番茄社区

History:

The UVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group was created in March 2020 by Esteban Vallejo Toledo – a PhD student who dreamt of forming an academic community where graduate students, scholars, librarians, instructors, and post-doctoral researchers could learn and share different views of how law, people, and institutions interact within societies. This dream became a reality thanks to the dedicated support provided by Eva Linde (PhD student), as well as Emily Nickerson and Sarah Miller (Law Librarians). We are also grateful for the help of Mary Anne Vallianatos (PhD student), Julie Sloan (Communications Officer in Law), Alicia Kaiser (Marketing and Digital Signage Coordinator), and the Faculty of Law.

Thanks to all of our members, the UVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group is currently a community based on knowledge sharing that improves the academic experience of everyone who follows our activities at the 番茄社区. Our community acknowledges and respects the Lekwungen peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt, and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.

Vision:

The UVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group brings together graduate students, researchers, and scholars seeking to deepen their understanding of the interactions between law, individuals, and societies. As such, our Research Group is a venue that allows members to develop critical assessments of law, engage in academic discussion, benefit from cultural exchange, and promote interdisciplinary research.

The UVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group aims to enrich the academic experience of its members by offering them the opportunity to

• Encourage, facilitate, and promote interdisciplinary research and graduate student dissertations
• Contribute to academic discussion on diverse topics such as law and social justice, law and socio-economic relations, legal pluralism in a global context, legal theory, as well as traditional and alternative approaches to legal research and education
• Organize conferences, workshops, and other activities to explore topics of historical and contemporary relevance
• Increase cooperation for academic purposes with other research centres at the 番茄社区, governmental and non-governmental organizations, and other academic institutions

You can contact us at estebanvallejotoledo@uvic.ca or evalinde@uvic.ca 

The UVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group hosts a variety of academic workshops, lectures, discussions, and reading activities where more than one graduate student, scholar, librarian, instructor, and post-doctoral researcher has the opportunity to share ideas with a diverse audience within a friendly and safe learning environment. Most of our events are website. Since our events are public, please feel free to join us! You can also learn more about our previous and ongoing events in the descriptions below. 

If you would like to join our events, you can contact us at estebanvallejotoledo@uvic.ca or evalinde@uvic.ca 

Our members read a lot of papers to explore how law, people, and institutions interact within societies. This is a selection of very interesting papers that recently got our attention, and our members wanted to informally share. 

If you would like to recommend a paper, contact us at: evalinde@uvic.ca and estebanvallejotoledo@uvic.ca

Topic: Deliberative democracy, Future generations

Paper: Michael K MacKenzie, “Deliberation and Long-Term Decisions: Representing Future Generations” in Andre Bächtiger et al, eds, The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy (Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2018) 251.

Resources:

Although reading might be a solitary activity, the UVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group is committed to discussing and helping our members to find their way through the ever-expanding academic material produced. To this goal, we propose a few lists of introductory non-canonic readings and resources that will help our members approach different topics. As such, in case you feel that conducting research and writing papers or dissertations is as demanding as “,” the recommendations below will provide you with useful ideas for moving forwards.

• (North America)
• Legal research, writing, teaching & more
• Empirical research
• Comparative & transsystemic law
• Law & religion
• Decoloniality, decolonization & post-colonialism
• Legal theory
• Podcasts, media & more

These lists of resources have been put together thanks to generous recommendations from professors Pooja Parmar, Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey, Maneesha Deckha, John Borrows, Mark Gillen, Victor Ramraj, Calvin Sandborn, Sara Ramshaw, the Diana M. Priestly Law Library, and Esteban Vallejo Toledo. Please note that the UVic Law & Society Research Group does not maintain any relationship with the authors of the resources in these lists. If you think that other titles should be included to improve our lists, do let us know.

The UVic Graduate Student Law & Society Research Group is a welcoming interdisciplinary community that focuses on sharing knowledge and exploring how law, people, and institutions interact within societies.

Current Members