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SUMMARY:Careers in Constitutional Law
DESCRIPTION:Are you a U of T Law JD Candidate with a passion for promoting and advancing Charter rights and Constitutional law? Do you want to learn about the numerous career paths that exist for lawyers wishing to practice constitutional law\, Charter litigation or constitutional-adjacent law? \nPlease join the Asper Centre for a lunchtime panel discussion on the various career pathways in constitutional law. Meet and get firsthand career advice from 5 amazing U of T Law alumni: \n\nJessica Orkin (Asper Centre Constitutional Litigator in Residence Fall 2022)\, partner at Goldblatt’s LLP\nKatherine Long (staff lawyer at Justice for Children  and Youth)\nKatrina Longo (DOJ Lawyer)\nJoshua Blum (Refugee and immigration lawyer)\nZachary Biech (staff lawyer at Ecojustice)\n\nEvent for U of T Law students. Lunch provided. No registration required. Email tal.schreier@utoronto.ca
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/asper-centre-presents-careers-in-constitutional-law-2/
LOCATION:J140 Jackman Law Building\, 78 Queen's Park Cres\, Toronto\, Ontario\, M5S 2C5\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable with Professor Eleonora Bottini
DESCRIPTION:  \nPlease join us on Thursday March 23\, 2023 at 12:30pm for an Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable with Professor Eleonora Bottini on her forthcoming paper titled “Modernizing Constitutions: A comparative analysis of justifications for constitutional reforms.” \nThe 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 constitutional law. \nAll are welcome. No Registration or RSVP required. Light lunch will be provided. \nVenue: John Willis Classroom FL219\, Flavelle House\, Faculty of Law\, University of Toronto \nAbstract: The idea\, dear to Thomas Jefferson\, that a people cannot be subjected by the laws of the previous generations is in direct contrast with the intention of the constituent power to make the constitution– as opposed to ordinary legislation – last for more than one generation. One way to conciliate this paradox of constitutional theory is the possibility of amending the text of rigid constitutions if and when they become “outdated”. Therefore\, a very effective argument to legitimize constitutional amendments has been that they serve the modernization of the constitution\, making it compatible with current times without having to substitute it entirely\, which could be politically impossible or undesirable. This paper critically examines the uses of the constitutional modernization argument (CMA) from a comparative perspective\, by studying examples of constitutional reforms from 2000 to 2022 in various countries. The paper’s contribution is firstly to unpack the structure and assumptions of CMA and to divide it into sub-arguments in order to provide a better understanding of those types of justifications. The paper concludes on a critique of CMA as an unjustified objectivization of constitutional reforms which can mask the changed political preferences that amendments convey. \nEleonora Bottini is Full Professor of Public Law at the University of Caen-Normandy (France) and is currently the Martin-Flynn Global Law Professor at University of Connecticut School of Law. She served previously as associate professor at Sorbonne Law School in Paris and was the Alliance Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She specializes in comparative constitutional law\, French constitutional law and legal theory. She has published several articles and book chapters in French\, Italian and English and she is the author of a book based on her PhD thesis\, “Constitutional sanction: study of a doctrinal argument” (Dalloz\, 2016\, in French)\, on the theoretical origins of judicial review. \n\n  \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-with-prof-eleonora-bottini/
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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable with Professor Aileen Kavanagh
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday March 28\, 2023 at 12:30pm for an Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable with Professor Aileen Kavanagh on her forthcoming book\, The Collaborative Constitution. \nThe 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 constitutional law. \nAll are welcome. No Registration or RSVP required. Light lunch will be provided. \nThe Collaborative Constitution by Aileen Kavanagh \nWhich branch of government should we trust to protect rights in a democracy?  Some take a court-centric approach to this question\, arguing that the courts provide a ‘forum of principle’ which makes them uniquely situated to protect rights against the feared and fabled ‘tyranny of the majority’.  Others put their faith in the democratic legislature\, as a supremely dignified\, diverse\, and deliberative forum which can protect our rights against the oligarchic offensive of an ermined elite. Rejecting the binary options of either the courts or the legislature\, this book argues that protecting rights is a collaborative enterprise between all three branches of government where each branch has a distinct but complementary role to play\, whilst working together with the other branches in constitutional partnership.  Instead of advocating the hegemony and supremacy of one branch over another\, this book articulates a collaborative vision of constitutionalism where the protection of rights is a shared responsibility between all three branches.  On this vision\, protecting rights is neither the solitary domain of a Herculean super-judge\, nor the dignified pronouncements of an enlightened legislature.  Instead\, it is a complex\, dynamic\, and collaborative enterprise\, where each branch of government has a valuable role to play\, whilst treating the other branches with comity and respect. \nThe Collaborative Constitution is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in June 2023. Please see the Introduction and Ch 3 of the book\, which have been graciously shared by the author in advance of this Roundtable. \nAileen Kavanagh is Professor of Constitutional Governance at Trinity College Dublin and Director of TriCON\, the Trinity Centre for Constitutional Governance.  Formerly Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Oxford\, Aileen Kavanagh has written widely on comparative constitutional law\, human rights and constitutional theory.  Her previous books include Constitutional Review under the UK Human Rights Act 1998 (CUP\, 2009). \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-with-professor-aileen-kavanagh/
LOCATION:Jackman Law Building Room J140\, 78 Queen’s Park
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SUMMARY:Research Job Applications Due Date
DESCRIPTION:Attention U of T Law JD students and Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work students\, please see job adverts for the following positions: \nProject Manager \nResearch Assistant  \nDeadline for both applications is Wednesday March 29\, 2023.  \nEmail: cheryl.milne@utoronto.ca for questions \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/research-job-applications-due-date/
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