Canadian Constitutional Law

Media Advisory
November 22, 2011

In a commentary in The Toronto Star, Prof. David Schneiderman analyzes the decision by Justice David Brown regarding the Occupy Toronto encampment in St. James' Park ("Free speech and dog walking," November 28, 2011).

Read the commentary on The Toronto Star website.

The new issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal is a special issue on "Constitutionalism and the Criminal Law" (Volume 61, Number 4 / 2011). The issue is co-edited by Prof. Hamish Stewart of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and Prof. Shai Lavi of the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law.

See the issue on the University of Toronto Press website (full text available at subscribing institutions).

The decision of the British Columbia Supreme Court in the Polygamy Reference case makes a strong statement respecting the rights of children and the state obligation to protect them from harm. In a lengthy judgment, Chief Justice Bauman catalogues the volumes of evidence demonstrating the harms to women and children associated with the practice of polygamy around the world and in our own backyard, in Bountiful, British Columbia.

In a commentary in the National Post, Prof. Jacob Ziegel provides an overview of the constitutional issues that the Supreme Court of Canada will have to consider in the Securities Act reference ("Who can regulate Canadian securities?", July 15, 2011).

Read the full article on the Faculty Blog.

The latest issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal (62:2) is a special issue that honours Prof. Ernest Weinrib on the occasion of his being awarded the Killam Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to legal scholarship.

(Toronto, April 12, 2011) A report recently released by the Faculty of Law's David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights (www.aspercentre.ca) calls for an authoritative set of guidelines on Canada's important but unwritten parliamentary conventions.