Ethics, Society and Law Students’ Association Academic Seminar
Thursday, November 28
1 – 3 pm
End-of-Life Care: Ethics and the Law
Guest lecturer: Wayne Sumner

Political Theory Research Workshop
Friday, November 29
12 noon – 1:30 pm
The Democratic Continuum: Edified Beasts and Political Animals
Presenter: Emma Planinc

Manuscript Workshop
Friday, November 29
2 – 5 pm
A Political Theory of Territory
by Margaret Moore (Queens University)
Chair: Simone Chambers, Department of Political Science, U of T
Panelists:
Margaret (Peggy) Kohn, Department of Political Science, U of T
Loren King, Department of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo
Daniel Weinstock, McGill University

There’s no Bathing in the River Styx: The problem of Rule-Manipulation in Adversarial and Non-Adversarial Schemes

Dominic Martin
Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethics

November 27, 2013
12 noon – 2 pm

Seminar Talk, Ethics and the Public Interest
The Canadian One Percent

Stephen Gordon
Department of Economics, Université Laval

4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

The For-Profit Misnomer in Canadian Corporate Law

Carol Liao
SJD Candidate, University of Toronto Law
and PhD Student, UBC Law (Joint Program)

Abstract:

Banning Religious Clothing? The Quebec Charter of Secular Values: What’s It All About?

5:30 pm – 7 pm
Wednesday, November 6

U of T Multi-Faith Centre
596 Spadina Avenue, Room KP 113 (1st Floor)

Join Prof. Benjamin Berger, Osgoode Law School, Prof. Ruth Marshall, Study of Religion, U of T, Prof. Simone Chambers, Pol. Sci., U of T, Ayesha Valliani, Grad Student, Study of Religion, U of T, in a moderated discussion of the Quebec Charter of Values with Prof. Pamela Klassen, Director, Religion in the Public Sphere programme, U of T.

Explore issues of state neutrality and religious accommodation vis a vis the proposed legislation of the Quebec’s Charter of Values. The proposed Charter includes banning public sector workers, including teachers and all civil servants from wearing “ostentatious” religious symbols. This includes: hijabs, turbans, and large crosses.

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