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the Marlee Kline Lecture in Social Justice on the topic of “Real Hate in a Virtual
World: Misogyny in Cyberspace”. Then, professor and alum Sundhya
Pahuja, director of the Institute for International Law and the Humanities
at Melbourne Law School, gave the Douglas McK. Brown Lecture. Her topic
was “Invisible Leviathans: Global Corporations and International Law”. The
last in our series, the J. Donald Mawhinney Lecture in Professional Ethics,
was given virtually in December. It featured Chief Judge Gillespie of the
Provincial Court of British Columbia; Cheryl D’Sa, alum and managing partner
at Narwal Litigation LLP; and Vicky Law, program lawyer at Rise
Women’s Legal Centre. The three spoke as panelists on the topic of “Ethical
Lawyering in a Pandemic”. Overall, around 350 alumni and friends of the
law school joined in to view our 75th anniversary lecture programming.
In November, we held a special anniversary event in partnership with
UBC Connects. Justice Edwin Cameron, a retired judge of South Africa’s
Constitutional Court, gave a lecture entitled “Prisons and the F-Word: Has
the Time Come for a Fundamental Rethink?” This was a fascinating talk on
prison reform, enriched by a subsequent panel discussion featuring Professors
Debra Parkes and Efrat Arbel. We were honoured that Senator Kim
Pate, C.M., was able to join the event by providing opening remarks on
prison law and reform in Canada, drawing on her lifetime of work in this
area. We also held a special students-only Q&A, which gave law students a
unique opportunity to ask questions and discuss the subject matter with
Justice Cameron directly. The program was well received by about 330
alumni, students and community members.
In addition to this series of informative, inspiring lectures, our 75th
anniversary included a few more lighthearted engagement opportunities
for our community. We released a 75th anniversary custom crossword puzzle,
which included clues that were familiar only to our alumni. Many of
our alumni tried their hand at the puzzle and entered our crossword puzzle
contest. We thank them all and congratulate our winners!
We also dedicated a 75th anniversary time capsule to be opened 75 years
from now. Identifying items for time capsule inclusion was a community
effort, and we are very thankful to our alumni who contributed suggestions
for items to include and to those who voted on their favourite artifacts. We
know that in 75 years’ time, members of the law school community are
going to be intrigued by the objects we have left them to find, such as a copy
of the 2020 graduating class composite, a photo album, the Allard Law
alumni magazine, and sample CANS (Condensed Annotated Notes) contributed
by the Law Students’ Society. There is even a personal essay on a
day in the life of an Allard student in 2020—which, given the unusual year
we had, readers should find fascinating.