Graduate student conference examines boundaries of law
October 23, 2015
Is law a positive tool for regulating actions or a coercive force and a means of perpetuating inequalities – or both? Those were some of the questions debated and discussed at Western Law’s first Interdisciplinary Graduate Student conference, held May 21-22.
The conference, “Law: Helping Hand or Iron Fist?,” encouraged scholars to identify, examine, and challenge the potential boundaries of law and its positive and negative aspects.
The conference was the initiative of Western Law PhD candidate Kirsten Stefanik, who acted as chair and organized the conference with assistance from other Western Law graduate students.
“It was an excellent forum for emerging scholars to develop new ideas, concepts, and approaches to law and other disciplines,” says Stefanik.
“Hearing ideas from such a wide range of young scholars was very inspiring. There are no problems that can be solved with just one field of expertise. That’s what made the conference so exciting.”
Graduate students came from across Canada, the U.S. and as far as Brazil to discuss the intersection between law and other disciplines and present on a vast array of issues. Disciplines represented included history, political science, gender studies, and applied mathematics.
Panels included Environment and the Law, Gender and Reproductive Rights, Religious and Cultural Freedoms and Exercise of State Power.
This article appeared in the Western Law 2015 Alumni Magazine.
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