Program
The program for the 2010 Joint Study Institute, Diversity, Culture and Contrasts: Canada's Legal Kaleidoscope, will explore Canada's legal system through sessions on constitutional and parliamentary law, aboriginal law, civil law, the courts and the judiciary, legal ethics. Many of these themes will come together in one of the final sessions dealing with sovereignty and the Northwest Passage.
Sunday, June 20, 2010 |
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| 4:00 pm. – 6:00 pm | Registration Opus Hotel |
| 7:00 pm | Opening Reception McCord Museum |
Monday, June 21, 2010 – Module 1 |
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| 9:00 am | Canada: The Constitution and the Charter Beverley Baines, Faculty of Law, Queen's University Mahmud Jamal, Osler |
| 10:30 am | Break |
| 11:00 am | The View from the Peace Tower Greg Tardi, House of Commons |
| 12:00 pm – 13:30 pm | Lunch Opus Hotel |
Monday, June 21, 2010 – Module 2 |
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| 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm | "Redressing the Right Wrong: Can Canada get it right?" Douglas Sanderson, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto "Can Euro-Canadian law and Indigenous law find common ground?" Roger Townshend, Olthuis Kleer "Ahki, Anishinabek, kaye tahsh Crown" Aaron Mills, University of Toronto |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Québec Civil Law: The C.O.D.E. Denis Le May, Université Laval |
| 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm | Dutch Treat Dinners Hosted by local law librarians. |
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – Module 3 |
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| 9:00 am – 10:15 am | Canadian Courts and the Judiciary Julie A. Thorburn, Ontario Superior Court Sean Harrington, Federal Court |
| 10:15 am – 10:45 am | Break |
| 10:45 am – 12:00 pm | The Application of International Law in Canadian Courts Joseph Neuberger, Neuberger Rose |
| 12:00 pm – 13:30 pm | Lunch |
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – Module 4 |
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| 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Transparency and Access to Information Justice John H. Gomery Governance and Ethics in the Legal Profession Derry Miller, Law Society of Upper Canada |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm | Sovereignty and Shipping in the Northwest Passage Jean-Marie Fontaine, Borden Ladner Gervais. |
| 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm | Reception and dinner – Hotel Nelligan |
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 |
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| 9:00 am – 11:00 am | Presentations by Legal Information Specialists Maryvon Côté, Nahum Gelber Law Library, McGill University Monique Stam, Centre d'accès à l'information juridique Ivan Mokanov, LexUM |
| 11:15 pm | JSI 2010 Adjourns |