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.

Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable with Kerry Wilkins

 
"So You Want to Implement UNDRIP…" by Kerry Wilkins
 
The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is pleased to present a Constitutional Roundtable with U of T Law adjunct professor Kerry Wilkins

How U of T's Downtown Legal Services helped refugees strike down the Safe Third Country Agreement in a federal court

Friday, August 21, 2020
Prasanna Balasundaram
Prasanna Balasundaram, a refugee and immigration lawyer with U of T's Downtown Legal Services, was one of nine lawyers involved in the Charter case against the Safe Third Country Agreement between Canada and the U.S.

Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights - Working Groups Info Session

Please note the session will start at 12:45pm

he Asper Centre is devoted to advocacy, research and education in the area of constitutional rights in Canada. The cornerstone of the Centre is a legal clinic that brings together upper year students, faculty and members of the bar to work on significant constitutional cases and advocacy initiatives for credit. Students in all years can volunteer with one of our working groups led by upper year students.

Online Webinar: COVID-19 Contact Tracing and the Canadian Constitution

The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights & the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society 

Top places finishers of the Callaghan Memorial Moot

Saturday, March 7, 2020

U of T law students Lilly Gates, Adrian Ling, Keely Kinley and William Rooney at the Ontario Court of Appeal (Osgoode Hall)

U of T law students Lilly Gates, Adrian Ling, Keely Kinley and William Rooney at the Ontario Court of Appeal (Osgoode Hall).

U of T's David Asper Centre prepares constitutional challenge to lower Canada's voting age

Wednesday, January 29, 2020

The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, in partnership with several child rights organizations, is laying the groundwork for a legal challenge of Canada’s minimum voting age.

The Asper Centre – at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law – launched consultations on the topic last summer and began to develop a legal theory with participation from youth organizations across Canada, including Justice for Children and Youth (JFCY).

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