This workshop series provides an opportunity to consider developments in Canadian constitutional theory and practice as well as the emerging field of comparative constitutional law in relation to Canada. The aim of the series is to promote scholarship in these areas and to make a meaningful contribution to intellectual discourse about Canadian constitutional law. The lunch-time sessions start off with a presentation by invited guests and develop into wide-ranging discussions.
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2018 - 2019 ScheduleDATE & TIME | LOCATION | SPEAKER & TOPIC |
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January 23, 2019
12:30 - 2:00 | J130
Jackman Law Building
78 Queen’s Park | Mark Tushnet - William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Interpreting Unwritten Constitutional Norms: Court-Packing in the United States as a Case Study Discussant:
Yasmin Dawood - University of Toronto Faculty of Law
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February 5, 2019
12:30 - 2:00 | J140
Jackman Law Building
78 Queen’s Park | Kent Roach - University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Canadian Justice, Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley/Colten Boushie Case Watch the video of this roundtable |
February 28, 2019
12:30 - 2:00 | Solarium (Room FA2)
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park | Y.Y. Chen - University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Toward a Substantive Understanding of Citizenship in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms |
Past Lecturers
In the past, speakers at the constitutional roundtable series have included Canadian and foreign academics, judges and practitioners. We have also been fortunate to have had a wide range of presentations from distinguished visiting faculty visiting the law school to teach intensive courses.
This mix of this national and international presenters, theory and practice, and lively discussion makes this workshop a welcome enhancement to the study of public law at the Faculty of Law.
Past lecturers have included:
- David Cameron, University of Toronto, Department of Political Science, Canadas Social Union
- William Eskridge, Yale Law School Topic: On Same Sex Marriage
- Justice Izhak Englard, Supreme Court of Israel Topic: A Constitutional Court for Israel
- George Williams, University of New South Wales Topic: The Case that Stopped a Coup? The Rule of Law & Constitutionalism in Fiji.
- Guido Pincione, Torcuato Di Tella University Topic: Constitution and Politics in Argentina: an Introduction
- Justice Frank Iacobucci, the Supreme Court of Canada Topic: The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms at Twenty
- George Fletcher, Columbia University School of Law Topic: The Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy
- Lech Garlicki, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of Poland - Topic: Polands Constitutional Transition, from Communism to Liberal Democracy
- See the full schedules for past years.
