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Osgoode Hall Graduate Conference 2018

Legal Pluralism: Intersections, Interactions, and Embeddedness in Law

Wednesday, February 21 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm Registration Gowlings Hall, Osgoode Hall Law School 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm Welcome Event Shopsy’s, York Lanes

Thursday, February 22 8:15 am – 9:00 am Registration Gowlings Hall, Osgoode Hall Law School 9:00 am – 9:30 am Hot Breakfast Room: IKB 2027 & 2028 9:30 am – 9:35 am Introduction – Rahina Zarma, GLSA Chair

Room: IKB 2002 9:35 am – 10:05 am Welcome Address – Professor Sonia Lawrence, Graduate

Program Director Room: IKB 2002 10:15 am – 12:15 pm Thursday Session 1

Panel: International Law & Economics Room: IKB 2002 Chair: Dr. Udoka Ndidiamaka Owie

Haniehalsadat Aboutorabifard

York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Incorporating Environmental Values into Investment-State Dispute Settlement Procedure

Ghazaleh Jerban University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law

International Intellectual Property and Legal Pluralism:

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The Case of International Protection of Traditional Knowledge

Pavla Kristkova York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Multilateral Investment Court: Comparative Study of Judicial Appointments

Rahina Zarma York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Environmental Protection and Socio-Economic Justice in Africa: The Role of Africa’s International Courts

Panel: Pluralism & History Room: IKB 2010 Chair: Dr. David Sandomierski

John Joseph Wamwara Emory University

Law School Public Yet Sacred: The Kenyan Experience in Resolving the Conflicting Demands of Shared Spaces

Justyn Mahanger York University, Department of Humanities

Indigenous Casinos: A Form of Colonization? A Comparison between Canada and the USA

Hazal Caliskan York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

A Legal Pluralism Experiment: Ottoman Empire’s Millet System

Monika Lemke York University, Socio-Legal Studies

Odorless in Decay: Legislating Against Filth and Odor through Victorian Burial Reform

Jagteshwar Singh Sohi

York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Aranyer Adhikar (The Right to the Forest): A Story of the Niyamgiri Dispute

12:15 pm – 1:25 pm Lunch Room: IKB 2027 & 2028

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1:30 pm – 3:30 pm Thursday Session 2

Panel: Process Room: IKB 2002 Chair: Professor Trevor Farrow

Peter Adourian York University,

Osgoode Hall Law School

Constitutional Damages and the Charter

Sarah Medves University of Guelph, Political Science

Helping and Hindering: Examining Components of the Constable Selection System

Frank Catalano Queen’s University, Faculty of Law

Medical Assistance in Dying Seen Through the Lens of Section 15(1) of the Charter

Colleen Matthews York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Convention on the Rights of the Child: The Role of Canadian Courts in Facilitating Beneficial Interactions between International Human Rights Principles and Canadian Domestic Law (An Empirical Case Study)

Justice Ogoroh York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Balancing the Interests among Copyright Stakeholders: Reality or Mirage

Amanat Sandhu York University, Department of Politics

Canada and a Foreign Intelligence Agency: Is it Necessary?

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm WORKSHOP 1:

Designing Your Own Seminar Room: IKB 2010

Facilitator: Professor Sonia Lawrence, Graduate Program Director, Osgoode Hall Law School

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3:30 pm – 3:45 pm Break & Refreshments Room: IKB 2027 & 2028 3:45 pm – 6:15 pm Thursday Session 3

Panel: Spatial Relations & Technology Room: IKB 2002 Chair: Dr. Jamil Ammar

Jake Okechukwu Effoduh York University,

Osgoode Hall Law School

#Law2Go: Digital Tool for Facilitating Free Access to Human Rights Law and Legal Services in Africa

Julie Falck York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Methods for Mapping, Measuring, and Making Meaning: Visualizing the Content and Concepts of Native Title

Sahar Karimi University of Calgary, Faculty of Law

Dépeçage, the New Approach to the Choice-of-Law Analysis in Aviation Law

Matthew Marinett University of Toronto, Faculty of Law

Technology’s Tyranny: Internet Corporations as Transnational Regulators

Mishall Ahmed York University, Department of Politics

The United States of America; Land of the Free and the Home of Racialized Wealth Inequalities

Panel: Epistemology & Interdisciplinarity Room: IKB 2010 Chair: Professor Sonia Lawrence

Dana Phillips York University,

Osgoode Hall Law School

Epistemic Pluralism in Constitutional Fact-Finding: The Case of Canada (AG) v Bedford

Sarah-jane Nussbaum York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Criminalization, Constitutional Rights, and Images of the Self in

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Supreme Court of Canada Case Law

Jean-Paul Dautel University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law

Définition du concept de droit en matière d’insertion professionnelle des personnes handicapées en France et au Québec / Definition of the Concept of Law Regarding Occupational Integration of People with Mental Health Problems

Jack Enman-Beech University of Toronto, Faculty of Law

The Contractual Construction of Polyamory

Evangeline Kroon York University, Department of Politics

Is it a Man’s World? An Exploratory Study of Rape Myth Bias in Canadian Sexual Assault Trials

Gitanjali Lena York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Youth Autonomy is a Double Edged Sword: Plurality of Law Affecting the Autonomy of Youth

6:30 pm – 9:30 pm Gala Dinner The Underground, York Lanes

Friday, February 23, 2018 8:00 am – 8:30 am Hot Breakfast Room: IKB 2027 & 2028

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8:45 am – 10:45 am Friday Session 1

Panel: Labour Room: IKB 2002 Chair: Professor Amar Bhatia

Joanna Noronha Harvard Law School Engendering Parental Leave: A

Comparative Analysis

Chen Wang University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law

What Impedes Migrant Workers’ Integration? Precarious Immigration Status and Prolonged Family Separation under Canada’s Immigration Law

Vanisha Sukdeo York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Isolation and Inequality at Work

Asma Atique York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

Just Greening the Gulf: A Capabilities-based Approach to Evaluating Environmental Justice for Migrant Workers on Abu Dhabi’s Eco-city

Avineet Cheema York University, Osgoode Hall Law School

In Search of Permanence: A Study of Exploitative Recruitment Practices of Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada

9:00 am – 10:30 am WORKSHOP 2:

Transitioning to a Career in Academia Room: IKB 2010 Facilitator: Dr. Emily Kidd White, Postdoctoral Fellow, Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security & Osgoode Hall Law School

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11:00 am – 12:30 pm Keynote Address Dean Jeremy Webber, University of Victoria Faculty of Law Decolonizing the Academy: An Explorer’s Guide Room: IKB 1014 (Helliwell Centre) Chair: Professor Ruth Buchanan

12:30 pm – 1:45 pm Lunch Room: IKB 2027 & 2028 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm Friday Session 2

Panel: Law’s Structures Room: IKB 2002 Chair: Professor Heidi Matthews

Maxwel Miyawa York University,

Osgoode Hall Law School

In Search of a Normative Accountability Framework for Global Capital: The Confrontation Between a Liberalist View of State Responsibility and TWAIL’s Iconoclasm

Brian Cox Queen’s University, Faculty of Law

Dynamic Pluralism in Emerging Conflict Law: A Principled Case Study of the MSF/Kunduz Civilian Casualties Incident of October 2015

Maneli Bagherzadehahangar

York University, Political Science

Willingness or Capability to Protect Lives: Considering the Current Displacement Crisis in Iraq and Syria

Colton Fehr University of Alberta, Faculty of Law

The Inherent Overbreadth of the Anglo-American Structure of Criminal Law

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Salar Abassi Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Global School of Law

A Conceptual Incongruence between International Laws of Self-Defense and the International Crime of Aggression

Panel: Indigenous Peoples & Constitutional Rights Room: IKB 2010 Chair: Professor Andrée Boisselle

Anna Flaminio University of

Toronto, Faculty of Law

Indigenous Kinship Visiting: Dialogic Approach

Patricia Ballenas Loayza Queen’s University, Faculty of Law

Can We Justify Culturally Differentiated Rights? An Insight to the Peruvian Case

Nnaemeka Ezeani University of Saskatchewan, College of Law

Reconciling the Conflict Between Indigenous Rights and Economic Development in Canada: Need to Clarify the Uncertainties in the Doctrine of the Duty to Consult

Andrew Costa Carleton University, Department of Law and Legal Studies

“Nature Is My Thing”: Mi’Kmaq Resource Stewardship and More Than Human Treaty Obligations

4:45 pm – 4:50 pm Closing Remarks

Sarah-jane Nussbaum, GLSA Conference Chair Room: IKB 2010

7:30 pm – 10:00 pm Social Downtown