Immigration Detention Symposium: Responding to the IRB’s External Audit

by Olivia Martin and Adrian Ling The first session of the Asper Center’s Immigration Detention Symposium, held on March 15, 2019 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, … Read More

Asper Centre students call for Canada to suspend STCA on Refugee Rights Day

via @UTLaw: https://www.law.utoronto.ca/news/students-call-on-canada Thursday, April 4, 2019 By Karen Chen and Mackenzie Claggett Canada presents itself to the world as a place where “those fleeing persecution, terror and war” are … Read More

Choose Your Battleground: Recapping the Beaver v Hill Panel Discussion

by Hannah Goddard-Rebstein and Arjun Gandhi On Thursday, March 21st, the Asper Centre held a panel on Indigenous rights and family law, using the case of Beaver v Hill … Read More

Recapping YY Chen’s Constitutional Roundtable on Citizenship and the Charter

by Michelle Huang and Jeffrey Wang On Thursday, February 28, the Asper Centre hosted Professor Y. Y. Brandon Chen for a Constitutional Roundtable titled “Toward a Substantive Understanding of Citizenship … Read More

What they don’t know will hurt them: no consent, gender identity or social media in the Ontario sex ed curriculum

By Leslie Anne St. Amour In my opinion, to call the court’s decision dismissing the case against the Ontario government in respect to the repeal and replacement of the sex … Read More