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SUMMARY:Constitutional Roundtable with Prof David Vitale
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 constitutional law. \nThe Constitutional Roundtable Series is pleased to present a Roundtable with Professor David Vitale on February 11\, 2025 at 12:30pm \nTitle: Trust\, Courts and Social Rights: A Trust-Based Framework for Social Rights Enforcement \nSummary: Trust\, Courts and Social Rights proposes an innovative legal framework for judicially enforcing social rights that is rooted in public trust in government or ‘political trust’. Interdisciplinary in nature\, the book draws on theoretical and empirical scholarship on the concept of trust across disciplines\, including philosophy\, sociology\, psychology and political theory. It integrates that scholarship with the relevant public law literature on social rights\, fiduciary political theory and judicial review. In doing so\, the book uses trust as an analytical lens for social rights law – importing ideas from the scholarship on trust into the social rights literature – and develops a normative argument that contributes to the controversial debate on how courts should enforce social rights. Also global in focus\, the book uses cases from courts in Africa\, Europe\, Latin America and North America to illustrate how the trust-based framework operates in practice. \nBio: David Vitale is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick\, School of Law. He is also currently the UK Principal Investigator for a multi-institution\, Trans-Atlantic Platform project on ‘Open Constitutional Democracy’ funded by the ESRC (UK)\, SSHRC (Canada) and SNSF (Switzerland) . His work has been published in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies\, Legal Studies and Global Constitutionalism\, among others. David holds law degrees from the UK (LSE)\, the US (NYU) and Canada (Osgoode Hall Law School)\, as well as a degree in psychology (University of Toronto). He has worked as a judicial clerk to the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Israel\, has held various research positions globally and has practised as a litigator in Canada.
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/constitutional-roundtable-with-professor-david-vitale/
LOCATION:Flavelle FL219 – John Willis Classroom
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SUMMARY:The Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture with Kim Murray
DESCRIPTION:The 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 practising bar or bench for discussion with the student body and Faculty\, and to deliver the bi-annual Morris A.Gross Memorial Lecture.  \nThe Asper Centre is pleased to convene the Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture for the law school community. \n \nThis year\, Kimberly Murray will present the special lecture on Tuesday\, February 25\, 2025 at 5pm.  Murray was the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites associated with Indian Residential Schools until December 2024 and is now an Associate Professor\, Queen’s National Scholar in Indigenous Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law\, Queen’s University.\nCrimes Against Humanity and Indian Residential Schools in Canada\n\nAbstract: The buildings\, burials grounds\, and cemeteries on the sites of former Indian Residential Schools are etched deeply in Survivors’ memories. Once places of silence and suffering\, they are now sites of truth. Once places of brutal violence and genocide\, they are now sites of conscience. Survivors can never forget the memories of trauma and death held in these sites; now Canada\, and all Canadians\, must do so as well by recognizing that genocide and crimes against humanity were perpetrated on Indigenous Peoples.\n\nKimberly Murray BA\, LLB\, LLM\, IPC\, LL.D. (honoris causa) commenced her new role as Queen’s National Scholar in Indigenous Legal Studies on January 1\, 2025\, after completing a federal appointment as the Independent Special Interlocutor for Missing Children and Unmarked Graves and Burial Sites Associated with Indian Residential Schools.  \n\n\nMurray has dedicated much of her legal career to promoting reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people and advocating for Indigenous communities. She was the Province of Ontario’s first ever Assistant Deputy Attorney General for Indigenous Justice (2015-2022)\, where she worked to support communities revitalize their Indigenous laws and expanded legal services and programs for Indigenous people.\n\nIn 2018-2019\, Murray chaired the Expert Panel on Policing in Indigenous Communities\, which produced the report Toward Peace Harmony\, and Well-Being: Policing in Indigenous Communities.\n\nFrom 2010-2015\, Murray was Executive Director of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission working to ensure that Survivors were heard and remembered\, and she promoted reconciliation across the country. \nDuring her previous 15-year career with Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto\, she was staff lawyer and then Executive Director\, conducting numerous law reform and public legal education activities\, and appeared before all levels of court. \nShe has also served on numerous boards\, public committees\, and councils; provided advocacy in high-profile public inquiries; published numerous works\, position and conference papers; taught law and undergraduate students; and has been recognized with numerous awards. \nMurray\, is a member of Kanehsatà:ke Mohawk Nation\, holds an LLM and LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School\, a BA from Carleton\, and honorary LLDs from Guelph/Humber\, Lincoln Alexander School of Law\, and the Law Society of Ontario. \n.    \n\n\n\nREGISTRATION REQUIRED
URL:https://aspercentre.ca/event/the-morris-a-gross-memorial-lecture/
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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