Academic Year: 2024-2025
Term 1
October 3, 2024
David Duff, Allard Law, Rethinking Residence and Source Tax Rules for Individuals in an Increasingly Globalised and Digitalised World

October 31, 2024
Mary Liston, Allard Law The Separation of Powers: Toward a Canadian Conception

November 28, 2024
Alexandra Flynn, Allard Law, Realising the Right to Housing: Respecting the Municipal Role through the Principle of Subsidiarity

Term 2
February 6, 2025
Benjamin Goold, Allard Law, Being Watched: The Aftermath of Covert Policing

March 13, 2025
Samuel Beswick, Allard Law, The Cause of Action in Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia

March 27, 2025
Wei Cui, Allard Law, Canadian Carbon Pricing: The Path of Retreat

April 3, 2025
Sara Gordon, Allard Law, Old Habits Die Hard: Precedent, Psychology, and the Admissibility of Forensic Evidence

Academic Year: 2023-2024
Term 1
September 13, 2023
Jessie Hohmann, University of Technology Sydney, Botanic Gardens as International Law’s Institutional Architecture

September 20, 2023
Samuel Beswick, Allard Law, Equality under Ordinary Law

September 28, 2023
Adam Hofri-Winogradow, Allard Law, The New Trusts Law Theory: Liberal Property, Massively Discretionary Trusts, and Look-through Mechanisms

November 2, 2023
Jianlin Chen, Melbourne Law School, Sexual Offence as Fraud Regulation: Fraudulent Sex Criminalization in Asia

November 9, 2023
Raymond A. Atuguba, University of Ghana School of Law, Unconstitutional Changes of Governments in Africa Through Coup d'États: "Did We Go or Did We Come?"

Term 2
January 11, 2024
Nikos Harris, Allard Law, An Evidence Based Analysis of the Costs and Benefits of Lecture Capture

January 31, 2024
Camden Hutchison, Allard Law, Directors' Duties and Shareholders' Rights Around the World

February 1, 2024
Douglas Harris, Allard Law, Volumetric Subdivision and the Architecture of Property

February 14, 2024
Janine Benedet & Isabel Grant, Allard Law, The Sexual Assault of Women and Girls with Mental Disabilities: the Perils of Infantilization

February 28, 2024
Ryan Beaton, Juristes Power Law, The Endless Crossroads: Positivism and Pluralism in Canadian Aboriginal Law

February 29, 2024
Jie Cheng, Allard Law, Judicial Politics in China

March 14, 2024
Brenna Bhandar, Allard Law, A Land Acknowledgment in a Different Key: Reflections on Settler Colonialism and the Contradictory Politics of Solidarity

March 28, 2024
Benjamin Goold, Allard Law, Exercising Judgment: Some Reflections on Police Discretion in Canada

April 4, 2024
Ljiljana Biuković, Allard Law, Bullying in International Trade and Investment Relations or Economic Statecraft

Academic Year: 2022-2023
Term 1
September 15, 2022
Gordon Christie, Allard Law, The Supersession of Indigenous Understandings of Justice and Morals

October 6, 2022
Hoi Kong, Allard Law, What is the Canadian Constitution?

November 24, 2022
Bethany Hastie, Allard Law, Sexual Harassment Law in the 21st Century

Term 2
February 2, 2023
Camden Hutchison, Allard Law, Cook v Deeks
March 2, 2023
Galit A. Sarfaty, Allard Law, Supply Chain Governance at a Distance

March 9, 2023
Jamelia Morgan, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Emergency Psychiatric Holds and the Fourth Amendment

Academic Year: 2021-2022
Term 1
October 14, 2021
Benjamin Perrin, Allard Law, Becoming Invisible: Privacy and the Value Of Anonymity

October 28, 2021
Jie Cheng, Allard Law, From Domestication to Internationalization: Enforcement of ICCPR in Hong Kong

November 4, 2021
Marcus Moore, Allard Law, Two Heads are Better Than One: Hybrid Meta-Regulation of Sports Concussions in Canada

Term 2
January 27, 2022
Joel Bakan, Allard Law, Twitter and Me: Litigating Free Speech in the Age of Social Media
February 3, 2022
Maziar Peihani, Allard Law, From (no) Bailouts to Bail-in: A Comparative Assessment of Canada's Bank Recapitalization Regime
March 18, 2022
Paul Champ, Labour, Employment and Human Rights Lawyer, The “Freedom” Convoy, Law and The Limits of Lawful
Academic Year: 2020-2021
Term 1
October 22, 2020
Efrat Arbel & Molly Joeck, Allard Law, Immigration Detention in an Age of COVID-19
November 5, 2020
Patricia Barkaskas, Nicole Barrett, Chris Heslinga & Nikos Harris, Allard Law & Vandana Sood, Rise Women's Legal Centre, Panel Discussion on Clinical and Experiential Learning
December 3, 2020
Li-Wen Lin & Camden Hutchison, Allard Law, The Growth of Vancouver as an Innovation Hub
Term 2
January 21, 2021
Rebecca Sandefur, Professor, Arizona State University & Andrew Pillar, Assistant Professor, Thompson Rivers University, Changing Times or Same Old Mess? Access to Justice and Regulatory Reform in the US and Canada
February 25, 2021
Stepan Wood, Allard Law, Certainly No Work of Scissors and Paste: Reconsidering the Reception of English Law in British Columbia
March 4, 2021
Shreya Atrey, Faculty of Law, Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, Now More than Ever: Reimagining Discrimination Law for Intersectionality – A Book Talk on Intersectional Discrimination
March 18, 2021
Marcus Moore, Allard Law, Two Minds are Better Than One: Meta-Regulation of Sports Concussions in Canada
April 1, 2021
Samuel Beswick, Allard Law, Prospective Overruling Unravelled
April 22, 2021
Wei Cui, Allard Law, The Corporate Income Tax as a Non-Tariff Barrier to Trade
Academic Year: 2019-2020
Term 2
January 9, 2020
Li-Wen Lin, Allard Law, The “Good Corporate Citizen” beyond BCE
January 23, 2020
Alexandra Flynn, Jocelyn Stacey, Mary Liston & Hoi Kong, Allard Law, Deliberative Democracy & Public Authority
January 30, 2020
Maziar Peihani, Allard Law, Regulation of Systemic Risk in the Canadian Financial System
February 27, 2020
Usha Nataranjan, American University in Cairo, Where is ‘The Environment’? Locating Nature in Law
March 26, 2020
Wei Cui, Allard Law, International Taxation In the Age of Asymmetrical Growth
Academic Year: 2017-2018
Term 1
September 14, 2017
Ahmed Natour, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Judge Reform - Islamic Law in a Non Muslim State
September 21, 2017
Josh Eagle, University of South Carolina, The Beach: Property Without Bounds
Term 2
January 4, 2018
Andelka Phillips, Trinity College Dublin, Buying Your Self on the Internet: Wrap Contracts and Personal Genomics
January 25, 2018
Sam Halabi, Georgetown University, The Nagoya Protocol and the Future of International Life Sciences Research for Human Health and Agriculture
February 15, 2018
Annelise Riles, Cornell University, The Changing Politics of Central Banking
March 15, 2018
Elisa Morgera, University of Strathclyde, Fair and equitable benefit-sharing and indigenous peoples' natural resources: insights from a global biodiversity and human rights law perspective
March 29, 2018
Adelle Blackett, McGill University, Everyday Transgressions: Domestic Workers and Transnational Labour Law Challenge
Academic Year: 2016-2017
Term 2
January 19, 2017
Hamid Yazdi, Allard Law, Dangerous Disputes: Dispute Resolution under the Joint Plan of Action on Iran’s Nuclear Programme
February 2, 2017
Anita Bernstein, Brooklyn Law School, The Common Law Inside the Female Body - Chapter 1: Saying No to What We Do Not Want
March 15, 2017
Michael Crommelin, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, A Tale of Two Countries: Inherent Executive Power in Canada and Australia
March 22, 2017
Guy Pessach, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Who Owns the Past - Law, the Politics of Memory and the Israeli Supreme Court
March 30, 2017
Peter Strauss, Columbia Law School, American Administrative Law in the Age of Donald Trump
Academic Year: 2015-2016
Term 1
September 30, 2015
Moshe Hirsch, Maria Von Hofmannsthal Chair in International Law, Faculty of Law & Department of International Relations, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, International Courts and Collective Memories: A Sociological Perspective
November 4, 2015
Robert Spoo, Professor and Chapman Distinguished Chair, University of Tulsa College of Law, Courtesy Paratexts: Informal Publishing Norms and the Copyright Vacuum in Ninteenth-Century America
November 25, 2015
David Boyd, New Book Talk: Cleaner, Greener, Healthier: A Prescription for Stronger Canadian Environmental Laws and Policies
Term 2
January 6, 2016
Peter J. Carver, University of Alberta Faculty of Law, The Legacy of the Harper Government in Immigration Law
January 13, 2016
Andrew Mitchell, University of Melbourne Visiting Scholar, International Trade Law and International Investment Law: A Case Study of Plain Packaging
January 27, 2016
Professor Robert K. Paterson, Allard Law, Marbles and Monuments in an Age of Terrorism
February 3, 2016
Ian Loader, University of Oxford, Partners in Crime? Populism and Technocracy in Crime Control
February 10, 2016
Ilhyung Lee, University of Missouri School of Law, A Law and Society Approach to Tie-breaker Rules in Sport
February 24, 2016
Emily Laidlaw, University of Calgary Faculty of Law, Regulating Speech in Cyberspace, Gatekeepers, Human RIghts and Corporate Responsibility
March 9, 2016
Margaret Jane Radin, University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Access to Justice and Abuses of Contract
March 16, 2016
Jon Festinger, QC, Counsel and Educator, Festinger Law & Strategy, Legal Contradictions Manifest in Video Game Worlds: Through the Post-Structuralist Looking Glass
March 30, 2016
Don Clarke, The George Washington University, Anti Anti-Orientalism, or is Chinese Law Different?
April 6, 2016
Wei Cui, Allard Law, When Does the Chinese Government Make Law? A Look at Data from Ministries, Provinces, and Cities