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Hiring Unit: Faculty of Law
Course Number: LAWG 538
Course Title: Specialized Topics in Law 19 - Slavery and the Law

Course Credits: 3
1 Instructor
Term: Fall 2025
Course Schedule: Wed/Fri 0835-1005 (Student Affairs Office will contact you if there is a change to the date/time)
Location: Chancellor Day Hall
This course provides a global purview of varying systems and embodiments of enslavement and the legal mechanisms and structures which upheld them. It starts with "ancient" illustrations such as Roman slavery, extends to more clandestine forms of Indigenous and Trans-Saharan slavery regimes and ultimately, delves into modern forms of slavery and human trafficking. The role of law and how it entrenched, blurred and perpetuated these systems will be innate to this discourse. The course further depicts the strategies that legislations and their legislators used to fortify the discursive strategies of the ruling powers whilst dismantling the agency and humanity of the subjugated. Particular attention is given to how legal theories developed in support of differences between the dominant and the coerced, but also within and between varying groups of the disenfranchised. The course reveals how well-developed race-ranking systems emerged as a consequence of these legal systems that endorsed the dispossession, displacement, abasement and the genocide of the enslaved.
TQR: At a minimum, a first degree in law. Several years of significant practice or professional experience, in the relevant area; Experience in teaching undergraduate law students in a bilingual setting.
The University may, at its discretion, assign the person of choice to give this Course/Teaching.

This posting will be taken down at 12:00 a.m. on the day indicated below as the deadline to apply. You have until 11:59 p.m. the day before the indicated deadline date to submit your application.
Hiring Unit:
Faculty of Law
Course Title:
ST 19: Slavery and the Law
Subject Code:
LAWG 538 001/009
Location:
New Chancellor Day Hall
Schedule:
Wed/Fri 0835-0955
Deadline to Apply:
2025-07-22McGill University hires on the basis of merit and is strongly committed to equity and diversity within its community. We welcome applications from racialized persons/visible minorities, women, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, ethnic minorities, and persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, as well as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities. McGill implements an employment equity program and encourages members of designated groups to self-identify. Persons with disabilities who anticipate needing accommodations for any part of the application process may contact, in confidence, accessibilityrequest.hr@mcgill.ca.