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SUMMARY:Asper Centre Panel on Indigenous Child Welfare & Self-Governance
DESCRIPTION:Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable Presents a Panel on  \nIndigenous Child Welfare & Self-Governance \nwith Prof John Borrows (the Loveland Chair of Indigenous Law\, UofT Law)\, Prof Maggie Blackhawk (NYU Law) & Sara Mainville (JFK Law LLP) \nModerated by Asper Centre ED\, Cheryl Milne \nThursday\, October 31\, 2024 at 12:30pm – 2:00pm (in person or virtual) \nRoom J130\, Jackman Law Building\, Faculty of Law\, University of Toronto \nAll are welcome * Light lunch will be provided * Registration Required \nREGISTER HERE\nBackground \nOver the past few years\, both Canadian and American courts have decided cases that impact Indigenous Nations’ ability to care for Indigenous children. Both countries have histories and present realities of removing Indigenous children from Indigenous homes\, thereby jeopardizing the safety of Indigenous children and undermining Indigenous Nations’ sovereignty and governance. With this context in mind\, the recent Supreme Court of the United States Haaland v Brackeen decision\, and the Supreme Court of Canada Attorney General of Québec\, et al. v. Attorney General of Canada\, et al decisions are of paramount importance to Indigenous sovereignty and safety. Both cases address federal legislation introduced to address the historic and ongoing harms caused by the apprehension of Indigenous children by settler governments. In both countries\, these decisions also demonstrate how child welfare is closely connected to Indigenous assertions of and rights to self-government. \nThe Asper Centre Indigenous Rights Working Group is pleased to present a panel event to unpack the significant legal issues and potential future implications of these cases\, with a focus on the Quebec Reference case and its meaning for the interpretation of Section 35 of the Constitution and Indigenous self-governance. \nPanelists \nMaggie Blackhawk (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe) is professor of law at NYU and a prize-winning scholar and teacher of federal Indian law\, constitutional law\, and legislation. Blackhawk was awarded the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize and her research has been published or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review\, Stanford Law Review\, Yale Law Journal\, Supreme Court Review\, American Historical Review\, Legislative Studies Quarterly\, Journal of the Early Republic\, and Journal of Politics. Much of her scholarship explores the relationship between law and power\, with a particular emphasis on the ways that subordinated peoples leverage law to shift power to their communities—especially outside of rights and courts-based frameworks. Her recent projects have focused on the laws and legal histories of American colonialism and the central role of the American colonial project\, including the resistance and advocacy of Native and other colonized peoples\, in shaping the constitutional law and history of the United States. \nSara Mainville is a partner at JFK Law LLP and has been a member of the Ontario bar since 2005 and she is a member of the BC bar (2022) with specific matter approvals to practice in Nunavut and Quebec. Sara has a Management/Public Administration degree (Lethbridge) and a Bachelor of Laws from Queen’s University. She has a LLM from the University of Toronto and an Advanced Negotiations certificate from Harvard University\, and a Certificate in Entertainment Law (Osgoode PD). In 2014\, Sara was elected as Chief of Couchiching First Nation after the sudden death of her friend and mentor\, Chief Chuck McPherson. Sara uses this experience as a former Chief to help leadership work past difficult issues\, within Indigenous forms of dispute resolution\, and walk the community through processes to encourage discourse and grassroots solutions to long-held problems. Sara has completed Advanced Negotiations training at Harvard University and dispute resolution\, legislative drafting\, and mediation training at professional institutes in order to advance her clients’ long held goals for self-determination and truer treaty partnerships in Canada. Sara is generally seen as a subject-matter expert about Crown-Indigenous relations\, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples\, Treaty 3\, and Anishinaabe Inakonigewin. However\, Sara sees herself as a life-long learner willing to meet in community\, read voraciously\, and listen intently to better understand Indigenous knowledge systems across Canada. \nJohn Borrows B.A.\, M.A.\, J.D.\, LL.M. (Toronto)\, Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School)\, LL.D. (Hons.\, Dalhousie\, York\, SFU\, Queen’s & Law Society of Ontario)\, D.H.L\, (Toronto)\, F.R.S.C.\, O.C.\, is the Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Toronto Law School. His publications include\, Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Donald Smiley Award best book in Canadian Political Science\, 2002)\, Canada’s Indigenous Constitution (Canadian Law and Society Best Book Award 2011)\, Drawing Out Law: A Spirit’s Guide (2010)\, Freedom and Indigenous Constitutionalism ((Donald Smiley Award best book in Canadian Political Science\, 2016)\, The Right Relationship (with Michael Coyle\, ed.)\, Resurgence and Reconciliation (with Michael Asch\, Jim Tully\, eds.)\, Law’s Indigenous Ethics (2020 Best subsequent Book Award from Native American and Indigenous Studies Association\, 2020 W. Wes Pue Best book award from the Canadian Law and Society Association). He is the 2017 Killam Prize winner in Social Sciences and the 2019 Molson Prize Winner from the Canada Council for the Arts\, the 2020 Governor General’s Innovation Award\, and the 2021 Canadian Bar Association President’s Award winner.  He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2020. John is a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario\, Canada. \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centre-constitutional-roundtable-on-indigenous-child-welfare-self-governance/
LOCATION:J130 Jackman law building\, 78 Queen's Park\, University of Toronto\, Faculty of Law\, Jackman Law Building Atrium\, Toronto\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable with Professor Alison Young
DESCRIPTION:The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights’ Constitutional Roundtables are an annual series of lunchtime discussion forums that provide an opportunity to consider developments in Canadian constitutional theory and practice. The Constitutional Roundtable series promotes scholarship and aims to make a meaningful contribution to intellectual discourse about Canadian and comparative constitutional law. \n \nOn Thursday January 11\, 2024\, the Asper Centre presented a lunchtime Constitutional Roundtable with \nProfessor Alison Young\nThe Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law & Director of Research at the Cambridge University Faculty of Law\, about her new book\, Unchecked Power? How Recent Constitutional Reforms Are Threatening UK Democracy (2023\, Bristol University Press) \nTime: 12:30pm to 2:00pm \nLocation: (Room FA2)\, Falconer Hall 84 Queen’s Park\, Faculty of Law \nAll Are Welcome * No Registration Required * Light Lunch Provided \n  \nAbout the Book \nIs the UK government really acting for the people? Or does this rhetoric simply justify an executive power-grab? For some\, Boris Johnson’s premiership epitomised how far the UK’s democracy has been captured by populism and the Prime Minister seemed more concerned about fulfilling the wishes of the British people than with following the rules or listening to Parliament. \nEvents like ‘Partygate’ grabbed the headlines. Criticisms of Boris Johnson’s actions eventually led to his resignation and replacement as leader of his party and Prime Minister. Some feel that this shows that the UK’s constitution is healthy\, with checks and balances in place to prevent any possible abuse of power. \nWhile these events attracted much media attention\, other constitutional changes have been taking place with little public awareness. These have strengthened governmental powers and weakened political and legal checks over governmental actions. Deliberation is being replaced by rhetoric and principles of good government no longer seem to restrain the actions of those in power. \nAlison Young provides the first consolidated account of these changes\, arguing that the UK is currently on a constitutional cliff-edge which endangers democracy and good constitutional government. She argues that more is needed to shore up the UK’s post-Brexit constitution to prevent it collapsing into a system of unchecked power. \nFrom https://www.law.cam.ac.uk/people/academic/al-young/77940: \n“Professor Young’s Interests \nI research in all aspects of public law\, both of the UK and the EU. My main interest is in constitutional theory\, particularly dialogue theory\, where I draw comparisons between different means of protecting human rights. I’m also interested in comparative public law\, specifically drawing comparisons between UK law\, EU law\, the law in other commonwealth countries and France. I also have research interests in freedom of expression and in the protection of human rights through private law. \nI  have published widely in all of these areas\, and am the author of Parliamentary Sovereignty and the Human Rights Act  (Hart Publishing\, 2009). I was the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2015. The Fellowship enabled me to  write a book on dialogue theory\, Democratic Dialogue and the Constitution (OUP\, 2017)\, which was a runner up for the main Inner Temple Book Prize\, 2018. \nProfessor Young’s CV / Biography \nI am the Sir David Williams Professor of Public Law at the University of Cambridge\, and a Fellow of Robinson College. I am also currently a legal advisor to the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitution and an academic associate at 39 Essex Chambers. I am a member of the Editorial Board of European Public Law\, and of Public Law. I’m also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I’m a trustee of The Constitution Society and a member of the UK Constitution Monitoring Group. I’m affiliated with the Oxford Human Rights Hub and with the Programme for the Foundations of Law and Constitutional Government\, both at the University of Oxford. I am also an Emeritus Fellow of Hertford College\, Oxford. \nBefore joining the University of Cambridge I studied for a Law (with French) degree at the University of Birmingham\, spending a year at the Université de Limoges as part of my degree. I then completed the BCL and D Phil at Hertford College\, University of Oxford. I spent three years as a Tutorial Fellow at Balliol College\, Oxford\, before returning to Hertford as a Fellow in Law and later Professor of Public Law at the University of Oxford. At Oxford I completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education and received awards for Teaching Excellence and Innovation from the University of Oxford.” \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-with-professor-alison-young/
LOCATION:Jackman Law Building Room J140\, 78 Queen’s Park
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20231115T170000
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre's 15th Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is celebrating 15 years of advocacy\, research and education with a special anniversary event taking place on November 15th\, 2023. \nPlease join us for an in-person live podcast recording of Charter: A Course\, featuring U of T Law Dean Jutta Brunnée interviewing Cheryl Milne (Executive Director\, Asper Centre)\, followed by Ewa Krajewska (the Asper Centre’s current Constitutional Litigator in Residence) interviewing Asper Centre Alumni: Neil Abraham (JD 2016)\, Ryan Deshpande (JD 2021)\, Keely Kinley (JD 2021)\, and Geetha Philipupillai (JD 2017). \nThe live podcast recording will be followed by an intimate cocktail reception. Registration Required. \nREGISTER HERE\n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centres-15th-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:J140 Jackman Law Building\, 78 Queen's Park Cres\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Charter @ 40 Webinar
DESCRIPTION:Forty years ago\, the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms was adopted with the signing of the Proclamation of the Constitution Act\, 1982.  The Charter protects the rights and freedoms of all Canadians and is built on the shared values of equality\, justice and freedom. This year also marks the 40th anniversary of Section 35 of the Constitution Act\, 1982\, which recognizes and affirms Indigenous and Treaty rights of First Nations\, Inuit\, and Métis. \nOn October 21\, 2022 at noon\, please join us for a stimulating discussion (via Zoom Webinar)\, hosted by the Asper Centre’s Executive Director Cheryl Milne\, who will be joined by 9 of the Centre’s past Constitutional Litigators in Residence\, for a reflection on the Charter’s anniversary – how far have we come in the last 40 years to uphold the Charter’s rights and values and what we can hope for in the next 40 years? \nThe following esteemed guests will take part in this special conversation: \n\n\n\n\nRaj Anand\nConstitutional Litigator-in-Residence\, 2015\nSenior partner at Weir Foulds LLP\, focused on litigation\, administrative and human rights law. Former Chief Commissioner of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and Bencher for the Law Society of Ontario.\nJustice Breese Davies\nConstitutional Litigator-in-Residence\, 2017\nAppointed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in 2018. Prior to her appointment\, she maintained a criminal\, constitutional\, and human rights law practice.\nMary Eberts\nConstitutional Litigator-in-Residence\, 2014\nCanadian constitutional lawyer and human rights advocate. Recipient of Order of Canada. Influential in creation of Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and founding member of Women’s Legal Action and Education Fund (LEAF).\nNader Hasan\nConstitutional Litigator-in-Residence\, 2020\nPartner at Stockwood LLP\, Nader practises criminal\, regulatory and constitutional law at the trial and appellate levels.\nJanet E. Minor\nConstitutional Litigator-in-Residence\, 2016\nFormer General Counsel in the Constitutional Law Branch of the Ministry of the Attorney General of Ontario and former Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario.\nJustice John Norris\nConstitutional Litigator-in-Residence\, 2013\nAppointed to the Federal Court of Canada in 2018. Prior to his appointment\, he maintained a trial and appellate practice in the areas of criminal\, constitutional and national security.\nJessica Orkin\nConstitutional Litigator-in-Residence\, 2022\nPartner at Goldblatt Partners\, with a broad litigation practice including criminal\, civil and administrative law matters\, with an emphasis on constitutional rights\, human rights\, and Aboriginal rights.\nJonathan Rudin\nConstitutional Litigator-in-Residence\, 2021\nProgram Director and senior lawyer at Aboriginal Legal Services\, Jonathan has written and spoken widely on issues of Indigenous justice.\nSusan Ursel\nConstitutional Litigator-in-Residence\, 2018\nSenior partner with the law firm of Ursel Phillips Fellows Hopkinson LLP. Labour and human rights lawyer and frequent speaker\, teacher and writer on human rights and Charter issues.\n\nRegister for this virtual event at charterat40.eventbrite.com\nAll welcome!
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/charter-40-webinar/
LOCATION:Online Zoom Webinar
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable with Kerry Wilkins
DESCRIPTION:“So You Want to Implement UNDRIP…” by Kerry Wilkins\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights hosted a Constitutional Roundtable with U of T Law adjunct professor Kerry Wilkins on Wednesday October 28\, 2020 at 12:45p.m.(online webinar) about his upcoming journal article in the UBC Law Review\, “So You Want to Implement UNDRIP…” (see abstract below). \nKerry Wilkins\, B.A. (Utah)\, M.A. (Michigan)\, LL.B.\, LL.M. (Toronto) is a recovering government lawyer\, has written one book\, edited another and published some articles. Kerry convenes the Aboriginal Law Practicum at U of T Law and also teaches Indigenous Peoples and the Constitution of Canada. He accepts speaking engagements and submits written work for publication when he thinks he has something to say. Others have occasionally agreed. \n\nABSTRACT\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlthough much has been written already about the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP\, or the Declaration)\, there is surprisingly little in print about what it would mean\, and what it would take\, to give meaningful\, enforceable legal effect to UNDRIP in Canadian law. Given that the government of Canada has twice committed publicly to introducing legislation to implement UNDRIP\, most recently in the September 23\, 2020 Speech from the Throne\, it is prudent to give some thought to these conceptual and operational issues. \nThis paper seeks to initiate that conversation. It’s in two principal parts. The first of those identifies and discusses four (of many) issues that deserve\, and arguably need\, clarification at the outset of UNDRIP implementation: identifying and individuating the “Indigenous peoples” to whom the rights in UNDRIP would belong; identifying which lands in Canada are\, or were traditionally\, those of each of the nominate Indigenous peoples; deciding how to decide which features of an Indigenous people’s culture would\, and should\, benefit from the protection of the cultural rights in the Declaration; and clarifying what residual role\, if any\, mainstream Canadian governments or legal institutions should play if something goes wrong within a community of Indigenous peoples exercising its UNDRIP rights of self-determination. \nThe second principal part considers the relative advantages and disadvantages of treaties and legislation as possible vehicles for domestic UNDRIP implementation. A national UNDRIP treaty would constitutionalize the rights it contained\, but would probably take a great deal of time to negotiate and conclude. There might be ways of proceeding incrementally. Legislation has the potential advantages of promptness and uniformity\, but UNDRIP legislation raises some constitutional issues and ordinary legislation faces risks of cumulative erosion\, or even subsequent outright repeal. Finally\, it will take care and forethought to integrate Indigenous peoples’ consent – a feature of several UNDRIP rights – into administrative decision-making in a way that works. \n \n\n\n\nWEBINAR RECORDING LINK
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-with-kerry-wilkins/
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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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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
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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;VALUE=DATE:20180103
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180104
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
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:20260429T041407
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:20260429T041407
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:20260429T041407
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20171020T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20171020T160000
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
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:20260429T041407
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170927T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170927T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
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:20260429T041407
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:20260429T041407
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:20260429T041407
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:20260429T041407
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170322T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170322T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
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:20260429T041407
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170301T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170301T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170228T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170228T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170209T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170209T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20170119T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20170119T180000
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SUMMARY:Morris A. Gross Lecture - the Honourable George R. Strathy\, Chief Justice of Ontario
DESCRIPTION:Judicial Courage and Restraint in Canadian Constitutional History\nThe 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 practicing bar or bench for discussion with the student body and Faculty\, and to deliver the bi-annual Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture. \nThis year\, the Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture will be delivered by the Honourable George R. Strathy\, Chief Justice of Ontario\, as an introduction to the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights’ 2017 Constitutional Roundtable series\, which will be in celebration of Canada’s Sesquicentennial. \nThe Honourable George R. Strathy was appointed Chief Justice of Ontario June 13\, 2014. He was appointed to the Court of Appeal for Ontario on April 25\, 2013. For the previous five years he served as a judge of the Superior Court of Justice in the Toronto Region\, where he presided over civil\, class action and criminal matters. Chief Justice Strathy received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1970 and was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to pursue graduate studies. He received a Master of Arts degree in International Relations at the University of Toronto in 1971. He attended the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto and was awarded the Gold Medal in 1974. \nIn practice\, he specialized in civil litigation\, with particular emphasis in Maritime and Transportation Law. He was a partner in the firms of MacKinnon\, McTaggart\, Campbell Godfrey and Lewtas\, and Fasken Martineau Walker before establishing his own firm in 1991. The firm ultimately became Strathy & Isaacs. He was active in a number of professional organizations\, including the Canadian Bar Association (Chair of the Young Lawyers’ Division and member of the Executive Committee)\, the Canadian Maritime Law Association (Vice-President)\, the Canadian Association of Maritime Arbitrations (Vice-President)\, and the Canadian Association of Average Adjusters (Chairman). He is the author of two books on marine insurance in Canada as well as numerous papers and articles. \nChief Justice Strathy is married to Elyse Strathy. They have five daughters and seven grandchildren. He is an enthusiastic\, but not particularly talented\, squash player\, golfer and tandem cyclist.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/morris-a-gross-lecture-the-honourable-george-r-strathy-chief-justice-of-ontario/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20161024T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20161024T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
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SUMMARY:Asper Centre / IHRP 2017 Summer Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Information about how to apply for an Asper Centre summer fellowship to work in an organization within Canada that focuses on constitutional / human rights advocacy. \n  \n(October 2016)
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centre-ihrp-2017-summer-fellowship-information-session/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160826
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160827
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
CREATED:20170620T203654Z
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SUMMARY:Call for Asper Centre students 2016/2017
DESCRIPTION:The deadline for applications for the is August 26\, 2016. \nCall for Asper Centre students 2016-2017
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/call-for-asper-centre-students-20162017/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160815
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160816
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
CREATED:20170620T203840Z
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SUMMARY:Working Group Call for Proposals
DESCRIPTION:2016-2017 WORKING GROUPS \nUniversity of Toronto\, Faculty of Law students wishing to propose a 2016/2017 Working Group must email a proposal to Cheryl Milne\, cheryl.milne@utoronto.ca by 5 p.m. on August 15\, 2016. Applications should include the following: \na) The name/title of the Working Group \nb) The issue the group will be working on\, and why the issue is important \nc) Name(s) of the student leader(s) and brief background information \nd) Name and description of partnership organization\, and letter of support from the organization (if applicable) \ne) Description of proposed research or advocacy project for the year\, including project goals and expected outcomes. \nSuccessful groups will be notified prior to the start of term. \nFor more detailed information on how to lead a Working Group\, read the full call for proposals here.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/working-group-call-for-proposals/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160710T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160713T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
CREATED:20170620T204039Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170620T204039Z
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SUMMARY:Clinical Legal Education Conference
DESCRIPTION:THE RISKS AND REWARDS OF CLINICAL LEGAL EDUCATION PROGRAMMES \nThe Asper Centre is collaborating with the Association for Canadian Clinical Education and the International Journal of Clinical Legal Education in the organization and hosting of the 2016 Clinical Legal Education Conference at the University of Toronto\, Faculty of Law. \nDates: July 10- 13\, 2016 \nRegistration open here on the Eventbrite page. Early Bird Registration closes on April 30 (regular price applies after that date). \nRead the Conference Brochure
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/clinical-legal-education-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20160226T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20160227T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T041407
CREATED:20170621T132024Z
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SUMMARY:The State of Canada's Constitutional Democracy
DESCRIPTION:SYMPOSIUM \nFebruary 26 – 27\, 2016 \nFaculty of Law\, University of Toronto (Room: Solarium\, FA2) \nThe David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights\, University of Toronto and the Centre for Constitutional Studies\, University of Alberta\, co-organized this symposium examining the state of Canada’s constitutional democracy. Dramatic changes have taken place in recent years at the national level in respect to the day to day functioning of our constitutional democracy. These changes impinge on the separation of powers\, the rule of law and the supremacy of the constitution. \nExamples of topics covered included:\n• the operation of the House of Commons and the Senate and the functioning of committees in both Houses in respect to the quality of deliberation\, reflection on questions of constitutionality generally\, and in respect to specific policy areas\,\n• the increased powers of the PMO\n• the appointment process to the Senate and the Supreme Court\n• the stance taken by the government to some aspects of the Constitution and the judiciary\,\n• the government’s approach to information creation\, retention and dissemination as well as sources of expertise and scientific knowledge\, as it impacts on public policy areas such as health\, climate change\, resource development\, Aboriginal education\, women’s equality\n• the Court’s role to strike down legislation and critique government action and the government’s response to this such as the aftermath of the PHS case\, Bedford and Carter\, and the SCC’s declaration in Khadr.\n• the professional ethics applicable to the work of government lawyers in a more politicized environment \nOur interest in examining these changes was to assess their impact on the norms and processes stipulated by our written Constitution as well as by fundamental constitutional principles and conventions. \nThis symposium was part of a broader analysis by the Asper Centre of the state of the rule of law and Canada’s constitutional democracy comprising background papers and additional workshops that resulted in a now available final report. \nSymposium Agenda \nREAD MORE ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM HERE
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/the-state-of-canadas-constitutional-democracy/
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