Date: Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022
Time: 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
10:00 a.m. - Coffee and Reception
10:30 a.m. - Lecture
11:30 a.m. - Q&A
Delivery: In-person with Livestream
Location: Bennett Jones Lecture Theatre, Murray Fraser Hall 2370, UCalgary main campus
Athletics is synonymous with endurance, strength and determination. In recent years, athletes have harnessed these same traits to fight for the right to compete not on a track or in a ring, but in an altogether different arena - the courtroom.
Join us as alumna Wilma Shim explores human rights issues and their impact on sport. Should sport governing bodies mandate drug use to lower one’s natural producing testosterone to compete? Can a sport governing body refuse to consider pregnancy when awarding placement spots? Can sport governing bodies prevent transgendered athletes from competing? These questions, along with a background of sport governance and the Court system, will be explored. Cases that will be discussed further include Caster Semenya and Mandy Bujold’s cases before the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
Complimentary parking available.
Co-hosted by Saturday Morning at the Law School, a program sponsored by the Alberta Law Foundation, and the Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre.