January 12-14, 2023
Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
This conference was a collaboration between the UBC's Allard School of Law and the University of Alberta's Centre for Constitutional Studies. It gathered together constitutional law scholars and theorists to discuss some of the most of pressing issues in contemporary constitutional law, including the challenges posed by populism, pluralism, globalization, gender inequality, colonization, and climate change.
This conference also served as a launch event for the Canadian branch of ICON-S and was co-sponsored by four Allard Law research groups: Indigenous Legal Studies; the Centre for Asian Legal Studies; the Centre for Feminist Legal Studies; and the Centre for Law and the Environment. A small selection of conference papers was subsequently published as issue 32.4 of the Centre for Constitutional Studies journal, Constitutional Forum. The full issue is available for free, here: Vol. 32 No. 4 (2024).
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CONSTITUTIONAL CROSSROADS CONFERENCE PROGRAM:
Thursday, January 12, 2023
5:00 - 7:00 PM — Reception and Livestreamed Interview with Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin
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Friday, January 13, 2023
8:30 - 9:15 AM — Coffee and Registration
9:15 - 9:30 AM — Land Acknowledgment and Welcome
9:30 - 11:00 AM — Panel I: Indigenous Justice
Gordon Christie, Robert Clifford, Darcy Lindberg, Kerry Sloan
Chair: Patricia Barkaskas
11:00 - 11:15 AM — Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45 PM — Panel II: Environmental Justice
Lynda Collins, Lindsay Borrows, Dayna Nadine Scott, Stepan Wood
Chair: Margot Young
12:45 - 1:30 PM — Lunch
1:30 - 3:00 PM — Panel III: Feminist Justice
Martha Jackman, Kerri Froc, Sarah Morales, Vrinda Narain
Chair: Debra Parkes
3:00 - 3:15 PM — Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:45 PM — Panel IV: Comparative Asian Constitutionalism
Jie Cheng, Shigenori Matsui, Takashi Shirouzu, Ohshita Hideki
Chair: Hoi Kong
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Saturday, January 14, 2023
8:30 - 9:00 AM — Coffee and Registration
9:00 - 10:30 AM — Panel I: Populism and Pluralism
Michael Pal, Vanessa MacDonnell, Johnny Mack, Hoi Kong
Chair: Alexandra Flynn
10:30 - 10:45 AM — Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45 PM — Panel II: Canadian Public/Constitutional Law
Joel Bakan, Carissima Mathen, Joanna Erdman, Benjamin Berger
Chair: Mary Liston
12:45 - 1:30 PM — Lunch and Celebration of Pat Paradis, University of Alberta Centre for Constitutional Studies
1:30 - 3:00 PM — Panel III: Transnational Public Law
Catherine Dauvergne, Victor V. Ramraj, Ran Hirschl, Ayelet Shachar
Chair: Marcus Moore
3:00 - 3:15 PM — Coffee Break
3:15 - 4:45 PM — Panel IV: Comparative Constitutional Law
Julie Suk, Hoi Kong, Francisca Pou Gimenez, Richard Mailey
Chair: Richard Albert
4:45 - 5:00 PM — Concluding Remarks
