1 credit
Course description:
Course Information for 2016-2017
The Feminist Legal Studies Workshop is designed to enable students to work closely with faculty in analyzing and discussing with leading feminist theorists and scholars visiting Queen’s Faculty the topics of the speakers’ papers.
The Feminist Legal Studies Workshop course is offered for one course credit per term. In the fall term of 2015, it is designated as Law 692; in the winter term of 2016 it is designated as Law 693. Students may enroll for one credit in the fall term, or for one credit in the winter term, or for a total of two credits in both terms combined. This course can also be combined with an ISP for students who may wish to carry out in-depth independent supervised work in relation to one or more of the areas discussed in this workshop.
Scheduling details:
The workshop speakers will typically be scheduled for the regular visitor slots on Mondays and Fridays, which run from 1 to 2:30 pm, and one or two additional meetings per term will be scheduled around everyone’s class and other commitments. Speaker dates and locations are listed below.
Nature, mode, and content of evaluation of student participation:
Students will attend all the speakers events (4/term or all 7/all year), will prepare advance reading for the first session of each term, will prepare advance reading and two advance questions for the rest of the speakers in that term, plus 1-2 pages of briefing notes after each session (60% of course credit), will participate in the discussion at the speakers visit (10% of course credit), and will prepare a short term paper of approximately 10-12 pages on a topic that relates to any one of the speakers events (30% of course credit). To be taught by Profs. Amani and Lahey.
Fall term speakers (2016):
Friday, September 30, 2016
1-2:30pm, Macdonald Hall (Law building), room 202
Dr. Linda Steele, Lecturer, School of Law, University of Wollongong, Australia, and Visiting Researcher, Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto
Topic: Human Rights and Violence against Women with Disabilities: Theoretical and Legal Barriers
Abstract
Bio
Poster
PowerPoint
Link to video of the talk
Background Reading
Linda Steele, ‘Policing Normalcy: Sexual Violence Against Women Offenders with Disability’ Continuum (accepted for publication in special issue: ‘Normalcy and Disability: Intersections Among Norms, Law, and Culture’, forthcoming 2017)
Linda Steele and Leanne Dowse, ‘Gender, Disability Rights and Violence Against Medical Bodies’ 31(88) Australian Feminist Studies 117-124 (DOI: 10.1080/08164649.2016.1224081)
Linda Steele, ‘Court-Authorised Sterilisation and Human Rights: Inequality, Discrimination and Violence Against Women and Girls with Disability?’ (2016) 39(3) UNSW Law Journal 1002-1037
Linda Steele, ‘Disability, Abnormality and Criminal Law: Sterilisation as Lawful and Good Violence’ (2014) 23(3) Griffith Law Review pp 467-497
Monday, October 17, 2016
1-2:30pm, Macdonald Hall (Law building), room 202
Emanuela Heyninck,, Pay Equity Commissioner, Government of Ontario, and member of the Ontario bar
Topic: Gender Wage Gap Strategy and Women’s Economic Empowerment: Ontario’s Path
Abstract
Poster
Background Reading
Ministry of Labour, Ontario, Closing the Gender Wage Gap: A Background Paper (Toronto: Govt of Ontario, 2015)
Minister of Labour and Minister Responsible for Women's Issues, Ontario, Final Report and Recommendations of the Gender Wage Gap Strategy Steering Committee (Toronto: Gvt of Ontario, 2016)
Queen's PowerPoint presentation
Friday, October 21, 2016
1-2:30pm, Macdonald Hall (Law building), room 202
Dr. Josephine Dawuni, Professor of African Politics, Political Science Dept., and Fellow, Carnegie Africa Diaspora Program, Howard University, Washington DC
Topic: African women judges on international courts
Abstract
Poster
Background Reading
Nienke Grossman, 'Shattering the Glass Ceiling in International Adjudication'
Friday, October 28, 2016
1-2:30pm, Macdonald Hall (Law building), room 202
Robert Blitt, University of Tennessee, College of Law
Topic: Equality and Nondiscrimination Through the Eyes of an International Religious Organization: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation's (OIC) Response to Women's Rights and Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Rights
Background Reading
Monday, November 14, 2016
1-2:30pm, Macdonald Hall (Law building), room 202
Dr. Emily Sanchez Salcedo, Associate Professor, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines, and Fulbright Scholar, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Topic: Law Professor, Senior Partner, Wife and Mother, All Rolled Into One: Today’s Superwomen in the Philippine Legal Academe?
Background Reading
Irene R. Cortes, 'The Law Teacher in Philippine Society'