The 2013 Osgoode Forum – Law, Culture, Critique will be held May 10-12, 2013, at Osgoode Hall Law School.Website: http://glsa.osgoode.yorku.ca
The two main themes of this conference are the intersections between law and culture and the role of critique in legal scholarship. Another over-arching theme of this conference is how law and critique can effectively co-exist inside the legal academy and in cultural practices. im
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
B.S. Chimni is an international legal scholar who is affiliated with Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL). He is Chairperson of the Centre for International Legal Studies (CILS) at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He is author/editor of International Law and World Order: A Critique of Contemporary Approaches (Sage, 1993), International Refugee Law (Sage, 2000), and other notable works. He served as a member of the Academic Advisory Committee of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University, Tokyo University and York University.
Joel Bakan is professor of law at the University of British Columbia as well as author, filmmaker and professional jazz guitarist. He wrote the bestselling The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Free Press, 2004) whose film adaptation won the best foreign documentary award at the Sundance Film Festival. Other works include Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs (University of Toronto Press, 1997) and Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children (Penguin, 2011). Bakan has worked on landmark legal cases and government policy and his current research is focused on the corporatization of global governance.
