VIRTUAL EVENTS

The Department of Philosophy is pleased to announce our first speaker of the series this year.

Dr. Amar Khoday, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

Every Moment Counts: The Legal Value of Time in Canadian Criminal Law

Abstract:

Time is an ever-present entity in our lives. So much so that we can frequently overlook the myriad (and often significant) roles it plays in shaping and governing our daily existences – both individually and at the societal level. Time, and the boundaries it imposes, carries some value in the political, economic, cultural and legal lives of any country and its inhabitants. Drawing on the innovative work of Elizabeth Cohen which seeks to foreground the political value of time in liberal democracies, the presentation will demonstrate that time also possesses, noticeably, a legal value and significance. There is perhaps no area of law that time does not touch or is not implicated. The presentation will focus specific attention on some of the ways in which the legal value of time is manifested in Canadian criminal law. In the context of criminal justice, time plays crucial functions in legal systems that range from the definitions of various criminal offences and defences, legal processes including sentencing, to the scope of constitutional rights and common law rules governing the admissibility of evidence procured by law enforcement officials.