A chance to do the right thing

by Audrey Macklin, Diana Juricevic and Cheryl Milne

This commentary was first published in the Globe and Mail on February 1, 2010.

As you read this, the Canadian government is violating the rights of Omar Khadr.

On April 21, 2009, the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights held a book launch for the new book Parliamentary Democracy in Crisis: The Dilemmas, Choices and Future of Parliamentary Government in Canada, edited by Lorne Sossin and Peter Russell and published by University of Toronto Press.

The launch included a panel discussion featuring Peter Hogg, Michael Valpy, David Cameron, and Barbara Cameron, moderated by Prof. Sujit Choudhry.

The webcast of the panel discussion has been archived.

Recent graduate Michael Rosenberg ('09), who is currently clerking for Supreme Court of Canada Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin, has been profiled in Canadian Lawyer Magazine's "4Students" issue (September 2009).

Read the profile on the Canadian Lawyer Magazine website.

The Faculty of Law's International Human Rights Program (IHRP) has won a significant victory for international human rights in a case involving discrimination against Roma people in Romania.

On May, 26, 2009 the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France released its decision in Tanase v. Romania.  The case concerned a 1991 anti-Roma pogrom that resulted in 24 Roma families being beaten and driven from their homes by non-Roma villagers. The families have been unable to return to their community for the past 18 years.