BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20250908T234433EDT-09987vUmvF@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20250909T034433Z DESCRIPTION:This half-day conference will bring together students\, academi cs and legal professionals working in the fields of disability\, law\, and human rights as part of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism’s 2018-2019 Disability and Human Rights Initiative.\n\nIt will feature a ke ynote address by Adam Cureton\, two back-to-back student paper roundtable workshops\, and closing remarks by David Lepofsky. These roundtables are a n opportunity for students and recent graduates to share their scho larship on disability\, specifically through the lens of “Disability: Dign ity and Inclusion.”\n\nLunch will be served at 11h30\, and the talk will b egin at noon. To participate\, RSVP to Chrlp.law [at] mcgill.ca.\n\nSee th e initial call for papers that was circulated in November 2018.\n\nAbout t he speakers\n\nKeynote speaker Adam Cureton\, Associate Professor of Philo sophy at the University of Tennessee\, is president of the Society for Phi losophy and Disability\, serves on Chancellor's Commission on Diversity an d Inclusiveness\, and has presented a TED Talk encouraging a new approach towards disability. Professor Cureton will be exploring the paradoxical qu estion of whether it may sometimes be unjust for disabled people to use ac commodations they are justly owed and whether justice or fairness sometime s require or recommend that people forgo special privileges that are guara nteed by those same moral values.\n\nDavid Leposky was counsel with the Cr own Law Office (Civil) of the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General (19 82-1988)\, counsel with the Ministry's Constitutional Law & Policy Divisio n (1988-1993)\, counsel with the Crown Law Office (Criminal) (1993-2015)\, being eventually promoted to the position of General Counsel\, the highes t promotion in the Ontario Public Service.  On retiring from the Ontario P ublic Service\, he is now a visiting professor at the Osgoode Hall Law Sch ool. He has lectured widely on various aspects of constitutional and admin istrative law\, human rights\, disability rights and other topics across C anada\, as well as in the U.S.\, Israel\, Ireland\, Denmark and Belgium. H e is the author of 'Open Justice - the Constitutional Right to Attend and Speak About Criminal Proceedings in Canada\,' as well as numerous articles on constitutional and human rights topics. His publications have been cit ed with approval in several decisions of the Supreme Court of Canada\, as well as by trial and appeal courts across Canada.\n\nSupport for this even t is also provided by the SSHRC Systemic Discrimination grant.\n DTSTART:20190315T160000Z DTEND:20190315T200000Z LOCATION:Stephen Scott Seminar Room (OCDH 16)\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel SUMMARY:Disability: Dignity and Inclusion URL:/law/channels/event/disability-dignity-and-inclusi on-293635 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR