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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable - Raj Anand
DESCRIPTION:Constitutional Roundtable \npresents \nRaj Anand\nConstitutional Litigator in Residence with the Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights\n12:30 – 2:00 p.m. \nWednesday\, February 03\, 2016 \nVictoria College\, Room 206 \nTopic: Subsection 15(2) of the Charter and its Disconnection with Substantive Equality \nRaj Anand is a partner and an arbitrator and mediator with WeirFoulds LLP. His practice includes the areas of administrative\, human rights\, constitutional and employment law\, civil litigation\, professional negligence and regulation. In his third term as an elected Bencher of the Law Society\, he is currently the Vice-Chair of the Law Society Tribunal’s Hearing Division. He was a member of task forces or working groups on admission requirements\, articling\, good character\, Law Society governance and Tribunal reform. He was Vice Chair of the Equity and Aboriginal Issues Committee for five years\, and is currently Co-Chair of the Working Group on Challenges faced by Racialized Lawyers and Paralegals in Ontario and Chair of the Three Year Review of the Tribunal reforms. Raj graduated from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law with the Dean’s Key in 1978. He has served as President of the U of T Law Alumni Council\, the Minority Advocacy and Rights Council\, the International Commission of Jurists Canada\, and Pro Bono Law Ontario; Co-Chair of the U of T Tribunal; and board member of the Advocates’ Society\, Legal Aid Ontario\, the Law Commission of Ontario\, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health\, Justice for Children and Youth\, and the Income Security Advocacy Centre. Raj was Chief Commissioner of the Human Rights Commission in 1988-89\, Board of Inquiry from 1989-94\, and founding Chair of the Human Rights Legal Support Centre in 2008-10. Raj has taught “The New Administrative Law” at the masters level\, and “Legal Ethics: Legal Values” and “Diversity and the Legal Profession” at the JD level. He was the first recipient of the Advocates’ Society Award of Justice in 1997\, and has since received the Law Society Medal\, the Professional Man of the Year award of the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce\, and the South Asian Bar Association’s Distinguished Career Award. In 2013\, he was an inaugural Roy McMurtry Visiting Clinical Fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School.
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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
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable - Susan Williams
DESCRIPTION:Constitutional Roundtable \npresents \nSusan Williams \nWalter W. Foskett Professor of Law and Director\, Center for Constitutional Democracy Maurer School of Law Indiana University\n12:30 – 2:00 p.m. \nWednesday\, February 24\, 2016 \nSolarium\, Falconer Hall \nTopic \nLegal Pluralism\, Gender Equality and Parity of Participation: Constitutional Issues Concerning Customary Law in Liberia \nSusan Williams is the author of Truth\, Autonomy\, and Speech: Feminist Theory and the First Amendment (NYU Press 2004). Her current book project\, Constituting Equality: Comparative Constitutional Law and Gender Equality\, is a collection of essays growing out of a spring 2007 conference she organized. She has also written numerous articles on constitutional law and feminist legal theory. She is actively involved in constitutional advising for the Burmese democracy movement. She is a constitutional advisor to the Women’s League of Burma\, the Federal Constitution Drafting Coordinating Committee\, and the state constitution drafting committees of all of the states of Burma. In this capacity\, she teaches workshops\, produces educational materials\, and works on drafting and revising constitutional language. At Indiana Law\, Williams teaches Property\, First Amendment Law\, Feminist Jurisprudence\, and a seminar on Comparative Constitutional Law on Gender Equality. She believes that the best lawyers do not conduct legal analysis in a vacuum. “We must train our students to think and argue clearly and critically\,” she says. “But at the same time\, we must encourage them to bring their own values and experiences to bear on the legal issues they are studying. Law is a mirror in which we can read our character as a society\, both as it presently exists and as we would ideally like it to be.”(Bio drawn from Susan Williams’ profile at Maurer School of Law) \n 
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