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BRIEFS
the delivery of education in
Canadian secondary schools.
The course investigates how
formal policies and state-issued
legislation function in the
day-to-day lives of teachers
and students, approaching
schools as sites where power
is organized formally; it also
considers schools as sites where
power is organized informally.
The course includes discussion
on such topics as the hidden
curriculum, safe schools, equity
in education, legal pluralism,
culturally clustered schools, and
the social construction of race,
gender, and sexuality in schools.
The course is grouped under
three general themes: safe
schools, students’ rights, and
religion and schools.
LAW AND POPULAR CULTURE
Law and Popular Culture was
created in response to a student
petition. This seminar-style course,
taught by Dr. Jennifer Schulz ,
offers an in-depth exploration
of popular cultural texts such as
television programs and films
that are concerned with law and
justice themes. Students watch the
assigned films and TV shows with
a view to discovering how popular
culture constitutes law and how
law helps create popular cultural
understandings of justice.
As well as assignments and a
theoretical final research paper,
the course offers students
important opportunities to reflect
upon what brought them to law
school, what kind of lawyers they
would like to be, and how the
public views our profession. Law
student Jamie Elsasser says the
course exceeded her expectations:
“I found the Law and Popular
Culture course to be extremely
relevant to my legal education.
The course exceeded my
expectations. Professor Schulz
created an environment where
students could question and
challenge the correlations and
distinctions between law and
popular culture. Classes were
full of meaningful discussions.”
New Faces
MEET OUR NEW PROFESSORS
Dr. Umut Özsu joined the University of Manitoba Faculty of Law as an assistant
professor in July 2011. He teaches contracts and international law. Professor Öszu
holds J.D., LL.M., and S.J.D. degrees from the University of Toronto. His pre-law training
was in philosophy, a B.A. (Honours) from the University of Alberta and an M.A. from the
University of Toronto. He is an elected member of the coordinating committee of the
European Society of International Law’s International Legal Theory Interest Group. He is
also a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
Amar Khoday has accepted a two-year appointment as an Assistant Professor and
will be teaching Criminal Law and Procedure, Torts, and Administrative Law. Amar is
completing his doctoral thesis at McGill University’s Faculty of Law under the supervision
of Dr. Frédéric Mégret. Professor Khoday earned his LL.M from McGill University’s Faculty
of Law and J.D. from the New England School of Law in Boston. He previously obtained
his M.A. (focusing on South Asian History) and B.A. (Double Major in History and
Southern Asian Studies) from Concordia University. Amar is a member of the Law Society
of Upper Canada and the state bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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