Reimagining Rivers: Animals as Legal Beings – Contesting Anthropocentric Legal Orders
OnlineReimagining Rivers: Rethinking and Reframing Relationship with the Environment Webinar #3 Professor Maneesha Deckha (UVic) and Assistant Professor Jessica Eisen (UAlberta) will [...]
Charter at 40 Online Conference
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32nd Annual McDonald Lecture – The Impotence of Courage: Is the Constitution Flawed or are We?
Online32nd Annual McDonald Lecture in Constitutional Studies The Impotence of Courage: Is the Constitution Flawed or are We? A global pandemic, and calls for racial and social justice, brought [...]
Online Charter Series: Why is Free Expression so Controversial? Explaining the Law and Politics of a Fundamental Freedom
OnlineThis presentation will focus on one of the Charter's “fundamental freedoms:” freedom of expression in section 2(b). Dax D’Orazio (PhD, Skelton-Clark Post Doctoral Fellow, Queen’s University) will explain how and why [...]
Reimagining Rivers Webinar #4: Law’s Relationship with the North Saskatchewan River
OnlineReimagining Rivers: Rethinking and Reframing Relationship with the Environment Webinar #4 In this presentation, Professor Jefferies will critique 'sustainable development' as an [...]
Online Charter Series: The Charter’s Lesser-Known Section – Official Languages in the Charter
OnlineSection 16 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms sets out that English and French are the official languages of Canada and New Brunswick, having “equality of status” within [...]
Online Charter Series: Righting Charter Violations
OnlineWhen a court finds the Charter is violated, what is the result? In some cases, laws are struck down because they are unconstitutional. In others, evidence in criminal cases is excluded. [...]
Legacies of Patriation Conference
OnlineIn 1982, Canada “patriated” its Constitution, shedding an important vestige of UK control, entrenching fundamental rights and freedoms, and instituting procedures for formal constitutional change. Patriation was shaped by [...]
The Federal Implications of Modern Environmental Regulation in Canada
OnlineJoin us for a conversation on whether the modern approach to environmental regulation interferes with the balance of Canadian federalism. Moderated by Peter Gall, QC (Partner, Gall Legge Grant [...]
Online Charter Series: Section 28 – Can Women’s Equal Rights Slay the Notwithstanding Dragon?
OnlineProfessor Kerri A. Froc (University of New Brunswick) will discuss the meaning and legislative history of section 28 of the Charter, which guarantees “rights equally to male and female [...]
Fiscal Federalism in the Wake of the Alberta Equalization Referendum
OnlineJoin us for a conversation on fiscal federalism and the implications of the Alberta equalization referendum. Moderated by Philip Bryden, QC (Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, University of Alberta) [...]