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Working in the United States: The How, Why, and What of Practising Law South of the Border
Mar 28, 2024- 12:30 pm — 2:00 pm DLA Piper Hall, Room 104 and VirtuallyAre you interested in practising in the U.S., but don't know how to make the transition? Hear from three recent UBC law graduates about their experiences working in U.S. biglaw firms.
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Exercising Judgment: Some Reflections on Police Discretion in Canada
Mar 28, 2024- 12:35 pm — 1:45 pm Fasken Classroom, Room 122 and VirtuallyThis talk draws on an expert report for the Joint Federal/Provincial Commission into the April 2020 Nova Scotia Mass Casualty, and re-examines some of the key accounts of police discretion that have dominated the sociological and criminological literature on police decision-making since the 1960s.
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Adversarialism vs Equality? How Legal Culture Impedes the Equality Project
Apr 4, 2024- 5:00 pm — 7:00 pm DLA Piper Hall, Room 104 and VirtuallyThis lecture explores how legal culture contributes to the failings of the equality project in law. It particularly seeks to understand the courts’ unfulfilled promise to reject reasoning based on myths and stereotypes and instantiate a more egalitarian approach to fact determination within legal processes.
Date | Location | Title | Organization |
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DLA Piper Hall, Room 104 and Virtually | Working in the United States: The How, Why, and What of Practising Law South of the Border | Centre for Business Law | |
Fasken Classroom, Room 122 and Virtually | Exercising Judgment: Some Reflections on Police Discretion in Canada | Allard School of Law, Research | |
Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, Room 424 | Tranquility Thursday: Weekly Meditations | Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, Student Wellbeing | |
DLA Piper Hall, Room 104 and Virtually | Business Law Concentration Info Session | Centre for Business Law | |
Franklin Lew Forum, Room 101 | Youth Leaders in Law British Columbia Annual Conference | External Organization | |
Indigenous Classroom, Room 123 | ILS: Academic Leadership Certificate | Indigenous Legal Studies | |
Farris Hall, Room 106 and Virtually | Indigenous Legal Principles and Values as an Opportunity for Coordinated Multi-Jurisdictional and Transboundary Freshwater Governance | Centre for Law and the Environment | |
H.K. Student Lounge, Allard Hall | CSO Ask Me Anything | Career Services Office | |
Franklin Lew Forum, Room 101 | Wellbeing Wednesday: Exam Bingo Launch with Toby! | Student Wellbeing | |
Franklin Lew Forum, Room 101 | Tort vs No-fault Systems in the New Era of ICBC Enhanced Care | Allard School of Law | |
Fasken Classroom, Room 122 and Virtually | Bullying in International Trade and Investment Relations or Economic Statecraft | Allard School of Law | |
Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, Room 424 | Tranquility Thursday: Weekly Meditations | Centre for Feminist Legal Studies, Student Wellbeing | |
DLA Piper Hall, Room 104 and Virtually | Adversarialism vs Equality? How Legal Culture Impedes the Equality Project | Allard School of Law, Research | |
- | Franklin Lew Forum, Room 101 and Virtually | The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Trust Laws: the Conference | Allard School of Law |
Farris Hall, Room 106 and Virtually | Who Gets the Benefit of Corporate Decisions? Does it Matter What Courts and Regulators Say? | Centre for Business Law |