Lunch and Learn returns with special guest Robin F. Hansen in conversation with the Prince George's County Office of Human Rights and the Prince George's County Memorial Library System discu ssing her book\, "Prison Born: Incarceration and Motherhood in the Colonia l Shadow."
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About the Book: \;
\nA scathing critiqu e of the colonial legal system's denial of children's rights
\nOne a fternoon in 2016\, law professor Robin Hansen receives a call. On the othe r end of the line is "Jacquie"--a pregnant Indigenous woman\, nine weeks f rom her due date and terrified for the welfare of her unborn son. Jacquie has been sentenced to a custodial prison sentence and her son will be auto matically separated from her immediately after his birth.
\nAs Hanse n works to help Jacquie with her appeal\, she uncovers the legal system's inherent discrimination against mothers in custody and the children born t o them. Using Access to Information requests along with extensive research \, Hansen examines the legal rights of these women--the majority of whom a re Indigenous--and finds that Jacquie and her son are by no means alone: a utomatic mother-infant separation without due process remains the norm in most jurisdictions in Canada.
\nPrison Born calls attention to the c olonial and gendered assumptions that continue to underpin the legal syste m--assumptions that so frequently lead to the violation of the rights and denial of personhood for children and their mothers.
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Robin F. Hansen is an Associate Professor at the Col lege of Law\, University of Saskatchewan\, Canada\, where she teaches inte rnational law and human rights law. She is the author of Prison Born: Inca rceration and Motherhood in the Colonial Shadow\, (University of Regina Pr ess\, 2024) which examines the rights of newborn children not to be automa tically separated from their mothers by the state without due process. She primarily researches how legal personhood is constructed within legal sys tems\, and how this construction frames accountability. Her examination of legal personhood has led Professor Hansen to study systemic biases in law . Professor Hansen is interested in interdisciplinary scholarship\, includ ing analysis from systems theory and international political economy. Her work has been published in journals including the Modern Law Review\, Glob al Jurist\, and the Journal of Legal Education. \;
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