Legal Studies Spring Seminar — St. Jerome’s

The University of Waterloo and St. Jerome’s University are holding their Spring 2026 Legal Studies Seminar today, with law professor Elaine Craig speaking on sexual violence in platform-driven online economies. (uwaterloo.ca) The seminar is scheduled for Thursday, April 23, 2026, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. The Daily Bulletin says the event is open to members of the campus community and is hosted by Sociology and Legal Studies together with St. Jerome’s University. (uwaterloo.ca) St. Jerome’s event listing names Craig’s talk as “Law, technology, and the Platformization of Sex: Sexual Violence in a Data Driven Era.” The posting says her talk examines how the business model for mainstream pornography has changed. (uwaterloo.ca) The event sits inside a joint seminar series that St. Jerome’s describes as biannual and focused on legal studies scholarship. That format puts this talk inside a continuing campus program rather than a one-off guest lecture. (uwaterloo.ca) Legal studies at Waterloo is the study of how law shapes business, government, the environment, and everyday relations between people. Sociology and Legal Studies says the department brings together sociologists and socio-legal scholars in one unit. (uwaterloo.ca) At St. Jerome’s, Sociology and Legal Studies offers four-year general and honours Legal Studies degrees as well as a Legal Studies minor. The department page says those programs are part of the 2025-2026 academic year offerings. (uwaterloo.ca) St. Jerome’s is a federated university within the University of Waterloo, and its website says students can take classes at either institution. The school also says more than half of its first- and second-year courses enroll fewer than 30 students. (uwaterloo.ca) Today’s seminar keeps that shared Waterloo–St. Jerome’s structure in view: one hour, one speaker, and one campus-wide invitation centered on how law responds to technology-mediated harm. (uwaterloo.ca)