Today at McGill Law: Tax Justice and Human Rights Research Symposium #TJHR

Today is the first day of the Tax Justice and Human Rights Research Collaboration Symposium, a three-day conversation among students, academic researchers, and tax justice advocates and activists on the topic of tax justice: what is it, how is tax connected to human rights or how could it be, and what research needs to be done to further this emerging field? You can follow the proceedings and make comments on twitter at #TJHR.

Here is the day's lineup:

Day 1: Emerging Scholars Symposium

Wednesday, 18 June

Time	Topic	Location
08:30 – 09:00	Registration & Arrival Tea/Coffee	Atrium
09:00 – 09:30	Welcome Remarks: Daniel Jutras (Dean, McGill Faculty of Law)	Room 316
Panel A	Samuel Singer (Associate, Stikeman Elliott), Moderator	Room 316
09:30 – 10:00	Leyla Ates (PhD candidate, University of Wisconsin and Istanbul Kemerburgaz University), Developing Countries And Globalization of Tax Law Making: Turkısh Tax Law Reforms on Fighting Tax Evasion Steven Dean (Professor, Brooklyn Law School), discussant
10:00 – 10:30	May Hen (Master's candidate, Simon Fraser University), Who runs the Cayman Islands? Field notes on elite tax discourse Lyne Latulippe (Professor, University of Sherbrooke), discussant
10:30 – 10:45	Refreshment Break	Third floor lobby
Panel B	William Stephenson (Editor in Chief, McGill Law Journal), Moderator	Room 316
10:45 – 11:15	Regina Duarte (LLM Candidate, Federal Univ. of Minas Gervais, Brasil),Globalization, Tax Competition and Tax Base Erosion: a Matter of Human Rights Henry Ordower (Professor, Saint Louis Univeristy), discussant
11:15 – 11:45	Martin Hearson (PhD candidate, LSE), Why Do Developing Countries Sign Tax Treaties? Lee Sheppard (Journalist, Tax Analysts), discussant
11:45 – 12:15	Montano Cabezas (LLM Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center),Giving Credit Where it is Due: Rethinking the Corporate Tax Paradigm Kim Brooks (Dean and Weldon Professor of Law at the Schulich School of Law at Dalhouse University), discussant
12:15 – 13:45	Stikeman Chair’s Luncheon featuring a keynote talk by James A. Robb, Stikeman Elliott	Atrium
Panel C	Sas Ansari (Phd Candidate, Osgoode University), Moderator	Room 316
13:45 – 14:15	César Alejandro Ruiz Jiménez (LLM Candidate, Vienna University), Right to Property and Taxation Stephen Cohen (Professor, Georgetown University Law Center), discussant
14:15 – 14:45	Juan Agustin Argibay Molina (LLM Graduate, McGill), Trade Mispricing in Argentina: A Case Study Neil Buchanan (Professor, George Washington University Law School), discussant
15:45 – 15:15	Daisy Ogembo (Assistant Lecturer, Strathmore Law School, Nairobi), VAT Refunds and Tax Justice Andre Moreira (Associate Professor of Tax Law, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil), discussant
15:15 – 15:30	Refreshment Break	Third floor lobby
Panel D	Sarah Blumel (Independent), Moderator	Room 316
15:30 – 17:00	Incubator Session: Designing a Research Project, Methodology & Collaboration, and Publishing Adrienne Margolis (Founder and Editor, Lawyers 4 Better Business);Krishen Mehta (Senior Advisor, Tax Justice Network); Gabriel Monette(Réseau Justice Fiscale); and Shirley Pouget (Senior Program Lawyer, International Bar Association Human Rights Institute)
17:00 – 19:00	Cocktail reception	Atrium
19:00 – 20:30	Roundtable on Tax Justice and Human Rights: Open to the Public Allison Christians (Stikeman Chair in Tax, McGill Faculty of Law), Moderator Featuring Alex Himelfarb (Director, School of Public and International Affairs, York University); Kate Donald (Adviser to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights); Attiya Waris (Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Nairobi); and Denise Byrnes(Executive Director, Oxfam Québec)