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QLaw Pod - Episode 61 - Dr. Rebecca Hall - Life Time: Care Under the Clock
Title: Life Time: Care Under the Clock
Date: Friday, September 25, 2026
Description: In Canada and around the globe, policymakers and advocates alike have declared a care crisis. Emergency rooms and classrooms strain under the pressure. Our intimate caring duties – tending to family, home, community – are at once contained and overflowing, in perpetual collision against our working hours. In her forthcoming book, Life Time: Care Under the Clock, Rebecca Hall asks, what happens when we talk less about how hard it is to care, and more about how hard it is to care under capitalism? What changes if we think about the care crisis as a temporal crisis, a scarcity of time experienced as a scarcity of care?
In this work-in-progress seminar, Dr. Hall will discuss the tensions between the valuation of work time under capitalism and the care time we both give and need.
Speakers:
Dr. Rebecca Hall - Associate Professor, Global Development Studies. Queen's University
1 Apr 2026
Qlaw Pod - Episode 60 - Suing City Hall: Class Actions as Private Enforcement of Local Governments
Title: Suing City Hall: Class Actions as Private Enforcement of Local Governments
Date: Monday, March 23, 2026
Description: Using data from Israel, this study examines the scope and effectiveness of class actions filed against local governments. The researchers analyzed about 2,000 cases, coding key details such as subject matter, outcomes and remedies. The findings show class actions can strengthen oversight of local governments, while also identifying ways to reduce misuse of the process by plaintiffs’ lawyers.
Speakers:
Omer Kimhi - Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Haifa University
25 Mar 2026
Qlaw Pod - Episode 59 - Anti-Palestinian Racism
Title: Upside Down: Anti-Palestinian Racism, Judicial Bias, and Inverted Racial Power
Date: Monday, March 16, 2026
Description: This paper wrestles with the contradiction of legal objectivity/subjectivity using the case study of the bias complaint against Justice Spiro for his interference in the hiring of a scholar at the University of Toronto who applied international law to Israel. We trace the meaning of judicial bias from the Court’s leading decision (RDS) to its citation by B’nai Brith of Canada League for Human Rights (B’nai Brith) in its successful intervention before the Federal Court in Justice Spiro’s case. Whereas RDS conceived of bias as permitting (rare) judicial anti-racism, B’nai Brith, the Canadian Judicial Council, and the Federal Court all conceived bias as, in effect, permitting judicial racism—what we term an “upside down” analysis premised on Zionist subjectivity.
Speakers:
Joshua Sealy-Harrington - Associate Professor & Chair in Palestinian Human Rights in Canada
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