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DESCRIPTION:With Professor Amar Khoday\, Associate Professor at the Univers
 ity of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law and former O’Brien DCL Graduate Fellow fr
 om the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøFaculty of Law\, and moderated by Me. Tamara Thermitus.\n\nA
 bstract\n\nIn this presentation\, Dr. Amar Khoday examines the Supreme Cou
 rt of Canada’s unanimous 1977 decision in Smithers v The Queen. Smithers i
 s a criminal law case that focused largely on the issue of causation and i
 s likely taught in most if not all Canadian law faculties annually. The ca
 se arose out of a fight following an under-18 hockey league game where one
  of the combatants died. In constructing its brief narrative of the facts\
 , the Court drastically understated the racial dynamics that were in play 
 before and during the game which prompted Paul Smithers\, a Black teenager
  to confront Barrie Cobby\, who was white\, and his primary racial antagon
 ist. In framing its narrative\, the Court caricatured Smithers as a Black 
 aggressor preying on Cobby. Drawing from critical race theory and various 
 primary sources\, Khoday advances a detailed counter-narrative challenging
  the Court’s official account which largely ignored Paul Smithers’s experi
 ences of racism and interpretation of events leading to Cobby’s death.\n\n
 Bio\n\nDr. Amar Khoday is an associate professor at the University of Mani
 toba’s Faculty of Law. He earned his Doctor of Civil Law (2014) and Master
  of Laws degrees (2008) from 51³Ô¹ÏÍø and his Juris Doctor (2004)
  from the New England School of Law in Boston. He holds undergraduate and 
 graduate degrees in history from Concordia University. He is a member of t
 he Law Society of Ontario and the Massachusetts bar. A researcher with var
 ied interests\, he is the author or co-author of over 20 articles or book 
 chapters in addition to numerous blog posts. These interests include crimi
 nal law and procedure with a focus on rights related to police interrogati
 ons and detentions\, legal history\, race and the law\, as well as the int
 ersections of law and resistance. Prof. Khoday is a former O’Brien DCL Gra
 duate Fellow from the 51³Ô¹ÏÍøFaculty of Law\n\nRSVP to penelope.plessas [a
 t] mcgill.ca is required.\n
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LOCATION:Room 609\, NCDH
SUMMARY:Black Legal History Matters Too: Counter-Narrating Smithers v The Q
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