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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: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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