Constitutional Roundtable

This informal monthly event provides an opportunity to consider developments in Canadian constitutional theory and practice as well as the emerging field of comparative constitutional law. The lunch-time sessions start off with presentation by invited guests and develop into wide-ranging discussions.

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Past Lecturers

In the past, speakers at the constitutional roundtable series have included Canadian and foreign academics, judges and practitioners. We have also been fortunate to have had a wide range of presentations from distinguished visiting faculty visiting the law school to teach intensive courses.

This mix of this national and international presenters, theory and practice, and lively discussion makes this workshop a welcome enhancement to the study of public law at the Faculty of Law. 

Past lecturers have included:

  • David Cameron, University of Toronto, Department of Political Science, Canada’s Social Union 
  • William Eskridge, Yale Law School – Topic: On Same Sex Marriage
  • Justice Izhak Englard, Supreme Court of Israel – Topic: A Constitutional Court for Israel
  • George Williams, University of New South Wales – Topic: The Case that Stopped a Coup? The Rule of Law & Constitutionalism in Fiji.
  • Guido Pincione, Torcuato Di Tella University – Topic: Constitution and Politics in Argentina: an Introduction
  • Justice Frank Iacobucci, the Supreme Court of Canada – Topic: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms at Twenty 
  • George Fletcher, Columbia University School of Law – Topic: The Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy 
  • Lech Garlicki, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of Poland - Topic: Poland’s Constitutional Transition, from Communism to Liberal Democracy
  • See the full schedules for past years.

 2012   2013

DATE & TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER & TOPIC

September 19
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00		Classroom A (FLA)
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park		Pavlos Eleftheriadis, University of Oxford Faculty of Law
The Rule of Law as a Constitutional Essential
September 25
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00		Classroom B (FLB)
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park		Joseph Arvay, QC
Wayne Sumner, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Carter v. Canada: The recent BC decision on physician-assisted suicide
October 16
Tuesday
12:30 - 2:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Helen Irving, University of Sydney
The Disallegiant Heart: Constitutional Citizenship and the History of Marital Denaturalization
October 24
Wednesday
12:30 - 2:00		Classroom B (FLB)
Flavele House
78 Queen's Park		Andrew Geddis, University of Otago
Of Irregular Votes and Robocalls: Resolving Disputed Elections in Canada and New Zealand
November 28
Wednesday
4:00 - 5:30		Rowell Room
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park
Sanford V. Levinson, University of Texas, Austin, Faculty of Law
Riffing on the Federalist
Co-sponsored by the Canada Research Chair on Constitutionalism and Democracy
January 10
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00		Classroom C
(FLC)
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park

 Jeff King, Faculty of Laws, University College London
Judging Social Rights

PLEASE REGISTER HERE: http://www.aspercentre.ca/events/calendar/CRT-King.htm

Co-sponsored by the International Human Rights Program

January 24
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00		Solarium
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park		Wojciech Sadurski, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney
Reasonableness in Constitutional Law and in Political Authority
February 14
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00		Classroom B
(FLB)
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park		Zak Yacoob, Former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
Social and Economic Rights - A South African Perspective
March 14
Thursday
12:30 - 2:00		Classroom A (FLA)
Flavelle House
78 Queen's Park		Heather Gerken, Yale Law School
Exit, Voice, and Disloyalty