Emily Kidd White
@emilykiddwhite
I write about emotions in legal reasoning. Legal & political philosophy, constitutional law, public international law. Law Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. SSRN:
(on slow slow summer writing) And when the sun started to burn the earth, promising a long and unconquerable sultriness, everything alive, everything which had moved and made noises in the night, sank into somnolence. Chekhov, 'Fortune'
I was very proud to receive the @yorkuniversity.bsky.social President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award this year. I have been supported and inspired by so many excellent others - students, colleagues, mentors, family, and friends. I thank them. @osgoodenews.bsky.social
An inspiring two-days celebrating the work of the glorious Jenny Nedelsky, on socialist feminism, on relationality & the ethics of care, on her supervisor Arendt on judgement & exemplarity, on the more-than-human world. Warm thanks to Ruth Buchanan, David Schneiderman, annie Bunting & Inbar Peled
Look what has finally arrived to Toronto! I had been waiting, not at all patiently. Warm congratulations to the brilliant Tara Menon, whose sentences I always want to be reading. @riverheadbooks.bsky.social
There's a handful of tickets left for Osgoode's Annual Constitutional Cases Conf (online also available). A fantastic set of speakers will unpack the recent jurisprudence. Jeremy Waldron will deliver the Laskin Lecture, "Time now to write it in the books of law". Join us: yorku.ca/osgoode/conc...
Please join us on April 10th, 2026 for the 29th Annual Osgoode Constitutional Cases Conference. An exceptional program of speakers will critically engage with the recent caselaw, and the peerless Jeremy Waldron will deliver the annual Laskin Lecture. Registration: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/conc...
As long as you are leaning into the fascist zeitgeist, it seems that you too can be invited on a New York Times podcast to espouse your utterly vacuous and historically and politically illiterate views on feminism.
Remembering Jonathan Lear remembering Bernard Williams. At the 2004 American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social, Lear delivered a speech in honour of his recently departed teacher and friend. I've written whole papers inspired by these words. home.uchicago.edu/jlear/docs/P...
Solidarity and safety to my @osgoodenews.bsky.social colleague and friend Heidi Matthews who has just set sail aboard the Shireen, the legal support boat of the Global Samud Flotilla, from which she will provide IL expertise for fellow vessels aiming to break the siege in Gaza. May peace come.
Today's @osgoodenews.bsky.social Grad Reading Group on Social Justice opens thinking abt the university as a site of social justice, reading @pashukanist.bsky.social's "Strategy & Tactics", @norajaber.bsky.social & @leilaullrich.bsky.social's, "Reflections on Fugitive Practices in the University.."
Thinking of Fred Schauer Today. Excerpt below from "Is There a Right to Academic Freedom?" University of Colorado Law Review, 2006.
Premier Ford is deeply misinformed on the applicable law here, including the Treaty-based law, and his remarks below are just unconscionably rude and racist.
"A common thread in this onslaught of new legislation is the creation of “legal black holes” and the dangerous centralization of discretionary power.." A necessary intervention on the new fed & prov "special economic zone" laws by Dayna Scott & @shirip.bsky.social theguardian.com/commentisfre...
On Bill 5 and “Special Economic Zones in Ontario” apple.news/AYCj2ix6pSie...
Seeing the harrowing re-emergence of the U.S. Alien Enemies Act, it seems well past time for Canadians to confront our own cruel (legal) history of exile. Challenging Exile, Japanese Canadians & the Wartime Constitution by @ericadams99.bsky.social & Stanger-Ross is an extraordinary, necessary book.
"Neil MacCormick: A Life in Politics, Philosophy, and Law" by (the ever-brilliant) Maks Del Mar @cambridgeup.bsky.social cambridge.org/gb/universit... I have been waiting for this one.
We've assembled a magnificent group of scholars to critically analyze the year's decisions. We’ll have plenary sessions on: Indigenous Governance and the Canadian Constitution, The Constitutional Structure of Criminal Justice, and Reasonableness, Rights, and Review: Administrative Law at the SCC.
Please join @sonialawprof.bsky.social, Benjamin Berger, and myself on April 4 at our 28th Annual Osgoode Constitutional Cases Conference. It's an important time to be thinking about the hopes and the limits of Canadian Constitutional Law. Please share. Hybrid format: www.yorku.ca/osgoode/conc...