{"id":1791,"date":"2019-10-22T10:27:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T14:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2019-10-25T10:29:23","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T14:29:23","slug":"special-event-the-polarization-of-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2019\/10\/22\/special-event-the-polarization-of-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Event:  The Polarization of Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1792\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2019\/10\/The-Polarization-of-Justice-10.29.19-rev-for-blog-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2019\/10\/The-Polarization-of-Justice-10.29.19-rev-for-blog-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/files\/2019\/10\/The-Polarization-of-Justice-10.29.19-rev-for-blog-1-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>During her distinguished public service career,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scc-csc.ca\/judges-juges\/bio-eng.aspx?id=rosalie-silberman-abella\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Justice Abella<\/a>\u00a0spent many years on the Ontario Family Court and Court of Appeal, presided over the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, and served on the Ontario Human Rights Commission.\u00a0 Since her appointment as the youngest and first pregnant person appointed to the judiciary in Canada, she has made ground-breaking contributions, particularly in the areas of labor rights, law reform, and judicial education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During her distinguished public service career,\u00a0Justice Abella\u00a0spent many years on the Ontario Family Court and Court of Appeal, presided over the Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, and served on the Ontario Human Rights Commission.\u00a0 Since her appointment as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/2019\/10\/22\/special-event-the-polarization-of-justice\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4629,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4629"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/internationallegalstudies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}