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This section highlights new and/or popular resources for our regular visitors to the CCEJ website. You may find here new research publications, popular teaching resources, new films and discussion guides produced by the CCEJ, information about upcoming events, links to media appearances by members of the CCEJ.

Job Posting: Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline Researcher

The Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline is looking to hire a researcher for their Reporting Islamophobia Project. To apply,

New Publication by Dr. Özlem Sensoy

CCEJ Director Dr. Özlem Sensoy’s most recent essay has been published in the 2024 fall issue of Daedalus, the

Event of Interest: Indigenous Legal Feminism and the Expansion of Legal Horizons in Canada

Through reference to the new, third edition of Making Space for Indigenous Feminism (Fernwood Publishing, 2024), Dr. Gina

A letter to settler students engaging with Indigenous scholars and methods

This letter, written by former SFU Graduate student Dvorah Silverman, outlines several ways in which white settler students

Resource: Nisga’a Dancing in Both Worlds

Nisga’a Dancing in Both Worlds documents the struggle of the Nisga’a people, in court and at negotiating tables,

K- 12 Resource: Black History and Anti-racism in Canada

Black history and anti-racism in Canada. (2021). Manitoba Education. https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/diversity/multic/docs/black-history-anti-racism-canada.pdf The Black History and Anti-Racism in Canada document is

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Retirement of Dr. Wanda Cassidy after 40 years with CELS

At the end of 2022, after fourty years at the helm of the Centre for Education, Law and Society, alongside

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Centre for Education, Law & Society becomes Cassidy Centre for Educational Justice

On December 31, 2022, Dr. Wanda Cassidy Director of the Centre for Education, Law and Society (CELS) retired. Upon her

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Dr. Özlem Sensoy becomes Director of CCEJ

Dr. Özlem Sensoy has served alongside Dr. Wanda Cassidy as the Associate Director of CELS since 2014. Upon Dr. Cassidy’s

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Dr. Amy Parent becomes Associate Director of CCEJ

Dr. Amy Parent is the inaugural Associate Director for the Cassidy Centre for Educational Justice. She is a citizen of

What’s New

NEWS | EVENTS | ANNOUNCEMENTS

Job Posting: Islamophobia Legal Assistance Hotline Researcher

New Publication by Dr. Özlem Sensoy

Event of Interest: Indigenous Legal Feminism and the Expansion of Legal Horizons in Canada

A letter to settler students engaging with Indigenous scholars and methods

Resource: Nisga’a Dancing in Both Worlds

K- 12 Resource: Black History and Anti-racism in Canada

Retirement of Dr. Wanda Cassidy after 40 years with CELS

Centre for Education, Law & Society becomes Cassidy Centre for Educational Justice

Dr. Özlem Sensoy becomes Director of CCEJ

Dr. Amy Parent becomes Associate Director of CCEJ

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