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Strikers try to overturn a streetcar in 1919 in the Winnipeg General Strike in front of the old city hall building on Main Street. // L.B. Foote collection/Archives of Manitoba

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Manitoba Law School co-founder ‘A labour jurist ahead of his time’

November 12, 2019 — 
One hundred years ago, H.A. Robson tabled the 1919 General Strike Royal Commission Report, making recommendations to improve conditions for workers

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Michigan State Justices Megan and Michael Cavanagh visited Robson Hall this fall.

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Guest speaker round-up

November 12, 2019 — 
Students and faculty members have been keeping the Robson Hall Community busy this fall with an exciting roster of special guest speakers.

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Robson Crim Group Researchers to Launch Book: Privacy in Peril

November 8, 2019 — 
Professor Richard Jochelson and Assistant Professor David Ireland will be launching their new book, Privacy in Peril: Hunter v Southam and the Drift from Reasonable Search Protections on Wed. Nov. 20 at 7:00 p.m. at McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park, in the Atrium. 

The university in wartime

November 5, 2019 — 
Although classes continued, campus life was markedly different from 1939-1945

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Law Conference Investigates Evidentiary Thresholds

October 31, 2019 — 
It was daunting, but they did it: Congratulations to Faculty Members, Staff and Student Volunteers who made last Saturday's marathon conference run without a hitch, in particular, the instigators, Professor Richard Jochelson and Assistant Professor David Ireland.

This image shows Grace and Evelyn's books lying on hand-made gifts they made to raise money for LRA escapees.

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Justice for Girls Abducted in War

October 25, 2019 — 
War crimes trials and apologies are often the focus after atrocities. But for women who have escaped conjugal slavery, justice means addressing their immediate needs, Grace Acan told about 50 students and professors at Robson Hall on Oct. 24.

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Fourteenth Annual Robson Hall Negotiation Competition a Success

October 18, 2019 — 
Sixteen teams of Robson Hall students competed in the thirteenth annual Robson Hall Negotiation Competition on the evening of October 17th, 2019. These third-year students were selected for having excelled in the Legal Negotiation course they took in their second year of law school

Road to Kitgum, Uganda

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Advocating for Justice and Reparations in Uganda

October 17, 2019 — 
Escaping with their surviving children from forced marriages to Lord’s Resistance Army commanders was not the end of the ordeal for Grace Acan and Evelyn Amony.

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LL.M. students graduating from Robson Hall this fall

October 16, 2019 — 
Robson Hall Faculty of Law congratulates those Master of Laws students graduating this October

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Op-ed: Leaders wrong to accede to Quebec’s symbols-ban demand

October 11, 2019 — 
Law professor Gerald Heckman explains

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