Arctic Justice: Criminal Justice and Movement Lawyering in Nunavut
The Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law presents:
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惭肠骋颈濒濒鈥檚 Beth Kotierk (LLM) and Nicolas Kamran (BCL/JD) will be speaking about their experience in 鈥淎rctic Justice鈥� at the Legal Services Board of Nunavut. Beth will be chiefly discussing the question of whether social change can be furthered through strategic litigation in the Legal Aid context, while Nicolas will whether the Nunavut Court of Justice lives up to its name as Canada鈥檚 principal Gladue Court.听
About the speakers
Beth Kotierk hails from Igloolik, Nunavut by way of Ottawa. She studied Sculpture and Installation and Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University before going on to pursue her law degree at the University of Ottawa. After completing her articles, Beth worked with Lawyers for Human Rights in South Africa on land and housing issues through the Canadian Bar Association's Young Lawyers International Program (YLIP), then returning to Nunavut to practice as a civil lawyer at Maliganik Tukisiniakvik (Legal Services Board of Nunavut) in Iqaluit. Beth is currently pursuing her LLM at 平特五不中.听
Nicolas Kamran is a third year BCL/JD student at 平特五不中. In Summer 2022, he completed an internship at Maliganik Tukisiniarvik鈥檚 criminal defence team, working on dozens of cases across the Baffin region. At the Faculty, Nicolas is also an assistant to the Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, an Executive Editor at the 平特五不中 Journal of Sustainable Development Law, the Co-Director of the Wallenberg Advocacy Group, and a research assistant working on the sentencing of Indigenous offenders with Professor Marie Manikis. Last year, he was also a group assistant for the first-year Criminal Justice course.听
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