While the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies (CFLS) is known for its weekly lecture series, we also hold other events which vary each year. Join our email list or follow us on Facebook and Twitter to stay updated on new events!
PAST EVENTS
Spring Crafternoon
Location: ALRD Room 424
Dates: Oct 3, Nov 5, Nov 28 (all 12:30-2:00 p.m.)
Open to all Allard Law students, faculty, and staff.
Come enjoy a fresh cup of tea or hot cocoa while you dig into free crafting supplies for crocheting, cross-stitch, beading, and more! Enjoy snacks and tea while picking up a new hobby, or relearning an old one. Beginners absolutely welcome!
Law Over Time!
Location: Green College and on Zoom
Date: March 20, 2025, 5-6:30 PM
Open to all Allard Law students, faculty, and staff.
This series, co-hosted by UBC Emeritus College and the CFLS, brings together scholars who inhabit the same academic discipline or field of study, and are at different stages of their careers, to talk about how the boundaries separating their field of specialization from other fields have shifted over time. This fifth event in the series will stage a conversation between scholars of Law. The moderator will ask the panelists a series of questions about their perspectives on the discipline, and the discussion will be opened at an early stage to members of the audience. The goal of the event is to grasp the interdisciplinary nexus that is "Law" in Canadian and other universities and to peer into possible futures of the field.
Man Camps & Violence: Risks to Indigenous Communities and Women and Girls Panel
Location: ALRD Room 104 and on Zoom
Date: March 7, 2024, 12:30-2 PM
Open to all Allard Law students, faculty, and staff.
Legal Chat
Meet the law professors of Allard Law School and the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies (Aired on CiTR 101.9FM).
- Listen to the recording here.
Rethinking Admissions by Numbers
Location: ALRD Room 104 + Zoom
Date: Feb 27 12:30-2:00 p.m.
Open to the public at large.
Watch the recording here. (passcode: Z4.Fl889)
Black people in Canada are underrepresented in the legal profession and the judiciary. Yet, as gatekeepers of the profession, several Canadian law schools have not adopted race conscious approaches to admissions that could increase these numbers and reverse decades of historical discrimination Black Canadians have experienced. In this panel, speakers from the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University will describe three different approaches to race conscious admissions pursued at their respective institutions. Hear their insights to learn more about what other Canadian law schools can do.
This event is co-sponsored with the Anti-Racism and the Law Initiative and the Black Law Students' Association.
CFLS Movies at Noon
Location: ALRD Room 106
Date: Feb 13
Open to all Allard Law students, faculty, and staff.
Constitute! tells the story of the largest social mobilization of women in Canadian history in the 20th century. Led by the Ad Hoc Committee of Canadian Women and the Constitution, women and other activists across the country fought to gain stronger equality provisions were entrenched in the newly repatriated Constitution’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms (Sections 15 and 28). The film celebrates their constitutional activism and passion for democratic renewal.
Feminism on Campus: Scenes from "The Chair"
Co-sponsored with the Anti-Racism and the Law Initiative
Location: ALRD Room 122
Date: Jan 24
Open to members of the Allard community and UBC students at large.
Join Professors Brenna Bhandar, Carol Liao, Margot Young, and Sara Ghebremusse for a viewing of episode 4 of the well received (but sadly discontinued) Netflix series, "The Chair," to kick off a conversation about gender, sexism, racial politics and generational difference on campus.
In Conversation with Beverley McLachlin
Truth Be Told: My Journey Through Life and the Law
Date: Jan 12, 2023
Join an intimate gathering with your fellow law school alumni to listen to the Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, in conversation with Allard Law’s Professor Margot Young, Director of the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies. Conversation will focus on Beverley McLachlin’s recently published autobiography, Truth Be Told: My Journey through Life and the Law.
Crafternoon: Stitch 'n' Bitch
In collaboration with #LawNeedsFeminismBecause
Sisters in Spirit Vigil
Led by the Indigenous Law Students Association
Each year, family members, Indigenous community members, and concerned citizens gather for a vigil on October 4 to honour the memory of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. At Allard Hall, the vigil was presented by the UBC Indigenous Law Students’ Association, the Indigenous Legal Studies Program, and the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies.
