@uvic.ca. For further details including submission guidelines visit the Appeal website.

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Congratulations, Dr Carol Liao

Congratulations to UVic Law Assistant Professor Carol Liao, who recently successfully defended her PhD dissertation. Her PhD, achieved jointly with University of Toronto and University of British Columbia, is entitled “For-Profit, Non-Profit, and Hybrid: The Global Emergence of Legally ‘Good’ Corporations and the Canadian Experiment.”

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Check out some of Dr Liao’s other scholarship held in the UVic Libraries collections:

And, of course, Professor Liao’s teaching excellence and commitment to student learning was recognized this spring by receipt of the First Year Class Teaching Award.

Congratulations!

 

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Jeremy Webber to be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Congratulations to Jeremy Webber, Dean of Law, who will be inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Webber will be inducted as a Fellow on November 18th at Royal Society of Canada’s Induction and Awards Ceremony in Kingston, Ontario.

Election to the Royal Society of Canada is the highest honour granted to Canadian scholars in the fields of arts, humanities and sciences.

From the Royal Society of Canada citation:

Jeremy Webber, Trudeau Fellow and twice-appointed Canada Research Chair in Law and Society, is among the world’s most influential scholars in constitutional theory and legal pluralism. He has made outstanding contributions to both Canada and other countries on issues of constitutional reform, Indigenous rights, religious freedom, transitional justice and minority rights…

You can read Webber’s full RSC citation here and more about his induction in UVic News.

Webber has produced a number of groundbreaking works over the past 30 years including two authored and one coauthored books, four edited books, and over 60 book chapters and articles. Below are just a sample of the publications Webber wrote or contributed to:

  • The Constitution of Canada : A Contextual Analysis / Jeremy Webber (2015). Call number: KE4219 W42 2015
  • Recognition Versus Self-Determination : Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics / edited by Avigail Eisenberg, Jeremy Webber, Glen Coulthard, and Andrée Boisselle (2014). Call number: GN495.4 R43 2014
  • “A Two-Level Justification for Religious Toleration” (2014) 4 Journal of Indian Law and Society 1. Online
  • Storied Communities : Narratives of Contact and Arrival in Constituting Political Community / edited by Hester Lessard, Rebecca Johnson, and Jeremy Webber (2011). Call number JC311 S84 2011
  • Between Consenting Peoples : Political Community and the Meaning of Consent / edited by Jeremy Webber and Colin M Macleod (2010). Call number: JC328.2 B465 2010
  • “The Grammar of Customary Law” (2009) 54 McGill Law Journal 579. Online
  • Let Right be Done : Aboriginal Title, the Calder Case, and the Future of Indigenous Rights / edited by Hamar Foster, Heather Raven, and Jeremy Webber (2007). Call number: KE7715 L47 2007
  • “Legal Pluralism and Human Agency” (2005) 44:1 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 167. Online
  • “Beyond Regret: Mabo’s Implications for Australian Constitutionalism” in Political Theory and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples edited by Duncan Ivison, Paul Patton and Will Sanders (2000). Call number GN380 P65
  • Reimagining Canada : Language, Culture, Community and the Canadian Constitution / Jeremy Webber (1993). Call number: JL27.5 W42 1993 and Online

 

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Welcome 2016-2017 students

To new UVic Law students, welcome, and to returning students, welcome back!

We are excited to work with you to facilitate your learning and research in 2016-2017.

To new upper year students, Law Librarians Caron Rollins and Alexander Burdett and Staff Senior Supervisor Marisa Lousier welcome you to a tour of and orientation to library services and resources at 12:30 pm.

And all first year students, Caron, Alex, and Marisa look forward to showing you the library and our resources and services during your allotted block from 1:00 to 3:00 pm.

Here are the law library’s fall term regular hours:

Monday – Thursday: 8:00 AM – 10:00 PM
Friday: 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Saturday – Sunday: 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM

Our hours change at exams and between terms. Full details are available here. Research help hours will be posted shortly—look for signs at the research help desk and loan desk, and watch for a post here.

For full details on Law’s orientation for new students, visit UVic Law’s orientation for new students page.

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National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

On Tuesday (August 2), the federal government released the terms of reference for the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. The government also released the names of the five inquiry commissioners, including two UVic Alumni, the Honourable Marion Buller (B.A. 1975; LLB 1987) who will serve as Chief Commissioner, and Quajaq Robinson (LLB 2005). The other three Commissioners are:

  • Michèle Audette
  • Marilyn Poitras
  • Brian Eyolfson

The terms of reference, in part, call on the Commissioners to:

Inquire  into and to report on:

  • systemic causes of all forms of violence — including sexual violence — against Indigenous women and girls in Canada, including underlying social, economic, cultural, institutional and historical causes contributing to the ongoing violence and particular vulnerabilities of Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and
  • institutional policies and practices implemented in response to violence experienced by Indigenous women and girls in Canada, including the identification and examination of practices that have been effective in reducing violence and increasing safety.

Make recommendations on:

  • concrete and effective action that can be taken to remove systemic causes of violence and to increase the safety of Indigenous women and girls in Canada, and
  • ways to honour and commemorate the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls in Canada.

Read the full Terms of Reference here.

For more background information see the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls website and the several research, studies and reports that the Commissioners are referred to in the Terms of Reference:

  • Final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (2015). E96.5 T78 2015; [Electronic]
  • Report of the inquiry concerning Canada of the Committee of the Elimination of Discrimination against Women under article 8 of the optional protocol to the Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women / United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (2015) [Electronic]
  • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women in British Columbia, Canada / Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (2014). [Electronic]
  • Missing and murdered Aboriginal women : a national operational overview / Royal Canadian Mounted Police (2014). [Electronic]
  • Invisible women : a call to action : a report on missing and murdered indigenous women in Canada : report of the Special Committee on Violence Against Indigenous Women / Stella Ambler, chair (2014). [Electronic]
  • Forsaken : the report of the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry / Oppal Commission, British Columbia (2012). [Electronic]
  • What their stories tell us : research findings from the Sisters in Spirit initiative / Native Women’s Association of Canada (2010). [Electronic]
  • Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples. KF8205 A3384 1996
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Call for Papers: First Nations, Land, and James Douglas

Readers may be interested in a Call for Papers issued recently by the Songhees Nation and UVic Faculty of Law, for the forthcoming conference, First Nations, Land, and James Douglas: Indigenous and Treaty Rights in the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, 1849–1864.

The organizers welcome individual and panel proposals “from researchers, legal professionals, and community members, on topics including, but not limited to, the following:

1) Relations between First Nations and James Douglas
2) Indigenous and Colonial Concepts of Land, Law and Territory
3) Hunting and Fishing Rights
4) The End of Treaty-Making
5) The Roles of the HBC and the Colonial Office
6) The History of Douglas Era Reserves
7) Current relevance of these historical events.”

The deadline for proposals is June 21, 2016.

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Opinion piece by UVic Law graduate student

UVic law graduate student Preeti Dhaliwal wrote a piece published in the Victoria Times-Colonist on the Prime Minister’s recent apology for Canada’s treatment of those aboard the Komagata Maru. She wrote about the historic importance of that apology; the impact and significance of Canada’s decisions at the time of the Komagata Maru event; and the relative emphasis in the press of this apology and the underlying event, as compared with other apologies the Prime Minister delivered the same week and the events giving rise to them.

Read Preeti’s piece, and read more in UVic Libraries’ holdings about the Komagata Maru incident.

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First Nation advocate Mavis Gillie carries Gitxan Talking Stick

 

Mavis Gillie received an honourary doctorate from UVic March 9, and carried the Gitxan Talking Stick, which is held by and displayed in the law library, at the special convocation ceremony in her honour.

Professor Hamar Foster quoted from Spirit Dance at Meziadin: Joseph Gosnell and the Nisga’a Treaty by Alex Rose (E99 N734G67) when he praised Ms. Gillie as “a tireless, volunteer soldier in the struggle for justice.” A Times-Colonist article provides further coverage.

 

 

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Law Graduate Student Presentations

The Graduate Program at the Faculty of Law has released the schedule of graduate research presentations. These presentations will be made in room 292 in the law library, and are open to faculty and anyone else who wishes to attend. 50 minutes are allocated for each presentation.

1: 30 Wednesday, March 16th

  • A Reconciliation without Recollection: An Investigation of the Foundations of Aboriginal Law—Josh Nichols
  • Brain Tanning and Shut-eye Dancing: Understanding Plains Cree Ceremony as Legal Pedagogy—Darcy Lindberg
  • Provisional Measures in International Arbitration and Criminal Proceedings: Public Authority and Privatized Justice—Dmytro Galagan

9:00 Friday, March 18th

  • Improving Community Corrections in China: A Comparative Analysis—Qi Kong
  • Hydropower Dams Through the Lens of Environmental Justice—Rebeca Macias Gimenez
  • Gendered consumption: intersections between C0nsumers and women’s rights movements—Tamara Gonçalves
  • Sovereignty, Terra Nullius, Crown Lands, and Indian Reserves: The Dispossession of Indigenous Lands in Canada’s Maritime Provinces—Rob Hamilton

9: 30 Friday, April 1st

  • Utopian Performatives, Embodied Genealogies & Histories of Migration—Preeti Dhaliwal
  • Sovereign Legitimacy and Aboriginal Title: The Supreme Court’s Shift to a Procedural Legitimation of Crown Sovereignty—Ryan Beaton
  • Arbitral Paganism and Legal Disorder: New Sovereign Safeguards in International Investment  Agreements—Hassan Kamalinejad
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1L Community Conference: Agency and the Law

Reminder: This year’s 1L Community Conference is today.

What: This year’s annual 1L Community Conference:

“draws together four distinct fields of inquiry – youth law, elder law, mental health, and Indigenous law and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission – around this common thread. We will ask: What challenges do youth and the elderly face when navigating the legal system and what resources are available to them? How are these challenges compounded or altered when questions of mental illness come into play? What gaps and barriers exist in the legal system today, particularly in the context of Canada’s colonial legacy and the role of the legal system in violently repressing the agency of Indigenous peoples?”

When: This afternoon from 2:30 pm – 6:00 pm. The conference will include an intermission snack break and a make-your-own taco buffet dinner.

Where: Room 159, Fraser Building

Speakers:

  • Isobel McKenzie from the Office of the Seniors Advocate BC
  • Mia Golden from the Victoria Family Court and Youth Justice Committee
  • Coreen Hunt from the Kwakwa’kawak Nation and the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General (Victim Services and Crime Prevention Division)
  • Catherine Schlenker from the PBSC Mental Health Program

For more details visit the conference event page on Facebook: 1L Community Conference