Comparative Constitutional Law

In the Toronto Star, International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Program Fellow Lisa Kelly has co-authored a commentary with lawyer Katrina Pacey arguing against recent calls to criminalize the purchase of sexual services ("Why anti-john laws don’t work," Oct. 19, 2011).

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website.

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Ed Morgan analyzes the differences between the Supreme Courts of Canada and the United States in their approach to third-party spending on election campaigns ("The Canada-U.S. subsidy divide," April 7, 2011).

Read the full commentary.

(May 16, 2011) The International Human Rights Program (IHRP) has released a report assessing GoldCorp’s stated commitments to human rights, ahead of the company's annual general meeting in Vancouver. At the meeting, shareholders will be asked to vote on whether the Canadian mining company should temporarily suspend operation of the Marlin mine, a particularly notorious open-pit gold mine in Guatemala.

Imprisoning people for long periods of time without trial is a violation of the Uganda Constitution and international human rights law, the International Human Rights Program (IRHP) and Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) found in a joint report released June 15, 2011.  The report, Presumed Innocent, Behind Bars: The Problem of Lengthy Pre-trial Detention in Uganda, was authored by two University of Toronto law students enrolled in the IHRP clinic, Sonja Pavic and Joanna Kyriazis.

By: Kent Roach

This commentary was first published in the Toronto Star on September 6, 2011.

9/11 may or may not have fundamentally changed the world, but it did change the way governments conduct counter-terrorism. The constant mantra after 9/11 has been the need to break the walls between agencies and countries that prevent the sharing of intelligence.