Osgoode Graduate Law Students' Association

Congratulations to Osgoode PhD candidate, Kenneth Grad on his appointment as an Assistant Professor (tenure track) at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba!

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Shining a spotlight on our outgoing GLSA Chair and Conference Chair (2023-24), Divyangana Dhankar (Divya).

Congratulations to Osgoode PhD student Olaoluwa Oni on being selected to attend this year’s Global Scholars Academy in Stellenbosch, South Africa!

2024 Global Scholars Academy - Institute for Global Law & Policy | Harvard Law School From June 24 – 28, 2024, Harvard Law School’s IGLP will collaborate with Stellenbosch University to convene the Global Scholars Academy in Stellenbosch, South Africa. Applications are now closed. Decision [...]Read More...

Join us for the Osgoode Graduate Law Conference, 2024 on 30th April 2024 — 1st May 2024 in a virtual format! Looking forward to engaging presentations and research!

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Osgoode Graduate Law Conference, 2024- Registration Law in the 21st Century: Building on the Former, Figuring out the Now, and Prefiguring the Future. The Graduate Law Students’ Association (GLSA) at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University is pleased to present the Osgoode Graduate Law Conference, 2024. Registrations for the conference are now ope...

Osgoode PhD candidate and GLSA Chair (2022-23), Clare Shrybman will be presenting her work on New & Emerging Voices in Constitutional Law at UCD Sutherland School of Law on 13th March 2024. Sending Clare our good wishes!

Join Osgoode PhD candidate, Deanne Sowter at Queen's University on 26 Feb 2024 for a discussion on “Intimate Partner Violence and Ethical Lawyering: Not Just Special Rules for Family Law”.

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Visiting Speaker Deanne Sowter | Queen's Law This is a Hybrid Event In-Person Location: Room 201, Law Building, 128 Union St. Register to attend in person or via Zoom here Towards a Modified Conception of the Family Lawyer

York University Professor, Prof. Janet Mosher along with PhD candidate Shushanna Harris at Osgoode Hall Law School submit a paper which claims criminalizing coercive control may do more harm than good.

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Criminalizing coercive control may do more harm than good, says prof - YFile In a submission to the Department of Justice, Professor Janet Mosher says establishing a Criminal Code provision on coercive control may have serious ramifications for women who are victims.

An interesting piece by Divyangana Dhankar (Divya), John W. Graham Fellow and Harry W. Arthurs Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School with Prof. Shaun Star (University of Queensland and JGU) and A/Prof. May Fong Cheong (UNSW) in the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal.

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Legal transplantation of minors’ contracts in India and Malaysia: ‘Weak’ Watson and a ‘misfitted’ transplant While contracts by minors are generally voidable in most common law jurisdictions, the apex court in India and in Malaysia has each held that such contracts are void ab initio, following a century-...

Congratulations Jake Effoduh, PhD candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School and Vanier recipient for his recent appointment as Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University.

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Nigerian Lawyer secures appointment at Canadian Law School Nigerian international human rights lawyer, Jake Effoduh, has been appointed as a tenure-track assistant professor by the Lincoln Alexander School of Law at Toronto Metropolitan University.

SAVE THE DATE: Please join Osgoode graduate students, Aida Abraha, Alexandra Scott, Jake Okechukwu Effoduh and Luna Xiaolu Liu presenting at the conference on Artificial Intelligence and the Law organized by Nathanson Centre and Prof. Valerio De Stefano on 13 March 2024.

For more information, please see: https://nathanson.osgoode.yorku.ca/events/conference-on-artificial-intelligence-and-the-law-new-challenges-and-possibilities-for-fundamental-human-rights-and-security/

We are excited to invite abstracts for the Osgoode Graduate Law Conference- 2024 on the theme of Law in the 21st Century: Building on the Former, Figuring out the Now, and Prefiguring the Future.

The conference will be held between 30 April – 1 May 2024 at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto.

Proposals can be submitted at the following link by 20 Jan 2024 by 11:59 PM (EST): https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1DvlkKABAO3y5GXiSgAlS9_RYZaQ1ececG2CTQJ82xfs/edit

Guidelines on abstract submission: https://www.yorku.ca/osgoode/glsa/conference/

https://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Osgoode-GLSA-Conference-2024-Call-for-Proposals.pdf

Contact: [email protected]

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Please join graduate candidates, Shadi Nasseri, Luna Xiaolu Li and Divyangana Dhankar (Divya) in their discussion with Prof. Ryan Abbott, Prof. Carys Craig, Reshika Dhir and Paul Blizzard on whether AI-devices can be inventors under IP law.

Date: 22 November 2023, 3:30pm at Osgoode Hall Law School (in-person) and online

Registration Link- https://machformext.osgoode.yorku.ca/machform/view.php?id=334181