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SUMMARY:Information Session for UTLaw students wishing to work at the Asper Centre
DESCRIPTION:For University of Toronto Faculty of Law 1L and 2L JD Candidates ONLY \nOn Monday November 12\, 2018 at 12:30pm in J140\, the Asper Centre will take part in an Information Session about the Faculty’s hiring process. \nThis will be an opportunity for students to learn about the work positions available at the Asper Centre\, amongst other organizations. \nStudents will also hear about the application\, and interview process\, which takes place in the winter term. \nKindly RSVP for this program via UTLC\, as space is limited.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/information-session-for-law-students-wishing-to-work-at-the-asper-centre/
LOCATION:J140 Jackman Law Building\, 78 Queen's Park Cres\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre's 10th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:View the event photo gallery\nRead our “Celebrating 10 Years” Magazine\nRead the Asper Centre’s 2017 – 2018 annual report\nWatch the video of the event on YouTube\nIt’s been a full decade since the Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights opened its doors! \nTo celebrate 10 years of dedicated advocacy\, education and research\, former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas Cromwell will moderate a conversation between Mary Eberts and Joseph Arvay\, two of our former Constitutional Litigators-in-Residence \non October 17\, 2018 at 5:00pm \nReception to follow \nThe Honourable Thomas Albert Cromwell\, C.C. received law degrees from Queen’s and Oxford\, practised law in Kingston and Toronto and taught law at Dalhousie University. During his time at Dalhousie\, he was active as a labour arbitrator and served as Vice-chair of the Nova Scotia Labour Relations Board. After serving as Executive Legal Officer to the Chief Justice Canada from 1992 – 1995\, he was appointed a judge of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal in 1997\, serving there until his appointment as a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada in 2008. Mr. Cromwell was the first recipient of the Canadian Bar Association’s Louis St. Laurent Award of Excellence and is an honorary fellow of Exeter College\, Oxford and of the American College of Trial Lawyers. A holder of four honorary doctorates in law\, he has also had an award established in his name at the Queen’s Faculty of Law\, The Honourable Thomas Cromwell Award for Public Service. He is the chair of the Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters\, a director of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice and of Access Pro Bono British Columbia. He retired from the Supreme Court of Canada on September 1st\, 2016. A member of the Bars of Nova Scotia\, Ontario and British Columbia\, he now serves as senior counsel with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Ottawa and Vancouver. He is a recipient of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice’s Justice Medal and of the Medal of the International Society for the Reform of Criminal Law. In 2017\, was named a Companion of the Order of Canada for his “illustrious service as a Supreme Court justice\, and for his leadership in improving access to justice for all Canadians.” In 2018\, he was named by the Canadian Lawyer Magazine as of one Canada’s most influential lawyers. \n \nMary Eberts received her legal education at Western and the Harvard Law School\, and is a member of the Bar of Ontario. She joined a Bay St. law firm after several years of teaching at the Faculty of Law\, University of Toronto\, and was a partner at that firm until opening a small firm specializing in Charter and public law litigation. From this base in Toronto\, she has appeared as counsel to parties and interveners in the Supreme Court of Canada\, Courts of Appeal and Superior Courts in Ontario and other provinces\, the Federal Court and Court of Appeal\, and before administrative tribunals and inquests in Ontario and other provinces. She was active in securing the present language of section 15 of the Charter\, and was one of the founders of the Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF). Since 1991\, she has been litigation counsel to the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC). Mary held the Gordon Henderson Chair in Human Rights at the University of Ottawa in 2004-2005 and the Ariel Sallows Chair in Human Rights at the College of Law\, University of Saskachewan in 2011 and 2012\, where she taught courses in test case litigation. Mary was the Constitutional Litigator in Residence in 2014-15 and a McMurty Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2015-16. Recognition of her work includes the Law Society Medal\, the Governor-General’s Award in Honour of the Persons’ Case\, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and several honourary degrees. In 2017\, Mary was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. She is currently a Senior Fellow at Massey College\, University of Toronto. \nJoseph Arvay\, who co-founded the firm of Arvay Finlay Barristers in 1990 with offices in Vancouver and Victoria\, is recognized as one of this country’s most highly respected lawyers. His practice emphasizes constitutional and administrative law matters\, as well as Indigenous rights litigation.. He has been counsel in scores of important Supreme Court of Canada cases. His exceptional commitment to human rights in this country has been recognized with numerous awards and tributes. He was awarded honourary doctorates of law from both York University and the University of Victoria. In 2017 he was named an Officer of the Order of Canada as well as a Member of the Order of British Columbia. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/10th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Jackman Law Building\, Faculty of Law\, University of Toronto\, 78 Queens Park
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180926T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180926T140000
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SUMMARY:Your Right to Know: an Access to Information Workshop for Legal Research and Advocacy
DESCRIPTION:Your Right to Know: an Access to Information Workshop for Legal Research and Advocacy\nEvery Canadian has the right to request information from federal\, provincial/territorial and municipal governments.  Access to information from our government underpins society’s most important democratic ideals\, including government accountability\, freedom of expression and press freedom.  Many organizations even characterize access to information as a fundamental human right. \nWe are convening a lunchtime panel on September 26th 2018 at 12:30 – 2:00 in J140 focused on the use of ATI (Access to Information) and FOI (Freedom of Information) requests. \nThis moderated panel will focus on the importance and uses of ATI and FOI requests\, best practices for filing ATI requests\, and limitations/challenges with the ATI regime in Canada.  A Q & A period will follow the panel. Panel members will include: \nDara Lambie\, Legal Counsel for the Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner/Ontario \nAlex Luscombe\, PhD student in the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto and a Junior Fellow at Massey College\, works to advance the use of FOI requests as a method of data production in the social sciences. With Prof Kevin Walby\, he has written about FOI and theory\, FOI and standards of validity/reliability\, FOI and comparative research\, and FOI and research ethics. \nMichael Power\, Toronto Lawyer and Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School\, author of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada\, Access to Information and Privacy and Sailing in Dangerous Waters: A Director’s Guide to Data Governance. \nA light lunch will be provided. No Registration Required.  \nPlease note: A longer “hands-on” session will be held later in the year\, where law students\, faculty members and other scholars can bring their draft access to information requests or research questions for assistance. Date TBD. \nEmail tal.schreier@utoronto.ca for further information
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/your-right-to-know-an-access-to-information-workshop-for-legal-research-and-advocacy/
LOCATION:J140 Jackman Law Building\, 78 Queen's Park Cres\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Above the Law? The proposed Better Local Government Act constitutional challenge and Premier Ford's use of the Notwithstanding Clause
DESCRIPTION:See EVENT POSTER here. \nOn September 10\, 2018 Superior Court Justice Edward Belobaba ruled that Premier Doug Ford’s Bill 5 – the so-called Better Local Government Act – to reduce Toronto’s city council from 47 wards to 25\, breached s. 2(b) of the Charter and was therefore unconstitutional. Shortly thereafter Premier Ford announced that not only was his government going to appeal the court’s decision\, but he was going to invoke the Constitution’s “notwithstanding clause” for the first time in Ontario’s history to override the judge’s decision. The revised Bill has been introduced in the legislature with debates lasting into the late night; while a stay application\, pending the appeal of the court decision\, has been scheduled for Tuesday\, September 18th.  \nThe David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is convening a moderated panel discussion in order to unpack the various legal issues involved in this unprecedented case. Panel members will include two of our faculty’s Constitutional Law Professors Lorraine Weinrib and Yasmin Dawood\, and litigator Steven Barrett of Goldblatt Partners LLP. \nPlease join us on Thursday September 20\, 2018 at 4:30pm-6:00pm in J250 Jackman Law Building\, for this timely event.\nEmail tal.schreier@utoronto.ca for information. \nNo Registration Required.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/above-the-law-the-proposed-better-local-government-act-constitutional-challenge-and-premier-fords-use-of-the-notwithstanding-clause/
LOCATION:J250 Jackman Law Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180914T120000
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SUMMARY:Application Deadline for Work-Study Position
DESCRIPTION:Work-Study Position with Asper Centre \nThe Asper Centre is looking for a student to provide research\, writing and technical support for the Centre’s website and social media (Facebook and Twitter). The position involves some research and drafting for content to be uploaded to the Centre’s website related to Canadian constitutional law and the activities of the Centre (primarily case summaries). Some support for Asper Centre events will also be expected. Training will be provided in respect to the website; therefore\, in-depth knowledge of website development\, maintenance and design\, although helpful\, is not required.  Apply by September 14th 2018 at 12:00 p.m. through the University’s Career Centre page: http://cln.utoronto.ca (Job No. 125724).
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/application-deadline-for-work-study-position/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180911T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180911T140000
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre and IHRP Student Working Group Information Session
DESCRIPTION:JD students in all years can volunteer with one of the Asper Centre student working groups\, that are led by upper year students. Working groups prepare policy briefs\, organize workshops\, and conduct research on emerging constitutional issues. \nThis year\, there are three Asper Centre student working groups: \n\nThe Refugee and Immigration Law working group\nThe Indigenous Rights working group\nPolice Oversight working group\n\nThere are also four student working groups with the International Human Rights Program: \n\nMapping Global Health Rights\nSexual Orientation and Gender Identity Country-Conditions Reports\nMaking Women’s Human Rights Resources Accessible Globally\nDigital Verification Corps\n\nFind out more about these working groups at the information session on September 11\, 2018 at 12:30PM in J250 in the Jackman law building. \nTo be eligible to sign up for one of the above working groups\, you must attend this important info session. \nBring your own lunch!
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centre-and-ihrp-student-working-group-information-session/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180816
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SUMMARY:Deadline for Submission of Proposal for Asper Centre 2018-2019 Student Working Group
DESCRIPTION:U of T law students can become involved in the Asper Centre’s work through volunteering with one of our Working Groups. \nFor information on how to apply to lead a Working Group read the Proposal Requirements below. \nIf you would like to apply but need some ideas\, contact Cheryl Milne or Tal Schreier by email. \nThis year\, in addition to Working Group ideas developed by students\, the Asper Centre invites and welcomes proposals from students who would be interested in leading a children’s rights working group\, or a social media working group that would assist the Asper Centre in developing web-based and social media based material focused on constitutional issues. \nCall for proposals for 2018/19 Asper Centre Working Groups 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/deadline-for-submission-of-proposal-for-asper-centre-2018-2019-student-working-group/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180629T100000
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre Clinical Course Application Due Date
DESCRIPTION:Applications for next year’s (Fall 2018)\nAsper Centre Clinical Legal Education Course\n are due on Friday June 29\, 2018 at 10am.\nThe Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is devoted to advocacy\, research and education in the area of constitutional rights in Canada. Its cornerstone is a legal clinic bringing together students\, faculty and members of the bar to work on significant constitutional cases. Appellate level cases that invoke the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in innovative ways to promote social justice will be selected. It is expected that students will have the opportunity to work alongside practitioners and faculty in developing written and oral arguments\, for academic credit. Daily casework could include case theory formulation\, constitutional legal research\, appellate brief and factum writing and attendance at oral argument. Projects may also include policy advocacy and research along with public legal education. \nSubstantive and procedural issues arising in advocating for constitutional rights will be explored through seminars and experiential learning. You will be exposed to skills-building seminars and case work and explore some of the legal\, procedural\, strategic\, ethical and theoretical dimensions of issues that arise in cases and other forms of legal advocacy. The program challenges students to examine issues in significant constitutional cases and advocacy initiatives in a critical way\, while at the same time allowing them to develop the professional and ethical literacy which is essential to the practice of law. Through their clinical work\, written reflections\, and weekly seminars\, students will test relationships between constitutional principles and the practical realities of the advocacy process\, and develop a conceptual and empirical understanding of constitutional lawyering. \nThe clinic will meet once a week for 3 hours. Part of each session will be organized as a seminar\, which will focus on substantive issues in constitutional advocacy (eg. constitutional jurisdiction of various courts and tribunals; substantive basis for claims; roles of the various parties in Charter litigation; effective advocacy strategies) or on skills building (eg. research\, drafting of pleadings\, effective brief writing\, analysis of legislation). Part of each session will be organized as discussions of the issues raised by the students casework and the issues involved in constitutional advocacy. Casework may include formulating case theories and advocacy strategies\, legal research\, drafting of briefs\, facta or reports\, or attending hearings. \nExamples of past projects include: \n  \n\nResearch and meetings with an advocacy organization on an election rights test case;\nLitigation support (research and legal drafting) for the Centre’s Supreme Court interventions;\nResearch memorandum exploring advocacy alternatives for redress of rights infringements arising in situations such as the conditions in federal prison and the detention of refugee claimants.\n\n  \nEmail cheryl.milne@utoronto.ca if you have any questions. \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centre-clinical-course-application-due-date/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180307T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180307T140000
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre Immigration & Refugee Law student working group presents Senator Ratna Omidvar
DESCRIPTION:The Asper Centre’s Immigration & Refugee Law Student Working Group is honoured to host Senator Ratna Omidvar for a lunchtime seminar on Wednesday March 7\, 2018 at 12h30. All students are welcome and encouraged to attend. Senator Omidvar will share her personal story of coming to Canada from India\, and she will discuss issues related to inclusion and diversity in Canada\, immigration and refugee law and policy\, the Charter and progressive law reform. She will then take questions from the audience. This will be a great opportunity to get some insight from her inspiring career. \nLight lunch will be provided \nEmail tal.schreier@utoronto.ca for further information. \nAbout Senator Omidvar: \n \nThe Honourable Ratna Omidvar\, C.M.\, O.Ont.\nSenator for Ontario\, The Senate of Canada \nRatna Omidvar is an internationally recognized voice on migration\, diversity and inclusion. In April 2016\, Prime Minister Trudeau appointed Ms. Omidvar to the Senate of Canada as an independent Senator representing Ontario. As a member of the Senate’s Independent Senators Group she holds a leadership position as the Scroll Manager. \nSenator Omidvar is the founding Executive Director and currently a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Global Diversity Exchange (GDX)\, Ted Rogers School of Management\, Ryerson University. GDX is a think-and-do tank on diversity\, migration and inclusion that connects local experience and ideas with global networks. Previously\, Senator Omidvar was the President of Maytree\, where she played a lead role in local\, national and international efforts to promote the integration of immigrants. \nSenator Omidvar is the current Co-Chair of the Global Future Council on Migration hosted by the World Economic Forum and serves as a Councillor on the World Refugee Council. She is also a director at the Environics Institute\, and Samara Canada. Senator Omidvar is the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council’s Chair Emerita and was formerly the Chair of Lifeline Syria. \nSenator Omidvar is co-author of Flight and Freedom: Stories of Escape to Canada (2015)\, an Open Book Toronto best book of 2015 and one of the Toronto Star‘s top five good reads from Word on the Street. She is also a contributor to The Harper Factor (2016) and co-editor of Five Good Ideas: Practical Strategies for Non-Profit Success (2011). Senator Omidvar received an Honorary Degree\, Doctor of Laws\, York University in 2012. \nSenator Omidvar was appointed to the Order of Ontario in 2005 and became a Member of the Order of Canada in 2011\, with both honours recognizing her advocacy work on behalf of immigrants and devotion to reducing inequality in Canada. In 2014\, she received the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in recognition of her contribution to the advancement of German-Canadian relations.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centre-immigration-refugee-law-student-working-group-presents-senator-ratna-omidvar/
LOCATION:J140 Jackman Law Building\, 78 Queen's Park Cres\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C5\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180302T083000
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SUMMARY:Public Interest Litigation Conference
DESCRIPTION:View CONFERENCE Schedule Here\nThe Asper Centre convened a one-day Conference on March 2\, 2018 focused on legal strategies for successful public interest litigation as a means to bring together relevant stakeholders to share their challenges\, successes and strategies in this field.  The Conference was aimed at both practitioners (lawyers and NGOs) who are engaged in public interest litigation and scholars and students who study and analyze the impact of these cases. \nOver 25 papers in total were presented in 11 concurrent sessions throughout the day. \nList of Participating Authors & Papers\n1. Alexander\, Basil: “Pragmatic Assorted Strategies: How Canadian Cause Lawyering Contributes to Social Change”\n2. Anglin\, Howard: “Public Interest Case Study: R v Comeau”\n3. Bharati\, Subodh and David Coté: “Scotland v Attorney General of Canada Case Study”\n4. Blum\, Joshua: “Ali v Attorney General of Canada Case Study”\n5. Bredt\, Chris & Ewa Krajewska: “Only 5 Minutes? The Supreme Court’s Approach to Interveners Requires Reform”\n6. Bussey\, Barry: “The Law of Intervention after the TWU case”\n7. Chan\, Kathryn & Howard Kislowicz: “Divine Intervention: A study of the operation and impact of NGO interveners in Canadian religious freedom litigation”\n8. Giltrow\, Maegan and Nathan Hume: “The Shadow Intervener: Economics and Public Interest Litigation”\n9. Gold\, Richard and Rachel Meland: “Litigating Patents in the Public Interest”\n10. Grant\, Angus: “Intervener Standing in Immigration and Refugee Cases”\n11. Faraday\, Fay\, Tracy Heffernan & Helen Luu: “Winning the Right to Housing: A Holistic Approach to Public Interest Litigation in Three Voices”\n12. Fenske\, Allison and Joëlle Pastora Sala: “The Wheels of Justice for Vulnerable Individuals: Reflections from the Public Interest Law Centre of Legal Aid Manitoba”\n13. Giorgio\, Barbara: “Attorney General of Canada v Downtown Eastside Sex Workers: Judicially Precipitated Reform for Public Interest Advocacy”\n14. Ha-Redeye\, Omar: “When Public Interest Litigation is used as a Cover for Controversy”\n15. Kennedy\, Gerard and Lorne Sossin: “Justiciability\, Access To Justice and the Development of Constitutional Law In Canada”\n16. Laing\, Christine: “Does Yaiguaje v Chevron Corporation change the security for costs game for public interest litigants?”\n17. Latimer\, Alison: “Examination of a Solitary Confinement Test Case”\n18. Latner\, Gabriel: “The Rights Stuff: Why Canada doesn’t have its own ACLU and how we can build one?”\n19. Levesque\, Anne: “The symbiotic relationship between social movements and public interest litigation: A case study of the I am a Witness Campaign and the human rights complaint of 165 000 First Nations kid”\n20. Davidson\, Gail and Gavin Magrath: “Balancing Act: Practical Lessons for Human Rights Interventions”\n21. Mangat\, Raji: “Here from the beginning: the promise of trial-level intervention”\n22. Paterson\, Josh: “The Carter case – Sustaining the Fight Both Inside and Outside the Courtroom”\n23. Sheldon\, Tess and Helgi Maki: “Trauma–Informed Strategies in Public Interest Litigation”\n24. Sheppard\, Dan: “Just Going Through the Motions: The Supreme Court\, Interest Groups and the Performance of Intervention”\n25. Silcoff\, Maureen: “Party Status in Y.Z. v Canada (Citizenship and Immigration)”\n26. Spector\, Karen: “Legal Strategies for Intervention in Cases Seeking to Advance the Rights of Persons with Mental Health Disabilities”\n27. Vaughan\, Eleanor: “Solicitor Client Privilege in Lizotte v Aviva Insurance Company of Canada and Alberta (Information and Privacy Commissioner) v University of Calgary” \nN.B. Full day attendance at the Conference may qualify for 6.5 Substantive CPD hours.  Kindly also note that we have made an application for accreditation of Professionalism CPD hours with the Law Society of Ontario.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/public-interest-litigation-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180220T120000
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SUMMARY:Applications for 2018 Asper Centre Summer Fellowship Position Due
DESCRIPTION:Applications for Asper Centre Summer Fellowships are due on February 20\, 2018. \nPlease find the 2018 Asper Centre Fellowship Guide here. \nAlso\, current law students can log into the University of Toronto Law Career Network for further information on the application process. \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/applications-for-2018-asper-centre-summer-fellowship-due/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180131T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180131T140000
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable: Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas
DESCRIPTION:Constitutional Roundtable Presents\nAthanasios (Akis) Psygkas\nLecturer in Law\nUniversity of Bristol Law School\non \nWednesday\, January 31\, 2018\n12:30 – 2:00\nSolarium (Room FA2)\, Falconer Hall\n84 Queen’s Park\n“The hydraulics of constitutional claims: Four models of democratic constitutionalism and same-sex marriage“\nWith Professor Brenda Cossman\, Director of the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies as Discussant\n——- \nWho makes constitutional claims? The paper argues that on both sides of the Atlantic a multiplicity of constitutional actors outside the courts participate in the elaboration of constitutional principles. I map out these constitutional actors by using as a case study the legal recognition of same-sex marriage in the United States\, Spain\, the United Kingdom\, and Ireland. In all four country cases\, there are common functional demands for democratic involvement in shaping constitutional meaning. Even though these demands may take various institutional and procedural forms owing to diverse political\, institutional\, and cultural contexts\, I argue that the same overarching hydraulics effect is at play across jurisdictions. When social movements are shut out of one forum\, they channel their constitutional claims through different institutional avenues. \nThe four systems represent distinctive models of formal recognition of same-sex marriage\, with different actors taking the lead and having the final say on this contested issue. However\, I explain that in all four cases we can detect the voices of multiple actors\, including notably the people themselves\, in a process of legal contestation around and interpretation of fundamental constitutional principles. These voices can take different forms\, and the paper proposes institutional\, historical\, political\, and cultural factors that may account for this. Thus\, the paper tells a story of legal development arising from inclusive interpretive communities in the context of a democratic constitutional theory. This facilitates dynamic constitutional interpretation that reflects evolving political and social demands instead of top-down delivery of constitutional meaning. \n———— \nAthanasios (Akis) Psygkas is lecturer in law at the University of Bristol in the UK and currently a visiting scholar at the University of Toronto. His research interests include comparative public law\, regulation\, and global governance. His latest book\, entitled “From the ‘Democratic Deficit’ to a ‘Democratic Surplus’: Constructing Administrative Democracy in Europe” (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, examines the impact of EU law on the adoption of participatory regulatory processes in the member states. \nAkis received J.S.D. and LL.M. degrees from Yale Law School\, where he was a Fulbright scholar\, and an LL.B. and LL.M. in Public Law and Political Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). He has held fellowships at the European University Institute in Florence\, the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) in Paris\, and Yale. He has been managing the Comparative Administrative Law Blog over the past seven years. \n Light Lunch Provided \nFor further details\, please contact tal.schreier@utoronto.ca \n No Registration Required
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-athanasios-akis-psygkas/
LOCATION:Jackman Law Building Room J140\, 78 Queen’s Park
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20180118T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20180118T210000
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SUMMARY:TWU Panel discussion with interveners
DESCRIPTION:On Thursday January 18\, 2018\, Out in Law\, the Journal for Law and Equality\, the Asper Centre and other groups at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law are pleased to present a debrief panel discussion between a number of interveners in the recent Trinity Western University appeals at the Supreme Court of Canada. \nMore information here \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/twu-panel-discussion-with-interveners/
LOCATION:J250 Jackman Law Building
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180104
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20171205T152457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171205T152457Z
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SUMMARY:Call for Papers for Public Interest Litigation Conference - Deadline Extension
DESCRIPTION:We have decided to extend the deadline for our Call for Papers \nThe new deadline for Abstract submissions for our March 2\, 2018 Public Interest Litigation Conference is January 3\, 2018. \nPlease see the extended CALL for PAPERS here. \nMany thanks. \n  \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/call-for-papers-for-public-interest-litigation-conference-deadline-extension/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171201
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20171108T164041Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171108T164234Z
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre Public Interest Litigation Conference: Call for Papers DUE DATE
DESCRIPTION:The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is pleased to invite abstract submissions for our upcoming Public Interest Litigation Conference\, which will be  held on March 2\, 2018.  The Conference will be focused on legal strategies for successful public interest litigation in Canada\, as a means to bring together relevant stakeholders to share their challenges\, successes and strategies in this field. \nPlease find below the call for papers.  We invite proposals for papers in 2 formats: a longer paper covering pertinent issues related to public interest litigation in Canada and a shorter paper focused on lessons learned from a specific public interest case.  We hope that together these streams will generate positive response among both practitioners (lawyers and NGOs) who are engaged in public interest litigation and scholars who study and analyze the impact of these cases. \nAs indicated in the call for papers\, please submit proposals to tal.schreier@utoronto.ca by November 30\, 2017. \nWe look forward to receiving your applications and to hosting you in March! \nSincerely\,\nThe David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights \nPublic Interest Litigation Conference – CALL FOR PAPERS
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/public-interest-litigation-conference-call-for-papers-due-date/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171129T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171129T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170929T151537Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171101T170537Z
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable: Alistair Price
DESCRIPTION:  Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable\npresents\nALISTAIR PRICE\nAssociate Professor in Law\, University of Cape Town\n“The Relationship between Constitutional and Tort Damages for State Failures to Protect in Canada\, England\, and South Africa”\n Moderated by:\nAssistant Professor Richard Stacey\nUniversity of Toronto Faculty of Law\nWednesday\, November 29\, 2017\n12:30 – 2:00\nSolarium (Room FA2)\, Falconer Hall\n84 Queen’s Park\nCanada\, England\, and South Africa face a similar challenge arising from their shared Diceyan heritage in public law. On the one hand\, public bodies and officials in these jurisdictions are bound by the ordinary law of the land applied by ordinary courts\, including the private law of tort. On the other hand\, the state also owes positive obligations to provide a range of services and protections to members of the public that individuals do not bear\, arising from constitutional and administrative law. Where the state breaches its distinctive responsibilities by failing to protect an individual\, who as a result is harmed and seeks recompense\, a question arises as to the proper law to apply. What then is the relationship between the state’s duties and liabilities in tort and constitutional law? The three legal systems under consideration have answered this question in subtly different ways. The English courts have been unwilling to adjust private law to take account of the state’s special duties. In tort law\, public defendants are held to the same standards as private individuals\, who are liable for omissions only exceptionally. State liability for breach of positive duties to protect human rights arises instead under the Human Rights Act 1998\, where courts have a discretion to award compensation alongside declarations and other public-law remedies. South Africa\, by contrast\, has to a large extent fused private law and constitutional law in this context. Novel private law duties and liabilities may be grounded on the need to hold the state accountable for breaching positive constitutional duties. As a result\, the standalone remedy of constitutional damages is comparatively underdeveloped. Canada\, it appears to me\, has avoided both extremes: the courts have developed a narrow range of uniquely public duties of care in tort while also recognising that constitutional damages may be just and appropriate to compensate loss\, vindicate rights\, or deter Charter violations where tort (and other) remedies are insufficient. These varying responses to a shared challenge bring the following issue into sharp focus: to what extent can and should tort law be instrumentalised to serve the social goals of constitutional law? \nAlistair Price is an Associate Professor in the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town (UCT). He received a BBusSc (distinction) and LLB (magna cum laude) from UCT\, a Bachelor of Civil Law (distinction) from University College\, Oxford\, and a PhD from Gonville and Caius College\, Cambridge. His thesis was entitled The Influence of Human Rights on State Negligence Liability in England and South Africa and\, in 2014\, he was awarded a prestigious Yorke Prize by the Cambridge Law Faculty for making ‘a substantial contribution’ to knowledge. Before his appointment at UCT\, he worked as a research clerk for Chief Justice Pius Langa at the Constitutional Court of South Africa and as a research assistant to Professor Reinhard Zimmermann at the Max Planck Institute for Private Law in Hamburg\, and taught tort law for several colleges at Cambridge University. Research interests: the law of obligations (primarily delict/tort); constitutional and administrative law; comparative law. \nA light lunch will be provided. \nFor more information\, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca. \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-alistair-price/
LOCATION:Jackman Law Building Room J140\, 78 Queen’s Park
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171123T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171123T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20171025T202447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171121T153348Z
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SUMMARY:Panel discussion on the Trinity Western University Appeals
DESCRIPTION:On November 30th and December 1st 2017\, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear two appeals involving Trinity Western University (TWU)\, a private Christian university in British Columbia wishing to open a new law school.  The appeals involve legal challenges to decisions by the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario and the impact of a policy that requires TWU students to sign a code of conduct forbidding sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage. Ontario decided to deny the accreditation of TWU law graduates in the future\, while BC approved accreditation. The cases are expected to “break new constitutional ground” around how administrative decision-makers are to balance the competing Charter rights of equality and freedom of religion. \nThe David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights\, Out in Law\, The Journal of Law and Equality and the Dean’s Emerging Issues Workshop Series are delighted to jointly present a panel discussion on November 23\, 2017 at 12h30 to consider and analyse some of the main issues that will be covered in these appeals\, including the administrative law matters\, the balancing of competing rights and the unique circumstances involving the involvement of public interest interveners at the Supreme Court. \n\n\n\n\nPanelists: Professor Richard Stacey (UofT Law)\, Professor Denise Reaume (UofT Law)\, Professor Richard Moon (Windsor Law) and Cheryl Milne (Executive Director of the Asper Centre\, UofT Law). The Panel will be moderated by Maryam Shahid (UofT Law JD Candidate and Co-Editor of the Journal of Law and Equality). \nA pizza lunch will be provided.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/panel-discussion-on-the-trinity-western-university-case/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171020T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171020T160000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170627T135925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180126T153938Z
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable Series presents: Constitutional Law Symposium for Canada's Sesquicentennial
DESCRIPTION:View our Save the Date Poster  \nThe 2017 Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable Series presents a \nConstitutional Law Symposium for Canada’s Sesquicentennial\nThe David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights’ Constitutional Roundtable Series are annual lunchtime discussion forums that provide an opportunity to consider developments in Canadian constitutional theory and practice as well as the emerging field of comparative constitutional law in relation to Canada. This year\, to mark Canada’s 150th anniversary of Confederation\, our Constitutional Roundtable series theme has focused on the development of Canada’s constitutional and human rights from the British North America Act to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and provides an analysis of constitutional litigation throughout Canada’s history. \nOn Friday October 20\, 2017\, the Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable Series was  pleased to present a one-day Constitutional Law Symposium\, for Canada’s Sesquicentennial\, with a special keynote address delivered by Professor John Borrows\, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law\, Nexen Chair in Indigenous Leadership\, University of Victoria. \nFull Symposium Agenda available here. List of Abstracts available here.\nSummaries available for panel 1\, panel 2\, and panel 3.\n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-series-presents-constitutional-law-symposium-dedicated-to-canadas-sesquicentennial/
LOCATION:Jackman Law Building\, Faculty of Law\, University of Toronto 78 Queen’s Park\, Room J140\, 78 Queen's Park\, Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171019T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171019T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20171011T192735Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171011T192735Z
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SUMMARY:Summer Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Asper Centre and IHRP Summer Fellowship Opportunities\nFor current JD students: please attend this information session to learn more about the Asper Centre Summer Fellowship opportunities.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDate: October 19\, 2017\nTime: 12:30-2:00pm\nLocation: J250
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/summer-fellowship-information-session/
LOCATION:J250 Jackman Law Building
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171016T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171016T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20171011T175926Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171016T140923Z
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SUMMARY:Senator Kim Pate: "The Need to Correct Corrections: The Case for Judicial Oversight"
DESCRIPTION:The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is hosting a lunchtime discussion with Senator Kim Pate. \n“The Need to Correct Corrections: The Case for Judicial Oversight“ \n Monday October 16th at 12:30pm in Jackman Law Building J140 \nKim Pate was appointed to the Senate of Canada on November 10\, 2016. First and foremost\, the mother of Michael and Madison\, she is also a nationally renowned advocate who has spent the last 35 years working in and around the legal and penal systems of Canada\, with and on behalf of some of the most marginalized\, victimized\, criminalized and institutionalized — particularly imprisoned youth\, men and women. \nA light lunch will be provided. \nFor more information\, contact tal.schreier@utoronto.ca
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/senator-kim-pate-on-prison-reform/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170927T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170927T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170619T205206Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170629T140219Z
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable: Richard Albert
DESCRIPTION:  \nCONSTITUTIONAL ROUNDTABLE\npresents  \nRichard Albert  \n Professor\, Boston College Law School \nThe Most Powerful Court in the World?\nConstitutional Amendment after the Senate Reform and Supreme Court Act References \nDiscussant:\nAssociate Professor Yasmin Dawood\nCanada Research Chair in Democracy\, Constitutionalism & Electoral Law\nUniversity of Toronto \nWednesday\, September 27\, 2017\n12:30 – 2:00PM\nSolarium (room FA2)\, Falconer Hall\n84 Queen’s Park \nThe Supreme Court of Canada has grown since Confederation from supreme in name alone into the guardian of Canada’s constitutional identity\, joining high courts in Colombia\, India\, Israel\, Germany\, South Africa and the United States in contention for the title of the most powerful court in the world. Over the decades since its creation in 1875\, the Canadian Supreme Court has acquired increasing importance in constitutional law and politics as a result of both constitutional design and the gradual accretion of authority that derives from reasoned judgments\, legislative deference and public support. As the Constitution of Canada marks its sesquicentennial\, the Supreme Court has acquired a new power that will make it the gatekeeper to constitutional reform in the years ahead: the power to rule whether a proposed constitutional amendment is constitutional. \nThe recent Senate Reform and Supreme Court Act References reveal the blueprint for how the Court will exercise this extraordinary power under its reference jurisdiction in future litigation challenging the validity of a proposed constitutional amendment: the Court will determine which of the five procedures in Canada’s amending formula political actors must use to formalize any proposed amendment. The source of the Court’s new power is the doctrine and theory of the Constitution’s “architecture”—the Court’s own innovation whose content and boundaries are determined by the Court alone\, even where the proposed amendment may affect the Court itself. \nRichard Albert is a tenured Associate Professor and Nicholson Scholar at Boston College Law School. His scholarship focuses on constitutional amendment in comparative\, doctrinal\, historical and theoretical perspectives. He is currently writing a book on constitutional amendment\, to be published by Oxford University Press. He is also co-editor of the forthcoming volumes: Canada in the World: Comparative Perspectives on the Canadian Constitution (Cambridge)\, The Foundations and Traditions of Constitutional Amendment (Hart)\, and the Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions (Oxford). A former law clerk to the Chief Justice of Canada\, Richard Albert holds degrees in law and political science from Yale\, Oxford and Harvard. \nA light lunch will be provided. \nFor more information\, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-richard-albert/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170919T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170919T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170823T183453Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T183728Z
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre & IHRP Student Working Group Information Session
DESCRIPTION:JD students in all years can volunteer with one of the Asper Centre student working groups\, that are led by upper year students. Working groups prepare policy briefs\, organize workshops\, and conduct research on emerging constitutional issues. \nThis year\, there are three Asper Centre student working groups: \n\nThe Refugee and Immigration Law working group\nThe Indigenous Rights working group\nPolice Oversight working group\n\nFind out more about these working groups at the Asper Centre & IHRP (International Human Rights Program) Student Working Group Information Session on September 19\, 2017 at 12:30PM in J250 in the Jackman law building.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centre-ihrp-student-working-group-information-session/
LOCATION:J250 Jackman Law Building
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170913
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170914
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170822T181309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170822T181556Z
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SUMMARY:Application Deadline for Asper Centre Work-Study student
DESCRIPTION:The Asper Centre is looking for a student to provide research and technical support for the Centre’s website and social media (Facebook and Twitter). The position involves some research and drafting for content to be uploaded to the Centre’s website related to Canadian constitutional law and the activities of the Centre (primarily case summaries). Training will be provided in respect to website; therefore\, in-depth knowledge of website development\, maintenance and design\, although helpful\, is not required.  Apply by September 13th 2017 at 5:00 p.m. through the University’s Career Centre page: http://cln.utoronto.ca (Job No. 101096).
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/application-deadline-for-asper-centre-work-study-student/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170816
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170525T192850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170802T202414Z
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SUMMARY:Deadline for Submission of Proposal for Asper Centre 2017-2018 Student Working Group
DESCRIPTION:U of T law students can become involved in the Centre’s work through volunteering with one of our Working Groups. \nFor information on how to apply to lead a Working Group read the Proposal Requirements below. \nIf you would like to apply but need some ideas\, contact Cheryl Milne or Tal Schreier by email. \nThis year\, in addition to Working Group ideas developed by students\, the Asper Centre invites and welcomes proposals from students who would be interested in leading a children’s rights working group\, or a social media working group that would assist the Asper Centre in developing web-based and social media based material focused on constitutional issues. \nWorking Group Proposal Requirements
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/deadline-for-submission-of-proposal-for-asper-centre-2017-2018-student-working-group/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170630
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170701
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170512T163909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170721T162704Z
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SUMMARY:Clinical Course Application Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Deadline for U of T Upper Year Law students to apply for the Asper Centre clinical courses for 2017. \nFor more information\, see the course list on the Faculty of Law website HERE.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/clinical-course-application-deadline/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170322T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170322T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170619T205429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T205615Z
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable - Jamie Cameron
DESCRIPTION:CONSTITUTIONAL ROUNDTABLE\npresents \nJamie Cameron\nYork University Osgoode Hall Law School \nSection 7 and the Idea of the Charter \nWednesday\, March 22\, 2017\n12:30 – 2:00\nSolarium (room FA2)\, Falconer Hall\n84 Queen’s Park \nThis presentation/paper looks at the idea of the Charter through a s.7 lens. As such\, it treats s.7 as a metaphor – as the metaphor – for the central methodological\, interpretative\, and institutional challenges of Charter decision-making. Section 7 exemplifies the most difficult questions the Supreme Court of Canada has had to consider and has generated the most provocative jurisprudence among the guarantees. Issues of a methodological\, doctrinal\, and theoretical nature are engaged by s.7 in distinctive ways which nonetheless reflect back on and illustrate Charter themes of general application. \nJamie Cameron is a Professor of Law and has been on the full-time faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School since 1984. She holds law degrees from McGill University and Columbia University\, clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Hon. Justice Brian Dickson\, and was on the faculty at Cornell Law School before joining Osgoode. Her teaching and research interests include constitutional and Charter law\, American constitutional law\, criminal law\, the Charter’s fundamental freedoms\, and s.7’s principles of fundamental justice. In addition to her own scholarship she has organized many conference and events\, was editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal (2006-9)\, and has been the editor and co-editor of a dozen book collections\, including the annual Constitutional Cases volumes\, The Charter’s Impact on the Criminal Justice System\, Reflections on the Legacy of Justice Bertha Wilson\, and The Charter and Criminal Justice: Twenty-Five Years Later. \nA light lunch will be provided. \n For more information\, contact tal.schreier@utoronto.ca
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-jamie-cameron/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170302T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170302T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170619T205706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T205706Z
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre Presents: Careers in Constitutional Law
DESCRIPTION:The Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights presents a lunchtime seminar on \nCareers in Constitutional Law \nAre you a JD Candidate with a passion for promoting Charter rights? \nDo you want to learn about the numerous career paths that exist for students wishing to practice Constitutional Law?  \nMEET and get ADVICE from four lawyers (3 are UTLaw graduates) who are currently working in their field of passion: \nJoseph Cheng—Department of Justice \nNader Hasan—Stockwoods Barristers \nDan Rohde—Income Security Advocacy Centre \nCara Zwibel—Canadian Civil Liberties Association \n A question and answer period will be included. \nDate: 2 March 2017 \nTime: 12:30 to 2:00pm \nLocation: J125 \nJackman Law Building \n\nA light lunch will be served. \nFor more information\, please contact tal.schreier@utoronto.ca
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centre-presents-careers-in-constitutional-law/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170301T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170301T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170619T205826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170712T151336Z
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable - Richard Haigh
DESCRIPTION:ASPER CENTRE CONSTITUTIONAL ROUNDTABLE \npresents \nRichard Haigh\nOsgoode Hall Law School\nYork University \nThe Alberta Press Case \nWednesday\, March 1\, 2017\n12:30 – 2:00\nRoom J-140\, Jackman Law  Building\n78 Queen’s Park \nThis paper/presentation will focus on the Reference re Alberta Statutes case (more colloquially known as the Alberta Press Case). The case is fascinating for a number of reasons. First\, it is one of the earliest signals of the Supreme Court of Canada “finding its feet” and gaining a belief in its own stature and strength. Second\, it is a case well known for a kind of Denning-like pronouncement from Chief Justice Duff (before Denning was even a judge!) on the idea of an implied bill of rights — judicial creativity that some might say was results-driven\, others might say was a brilliantly conceived concept to achieve justice. Third\, it is also a case of a province trying to expand its mandate into areas that could not have been easily imagined\, and the Court using federalism as a sword.  Finally\, it may have been the precursor to many debates about whether Canada should have a formal bill of rights\, and how we could repatriate our Constitution — put differently\, it is a case that foreshadowed much to come in terms of the 1982 amendments. \nRichard Haigh is an Assistant Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School and Director of York’s Centre for Public Policy and Law and Co-Director of the Part-Time LLM in Constitutional Law at Osgoode. He has a doctorate from the University of Toronto in the area of freedom of conscience and religion. He was\, until December 2007\, the Associate Director\, Graduate Program at Osgoode Professional Development. He has been a Senior Lecturer at Deakin University in Melbourne\, Australia\, a Senior Advisor at the National Judicial Institute in Ottawa\, and a Legal Research and Writing Lecturer at Osgoode. His research and teaching interests include Constitutional Law\, Public Law\, and Equity and Trusts. His recent published works include papers on the Supreme Court’s use of metaphor\, division of powers in freedom of expression cases\, freedom of conscience and whistleblowing\, freedom of religion\, dialogue theory\, noise by-laws\, election financing laws and prisoner’s voting rights; he also contributed a chapter to the State and Citizen casebook on Public Law (Emond-Montgomery\, 3rd ed.). \nA light lunch will be provided. \nFor more information\, contact tal.schreier@utoronto.ca
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-richard-haigh/
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170228T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170228T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170619T210021Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200616T195915Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Anver Emon Special Lecture
DESCRIPTION:What’s the fuss about “Islam” and “Muslims” ?  \nThinking in an Age of Information Overload \nSpecial Lecture by Dr. Anver Emon \nProfessor and Canada Research Chair in Religion\, Pluralism\, and the Rule of Law\nUniversity of Toronto Faculty of Law\n \nModerated by Cheryl Milne\, Executive Director Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights \nFrom the Brexit referendum in the UK\, the election of Donald Trump in the US\, and the most recent tragedy at a mosque in Quebec City\, it is hard not to notice that politicians of various stripes have “Islam” and “Muslims” on the brain.  So many want to talk about what “Islam” is or who “Muslims” really are.  In this talk\, we will explore the political work done when “Islam” and “Muslim” are invoked.  Whether as social constructions or literary tropes\, “Islam” and “Muslim” become proxies for something that all of us have a stake in defining\, but must now reclaim as our own.  Professor Emon will offer a framework for filtering the random bits of information that fall from the Twitter-sphere.  Also\, participants are invited to submit in advance a media headline and story that they want to discuss and problematize. \nParticipants are invited to submit in advance a media headline/story that they want to discuss and problematize.    \nNO REGISTRATION REQUIRED * LIGHT LUNCH PROVIDED \n  \nFeb 28\, 2017
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/dr-anver-emon-special-lecture/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170209T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170209T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T124533
CREATED:20170619T210138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170619T210138Z
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable - Hugo Cyr
DESCRIPTION:Hugo Cyr\nDean and Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory\nUniversité du Québec à Montréal\nNormalizing the Exception in Canada\nThursday\, February 9\, 2017\n12:30 – 2:00\nRoom J-140\, Jackman Law Building\n78 Queen’s Park\nExtraordinary measures may sometimes be justified as being necessary to deal with exceptional events. Those measures may become normalized when the taboo against taking them is broken and their initial justifications are detached from their repeated uses. In this article\, I want to highlight the process of normalization of the exception in the Canadian constitutional context. In particular\, I wilI show how a situation of extreme necessity may have pushed the Supreme Court to develop an extraordinary constitutional remedy – the suspension of a judgment of unconstitutionality – and how such remedy was later normalized. In 1985\, the Supreme Court of Canada temporarily suspended the effectiveness of its opinion that all the laws adopted by the Province of Manitoba between 1890 and 1985 were unconstitutional. The Supreme Court\, ironically\, attempted to justify the suspension as being necessary to protect the rule of law. Following that opinion\, the Supreme Court gradually went on to use that suspension mechanism in several different contexts. Now\, detached from its original justification\, this mechanism is used on a purely discretionary basis by judges to suspend the effect of their decisions that certain statutes are unconstitutional. In short\, the possibility for Courts to suspend the effectiveness of the Constitution has been normalized\, despite the fact that Canada\, according to the preamble of the Constitution Act\, 1982\, is supposedly “founded upon principles that recognize (…) the rule of law”. \nHugo Cyr\, LL.B.\, B.C.L. (McGill)\, LL.M. (Yale)\, LL.D. (U. de Montréal)\, is Dean and Professor of Public Law and Legal Theory at the Université du Québec à Montréal and a member of the Québec Bar. He is a member of the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité et la démocratie (CRIDAQ). He has been a Boulton Fellow at McGill University\, a Schell Fellow at Yale Law School\, a law clerk to the Honourable Justice Ian C. Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada\, and a Visiting Researcher at the European Academy of Legal Theory and Visiting Professor at McGill University. He is frequently consulted by governments\, media and private parties for his expertise in constitutional law. \nA light lunch will be provided.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-hugo-cyr/
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