Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
Fall Term 2025 Lectures

Monday, September 22, 2025
1-2:20 pm

Hybrid Event
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Pearl Eliadis | Associate Professor (professional), Max Bell School of Public Policy; Full Member, Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, Faculty of Law, McGill University

Topic: Safer Spaces, Stronger Selves: Gender Justice in Housing and Human Security

Abstract:
The word “homelessness” seldom comes to mind when thinking of women fleeing violence. But rising housing insecurity and overlapping housing crises are creating gender-specific risks. This talk will share research underway through the interdisciplinary Quebec Homelessness Prevention Policy Collaborative, and its legal reform project that uses a human rights-based approach to law to drive social change.

Bio:
Pearl is a senior human rights lawyer and has taught law and policy at McGill University for 13 years. In her international practice, she has worked on human right issues in eight countries and been actively engaged with CIvil Society on a range of gender issues, including the elimination of violence against women. Current areas of interest are the intersection between the right to adequate housing, the right to be free from violence and gender equality. Pearl co-leads the Legal Reform Project of the the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Collaborative and has recently published policy analysis on the relationship between second stage housing and human security.  

Background readings:
Forthcoming

Monday, September 29, 2025
1-2:20 pm

Hybrid Event

Elaine Brooks-Craig - More details to come

Monday, November 10, 2025
1-2:20 pm

Hybrid Event
 
TBD