Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable with Prof Brandon Garrett of Duke University School of Law

"Wealth, Equal Protection and Due Process"

 with UTLaw's Associate Professor Vincent Chiao as Discussant

 October 2nd 12:30-2:00 pm in Jackman J125

Cara Locke*

Cara Locke (*née Mouland)
SJD Candidate
Thesis title:
Remedial Justice: The Legitimacy of Remedies for Unconstitutional Laws
Office in Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, M5S 2C5
Email: cara.locke@mail.utoronto.ca

Cara is interested in how judges act like legislators, and how legislators act like judges.

Her doctoral project focuses on remedies for unconstitutional criminal legislation. Cara's previous work has been cited by the Supreme Court of Canada in support of a disciplined approach to suspended declarations of invalidity.

Outside of academia, Cara has front-line experience as a lawyer in both courtrooms and legislative chambers. This concrete grounding continues to shape her work on the proper boundaries between judges and legislators.

Education
LLM - Long Thesis
JD (Distinction)
BA (Hons) - Psychology and English
Awards and Distinctions
C. David Naylor Fellow
Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Scholar
Nathan Strauss Q.C. Graduate Fellow in Canadian Constitutional Law
Raoul Wallenberg Scholar
Doctoral Fellow, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
LLM Fellow, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Professional Affiliations
Law Society of Ontario
Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
Canadian Bar Association
Selected Publications

“Remedying the Remedy: Bedford’s Suspended Declaration of Invalidity” (2018) 41:3 Man LJ 281. (Cited in G v Ontario, 2020 SCC 38)

"Debating the Rule of Law: The Curious Re-Enactment of the Solicitation Offence" (2021) 58:3 Alta L Rev 687.

 *née Mouland

Research Interests
Administrative Law
Canadian Constitutional Law
Charter of Rights
Comparative Law
Criminal Law 
Criminal Procedure and Evidence
Critical Legal Theory
Election Law
Judicial Decision-Making
Legal Ethics
Legal Process
Legal Theory
National Security Law and Anti-Terrorism Law
Political Philosophy and Theory
Supervisor
Kent Roach
Committee Members
Yasmin Dawood
Richard Stacey
External links
SSRN

2019 Wright Memorial Lecture - “Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy: Some Conceptual Preliminaries" by Prof. Mark Tushnet

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

By Peter Boisseau

The eminent Harvard Law School professor who delivered this year’s Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture says Americans can’t rely on the legal system to hold U.S. President Donald Trump accountable for allegedly conspiring with Russia in the 2016 election.

Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable with Professor Mark Tushnet

On January 23, 2019, Distinguished Visiting Professor Mark Tushnet (who is giving the Wright lecture this year), will present a Constitutional Roundtable on “Interpreting Unwritten Constitutional Norms: Court-Packing in the United States as a Case Study,” with University of Toronto Faculty of Law Professor Yasmin Dawood  as discussant. 

Menaka Guruswamy, lead lawyer who represented LGBTQ Indians in fight to decriminalize gay sex in India, gives the 2018 Goodman Lecture

Wednesday, October 31, 2018

By Peter Boisseau

When India’s Supreme Court recently changed its position and struck down a nearly 155-year-old colonial era law criminalizing gay sex, it had as much to do with shifting perceptions of love as with new legal interpretations, one of the lead lawyers representing petitioners in the case told an audience at the 2018 David B. Goodman Lecture.

Goodman Lecture: Dr. Menaka Guruswamy, “Irrational, indefensible, and manifestly arbitrary”

2018-19 Annual David B. Goodman Lecture

Dr. Menaka Guruswamy

Dr. Menaka Guruswamy
BR Ambedkar Research Scholar and Lecturer at Columbia Law School

“Irrational, indefensible, and manifestly arbitrary” 

Professor Yasmin Dawood named member of Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists

Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Headshot of Professor Yasmin Dawood

Internationally renowned election law scholar, Professor Yasmin Dawood, has been named a member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, an outstanding honour, and one of six from the University of Toronto.

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