Selected Themes from the Asper Centre’s Public Interest Litigation Conference

by Amanda Nash On March 2nd, the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights hosted a conference on Public Interest Litigation. I was able to attend several of the panels, and … Read More

A Focus on Jury Reform

by Cheryl Milne Jury selection has been in the public eye since the beginning of, and the ultimate acquittal of Gerald Stanley in, the trial of the shooting death of … Read More

Asper Centre Clinic Student Reflects on Drafting the Bird Intervention Factum

by Becky Lockert This past fall, the Supreme Court of Canada granted the Asper Centre leave to intervene in R v Bird, a case that ties questions of access to … Read More

Asper Centre Students convene Workshop for LAWS’ Global Citizenship Conference

By Crystal Li and Juela Xhaferraj On February 9, 2018, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law was host to hundreds of high school students who were attending the annual … Read More

Constitutional Roundtable with Akis Psykgas

by Ryan Howes On January 31, 2018, the Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable Series hosted Athanasios (Akis) Psygkas, Lecturer in Law at University of Bristol and Visiting Scholar at the University … Read More