Sheldon Gordon / en Meet Gillian Hadfield: 福利姬自慰homecoming for renowned law professor and advocate for legal reform and redesign /news/meet-gillian-hadfield-u-t-homecoming-renowned-law-professor-and-advocate-legal-reform-and <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Meet Gillian Hadfield: 福利姬自慰homecoming for renowned law professor and advocate for legal reform and redesign</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2018-08-14-Gillian%20Hadfield-resized2.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=puttitBc 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2018-08-14-Gillian%20Hadfield-resized2.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=HKZ8NF2V 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2018-08-14-Gillian%20Hadfield-resized2.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=8vLOdbgs 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2018-08-14-Gillian%20Hadfield-resized2.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=puttitBc" alt="Photo of Gillian Hadfield"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>noreen.rasbach</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2018-08-15T00:00:00-04:00" title="Wednesday, August 15, 2018 - 00:00" class="datetime">Wed, 08/15/2018 - 00:00</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Gillian Hadfield, who is rejoining the Faculty of Law, is cross-appointed to the Rotman School of Management and will also serve as a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/sheldon-gordon" hreflang="en">Sheldon Gordon</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/global-lens" hreflang="en">Global Lens</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/artificial-intelligence" hreflang="en">Artificial Intelligence</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/faculty-law" hreflang="en">Faculty of Law</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/global" hreflang="en">Global</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/rotman-school-management" hreflang="en">Rotman School of Management</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/technology" hreflang="en">Technology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/vector-institute" hreflang="en">Vector Institute</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><strong>Gillian Hadfield</strong>, a leading scholar and advocate for legal reform and redesign, is the latest pioneering academic to be drawn by Toronto鈥檚 growing reputation as an advanced technology hub.</p> <p>A native of Oakville, Ont.,&nbsp;she rejoins the University of Toronto Faculty of Law after 17 years on faculty at the University of Southern California. She taught at 福利姬自慰from 1995-2001.</p> <p>Her research examines how to make law more accessible, effective, and capable of fulfilling its role in delivering the Fourth Industrial Revolution. 鈥淥ur legal infrastructure is no longer well-adapted to meeting the challenges of technology and globalization,鈥 says Hadfield.</p> <p>As well as her research interests in legal design to better address the challenges of globalization and digitization, Hadfield also brings experience from the World Economic Forum鈥檚 Future Council on Agile Governance. She is also a senior policy adviser to OpenAI, a non-profit AI research company based in San Francisco</p> <p>In the fall semester, Hadfield will offer a reading course built around her book, <em>Rules for a Flat World: Why Humans Invented Law and How to Reinvent it for a Complex Global Economy</em> (OUP 2017).</p> <p>The course serves as prerequisite for the Legal Design Lab, a centre of innovation that is one of the first of its kind for law students in Canada. She will teach that course in the spring semester with her husband, <strong>Dan Ryan</strong> of the Faculty of Information.&nbsp;</p> <p><iframe allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0sPqc3V8H_k" width="750"></iframe></p> <p>The lab encourages students to work in teams and develop a proposal for an app, company or service that addresses a problem in our legal system. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a great opportunity to think creatively and come up with real-world legal solutions,鈥 says Hadfield, who developed the course while visiting at Harvard Law School in 2012 and has been teaching a version of the Legal Design Lab at USC since then.&nbsp;</p> <p>鈥淚鈥檓 excited to be building on an already vibrant legal tech community in Toronto and adding to the growing course offerings available to law students across the country who are interested in building a more innovative legal future.鈥</p> <p>Last year, her students in California developed apps to track compliance with parole conditions and an online service to substitute&nbsp;mock juries and in-person legal focus groups. Hadfield also challenged participants in the inaugural Global Legal Hackathon to solve 10 鈥減roblems worth solving,鈥 dubbed the Hadfield Challenges.</p> <p>鈥淗ow do we adapt our legal and regulatory environments to AI?鈥 asks Hadfield. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 a social science and policy question but it鈥檚 also an engineering question. How do we build artificially intelligent agents and systems that can learn what the rules are?鈥</p> <p>Hadfield will also consider these issues as a faculty affiliate at the Vector Institute for Artificial Intelligence.</p> <p>In addition, Hadfield will teach a first-year law course on contracts. At the Rotman School of Management, where she is cross-appointed as a professor of strategic management, she will teach a class on responsible development and governance of artificial intelligence.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 15 Aug 2018 04:00:00 +0000 noreen.rasbach 140708 at Meet 福利姬自慰Mississauga鈥檚 Indigenous Elder-in-Residence /news/meet-u-t-mississauga-s-indigenous-elder-residence <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Meet 福利姬自慰Mississauga鈥檚 Indigenous Elder-in-Residence</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-04-05-cat-criger.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=TtA2fQg0 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2017-04-05-cat-criger.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=5rIbKXxa 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2017-04-05-cat-criger.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=RM6gEsiA 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2017-04-05-cat-criger.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=TtA2fQg0" alt> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>ullahnor</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2017-04-05T15:37:25-04:00" title="Wednesday, April 5, 2017 - 15:37" class="datetime">Wed, 04/05/2017 - 15:37</time> </span> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/sheldon-gordon" hreflang="en">Sheldon Gordon</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Sheldon Gordon</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/indigenous" hreflang="en">Indigenous</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/utm" hreflang="en">UTM</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/undergraduate-education" hreflang="en">Undergraduate Education</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Conducting teaching circles is a major part of <strong>Cat Criger</strong>'s role as Traditional Indigenous Aboriginal Elder at 福利姬自慰Mississauga.</p> <p>As an Indigenous Elder, his&nbsp;role&nbsp;includes performing traditional ceremonies, guiding the community, healing, counselling and advocacy. He draws upon the Indigenous tradition of freestyle learning to give students of diverse backgrounds an awareness of the First Nations' belief system. Typically&nbsp;up to 30 students, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, gather for his&nbsp;two-hour seminar 鈥 either indoors or&nbsp;outdoors.</p> <p>鈥淲e discuss traditional cultural teachings, and how they apply to your path in life,鈥 says Criger. 鈥淲e may discuss how a snake sheds its skin in order to get rid of scars and move forward in life, or we may discuss the meaning of a full moon.鈥</p> <p>Criger, 61, was born in St. Catharines, Ont., to a Cayuga Six Nations father and a German-English mother.</p> <p>鈥淚 have mixed DNA, which allows me to connect with many cultures,鈥 he says. &nbsp;</p> <p>His father served in the Canadian Armed Forces, and the family was posted to West Germany during much of Criger's childhood. They also travelled throughout central Europe and the UK.</p> <p>Once back in Canada, the family moved from military base to military base. &nbsp;While they were stationed in Manitoba, Criger recalls being beaten by his public school teacher for having greeted him one day in Cree. But, his father taught him to stand up for himself and take pride in his heritage.</p> <p>After graduating from high school in Petawawa, Ont., Criger attended community college in Toronto in the late 1970s, studying digital communications. He then worked for Litton Industries, a U.S.-owned defence contractor, specializing in missile technology.</p> <p>鈥淚t was rocket science,鈥 he says. 鈥淚t was an unusual background for an Indigenous kid.鈥</p> <p>Criger also worked for a time in Formula One motorcycle racing, test driving Grand Prix-category machines.</p> <p>By the early 1990s, recalls Criger, 鈥渁ttitudes in Canada towards Indigenous people had changed, and it was cool to be native. I needed to know more about my culture.鈥</p> <p>He quit his day job and apprenticed with an Ojibwe&nbsp;Elder. &nbsp;They travelled widely together and spent time with elders of other tribes. &nbsp;Usually, elders are trained within their own tribe, but Criger had the benefit of an inter-cultural experience. At age 40, he received his spirit name&nbsp;<em>Makwa Giizhigad</em>&nbsp;or Sun Bear&nbsp;in a ceremony performed by an Ojibwe&nbsp;Elder from Minnesota.&nbsp;</p> <p>In 2002, Criger accompanied a friend to an Indigenous studies class at the University of Toronto. &nbsp;Afterwards,&nbsp;the professor invited him to give a guest lecture. That's how his association with 福利姬自慰began.</p> <p>He became an Elder-in-Residence and sits on U of T's Council for Aboriginal Initiatives.</p> <p>Criger now spends four days a week at 福利姬自慰Mississauga. He estimates the campus has 20 to 30 Indigenous students. Some don't self-identify, he says, because 鈥渢hey're shy to be singled out as the 'token Indian' in the class.鈥</p> <p>He and <strong>Ken Derry</strong>, associate professor, teaching stream of religious studies,&nbsp;co-chair a task force on supporting the Indigenous experience at 福利姬自慰Mississauga. They are hoping to expand the campus'&nbsp;Indigenous Centre, encouraging more interaction between Indigenous&nbsp;and non-Indigenous students.</p> <p>鈥淚t's a relationship-building concept,鈥 says Criger.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 19:37:25 +0000 ullahnor 106531 at