TLRJN Current Events

Legal Geographies of Occupation and Racial Extraction Speaker and Workshop Series (2025 -)

Jan 22nd, noon- Dr. Hadeel S. Abu Hussein, The Architecture of Legal Exclusion and Palestinian apartheid  in East Jerusalem

Feb 5th, noon– Dr. Uahikea Maile, On Being Late: Cruising Mauna Kea and Unsettling Technoscientific Conquest in Hawaiʻi

Mar 5th, noon– Dr. Sara Ghebremusse, Colonial Continuities: Law, Land, and the Racial Geographies of Canadian Mining Interests in Southern Africa.

South Asian Documentary Film Festival (2024)

Past Events

Book Launch: “The United Nations and the Question of Palestine” with Dr. Ardi Imseis (March 2024)

ICJ Roundtable Discussion (February 2024)

South Asian Documentary Film Festival (2023)

TWAILR Academy 2023 Bogotá

Bail Panel (2023)

Canada & Saudi Arabia: Legal Frameworks and Policy Options (2019)

Transnational Criminal Law in the Americas (2017)


Each year, TLRJN hosts a national and international Speakers Series and at least one conference through which we identify and address some of the most important but least discussed legal issues of the day.

Speaker Series

Legal Geographies of Occupation and Racial Extraction Speaker and Workshop Series (2025 -)

Borders, Boundaries, and Intersections Series (2015 – 2022)

Sri Lanka Series (2017 – 2018)


Annual Conferences

RDS Conference (2022)

Commercial Law Symposium (2019, Co-Sponsor)

Canada & Saudi Arabia: Legal Frameworks and Policy Options (2019)

Decolonizing Law? Methods, Tactics & Strategies (2018)

Transnational Criminal Law in the Americas (2017)

Contextualizing Social Justice in International and Transnational Law (2016)

Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) (2015)