Borders, Boundaries and Intersections Speaker Series

Borders, Boundaries and Intersections Speaker Series

Summary of Event: The Transnational Law & Justice Network, as part of its Borders, Boundaries, and Intersections speaker series, hosted a panel discussion on access to justice issues for the LGBT+ community in November. Fathima Cader, a staff lawyer at the HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic of Ontario, and Nicole Nussbaum, a lawyer and advocate in employment, human rights, trans rights, and family law, joined moderator David Tanovich for a discussion of these issues.

Transnationalism and access to justice are the central pillars of Windsor Law. The faculty’s commitment to access to justice prompts re ections about legal education, legal system(s), and more importantly notions of justice. Deep thinking about justice reveals broader socio-political, economic and cultural schisms premised on unequal and intersecting disparities in our society. A commitment to transnationalism, based on our unique geographic location, encourage an investigation about the very nature of borders and boundaries that reify abstract and antiquated notions of time, place and space through law.

The panel focused on access to justice issues faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other sexual minority communities in Ontario. Fathima Cader’s presentation examined the effects of HIV/AIDS on people with intersecting markers of race and sexual orientation. Nicole Nussbaum focused on issues of access to justice that affects the trans* people in Ontario. 

LGBTIQ Panel with Fathima Cader and Nicole Nussbaum.

• Fathima Cader is a staff lawyer at the HIV & AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario. She has previously taught at the Faculty of Law, University of Windsor. 
  
  In this presentation, we will consider the divergences and the intersections of the histories of the recent fight for same-sex marriages equality and ongoing queer activism around AIDS.
• Nicole Nussbaum is a London, Ontario, based lawyer and advocate with experience in the areas of employment, human rights, and family law.
  
  This presentation will provide a brief synopsis of research describing the lived experiences of trans*people in Ontario, followed by a review of progress in Canadian Law relating to gender identity and gender expression, and a description of the Transforming Justice Trans* Legal Needs Assessment Ontario Project.

Date: November 25, 2015
Venue: Moot Court Room
Time: 12:00 PM

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