The SJD Paper Workshop is a platform for p resenting academic work in progress and an opportunity to build a supportiv e scholarly community through reading\, commenting on\, and discussing draf t papers.
For this workshop\, the SJD Students Association and the St udent Government will host Andrew Stobo Sniderman\, who will present a draf t titled "Plessy\, Brown and Canada’s Separate and Unequal Schools."
This (early rough draft!) paper explores the relevance in Canada of Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education. The dream of Brown helped justify the integration of Indigenous students into Canadian provincial pu blic schools in the 1950s and 1960s. More recently\, the specter of Plessy has been invoked to condemn conditions in separate schools for Indigenous c hildren on Indian reserves:“[w]hat is happening to First Nations students t oday is similar to what African American students experienced under the Jim Crow laws…Except in Canada\, First Nations students are separate and unequ al.” These analogies prompted my inquiry\, which juxtaposes the stories of Black students in the United States and Indigenous students in Canada.
< p>Participants are expected to read the draft in advance. If you would like to attend\, please email Wei-An Tsai (wtsai@sjd.law.harvard.edu) by March 20 (Friday) to receive the p aper. Lunch will be provided. CATEGORIES:Program/Workshop LOCATION:Lewis International Law Center\, Room 110 GEO:0.000000;0.000000 ORGANIZER;CN="Wei-An Tsai":MAILTO:wtsai@sjd.law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/sjd-paper-workshop/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR