I am a doctoral student in law at the University of Toronto. I blab professionally about how to do social justice with legal, moral, political, feminist, and queer theory. Think of all the stereotypes of a self-referential academic type and you're thinking of me. See my student profile at https://www.law.utoronto.ca/graduate-programs/sjd-program-doctor-juridical-science/sjd-profile/john-or-jack-enman-beech

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

I learned hippy ways from my sister and my live-in lover learned them from the woods. Let's put aside reciprocal exchange and try out some other norms of giving, and maybe we'll help usher in the Age of Aquarius. Also, I'm afraid of dorms.

Music, Movies, and Books

Random list: Miyazaki; classical: Bach Beethoven Schubert Chopin Liszt Brahms Rachmaninov Debussy Prokofiev Bartok are the big ones for me (I play piano); I've been on a Schubert sonata kick recently; Ursula K LeGuin; Lynn Flewelling; the OED has to be my favourite "book"; Keeping up Appearances; Monty Python and Python-derivative sketch shows; tNG; Joni Mitchell; Rumpole; Susanna Clarke; this list is a little artificial without any legal theory on it...; Mariah Bamford; CABARET; Hedwig; Ella Fitzgerald; Duke Ellington; Oscar Peterson; Nina Simone and the Piano. More John Adams than Philip Glass and more Lou Reed than either. BOARD GAMES: some I like are Castles of Burgundy, Ticket to Ride, Small World, and Troyes. I have many board games and I like video games too. Can still beat all my niecephews at Smash Bros.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I once convinced a room full of people of the justness of something.

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, South Korea