Constitutional Roundtable: Past Years

2013 - 2014

Friday, November 1
12:30 - 2:00
Location:  
Room 108N, North House, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place 

Leti Volpp, UC Berkeley School of Law
The Indigenous as Alien

Co-sponsored with the Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism and the R.F. Harney Program in Ethics, Immigration and Pluralism Studies, Munk School of Global Affairs

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Thursday, November 21
12:30 - 2:00

LOCATION:
Alumni Hall, Victoria College

Norman Daniels, Harvard School of Public Health
Ethical Basis for Excluding Unauthorized Immigrants from the Affordable Care Act 
Commentator:  Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto

Co-sponsored with the Health Law, Ethics and Policy Workshop Series.

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Wednesday, January 15
12:30 - 2:00

John Norris, Constitutional Litigator in Residence, Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights 
"Generous" to a Fault? The Supreme Court of Canada's Approach to Section 6(1) of the Charter

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Wednesday, January 29
12:30 - 2:00

Location:
Aluimni Hall, Victoria College 

Benjamin Berger, Osgoode Hall Law School
Religious Diversity, Education, and the "Crisis" in State Neutrality

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Friday, February 28
12:30 - 2:00

Location:  
Victoria College, Room 323

Sandra Liebenberg, University of Stellenbosch
Deepening Democratic Transformation in South Africa Through Participatory Constitutional Remedies

This is the lunchtime plenary for the conference, "Constitutional Remedies:  Are They Effective and Meaningful?"
See complete conference registration information.

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 2012 - 2013

 2011-2012 Schedule

All meetings are in the Solarium (84 Queen's Park) unless otherwise indicated.

Thursday, September 15
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Classroom A - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

Peter H. Russell, University Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto
Jacob Ziegel, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Judicial Appointment to the Supreme Court of Canada

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Wednesday, October 19
12:30 - 2:00

Click on name to read paper (PDF)

Nicola McGarrity, University of New Wouth Wales, Australia
John Ip, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Kent Roach, University of Toronto

Counter-Terrorism and the Constitution:  Perspectives from Australia, New Zealand and Canada

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Monday, November 28
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Bennett Lecture Hall, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

Noa Mendelsohn
Aviv Marcus McCann
Robert Keel R.
Douglas Elliott

Catholic Schools and Gay Students Associations

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Friday, January 27
12:30 - 2:00

Steven J. Heyman, Chicago-Kent College of Law 

The Dark Side of the Force: The Legacy of Justice Holmes for First Amendment Jurisprudence ____________________________________________________

Wednesday, March 14
12:30 - 2:00

MIchal Bobek, University of Oxford Faculty of Law

Comparative Law in European Supreme Courts: Why is nobody interested in Originalism? ____________________________________________________

2010-2011

Tuesday, October 5
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Classroom C - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

James Hathaway, University of Michigan Law School
Audrey Macklin, University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Lorne Waldman, Lorne Waldman and Associates (Canadian Immigration and Human Rights Law)

Is None Still Too Many?  Asylum Seekers on Boats,
Then and Now, Here and There

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THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Tuesday, October 12
12:30 - 2:00

Mary Eberts, SJD Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Acts of Attrition
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Thursday, October 21
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Classroom B - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park 

Aharon Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Emeritus)

Proportionality

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Wednesday, November 17
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Dining Room, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

Veronica Undurraga, Director, Women's Program, Human Rights Centre
University of Chile LawSchool

The Use of the Proportionalty Principle in the Judicial Review of Abortion Laws:
Problems and Possibilities

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Monday, November 29
TIME:  4:00 - 6:00 PM
LOCATION:  Faculty Common Room, Flavell House, 78 Queen's Park

Barry Friedman, New York University

Becoming Supreme: How Federalism Fosters Judicial Power

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Wednesday, January 5
12:30 - 2:00

Gavin Phillipson, University of Durham Law School

Stealthy Derogations and Judicial Deference:  Redefining liberty and due process rights in
counter-terrorism law and beyond

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Friday, January 21
TIME:  2:00 - 4:00
LOCATION:  Munk Centre, University of Toronto, 1 Devonshire Place, Room 208N


Mark Stein, York University Department of History

The US Supreme Court's Sexual Revolution? 
Sex, Marriage and Reproduction from Griswold to Roe


Co-sponsored by the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto.
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Tuesday, February 15
12:30 - 2:00

Eyal Benvenisti, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law

Will National Court Cooperation Promote Global Accountability?
Judicial Review of International Organizations

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Thursday, March 10
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Classroom A (FLA), Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

Peter L. Lindseth, University of Connecticut School of Law 

Power and Legitimacy:  Reconciling Europe and the Nation-State

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Wednesday, March 30
NEW TIME & LOCATION:  
2:00 - 3:30 PM, Faculty Lounge Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

Izhak Englard

The History of the Distinction between Corrective and Distributive Justice

Co-sponsored by the Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto.

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Thursday, April 21
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Faculty Lounge, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

Theunis Roux, The University of New South Wales Faculty of Law

A Conceptual Framework for Assessing the Performance of Constitutional Courts
in Legal and Political Terms

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2009 - 2010

Wednesday, September 9
12:30 - 2:00

Tom Hickman
Blackstone Chambers

Secret Justice

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Wednesday, October 21
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Classroom C - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

Aharon Barak
President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Emeritus)

The Judge:  A Documentary Retrospective  of the Illustrious Career of
President Aharon Barak, President of the Supreme Court of Israel (Emeritus)

President Barak will answer questions after the documentary.

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THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED. 
IT WILL BE RESCHEDULED TO A NEW DATE.

Wednesday, January 13
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (room FA2) - Falconer Hall, 84 Queen's Park

Mary Eberts

Acts of Attrition:  The Indian Ace, Citizenship, and Women's Resistance

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
12:30 - 2:00


Stephen Gardbaum
UCLA School of Law

Reassessing the New Commonwealth Model of Constitutionalism

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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
12:30 - 2:00


Nicholas Aroney
TC Beirne School of Law
The University of Queensland

Intellectual Influences on Australian Federalism

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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
12:30 - 2:00


Hugo Cyr
Universite du Quebec a Montreal

Canadian Federalism and Treaty Powers: Organic Constitutionalism
at Work

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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
12:30 - 2:00


Marci Hamilton
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

The "Licentiousness" in Religious Organizations and Why It Is Not Protected
Under Religious Liberty Constitutional Provisions

2008-2009

Thursday, October 23
4:10 - 6:00
LOCATION:  FLB (Classroom B) - Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

Judith Resnik
Yale Law School

Ratifying Kyoto at the Local Level: Sovereigntism, Federalism, and Translocal Organizations of Government Actors

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Thursday, December 4
4:30 - 6:30

BOOK LAUNCH:  Law and Religious Pluralism in Canada,
edited by Richard Moon.

The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. with a presentation and discussion of the book in the Solarium of
Falconer Hall (84 Queen's Park). 

A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. in the Rowell Room of Flavelle House (78 Queen's Park).

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Friday, January 16
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Flavelle Dining Room

Alejandro Madrazo
Professor of History of Law and Comparative Law,
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), School of Law
and
Legal Consultant re Decriminalization of abortion in Mexico City and Tobacco Control legislation

The 2008 Mexican Supreme Court Decision on Abortion

Co-sponsored by the Feminism & Law workshop series and the International Reproductive and Sexual Health Programme, University of Toronto.
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Tuesday, January 20
12:30 - 2:00


Michael Klarman
Harvard Law School

Backlash: The Occasionally Perverse Consequences of U.S. Supreme Court Decisions

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Tuesday, January 27
12:30 - 2:00


Bernhard Schlink
Humboldt University, Berlin

The Principle of Proportionality - Success and Limits

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NEW DATE AND LOCATION
DATE: Wednesday, February 11
12:30 - 2:00
LOCATION:  Faculty Common Room, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

Aeyal Gross 
Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law

Global Values and Local Realities:  The Case of Israeli Constitutional Law
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Constitutional Roundtable, 2007 - 2008

All meetings are in the Solarium (84 Queen's Park) unless otherwise indicated.

Tuesday, September 11
12:30 - 2:00

Susanne Baer
Humboldt University, Berlin

Taking Law Seriously.  An Approach to Critical Implementation Studies in Equality

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Tuesday, September 25
12:30 - 2:00

Arun Kumar Thiruvengadam
National University of Singapore Faculty of Law

The Common Illumination of our House?:  Foreign Judicial Decisions and Competing
Approaches to Constitutional Adjudication - A study of trans-judicial influence in six
jurisdictions

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Tuesday, October 2
12:00 - 2:00
LOCATION:
Croft Chapter House, University College
15 King's College Circle

Daphne Barak-Erez
Stewart and Judy Colton Chair of Law and Security
Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University

Outlawed Pigs: Law, Religion and Culture in Israel

Co-sponsored with the Faculty of Law, Department of Political Science,
Centre for Criminology, and the Jewish Studies Program
University of Toronto

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Friday, October 5
12:30 - 2:00
NEW LOCATION:
Classroom FLB - 78 Queen's Park

David Estlund
Brown University Department of Philosophy

Democratic Authority


Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop
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NEW DATE AND LOCATION
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
12:30 - 2:00
Classroom A - Flavelle House (lower level)
78 Queen's Park

Aharon Barak
President, The Supreme Court of Israel (retired 2006)

The Migration of Proportionality

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Tuesday, November 13
12:30 - 2:00

Matthew Palmer
2005 International Resarch Fellow, New Zealand Law Foundation &
Herbert Smith Visitor, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law

Constitutional Culture

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Tuesday, February 5
12:30 - 2:00

Wayne Sumner
University of Toronto Department of Philosophy

Lorraine Weinrib
University of Toronto Faculty of Law

A Theory of the Charter

Commentator:  Thomas Hurka (University of Toronto Department of Philosophy)_____________________________________________________

For more information, please contact Professor Lorraine Weinrib at l.weinrib@utoronto.ca or Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.

Constitutional Roundtable, 2006 - 2007

SEPTEMBER 20
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45 p.m.

Professor Dieter Grimm
Berlin Institute for Advanced Study; Former Justice, Constitutional Court
of Germany

Constitutionality of the Authorization to Shoot Down Hijacked Aircraft under the
German Constitution

LOCATION CHANGE
CLASSROOM FLB - 78 QUEEN'S PARK
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September 26
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Professor Shai Levi
Tel Aviv University

Is There a Right to Die?  Lessons from the History of Euthanasia

LOCATION:  FLAVELLE DINING ROOM - 78 Queen's Park
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October 31
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Monique and Max Nemni

Young Trudeau, 1919-1944:  Son of Quebec, Father of Canada

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January 12
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Justice Robert Sharpe (Ontario Court of Appeal)
Patricia McMahon (Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP)

The Persons Case

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January 18
(Thursday)
12:10 - 1:45

Michel Rosenfeld
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

Comparing Constitutional Review by the European Court of Justice
and the U.S. Supreme Court

LOCATION:  Classroom FLA - 78 Queen's Park

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January 30
(Tuesday)
12:10- 1:45

Michael Code and Kent Roach
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

R. v. Khawaja on the constitutionality of the definition of terrorism
and a variety of terrorism offences

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February 6
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Brenda Cossman and Lorraine Weinrib
Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Little Sisters Book and Art Emporium v. Canada #2
(Commissioner of Customs and Revenue)

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February 16
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Justice Aharon Barak
Former President, Israeli Supreme Court

The Permissibility of Targeted Killing of Terrorists under Israeli and
International Law

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February 27
(Tuesday)
12:10- 1:45

Gidon Sapir
Bar Ilan University

Why Freedom of Religion Does Not Include Freedom From Religion

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March 7
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Roundtable on the Recent Supreme Court of Canada
Judgments on Security Certificates

Participants: 
Sujit Choudhry, Michael Code, David Dyzenhaus, Audry Macklin, Hamish Stewart

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May 1
(Tuesday)
12:00 - 2:00

Anton Burkov
Urals Centre for Constitutional and International
Human Rights Protection; Ph.D. Candidate, University of Cambridge

Russia and the European Convention on Human Rights:
The Role of Courts and NGOs

Co-sponsored by the Centre for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies
Munk Centre for Intarnational Studies, University of Toronto

LOCATION:  Room 208, North House, Munk Centre, 1 Devonshire Place

Constitutional Roundtable, 2005 - 2006

All meetings in the Solarium unless otherwise indicated.

SEPTEMBER 20
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45 p.m.

Professor Moshe Cohen
Academic Collee of Law

The Formal and the Substantive Meanings of Proportionality in the Supreme Court's
Decision Regarding the Security Fence

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OCTOBER 3
(Monday)
12:10 - 1:45

Andrew Lynch
Senior Lecturer, The University of New South Wales, Australia

Does Australia Need an Emergency Constitution for the Way We Live Now?

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OCTOBER 18
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Professor Daphne Barak-Erez
Tel Aviv University

The Law of Historical Films:  In the Aftermath of "Jenin, Jenin"

NEW LOCATION:   FLAVELLE DINING ROOM - 78 QUEEN'S PARK
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OCTOBER 26
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Professor David Cameron
University of Toronto

The Iraqi Constitution

NEW LOCATION:  FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 QUEEN'S PARK

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JANUARY 17
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Professor Pierre Legrand
Université de Paris

Comparative Legal Studies and the Matter of Authenticity

Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop

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JANUARY 25
(Wednesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Justice Richard Goldstone
Henry Shattuck Visiting Professor, Harvard Law School;
former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa


The Approach of the South African Constitutional Court to Social
and Economic Rights

NEWLOCATION:  FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 Queen's Park

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JANUARY 31
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Professor Bernard Schlink
Humboldt University

Jurisprudence of Crisis

LOCATION:  FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 Queen's Park
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February 14
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Professor Anver Emon

University of Toronto

Islamic Law and the Canadian Mosaic:  Politics, Jurisprudence,
and Multicultural Accommodation

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March 2
(Thursday)
12:10 - 1:45

Professor David Kretzmer
Hebrew University

Targeted Killings of Suspected Terrorists: Extra-Judicial Executions
or Legitimate Means of Defence?

LOCATION:  FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 Queen's Park

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March 24
(Friday)
12:10 - 1:45

Justice Barry Strayer

The Political Foundations of the Canadian Charter

LOCATION:  Faculty Lounge, Flavelle House, 78 Queen's Park

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March 28
(Tuesday)
12:10 - 1:45

Professor Peter Oliver
King's College, London

Constitutional Change in the Commonwealth - Lessons
for Constitutional Theory

LOCATION:  FLAVELLE DINING ROOM, 78 QUEEN'S PARK

Co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Workshop series.
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For more information, please contact Professor Lorraine Weinrib at l.weinrib@utoronto.ca or Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.