Nathanson Centre News – 2012

December 19, 2012
The Centre is happy to welcome Stephanie J. Silverman, who will be a Post-Doctoral Fellow in residence in the Winter term of 2013.

Stephanie wrote her doctoral dissertation at Oxford, on The Normative Ethics of Immigration Detention in Liberal States. She has also conducted analytical, empirical, legal, and policy research on the UK, US, and Canadian immigration detention systems, as well as on the issues of child and family detainees, bail and judicial review, protest in and against detention centres, detained asylum seekers, and alternatives to detention. She founded and continues to convene both the Detention Workshop, an academic discussion group on immigration detention, as well as an international working group on the normative ethics of immigration control.

October 19, 2012
The Nathanson Centre congratulates its director, Prof. François Tanguay-Renaud, for the recent award of a SSHRC Insight Development Grant for his research project entitled “The State as Criminal Wrongdoer: An Inquiry into the Intelligibility and Legitimacy of Criminalizing the State”. This successful application follows a string of good news for the Centre on the funding side, including Prof. Obiora Okafor’s SSHRC Partnership Development Grant on “Canadian-Nigerian Cooperation in Human Rights” awarded last May.

September 24, 2012
Professor Hengameh Saberi, member of the Executive Committee of the Nathanson Centre, shares some reflections on the Canadian government’s recent decision to sever its diplomatic ties with Iran. Read her op-ed “History isn’t all that sudden: The Ottawa/Tehran break-up and resonance of sound bites“.

August 20, 2012
The call for applications for the 2012-2013 Nathanson Graduate Fellowships is now available here. Note that the application deadline is 14 September, 2012.

May 16, 2012
Nathanson Conference Announcement: “Criminalizing & Criminalized States: A 21st-Century Reassessment of the Domestic and International Interfaces between the State and Criminal Law”, to be held at Osgoode Hall Law School on November 9-10, 2012. For more information, consult the conference webpage.

March 12, 2012
The Nathanson Centre is pleased to announce that Professor Alessandro Spena (Palermo, Fall Term), Dr. Anthony Amatrudo (Sunderland, Spring Term), and Professor Victor Tadros (Warwick, Spring Term) will be Senior Visiting Fellows in 2012-2013. Respectively, they will be working on book projects on The Criminalization of Immigrants, Human Rights and the Criminal Justice System, and Relating Criminalization Theory and Just War Theory.

February 28, 2012
The Centre is proud to announce that one of its 2011-2012 Nathanson Graduate Fellows, Mohamad Al-Hakim, was recently appointed as an Assistant Professor at Florida Gulf Coast University (effective Fall 2012). Mohamad’s work focuses on the relationship between political liberalism and minority rights (notably, Islamic minorities) as well as criminal law theory. Many congratulations from all at the Nathanson Centre!

January 18, 2012
Prof. Tanguay-Renaud (Acting Director) and Prof. Stribopoulos (Research Associate)’s edited collection on “Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law” is now out. Purchase cheaper here and watch out for the official launch on February 28.