McGill Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism
November 2021 Newsletter

Upcoming events:

• Nov 4: Crip Camp Film Screening and Panel Discussion
• Nov 9: What Happens to the Rule of Law During a Pandemic? with Michael Bryant and Pearl Eliadis
• Nov 11:  A Right of Peoples and Individuals to International Solidarity - Humphrey Lecture with Obiora C. Okafor
• Nov 23: O'Brien Fellow Seminar with Andrey Shcherbovich and Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela
• Nov 24: AML Patricia Allen Memorial Lecture with Radhika Coomaraswamy

Upcoming Events

Crip Camp Film Sceening and Panel Discussion

with Melissa Graham, Ravi Malhotra, and Catherine Roy
Moderated by Amanda Bowie-Edwards and Elise Mallette, McGill B.C.L./J.D. candidates.

Thursday, November 4, 4:00 PM-7:00 PM (ET)
Zoom: click here to access the event.

About the speakers
Melissa Graham is a disability rights activist and PhD candidate for Social Work at York University. Read more about Melissa Graham here.

Ravi Malhotra is a Full Professor of the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa and is cross-appointed to the School of Rehabilitation Sciences and to the Critical Disability Theory Program at York University. Read more about Ravi Malhotra here.

Catherine Roy has been active in the not-for-profit sector for over 30 years. She is presently Accessibility Advisor at McGill University. Read more about Catherine Roy here.

Zoom Nov 4: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84096739637.

What Happens to the Rule of Law During a Pandemic? How COVID Exposes Canada's Precarious System of Judicial Review and Public Interest Litigation

with Michael Bryant
Moderated by Pearl Eliadis
Support by Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg SENCRL srl 

Tuesday, November 9, 1:00-2:30 PM (ET)
Zoom: click here to access the event.

About the speaker
Michael Bryant was Attorney General of Ontario when that province passed its emergency management legislation that initially applied during the COVID19 pandemic. Since 2018 he has led the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, a premier watchdog of domestic laws and regulations, and a frequent litigator before the Supreme Court of Canada. Read more about Michael Bryant here.

Zoom Nov 9: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/83223079813.

A Right of Peoples and Individuals to International Solidarity
John P. Humphrey Lectureship in Human Rights

with Obiora C. Okafor
Moderated by Frédéric Mégret

Thursday, November 11, 4:00-5:30 PM (ET)
Please note: Time correction from previous announcement
Zoom: click here to access the event.
Event description here.

About the speaker
Obiora C. Okafor is the Inaugural York Research Chair in International and Transnational Legal Studies at Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Okafor has published extensively in the fields of international human rights law and immigration/refugee law, as well as general public international law (especially with regard to third world approaches to international law). Read more about Obiora C. Okafor here.

Zoom Nov 11: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/83897438474.

The Long Road Towards Human Rights on the Internet
O'Brien Fellow-in-Residence Seminar

with Andrey Shcherbovich and Alejandro Lorite Escorihuela

Tuesday, November 23, 1:00-2:30 PM (ET)
Registration required: chrlp.law@mcgill.ca.
In-person event only. Spaces limited.

Reference, for discussion, the website of the Charter for Human Rights and Principles for the Internet:
https://internetrightsandprinciples.org/charter/.

About the speaker
Dr. Andrey Shcherbovich graduated from the National Research University Higher School of Economics, Faculty of Law (Department of International Law), Moscow, Russia, in 2008. In 2019 he was a CyberBRICS research fellow and visiting professor at FGV, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Dr. Shcherbovich’s professional interests are related to Russian public law (constitutional and human rights law) with special regard to international principles of Internet Governance. Read more about Andrey Shcherbovich here.

"Mothers-in-law": Confronting Violence
Patricia Allen Memorial Lecture
Annie Macdonald Langstaff seminar series

with Radhika Coomaraswamy
In conversation with Vishakha Wijenayake and Luisa Castaneda-Quintana, McGill Law PhD candidates
Moderated by Shauna Van Praagh

Wednesday, November 24, 10:00-11:30 AM (ET)
Zoom: click here to access the event.

About the speaker
Radhika Coomaraswamy is a lawyer, diplomat, and human rights advocate. She is a graduate of the United Nations International School in New York. Radhika served as the Chairperson of the Sri Lanka Human Rights Commission (2003-2006). She was the first Special Rapporteur on violence against women (1994-2003). Read more about Radhika Coomaraswamy here.

Zoom Nov 24: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/84246217798.

Call for Applications

The call for applications for the 2022 O’Brien Graduate Fellowships in the Faculty of Law, McGill University, remains open.  O’Brien Fellows become members of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism, a focal point for innovative legal and interdisciplinary research, dialogue, and outreach on human rights and legal pluralism.

This Fellowship Program is an entrance scholarship. Applicants for this scholarship must also simultaneously submit an application for admission, by the stipulated deadline, to one of McGill Law's graduate programs.

Deadline to apply: December 19, 2021. Email here for more information.  Please share this opportunity widely!

Call for Submissions

Do you have an upcoming or a recent article you would like to publicize?  Or something to say that needs to be said?

The CHRLP also invites submissions for the fourth year of its Blog with an open call for blog posts. Interested authors are encouraged to draw inspiration from the theme "Solidarity in an Interconnected World". More information, including editorial guidelines, can be found in the following call for submissions.

Submissions (in English, French, or Spanish) can be sent to human.rights@mcgill.ca.

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