On September 23rd, Robin Hansen, an author and Associate Professor at the USask College of Law, will discuss the automatic separation of women and their children born in prison. 

Imagine if you - at your birth - were automatically taken from your mother and denied the ability to bond with her. Imagine this being done with zero due process, without any individualized consideration of the likely health effects of denying you – as a newborn – access to your mother. This is the reality for infants in most of Canada who are born to persons who are incarcerated at the time of their birth. Automatic separation is happening because of unfair blanket assumptions against women and their children that circulate in the legal system. Robin Hansen will explore how Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory of law explains how these dehumanizing ideas circulate in the legal system, and how they can be rejected. For further lecture details, visit the College of Law website.

Monday, September 23, 2024

Lecture - 12pm (noon)

Room 150, College of Law, 15 Campus Drive

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