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Osgoode Hall Law School's "OzCasts": Great conversations about legal education, the profession and the law.
4 Questions For: Professor Poonam Puri on What a Digital Loonie Could Look Like in Canada
Osgoode Professor Poonam Puri speaks with JD/MBA Class of 1990 graduate and banking industry veteran James O’Sullivan about the Digital Loonie. She and three colleagues from the University of Toronto recently responded to a Bank of Canada call for proposals from academic teams on what a Central Bank Digital Currency framework could look like in Canada. May 27, 2021
May 26, 2021
23 min
4 Questions For:  Professor Sean Rehaag on the Luck of the Draw
The refugee decision-making system in Canada is flawed, Osgoode Professor Sean Rehaag tells lawyer Lorne Waldman ’77. Everything comes down to the luck of the draw. People who should be recognized as refugees are not being recognized as refugees. What’s happening is “a form of bias,” Rehaag says. April 15, 2021
Apr 14, 2021
38 min
4 Questions For: Prof. Eric Tucker on Employer & Employee Workplace Obligations During the Pandemic
Osgoode Professor Eric Tucker, a labour law expert, discusses the workplace obligations of employers and employees during the pandemic with Professor Sara Slinn, Associate Dean, Research and Institutional Relations at Osgoode. February 18, 2021
Feb 17, 2021
27 min
4 Questions For: Professor Dayna Scott on Environmental Racism in Canada
Dayna Scott, Associate Professor at Osgoode and York Research Chair in Environmental Law & Justice in the Green Economy, talks with Priyanka Vittal, counsel at Greenpeace and an adjunct professor at Osgoode, about the impacts of environmental racism in Canada and what can be done about it. December 4, 2020
Dec 2, 2020
19 min
4 Questions For: Professor Adam Parachin on the Role of Charities
Osgoode Professor Adam Parachin, a charity law expert, and Bob Wyatt, Executive Director of the Muttart Foundation, discuss the importance of maintaining a distinction between charity and government. November 24, 2020
Nov 4, 2020
27 min
Panel | Bringing Labor Back Into Law and Social Movement Studies with Catherine Fisk
Welcome to Osgoode’s first-ever Virtual Pierre Genest Panel Discussion. We have invited a panel to discuss the pre-recorded talk by our Pierre Genest visitor, Catherine Fisk, titled “Protection by Law, Repression by Law: Bringing Labor Back Into Law and Social Movement Studies”. This talk is also a forthcoming paper in the Emory Law Journal, and challenges the line-drawing which has led to the erasure of the labor movement from the field’s conception of a social movement, and offers new theories of the role law plays in social movement activism. In our panel is Joo-Cheong Tham, professor at Melbourne Law School in Australia, Joshua Mandryk, Associate at Toronto’s Goldblatt Partners, and Barry Eidlin is a Comparative Historical Sociologist and Assistant Professor in McGill’s Sociology department. October 6, 2020
Oct 8, 2020
1 hr 7 min
Lecture | Bringing Labor Back Into Law and Social Movement Studies with Catherine Fisk
Catherine Fisk's lecture “Protection by Law, Repression by Law: Bringing Labor Back Into Law and Social Movement Studies”, a forthcoming article in the Emory Law Journal, challenges the line-drawing which has led to the erasure of the labor movement from the field’s conception of a social movement, and offers new theories of the role law plays in social movement activism. October 6, 2020
Sep 30, 2020
42 min
4 Questions For:  Dianne Saxe '74, '91 (PhD) on the Climate Change Crisis
Osgoode Professor Cynthia Williams has four questions for alumna Dianne Saxe ’74, ’91 LLM, ’91 PhD, one of Canada’s most respected environmental lawyers, on the climate change crisis. April 22, 2020
Mar 4, 2020
17 min
4 Questions For: Professor Emerita Jamie Cameron on Not Criminally Responsible Offenders
Anil Kapoor ’86 of Kapoor Barristers interviews Osgoode Professor Emerita Jamie Cameron on the subject of Not Criminally Responsible (NCR) offenders and the role of the Ontario Review Board in ensuring public safety and the offender’s rehabilitation. February 11, 2020
Feb 11, 2020
31 min
4 Questions For: Professor Joan Gilmour on Medical Assistance in Dying Laws
Benjamin Berger, Professor & York Research Chair in Pluralism and Public Law, questions Professor Joan Gilmour, one of Canada’s foremost experts on health law as well as disability and the law, about our medical assistance in dying laws. January 7, 2020
Jan 7, 2020
29 min
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