2025 Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture with Kim Murray

The Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture was established in memory of the late Morris A. Gross by the law firm Minden Gross LLP and by members of his family, friends and professional associates. The intention of the lectureship is to, every two years, bring to the Faculty of Law a distinguished scholar or a member of the bar or bench for discussion with the student body and Faculty, and to deliver the biennial Morris A.Gross Memorial Lecture.
The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is pleased to convene this special lecture.
This year, Kimberly Murray will present the special lecture on Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 5pm.
Murray was most recently the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools until December 2024 and is now an Associate Professor, Queen's National Scholar in Indigenous Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, Queen's University.
Crimes Against Humanity and Indian Residential Schools in Canada
Abstract: The buildings, burials grounds, and cemeteries on the sites of former Indian Residential Schools are etched deeply in Survivors’ memories. Once places of silence and suffering, they are now sites of truth. Once places of brutal violence and genocide, they are now sites of conscience. Survivors can never forget the memories of trauma and death held in these sites; now Canada, and all Canadians, must do so as well by recognizing that genocide and crimes against humanity were perpetrated on Indigenous Peoples.
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