(Event Cancelled) Section 15's Haunted House

Event Description (Event Cancelled)

Equality jurisprudence under section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms maps complex territory, stalked by a cluster of conceptual concerns: causation, negative versus positive rights, arbitrariness. These concerns have been subject to extensive, damning, critique—yet they lumber on. They are the zombies of equality law and demand sharp attention, no more obviously than in the Supreme Court of Canada’s most recent section 15 case, R v. Sharma. 

Please contact Michelle Burchill at burchill@allard.ubc.ca if you would like the Zoom link. The link will be emailed no earlier than 11:45 am on the day of the lecture.

Speaker

Margot

Margot Young is Professor in the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. After studying at the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Young began her teaching career at the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria.  In 2002, she moved to the University of British Columbia.

Professor Young teaches in the areas of constitutional and social justice law.  She was the Director of the Social Justice Specialization at the law school and has organized the Law and Society Speakers Series for close to a decade.  Professor Young served three terms as Chair of the university-wide Faculty Association Status of Women Committee.  She is a research associate with Green College, the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Centre for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC.

 

 

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