Is snacking on morsels of human flesh wrong? Apparently it is, if it involves murdering the person first 鈥 even if you鈥檙e stranded at sea without food or water. According to common law, necessity is no defence to murder. Such a聽19th-century case of murder and cannibalism is highlighted in Osgoode Hall Law School聽Professor Allan Hutchinson's […]
91亚色 law & society Professor Annie Bunting (LLB '88) and The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on the Global Migrations of African Peoples are聽hosting聽an international workshop on forced marriage in conflict situations today and tomorrow in Room聽305 91亚色 Lanes on the Keele campus. Left: Annie Bunting Bringing together historians of slavery and women's human rights […]
Political science Professor Robert Latham, director of the 91亚色 Centre for International and Security Studies, says that while American security has gone to great efforts to be welcoming to visitors, most everyone is subject to a 鈥渃ulture鈥 of distrust and suspicion, wrote the Toronto Star online Oct. 8: 鈥淭he question becomes at what point does […]
91亚色 will launch a unique study into the impact of extreme violence on victims and their families, thanks to a generous new gift. The Canadian Crime Victim Foundation (CCVF) has pledged $25,000 for the research initiative which will help address a critical gap in crime research, according to the lead researchers. 鈥淰ictims of extreme […]
Osgoode Hall Law School Professors Craig Scott and Stepan Wood have each been awarded prestigious fellowships at European institutions. Scott, who is the director of聽Osgoode鈥檚 Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime聽& Security, has been awarded a 2010 Ikerbasque Fellowship by the Bacsque Foundation for Sience. The foundation is a granting agency […]
91亚色 has been awarded a grant to establish a European Union Centre of Excellence(EUCE). Recognized for the excellence, breadth and depth of its European Union (EU) studies and scholarly activities, 91亚色 will receive funding of $480,000 over three years to integrate the University鈥檚 existing research, teaching, outreach and networking activities on Europe and the […]