Suzie Dunn
"Sexual Integrity in the Era of Deepfakes: How Should Law Respond?"
February 27, 2025
Visitors and Lectures
The University of Manitoba Faculty of Law welcomes many accomplished guests from around the world to speak to our students, faculty, staff, and members of the legal community.
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Distinguished Visitors lecture series
The Distinguished Visitors Lecture Series is organized by a committee of UM Faculty of Law professors to augment the educational experience of students, faculty, staff, and members of the local University and Legal community at large. Guest speakers are experts in their respective fields and are renowned nationally and internationally, hailing from near and far.
DV Lecture Season 2024-25
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Scott Franks
"Threatening Reconciliation: A Review of the Supreme Court of Canada's Jurisprudence on Aboriginal Rights and Title from 1990-1997"
February 4, 2025 -
Dr. Sarah Riley Case
"Race, Resistance, and Freedom: Black Feminist Thought on Settler Colonialism"
January 28, 2025 -
Avi Gesser
The Essential Role of Lawyers in the Adoption of AI
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Professor Emeritus Harry Glasbeek
"Law at Work: the coercion and co-option of the working class"
October 29, 2024
DV Lecture Season 2023-24
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Dr. Emily Kidd White
"Images of Reach, Range, and Recognition: Thinking about Emotions in the Study of Law"
February 29, 2024 -
Professor Joanna Erdman
"Abortion Law Illiberalism & Feminist Futures"
February 8, 2024 -
Professor David Lepofsky
"The Lawyers ethical Duty to Engage in Social Justice Advocacy – Learning from a Disability Perspective"
January 9, 2024 -
Dr. Nomi Claire Lazar
"Bad Timing: Some Arrythmias of 'Climate Emergency'"
November 7, 2023 -
Dr. James Gacek
"Rainbow Captives: The Conditions and Challenges for Queer Incarceration"
September 28, 2023
DV Lecture Season 2022-23
DV Lecture Season 2021-2022
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Dr. Teresa Scassa
"The Surveillant University: Remote Proctoring, AI and Human Rights"
March 11, 2022 -
Dr. Darcy Lindberg
"Promises to Keep: Cree Treaties, Cree Ceremonies, and Pathways to a Shared Constitution."
February 3, 2022 -
Dr. Nayha Acharya
"Adjudication and Mediation are Cousins Playing in the same Sandbox: Reflections on Mandatory Mediation."
February 16, 2022 -
Dr. Helen Duffy
"The War on Terror: Past, Present and Future..."
February 1, 2022 -
Dr. Carol Liao
"Critical Race Feminism and Sustainable Corporate Law"
October 28, 2021
DV Lecture Season 2020-21
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Dr. Megan Davis
Speaking on the Right to Indigenous Self-determination
February 4, 2021 -
Dr. Elizabeth Cohen
"Illegal: How America's Lawless Immigration Regime Threatens Us All"
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William Schabas
Speaking on Customary International Law
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Al Benoit
Manitoba Métis Federation on “Manitoba 150 – The Unfinished Business of Reconciliation”
DV Lecture Season 2019-20
DV Lecture Season 2018-19
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Professor David Lepofsky
"The Lawyer's Ethical Duty to Engage in Social Justice Advocacy – The Example of the Campaign to Strengthen Bill C-81, the proposed Accessible Canada Act."
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Erika Yamada
"Implementing the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples from a Latin American perspective."
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Tamara Buckwold
"Through the Eyes of a Black Letter Lawyer: How I Learned to Love Commercial Law."
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James C. Hathaway
“The False Panacea of ‘Thin’ Protection: Why We Need a Bold Plan to Save Refugee Protection.”
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Hilary Young
“Canadian Defamation Law in the Internet Age.”
DV Lecture Season 2017-18
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Dr. Payam Akhavan
"In Search of a Better World: A Human Rights Odyssey."
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Kristen Thomasen
"private drones, public space"
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Dr. Benjamin Geva
"Money and payments digitization: evolution, revolution and the law"
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Bruce McDougall
"The Law of Mistake as Third Party Protection."
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Jean Teillet
"Writing the History of Riel's People."
DV Lecture Season 2013-14
DV Lecture Season 2012-13
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Roger Bilodeau
"The Supreme Court of Canada"
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David Petrasek
"The Emerging Exceptionalism in Canadian Foreign Policy"
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Michel Bastarache
"Language Rights in the Canadian Constitution"
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Katherine Covell
"Children's Rights and Rights-Respecting Schools"
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Dr. Jacinta Ruru
"The Constitutional Indigenous Jurisprudence in Aotearoa New Zealand"
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Bruce MacDougall
"Making It Better Now: Contention over Gay-Straight Alliances in Schools"
DV Lecture Season 2011-12
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Bruce MacDougall
"Contention over Gay-Straight Alliances in Schools"
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Shirish Chotalia
"Canadian Human Rights Tribunal"
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Yude Henteleff
"Critical Conversations with Canadians"
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James Oldham
"Habeas Corpus Legal History and Guantanamo Bay"
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Dr. Mike Nellis
"Electronic Monitoring of Offenders"
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Benjamin Perrin
"Human Trafficking in Canada"
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Prof. Annie Rochette
"Teaching and Learning in Canadian Legal Education"
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Thomas A. Kelly
"Social Enterprise in the U.S."
DV Lecture Season 2010-11
DV Lecture Season 2009-2010
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Jennifer Llewellyn
"Reconciling the Work of the TRC"
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Joanna Birenbaum
"Litigating for Women's Equality in a Sexual Assault Case"
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Doris Buss
"Rethinking 'Rape as a Weapon of War"
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Martin Friedland
"My Life in Crime and Other Academic Adventures"
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Sarah Lugtig and David Langtry
"Human Rights Commissions in 2010: New Challenges, New Opportunities"
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Elizabeth May
"Greening Democracy in the Courts, and at the Ballot Box"
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Frédéric Mégret
"International Human Rights and Legal Pluralism: A Research Agenda"
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William Mullins-Johnson
"A Terrible Miscarriage of Justice"
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Merrell-Anne Phare
"Denying the Source: The Crisis of First Nation Water Rights"
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Dean Kathryn Rand and Dr. Steven Light
"Tribal Gaming in the United States"
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Hon. Justice Murray Sinclair
"They Came for the Children"
DV Lecture Season 2008-2009
DeLloyd J. Guth Legal History lecture series
The DeLloyd J. Guth Legal History Lecture Series brings scholars and distinguished individuals to the Faculty of Law to speak on a wide variety of topics in legal history. The lecture series was founded by Professor DeLloyd J. Guth in 2010, and has hosted lecturers of national and international renown. The text of the lectures are traditionally published in the Manitoba Law Journal. Please visit our Robson Hall Youtube Channel to view past lectures.
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15th Annual — October 10, 2024
Dr. Eric M. Adams, Professor of Law at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law presents "The Exile of Japanese Canadians, 1946"
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14th Annual – October 13, 2022
Distinguished University Professor Constance Backhouse, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa: “Reckoning with Racism: Disturbing Evidence of Police and Judicial Discrimination in Canada’s RDS Case”
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13th Annual - February 10, 2022
Dr. Barrington Walker, Department of History, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario: "Inchoate Citizens: Black Canadians, Law and the Racial State."
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12th Annual – March 2, 2021
Prof. Nicole O’Byrne, Faculty of Law, University of New Brunswick: “The Constitutional Responsibility for Metis Scrip”
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11th Annual – October 3, 2019
Prof. Seth Rockman, Department of History, Brown University: “New England Merchants and Manufacturers’ Property Rights in Southern Slaves via Credit/Debt”
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10th Annual – February 28, 2019
Prof. Emeritus, John P.S. McLaren, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria: “Lawyers in the ‘Slammer’ and in Hiding: The Price of Advocating for Unpopular Causes at the British Columbia Bar, 1900-1940”
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9th Annual – March 8, 2018
Prof. Emeritus Hamar Foster, Q.C, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria: “Emily Carr’s Klee Wyck, Indigenous Activism & the Law on British Columbia’s Northwest Coast, 1906 – 1928”
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8th Annual – November 16, 2017
Prof. Emerita Donna Andrew, Department of History, University of Guelph: “Duelling and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
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7th Annual – November 17, 2016
Prof. Richard Helmholz, University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago: “Statutory Interpretation in Medieval Law”
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6th Annual – September 17, 2015
Prof. Charles Donahue, Harvard Law School, Harvard University: “The Modern Law of both Tort and Contract Began in the Mid-Fourteenth Century”
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5th Annual – February 5, 2015:
Prof. Catherine E. Bell, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta: “A New Era for Metis Constitutional Rights? Issues of Theory and Practice”
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4th Annual – November 7, 2013
Tom Berger Q.C.: “The Manitoba Metis Decision and the uses of History”
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3rd Annual – February 2, 2013:
Prof. Philip Girard, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University: “Writing Canadian Legal History: Origins”
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2nd Annual – March 8, 2012
Prof. James Oldham, Georgetown Law, Georgetown University: “Habeas Corpus Legal History and Guantanamo Bay”
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1st Annual – October 28, 2010
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., “Louis Riel: Patriot Rebel”
The Rod Senft Lecture in Family Business Law series
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2022 Senft Lecture in Family Business law featuring Sprague Richardson
2022 Senft Lecture in Family Business Law featuring Sprague Richardson. On December 8, 2022 the Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law and the Stu Clark Centre for Entrepreneurship hosted Sprague Richardson, representing the 6th generation of the Richardson family and talking about the birth and growth of his Western Canadian Aerial (WCA) enterprise in “Family Business – The Next Generation Takes Off”.
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2021 Senft Lecture in Family Business Law featuring Harvey Secter, O.M.
On November 2, 2021 The Distinguished Visitors Lecture Series and the Marcel A. Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law, hosted the 2021 Rod Senft Lecture in Family Business Law featured Harvey Secter, O.M. Former Dean of the Law school and UM Chancellor. He presented "Successful family businesses build strong economies and healthy communities: The Advisor's role in perpetuating the virtuous circle."
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Senft Lecture in Family Business Law featuring David Asper
On April 12, 2021, the Stu Clark Centre hosted "The Family Owned Business: What Could go wrong? We're Family!" by Dean of the Law School, David Asper K.C.
Harry Walsh O.C., Q.C. lecture
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Marie Henein
On March 3rd, 2025, Marie Henein presented "The role of the Defence Counsel in the Canadian Justice System" for the Harry Walsh, O.C., Q.C. Lecture.