***UPDATED: May 14, 2015

Western Law Interdisciplinary Graduate Student

Conference
Programme 2015
Thursday, May 21st, 2015
8:15-9:00

Breakfast & Registration

9:00- 9:15

Conference Welcome (Moot Court)

9:15-10:15 Opening Keynote Speech: Justice Deborah Livingstone (Moot

Court)
10:15-10:45

Refreshment Break

10:45-12:15

Panel Session 1

Gender and Criminal Justice Systems (Moderator Professor Christopher

Sherrin), Room 51
Laurie Hayman - Selling Sex Safely
Falilat Mobolaji - Myths and Stereotypes: Implied Consent in Spousal Sexual
Assault Cases in Canada
Sarah Nimigan - The Prosecutor v. Akeyesu versus The Prosecutor v.
Lubanga: A comparative analysis of the prosecution of sexual and genderbased crimes in international criminal law
12:15-1:15
1:15-2:45

Lunch
Parallel Panel Sessions

Panel 2 - Business & the Law (Moderator: Professor Colin Campbell),

Room 51
Alan Zhou - Two Issues in the Assessment of Damages in Securities Fraud
Eric George - The Political Economy of Corporate Arbitration
Vivek Astvansh - Rising from the Ashes: Effects of Firms Capabilities on their
Recovery from Bankruptcy
Panel 3 - Public and Private Rights (Moderator: Professor Erika
Chamberlain), Room 52
Laura Dehaibi - Human rights for the one percent? A discussion on the right
to property
Omar Ha-Redeye - Class Action Intrusions: Helping to develop privacy rights,
or an overkill in liability?
2:45-3:15

Refreshment Break

3:15-5:00 Parallel Panel Sessions

Panel 4 - Exercise of State Power (Moderator: Professor Chi Carmody),
Room 51
Victoria Bisnauth - Exile, Citizenship, and the Nation-State: How to Respond
to the Needs of the Rightless in a Global World
Nichodemus Nnaji - A Comparative Legal Analysis of Human Rights Norms
and Institutions in Nigeria and Canada, with a Particular Focus on the Issue
of Unlawful Arrest and Detention
Sharon Osofsky - Victims of the Law? The Dalton Gang 1890-1892
Adilya Gambone - Control of dual citizens: attempt to provide protection or
to count pawns?

Panel 5 - Dueling Doctrines and Dispute Resolution (Moderator:

Professor Randal Graham), Room 52
Shirley Wales - From Alienation to Reconciliation: The Four Dimensions of
Dispute Resolution
Joseph Asomah - Theorizing Law: A Sociological Analysis
Daniele Bertolini - The Theory of Law as Claim and the Inquiry into the
Sources of Law: Bruno Leoni in Prospect
Ben Power - Disciplined Inquiry: How disciplinary research agendas shape
perceptions of law
5:00 End of Day 1
6:30 Conference Dinner - Windermere Manor Great Hall - 200 Collip Circle,
London - (519) 858-1414
Friday, May 22nd, 2015
9:00-9:30
9:30-10:30
Room)

Breakfast
Keynote Speech II: Professor Robert Solomon (Moot Court

10:30-11:00 Refreshment Break

11:00-12:30 Panel Session
Panel 6 - Religious and Cultural Freedoms (Moderator: Professor
Michael Lynk), Room 51
Ahmed Garba - Government Regulation of Islamic Religious Preaching and
the Boko Haram Insurgency in some States of Northern Nigeria
Logan Rohde - The States and Exemption: Peyote, Religion, Law, and the
State of Exception

Sally Ogoe - Two Sides of the Law: The Impact of Laws Criminalizing Female
Genital Mutilation in Canada and Africa
12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30 - 2:45 Panel Session

Panel 7 - Patent Law (Moderator: Professor Margaret Ann Wilkinson),
Room 51
Raymond Bai - Patent Laws: Advancing innovation for the public or inflating
private profits?
Alexander Alduncin & Paola Buitron - The role of law in the patent landscape:
how the current system can tackle patent trolls
14:45-3:15

Refreshment Break

3:15-4:45

Parallel Panel Sessions

Panel 8 - Gender and Reproductive Rights (Moderator: Professor Zo

Sinel), room 51
Liu Qian - Only One but Leftover: the One-child policy as an Iron Fist to
Leftover Women in China
Evan Vipond - Rights or Regulation? Regulating trans bodies and identities
through equal-rights discourse
Adam Davies - Education and the Law: Are Queer Identifying Students Safe
at School?
Panel 9 - Environment & the Law: (Moderator: Professor Sara Seck), room
52
Marjorie Rodrigues - Environmental governance through Payment for
Environmental Services: case study of Water Conservation project

Tyler Totten - Should Elephants Have Standing?

4:45-5:00 Closing Remarks (Moot Court Room)
5:00

End of Day 2