2011-2012 Schedule
All meetings are in the Solarium (84 Queen's Park) unless otherwise indicated.
Thursday, September 15
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Classroom A - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Peter H. Russell, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Jacob Ziegel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Judicial Appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada
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Wednesday, October 19
12:30 - 2:00
Click on name to read paper (PDF)
Nicola McGarrity, University of New Wouth Wales, Australia
John Ip, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Kent Roach, University of Toronto
Counter-Terrorism and the Constitution: Perspectives from Australia, New Zealand and Canada
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Monday, November 28
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Bennett Lecture Hall, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Noa Mendelsohn
Aviv Marcus McCann
Robert Keel R.
Douglas Elliott
Catholic Schools and Gay Students Associations
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Friday, January 27
12:30 - 2:00
Steven J. Heyman, Chicago-Kent College of Law
The Dark Side of the Force: The Legacy of Justice Holmes for First Amendment Jurisprudence ____________________________________________________
Wednesday, March 14
12:30 - 2:00
MIchal Bobek, University of Oxford Faculty of Law
Comparative Law in European Supreme Courts: Why is nobody interested in Originalism? ____________________________________________________
2010-2011
Tuesday, October 5
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Classroom C - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
James Hathaway, University of Michigan Law School
Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Lorne Waldman, Lorne Waldman and Associates (Canadian Immigration and Human Rights Law)
Is None Still Too Many? Asylum Seekers on Boats,
Then and Now, Here and There
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THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Tuesday, October 12
12:30 - 2:00
Mary Eberts, SJD Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Acts of Attrition
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Thursday, October 21
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Classroom B - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Aharon Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Emeritus)
Proportionality
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Wednesday, November 17
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Dining Room, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Veronica Undurraga, Director, Women's Program, Human Rights Centre
University of Chile LawSchool
The Use of the Proportionalty Principle in the Judicial Review of Abortion Laws:
Problems and Possibilities
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Monday, November 29
TIME: 4:00 - 6:00 PM
LOCATION: Faculty Common Room, Flavell House, 78 Queen's Park
Barry Friedman, New York University
Becoming Supreme: How Federalism Fosters Judicial Power
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Wednesday, January 5
12:30 - 2:00
Gavin Phillipson, University of Durham Law School
Stealthy Derogations and Judicial Deference: Redefining liberty and due process rights in
counter-terrorism law and beyond
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Friday, January 21
TIME: 2:00 - 4:00
LOCATION: Munk Centre, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place, Room 208N
Mark Stein, York University Department of History
The US Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution?
Sex, Marriage and Reproduction from Griswold to Roe
Co-sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.
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Tuesday, February 15
12:30 - 2:00
Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
Will National Court Cooperation Promote Global Accountability?
Judicial Review of International Organizations
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Thursday, March 10
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Classroom A (FLA), Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Peter L. Lindseth, University of Connecticut School of Law
Power and Legitimacy: Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State
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Wednesday, March 30
NEW TIME & LOCATION:
2:00 - 3:30 PM, Faculty Lounge Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Izhak Englard
The History of the Distinction between Corrective and Distributive Justice
Co-sponsored by the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto.
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Thursday, April 21
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Faculty Lounge, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Theunis Roux, The University of New South Wales Faculty of Law
A Conceptual Framework for Assessing the Performance of Constitutional Courts
in Legal and Political Terms
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2009 - 2010
Wednesday, September 9
12:30 - 2:00
Tom Hickman
Blackstone Chambers
Secret Justice
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Wednesday, October 21
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Classroom C - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Aharon Barak
President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Emeritus)
The Judge: A Documentary Retrospective of the Illustrious Career of
President Aharon Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Emeritus)
President Barak will answer questions after the documentary.
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THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A NEW DATE.
Wednesday, January 13
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (room FA2) - Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park
Mary Eberts
Acts of Attrition: The Indian Ace, Citizenship, and Women's Resistance
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
12:30 - 2:00
Stephen Gardbaum
UCLA School of Law
Reassessing the New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
12:30 - 2:00
Nicholas Aroney
TC Beirne School of Law
The University of Queensland
Intellectual Influences on Australian Federalism
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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
12:30 - 2:00
Hugo Cyr
Universite du Quebec a Montreal
Canadian Federalism and Treaty Powers: Organic Constitutionalism
at Work
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
12:30 - 2:00
Marci Hamilton
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
The "Licentiousness" in Religious Organizations and Why It Is Not Protected
Under Religious Liberty Constitutional Provisions
2008-2009
Thursday, October 23
4:10 - 6:00
LOCATION: FLB (Classroom B) - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Judith Resnik
Yale Law School
Ratifying Kyoto at the Local Level: Sovereigntism, Federalism, and Translocal Organizations of Government Actors
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Thursday, December 4
4:30 - 6:30
BOOK LAUNCH: Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada,
edited by Richard Moon.
The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. with a presentation and discussion of the book in the Solarium of
Falconer Hall (84 Queen's Park).
A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. in the Rowell Room of Flavelle House (78 Queen's Park).
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Friday, January 16
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Flavelle Dining Room
Alejandro Madrazo
Professor of History of Law and Comparative Law,
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), School of Law
and
Legal Consultant re Decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City and Tobacco Control legislation
The 2008 Mexican Supreme Court Decision on Abortion
Co-sponsored by the Feminism & Law workshop series and the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Programme, University of Toronto.
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Tuesday, January 20
12:30 - 2:00
Michael Klarman
Harvard Law School
Backlash: The Occasionally Perverse Consequences of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
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Tuesday, January 27
12:30 - 2:00
Bernhard Schlink
Humboldt University, Berlin
The Principle of Proportionality - Success and Limits
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NEW DATE AND LOCATION
DATE: Wednesday, February 11
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION: Faculty Common Room, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
Aeyal Gross
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law
Global Values and Local Realities: The Case of Israeli Constitutional Law
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Constitutional Roundtable, 2007 - 2008
All meetings are in the Solarium (84 Queen's Park) unless otherwise indicated.
Tuesday, September 11
12:30 - 2:00
Susanne Baer
Humboldt University, Berlin
Taking Law Seriously. An Approach to Critical Implementation Studies in Equality
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Tuesday, September 25
12:30 - 2:00
Arun Kumar Thiruvengadam
National University of Singapore Faculty of Law
The Common Illumination of our House?: Foreign Judicial Decisions and Competing
Approaches to Constitutional Adjudication - A study of trans-judicial influence in six
jurisdictions
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Tuesday, October 2
12:00 - 2:00
LOCATION:
Croft Chapter House, University College
15 King's College Circle
Daphne Barak-Erez
Stewart and Judy Colton Chair of Law and Security
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University
Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion and Culture in Israel
Co-sponsored with the Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science,
Centre for Criminology, and the Jewish Studies Program
University of Toronto
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Friday, October 5
12:30 - 2:00
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom FLB - 78 Queen's Park
David Estlund
Brown University Department of Philosophy
Democratic Authority
Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop
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NEW DATE AND LOCATION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
12:30 - 2:00
Classroom A - Flavelle House (lower level)
78 Queen's Park
Aharon Barak
President, The Supreme Court of Israel (retired 2006)
The Migration of Proportionality
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Tuesday, November 13
12:30 - 2:00
Matthew Palmer
2005 International Resarch Fellow, New Zealand Law Foundation &
Herbert Smith Visitor, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law
Constitutional Culture
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Tuesday, February 5
12:30 - 2:00
Wayne Sumner
University of Toronto Department of Philosophy
Lorraine Weinrib
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
A Theory of the Charter
Commentator: Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto Department of Philosophy)_____________________________________________________
For more information, please contact Professor Lorraine Weinrib at l.weinrib@utoronto.ca or Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.
Constitutional Roundtable, 2006 - 2007
SEPTEMBER 20
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45 p.m.
Professor Dieter Grimm
Berlin Institute for Advanced Study; Former Justice, Constitutional Court
of Germany
Constitutionality of the Authorization to Shoot Down Hijacked Aircraft under the
German Constitution
LOCATION CHANGE
CLASSROOM FLB - 78 QUEEN'S PARK
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September 26
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Professor Shai Levi
Tel Aviv University
Is There a Right to Die? Lessons from the History of Euthanasia
LOCATION: FLAVELLE DINING ROOM - 78 Queen's Park
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October 31
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Monique and Max Nemni
Young Trudeau, 1919-1944: Son of Quebec, Father of Canada
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January 12
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45
Justice Robert Sharpe (Ontario Court of Appeal)
Patricia McMahon (Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP)
The Persons Case
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January 18
(Thursday)
12:10 - 1:45
Michel Rosenfeld
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Comparing Constitutional Review by the European Court of Justice
and the U.S. Supreme Court
LOCATION: Classroom FLA - 78 Queen's Park
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January 30
(Tuesday)
12:10- 1:45
Michael Code and Kent Roach
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
R. v. Khawaja on the constitutionality of the definition of terrorism
and a variety of terrorism offences
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February 6
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Brenda Cossman and Lorraine Weinrib
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada #2
(Commissioner of Customs and Revenue)
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February 16
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45
Justice Aharon Barak
Former President, Israeli Supreme Court
The Permissibility of Targeted Killing of Terrorists under Israeli and
International Law
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February 27
(Tuesday)
12:10- 1:45
Gidon Sapir
Bar Ilan University
Why Freedom of Religion Does Not Include Freedom From Religion
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March 7
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Roundtable on the Recent Supreme Court of Canada
Judgments on Security Certificates
Participants:
Sujit Choudhry, Michael Code, David Dyzenhaus, Audry Macklin, Hamish Stewart
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May 1
(Tuesday)
12:00 - 2:00
Anton Burkov
Urals Centre for Constitutional and International
Human Rights Protection; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge
Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights:
The Role of Courts and NGOs
Co-sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Munk Centre for Intarnational Studies, University of Toronto
LOCATION: Room 208, North House, Munk Centre, 1 Devonshire Place
Constitutional Roundtable, 2005 - 2006
All meetings in the Solarium unless otherwise indicated.
SEPTEMBER 20
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45 p.m.
Professor Moshe Cohen
Academic Collee of Law
The Formal and the Substantive Meanings of Proportionality in the Supreme Court's
Decision Regarding the Security Fence
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OCTOBER 3
(Monday)
12:10 - 1:45
Andrew Lynch
Senior Lecturer, The University of New South Wales, Australia
Does Australia Need an Emergency Constitution for the Way We Live Now?
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OCTOBER 18
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Professor Daphne Barak-Erez
Tel Aviv University
The Law of Historical Films: In the Aftermath of "Jenin, Jenin"
NEW LOCATION: FLAVELLE DINING ROOM - 78 QUEEN'S PARK
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OCTOBER 26
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Professor David Cameron
University of Toronto
The Iraqi Constitution
NEW LOCATION: FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 QUEEN'S PARK
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JANUARY 17
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Professor Pierre Legrand
Université de Paris
Comparative Legal Studies and the Matter of Authenticity
Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop
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JANUARY 25
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Justice Richard Goldstone
Henry Shattuck Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School;
former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa
The Approach of the South African Constitutional Court to Social
and Economic Rights
NEW LOCATION: FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 Queen's Park
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JANUARY 31
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Professor Bernard Schlink
Humboldt University
Jurisprudence of Crisis
LOCATION: FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 Queen's Park
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February 14
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Professor Anver Emon
University of Toronto
Islamic Law and the Canadian Mosaic: Politics, Jurisprudence,
and Multicultural Accommodation
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March 2
(Thursday)
12:10 - 1:45
Professor David Kretzmer
Hebrew University
Targeted Killings of Suspected Terrorists: Extra-Judicial Executions
or Legitimate Means of Defence?
LOCATION: FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 Queen's Park
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March 24
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45
Justice Barry Strayer
The Political Foundations of the Canadian Charter
LOCATION: Faculty Lounge, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park
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March 28
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45
Professor Peter Oliver
King's College, London
Constitutional Change in the Commonwealth - Lessons
for Constitutional Theory
LOCATION: FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 QUEEN'S PARK
Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop series.
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For more information, please contact Professor Lorraine Weinrib at l.weinrib@utoronto.ca or Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.
