Asper Centre and IHRP Working Group Information Session

Dear U of T Law JD students,

Please attend this important Information session on September 13, 2022 @12h30 to find out about the volunteer opportunities available this year at the Asper Centre and the IHRP. Lunch will be provided!

'We have urgent work to do': New book by Professor Kent Roach on why Canadian policing needs to change

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Professor Kent RoachKent Roach has thought a lot about policing throughout his lifetime. He even aspired to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as a young boy. 

But rather than donning the red serge, the professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law has spent his career extensively studying policing – often from the perspective of an insider.

Powers to deal with convoy protest constrained by Charter, uncertainty: U of T Law profs

Friday, February 18, 2022

Legal issues of the convoy panel

On February 16, the Faculty of Law hosted a snap panel about the convoy and Canada's legal institutions: "How Freedom Rules and the Rules of Freedom: Convoys and Legal Institutions".

The Implications of Facial Recognition Technology

The Implications of Facial Recognition Technology
An Investigation through the lens of Constitutional, Privacy, and Human Rights Law

Tuesday, February 15th from 12:30pm-2:00pm

 

Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable on City of Toronto et al. v. Ontario

Constitutional Roundtable Nov 9th 2021 descriptionAsper Centre Webinar on City of Toronto et al. v. Ontario

The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights’ Constitutional Roundtable Series presents

Asper Centre Podcast Launch

Podcast cover Art

The Asper Centre is thrilled to announce the launch of its podcast on Friday October 1, 2021. 

Asper Centre and IHRP Information Session

Dear JD Students,

Please attend this information session to learn about the volunteer opportunities available this year at the Asper Centre and the IHRP.

Refer to the updated Public Interest Programs Joint Volunteer Recruitment Process guidelines for more details about how to get involved with our programs.

We look forward to meeting and working with you! 

MAID Bill C-7 Is an Affront to Equality

Trudo Lemmens
Thursday, March 11, 2021

MAID Bill Is an Affront to Equality

Archibald Kaiser, Isabel Grant, Trudo Lemmens & Elizabeth Sheehy

Toronto Star editorial March 11, 2021

Canada’s legal system has an ugly track record on mental illness: exclusionary immigration laws; involuntary sterilization; restrictive marriage and voting statutes; debacles of institutionalization, deinstitutionalization and criminalization; and casualties of the war on drugs. Our nation has abandoned Canadians with mental illness to poverty, isolation and substandard living conditions. Now, based on a misguided interpretation of equality, Parliament intends to pass Bill C-7 and provide medical assistance in dying (MAID) to those suffering from mental illness.

In extending MAID to persons with disabilities whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable, Bill C-7 exposes the shallowness of Canada’s commitment to the human rights of persons with disabilities. And while people with mental illness were initially protected, Parliament will further destabilize the equality and security of people with mental illness by including them in the legislation through a sunset provision in two years.

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