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Aboriginal Territories and Treaties: Conference explores evolving Canadian law

November 19, 2014 — 
Conference will provide an in-depth analysis of the two treaty cases and how they connect with each other, law and policy, with a specific focus on the Prairies

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Consensual bondage, domination and sado-masochism is legally fine as long as it doesn’t involve choking, law prof says

November 6, 2014 — 
'The issue in all of the recent BDSM-related sexual assault cases is not the legal question of whether people can consent, but the factual question of whether they did consent.'

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Globe and Mail: By throwing away the key, we lose hope in justice

November 3, 2014 — 
By locking up Justin Bourque and throwing away the key, we lose hop in justice

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Wpg Free Press: The high cost of jailing the innocent

October 30, 2014 — 
'Every single correctional centre is operating over capacity'

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Canadian lawyers challenge each other to do the right thing

October 17, 2014 — 
Faculty of Law symposium on ethics and professionalism will help lawyers better deal with ethical dilemmas

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UN Judge and Faculty of Law alumna Kimberly Prost. // Photo: Thomas Fricke

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Judge Kimberly Prost: From U of M to the Hague to New York

September 29, 2014 — 
For this alumna, from here, you really can go anywhere

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Kimberly Prost speaking at the U of M / Photo: Mike Latschislaw

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Alumna protects the rights of terror suspects

September 24, 2014 — 
These are difficult times for international criminal justice

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Free expression - who pays the price? Wednesday, September 17

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Free expression, from whistleblowing to academic freedom

September 19, 2014 — 
Wednesday's Visionary Conversations featured President Barnard, CBC's Cecil Rosner and Faculty of Law's Sarah Lugtig

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Alumna and Ombudsperson to the UN Security Council’s Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee giving free public lecture

September 19, 2014 — 
Today's lecture on the International criminal tribunals and the terrorism sanction regime

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Wpg Free Press: Human Rights, fears of watering down the struggle

September 16, 2014 — 
Law professor Karen Busby was interviewed by the Winnipeg Free Press

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