Video Archive

Videos Available on the Web Site

Most of the special lectures and many of the other events held at the Faculty of Law every year are broadcast live over the web. A link to the live broadcast will be available in the "News and Events" box on the home page shortly before the event takes place. After each event, the relevant video is archived on the web site and becomes permanently available for viewing.

Links to all of the videos available on the web site are gathered together below.

Lectures

• Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture archives
• The Goodman Lectures archives
• The Grafstein Lecture in Communications archives
• John Ll. J. Edwards Memorial Lecture
• Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture archives
• Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt Lecture Archives
• Public Lecture on Law and Diversity
• Other lectures

Conferences

• Access to Care, Access to Justice: The Legal Debate over Private Health Insurance in Canada, September 16, 2005. Sound recordings only.
• The Supreme Court of Canada and the General Anti-Avoidance Rule: Tax Avoidance after Canada Trustco and Mathew. November 18, 2005
• A Summit on Gender and Diversity in Law: Moving Forward as a Profession. May 1, 2007.
• Combating Hatred in the Twenty-first Century: Balancing Rights, Freedoms and Responsibilities. November 12, 2007. 
• Looking Back, Looking Forward: Judicial Independence in Canada and the World. November 29-30, 2007.
• The Future of Administrative Justice, January 17-18, 2007.
• Roundtable on the creation of a national securities regulator and the report of the Expert Panel on Securities Regulation (Jan. 30, 2008).
• Third Annual Conference on Student Publishing in Law, February 29, 2008 (special panel "From Paper to Article").
• Rewriting Equality / Récrire l'égalité. March 6-7, 2008.
• "Can Legal Ethics be Taught?" Friday, April 4, 2008.
• Summit on Aboriginal Economic Development: Developing Aboriginal Economies. May 1, 2008.
• Litigating the Charter: Strategies for a Successful Charter Claim in the 21st Century (Opening of the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights). September 5, 2008.  
• Chief Justice of Ontario's Advisory Committee on Professionalism: Symposium on Lifelong Learning in Professionalism. February 20, 2009.
• Conference on Student Publishing in Law, March 6, 2009: Webcast of the "Writers and Editors Speak" panel
• BCE Decision Roundtable. March 27, 2009
• A Symposium in Honour of Prof. Michael Trebilcock, October 1-2, 2009.
• The Role of Interveners in Public Interest Litigation (David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights), November 6, 2009.
• A Celebration of Ontario’s Community Legal Clinics, November 12, 2009.
• Combating Hatred in the Twenty-first Century: Legal Remedies, February 4, 2010.
• Symposium on UN Security Council Resolution 1267: Impact of targeted anti-terrorist sanctions on human rights (November 19, 2010)
• Access to Civil Justice for Middle Income Canadians Colloquium (Feb. 10-11, 2011): Keynote Speech by Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin.
• Asper Centre "Symposium on Funding the Charter Challenge" and Morris Gross lecture by Marlys Edwardh, April 1, 2011.
• Cloud Computing Conference: Law and Policy Issues in the Cloud, October 14, 2011.
• Lunchtime discussion with Preston Manning, Carolyn Bennett, Peter Hogg and Alison Motluk, moderated by Steve Paikin, from "Reference re. Assisted Human Reproduction Act: Implications of the Supreme Court’s Decision," Nov. 4-5, 2011. 
• 35@30: Reflecting on 30 years of s.35, October 25-27, 2012
• Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation & Settlement Processes, January 18, 2013
• Sexual Violence in the Recent Conflicts in Libya and Syria, February 8, 2013.

Convocation

Since 2011, convocation ceremonies at the University of Toronto have been webcast (including the guest speaker convocation address). Look for "Faculty of Law" on the University of Toronto convocation webcasts page to see the archived videos.

Also available:

• 2009 Convocation Address by David Shore ('82), Emmy-award-winning writer of TV show House.

Other Events

• Grand Moot (2006-present)
• Dean Mayo Moran's remarks at the alumni reception to welcome her to her new position, January 11, 2006. RealMedia or Windows Media formats.
• Law, Religion and Society series.
• University of Toronto Public Health Ethics, Law and Policy Seminar Series: "Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario".
• David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights panel discussions on the constitutional situation in November 2008-January 2009:
  • December 5, 2008 (simply sign in as a guest)
  • January 13, 2009
  • April 21, 2009 (launch of book Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis)
• Alumni Career Panel: "You have more options than you think." August 20, 2009.
• Asper Centre Workshop: Exclusion of Evidence. Sept. 30, 2009.
• "The Lawyer's Responsibilty to Clients and Access to Justice", Nov. 3, 2009. Edward Greenspan Q.C. and Alan Hutchinson debate the "cab rank" rule (part of the first-year "Legal Process, Professionalism and Ethics" intensive course).
• Distinguished Alumnus Awards, Nov. 19, 2009: video tributes to Hal Jackman '56 and Rob Prichard '75.
• The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission: “They Came for the Children”, Dec. 11, 2009. 
• Asper Centre Workshop, Feb. 11, 2010: "The Khadr Decision: A Just Result?" (With Profs. Audrey Macklin, Kent Roach, David Schneiderman).
• Michael Trebilcock, "Why Foreign Aid Mostly Fails," Reunion Lecture, October 22, 2010 (http://uoft.me/trebilcocklecture).
• Prof. John Borrows guest lecture, "Not Extinguished: Rights, Democracy and the Indian Act," Jan. 6, 2011.
• "Success and Serendipity" panel: advice for Internationally Trained Lawyers Program students (Feb. 9, 2011)
• CLP Program on Professionalism: the Honourable Mr. Justice Stephen Goudge, "What does it mean to be a legal professional?" (March 9, 2011)
• GPLLM panel discussion: "Recent Developments in Foreign Corrupt Practices Legislation: 
  Implications for Canadian Business and International Transactions", March 29, 2011.
• Convocation 2011, with speech by former Prime Minister Paul Martin '64. Click here for the Paul Martin speech only. (June 3, 2011)
• Asper Center discussion, ""G20: Lessons Learned, Messages Lost," June 23, 2011
• Program on Professionalism: Mr. Bruce Elman, Dean and Professor of Law, University of Windsor, Sept. 20, 2011 (direct link to video).
• Centre for the Legal Profession, Program on Professionalism: Raj Anand, "New Directions? The LSUC's Articling Task Force Report," Feb. 14, 2012 
• ITLP event "Success and Serendipity 2012: The Multicultural Leader," Feb. 21, 2012
• Centre for the Legal Profession's Program on Professionalism features Madam Justice Sheila Ray on "Perspective from the Bench: Self-Represented litigants in the Provincial Offenses Court," March 20, 2012
• Centre for the Legal Profession's Program on Professionalism features Mr. Hassan Fancy (Fancy Barristers P.C.), "A Unique Approach to Access to Justice: a case study of R. v. Lindberg" (March 27, 2012)
• Access to Justice Town Hall, Nov. 21, 2012
• Panel discussion, "R v Morgentaler: how far we have come, and still need to go," January 29, 2013.
• Panel discussion, Launch of the Program on Ethics in Law and Business, March 5, 2013.

Most broadcasts are available in both RealPlayer and Windows Media formats.