ASPER CENTRE CONSTITUTIONAL ROUNDTABLE

presents 

Jamie Cameron
York University Osgoode Hall Law School 

Section 7 and the Idea of the Charter 

Wednesday, March 22, 2017
12:30 – 2:00S
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park 

This presentation/paper looks at the idea of the Charter through a s.7 lens. As such, it treats s.7 as a metaphor – as the metaphor – for the central methodological, interpretative, and institutional challenges of Charter decision-making. Section 7 exemplifies the most difficult questions the Supreme Court of Canada has had to consider and has generated the most provocative jurisprudence among the guarantees. Issues of a methodological, doctrinal, and theoretical nature are engaged by s.7 in distinctive ways which nonetheless reflect back on and illustrate Charter themes of general application. 

Jamie Cameron is a Professor of Law and has been on the full-time faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School since 1984. She holds law degrees from McGill University and Columbia University, clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for the Hon. Justice Brian Dickson, and was on the faculty at Cornell Law School before joining Osgoode. Her teaching and research interests include constitutional and Charter law, American constitutional law, criminal law, the Charter’s fundamental freedoms, and s.7’s principles of fundamental justice. In addition to her own scholarship she has organized many conference and events, was editor-in-chief of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal (2006-9), and has been the editor and co-editor of a dozen book collections, including the annual Constitutional Cases volumes, The Charter’s Impact on the Criminal Justice System, Reflections on the Legacy of Justice Bertha Wilson, and The Charter and Criminal Justice: Twenty-Five Years Later. 

A light lunch will be provided.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca

Critical Analysis of Law Workshop Series

presents 

Christopher N. Warren
Carnegie Melon University 

History, Literature, and Authority in International Law 

Tuesday, March 21, 2017
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

One consequence of international law’s recent historical turn has been to sharpen methodological contrasts between intellectual history and international law.  Scholars including Antony Anghie, Anne Orford, Rose Parfitt, and Martii Koskenniemi have taken on board historians’ interest in contingency and context but pointedly relaxed historians’ traditional stricture against presentist instrumentalism. This essay argues that such a move disrupts a longstanding division of labor between history and international law and ultimately brings international legal method closer to literature and literary scholarship.  The essay therefore details several more or less endemic ways in which literature and literary studies confront challenges of presentism, anachronism, meaning, and time.  Using examples from writers as diverse as Anghie, Spinoza, Geoffrey Hill, Emily St. John Mandel, China Miéville, John Hollander, Pascale Casanova, Matthew Nicholson, John Selden, Shakespeare, and Dante, it proposes a “trilateral” discussion among historians, international lawyers, and literary scholars that takes seriously the multipolar disciplinary field in which each of these disciplines makes and sustains relations with each of the others.  

Christopher Warren is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Literature and the Law of Nations, 1580-1680, which was published by Oxford University Press and was awarded the 2016 Roland H. Bainton Prize for Literature by the Sixteenth Century Society.  His articles have appeared in journals including Humanity, Law, Culture, and the Humanities, and The European Journal of International Law.  His current book project is a study called Distant Reading the ODNB, which uses digital methods to study biographies of elite Britons from the Roman Empire to the present.    
 

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca

                      Chandra Murdoch, University of Toronto

"Reactions to Enactment: Suggestions from Reserves to amend the Indian Act, 1869-1904."

Wednesday March 22, 6.30 p.m.  Flavelle 219

For a copy of the paper contact j.phillips@utoronto.ca 

The JD/MBA Association has two exciting Lunch n’ Learns planned for March. Mark your calendars!

 Greg Keeling will be speaking on March 21 from 1 - 2pm at Career Centre Lounge, Rotman School of Management. 

Who: Greg Keeling is BMO Financial Group’s Director of Compliance Management.

What: Lunch and conversation with Greg. Greg oversees the operation and implementation of key policy and regulatory requirements across BMO. He has overseen compliance at BMO Capital Markets and has worked in various other functions across the bank. Before joining BMO, Greg worked in various positions with the Ontario government. See his LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkeeling/  

Andrea Stairs will be speaking on March 24 from 12 - 1pm at Rotman in room RT 287, Rotman School of Management. 

Who: Andrea Stairs is a UofT JD/MBA alumna (2000) and the Executive Director of Ebay Canada. 

What: Lunch and conversation with Andrea. She started her career in Corporate Finance at EY and has held various senior marketing and technology roles in Gap Inc and Ebay Canada. See her Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreastairs/

Please RSVP to jordyn.benattar@mail.utoronto.ca to confirm your attendance.

You’ve heard your professors’ notes on decades-old cases about people who have long passed, have you ever found yourself asking “what is a Stevenson anyway?” Look no further for the answer, because the year is 2017 and it doesn’t matter anymore. Instead, keep up with the times by joining us at Baker McKenzie Presents: U of T Law Inspires 2017. 

This year, 4 professors – Anita Anand, David Schneiderman, Vincent Chiao, and Trudo Lemmens – will join Global Professional LLM candidate Satyama Mongia to share their thoughts on an engaging and inspiring topic in law. On Monday, March 20 from 12:30pm to 2pm, bring yourself to room P120 to witness the fascinating presentations from some of the brightest thinkers our Faculty to offer! 

On February 23, the IHRP released at a press conference on Parliament Hill "Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention", its third report in two years on immigration detention.

Please join us for a lunchtime discussion with Prof. Audrey Macklin, IHRP senior fellow Hanna Gros and clinic student Yolanda Song (3L) about the research and advocacy involved in releasing this report. The panel will focus on the topics of immigration detention in Canada, advocacy strategies for human rights work, and the IHRP clinic program in general.

Date: March 20, 2017

Time: 12:30-2pm

Location: 78 Queen’s Park Cres. Room J125 (Jackman Law Building)

A light lunch will be provided.

EVENT POSTER

Friday April 7th, 2017

12:30-2:00pm

“The Presumption of innocence and Whitman’s fictitious presumption of mercy”

 Dr. Demetra Fr. Sorvatzioti
Assistant Professor and Director of the
Institute of Criminal Studies & Criminology, University of Nicosia

Dr. Demetra Fr. Sorvatzioti has an LL.B and a Ph.D. in Criminology. She is the Head of the Law Department at the University of Nicosia and also the Director of the Institute of Criminal Studies and Criminology.
Dr. Sorvatzioti has practiced criminal law in Greece and Cyprus. She is a member of the advisory board of Fair Trials International, and a member of the Crime Policy board of the Ministry of Justice in Cyprus.
Her publications include: "The Poverty of Justice"; "Sexual offenders: The crime and the sentence" with A.Magganas, "L' Intime Conviction’ andthe Principle of Legality”; “Poor migrants and effective legal representation in Criminal Cases via Legal Aid Scheme".

http://www.texaslrev.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Whitman.FinalPDF.pdf

Panelists include:
Allan Mason, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University
Malcolm Thorburn, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Moderator:
Vincent Chiao, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

The talk will begin at 12:30pm in the Ericson Seminar Room (room 265)

A light lunch & beverages to be served at 12 noon in the Centre lounge.

The IDERD Campaign will be held March 20 – 21, 2017.

Campaign Poster

Submissions deadline: April 30^th, 2017

The Honourable Sandra Chapnik Women-in-Law Award recognizes female law students who exemplify the drive and determination to achieve a law degree after having spent time in the workforce.

1. Currently enrolled in an Ontario law school (include transcripts and a CV);
2. A defined need for financial assistance (to be determined at law school with supporting documentation); and
3. An essay of no less than 200 words explaining the above, her past experiences and her future goals.

As a guest of honour at the WLAO Annual Awards dinner in June, the recipient will receive her award and have the opportunity to meet many influential and successful women lawyers, legal educators, and judges from the Toronto area. This award will be administered through the WLAO and Ontario law schools with final selection by a panel consisting of the Honourable Sandra Chapnik and two WLAO board members.

Annual Award Amount: $1,000

Download Application Form

Submissions deadline: April 30^th, 2017

The Women’s Law Association of Ontario and Aird & Berlis LLP Equality Award is designed to recognize a woman law student who has dedicated her time and talents to advancing equality rights. The recipient will receive a monetary award of $1000.00. The recipient of the award will demonstrate the following characteristics (for details see application form):

• female registered, in good standing, at an Ontario faculty of law and studying for an LL.B, J.D. or LL.M.; and
• a record of dedication to advancing equality rights (such as, but not limited to religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, mental health, refugee, aboriginal, minority and HIV/AIDS victim’s rights).

As a guest of honour at the WLAO Annual Awards dinner in June, the recipient will receive her award and have the opportunity to meet many influential and successful women lawyers, legal educators, and judges from the Toronto area. Funds are available for accommodation and travel costs to Toronto for the recipient to attend the Awards dinner.

To obtain an application form please contact your law school’s Career Services office or contact Women’s Law Association of Ontario directly.

Download Application form