Feminist Legal Studies Queen's
Fall Term 2026 Lectures
Monday, September 21, 2026
1-2:20 pm
Hybrid Event
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Daniel Del Gobbo | Assistant Professor and Chair in Law, Gender & Sexual Justice, University of Windsor Faculty of Law
Topic: Reckoning with Queer History: The Canadian “LGBT Purge” Case and the Limits of Forgiveness
Abstract:
This talk examines the legal and historical legacy of the "LGBT Purge," during which LGBTQ2S+ members of the Canadian Armed Forces, RCMP and federal public service were dismissed between 1955 and 1992. Through legal history and queer theory, it explores the 2018 class-action settlement, its role in reconciliation and the challenges of addressing the lasting impacts of state-sanctioned discrimination.
Bio:
Daniel Del Gobbo (he/him) is an Assistant Professor and Chair in Law, Gender & Sexual Justice at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. His research explores how legal processes and institutions can be redesigned to promote access to justice and social justice for historically marginalized groups, with a focus on the rights of women and queer and trans people in Canada. Daniel has published and taught widely in the civil procedure, dispute resolution, legal ethics, and law-and-sexuality fields. He is the Canadian co-editor of the International Encyclopaedia of Restorative Justice, North America Volume, which will be published by DeGruyter Brill later this year. His book entitled Feminist Frontlines: Campus Sexual Violence, Conflict Resolution, and Restorative Justice, will be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2027. Before coming to Windsor Law, Daniel was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the McGill University Faculty of Law. He earned his J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2011, LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2015, and S.J.D.
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Monday, November 16, 2026
1-2:20 pm
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Rachel Rebouché | G. Rollie White Chair in Law, The University of Texas School of Law
Topic: Fragile Networks: The Transit of Pills, Providers and Patients after Dobbs
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Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, access to abortion has increasingly depended on movement. Patients travel across state lines for care, medical residents leave their home states for training and abortion medication is shipped from providers in states with legal protections to patients in states with abortion bans. This talk examines how these networks have reshaped abortion access and the legal and political efforts to restrict them.
Bio:
Rachel Rebouché is the G. Rollie White Chair in Law and Professor of Law. Professor Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive health and rights; she teaches courses on contracts, family law, and health care law. She serves as the Faculty Lead of the Sissy Farenthold Reproductive Justice Defense Project. Before joining Texas Law, Professor Rebouché was the Dean and Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law at Temple University.
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Monday, November 23, 2026
1-2:20 pm
Hybrid Event
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Andrea Doucet | Distinguished Professor of Sociology/ Women’s & Gender Studies, Graduate Program Director, MA in Critical Sociology | Honorary Professor, University College London (UCL)
Topic: Forthcoming
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