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CALT Conference, Winnipeg

31 May - 1 June 2004

“Law’s Confluence”

 

May 31, 2004

9:00-10:30- Concurrent Sessions

Critical Approaches

to Private Law

 

Katrina Wyman (NYU)

“The Political Economy of Restitution: Explaining the Responses of Settler Societies to Claims of Indigenous Peoples”.

 

Laura Watts (UBC)

“The Sins of the Father: A Social Analysis of Fiduciary Duty in Canada Regarding Sexual Abuse of Children”.

 

Sophia Moreau (Toronto)

“The Wrongs of Unequal Treatment”.

 

Comparative Criminal Law

 

 

Mark Carter (Sask.)

“Current Tensions in the Federation: Provincial Prosecution Policy”.

 

 

Gary Botting (UBC)

“The Confluence of Extradition Practice in Canada and the United States”.

 

 

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:30

            Plenary Session: Judicial Biography

 

DeLloyd Guth (Manitoba) (moderator)

Jameson Doig (Princeton)

Hon. Robert Sharpe (OCA)

Philip Girard (Dalhousie)

 Marie-Claire Belleau (Laval)

Rebecca Johnson (Victoria)

 John McEvoy (UNB)

“Individuals, Ideologies and Institutions: Biography at the Supreme Court”.

 

 
Annual General Meeting – Lunch provided

 

 

 May 31, 2004

1:30-3:00 Concurrent Sessions

Reasonableness & Public Law

 

Mayo Moran (Toronto)

“Transporting the Reasonableness Standard to s.15 of the Charter”.

 

Nicolas Lambert (McGill)

“Statutory Discretion, the Charter of Rights and “Reasonableness in the Administrative Law Sense”.

 

International Law (1)

 

Kim Brooks (Queen’s)

“Corporate Tax Rates and Regimes: Global Convergence”.

 

Andrew Newcombe (Victoria)

“Protection of Property Rights in  Globalizing World: Convergence or Divergence in Canadian and International Law”.

 

3:00-3:15 Coffee Break

 

3:30-5:00

Pre-tenure Faculty Scholarship and Pedagogy Workshop

 

Legal scholarship, teaching innovations and technology tools: Preparing

for class or preparing for the tenure process.

 

Kim Brooks (Queen’s)

Annie Rochette (UBC)

Lorna Turnbull (Manitoba)

 

 

 

Reception with Dean Harvey Secter,

University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law    5:00-6:30

 

 
Monday Evening – No Events

 

 

June 1st, 2004

9:00-10:30 Concurrent Sessions

Legal Education

 

Janine Benedet (Osgoode)

“Explain your Answer: A Critical History of the Law School Examination at Osgoode Hall Law School”.

 

Rose Voyvodic (Windsor)

Moira McCarney (Windsor)

“Law’s Confluence and Curriculum Development: Planning for Change”.

 

Francois Crépeau (Montreal)

Ana Bijelic (Montreal)

Scholarly Journals and Legal Training :  the Experience of the Revue québécoise du droit international”.

 

The Judicial Imagination

 

Richard Devlin (Dalhousie)

Ronalda Murphy (Dalhousie)

“Deliberative Democracy and the Doctrine of the Duty to Consult: Do Political Philosophers and Judges Have Anything to Say to the Other?”

 

Heather McLeod-Kilmurray (Ottawa)

“Judicial Education and Judicial Neutrality: Does Judicial Education Lead to Confluence between Social Priorities and Judicial Perspectives?”

 

 

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:30 Concurrent Sessions

Legal Regulation

 

DeLloyd Guth (Manitoba) (moderator)

R. Dale Brawn (Laurentian)

Richard Willie (Alberta)

Harold Dyck (Manitoba)

Thomas Mitchell (Brandon)

Wes Pue (UBC)

Louis Knafla

“Prairie Lawyers and Law Societies”.

Restorative Justice & ADR

“Law’s Confluence: Participatory Justice, Restorative Justice and ADR”.

 

Bruce Archibald (Dalhousie)

The Integration of Restorative and Inclusionary Models of Criminal Justice: the Fair Exercise of Discretion in Deliberative Democracy”.

 

Jennifer Llewellyn (Dalhousie)

“Doing Justice to ADR“.

 

 

Lunch (Sponsored by Carswell)

 

 

June 1st, 2004

2:00-3:30 Concurrent Sessions

International Law (2)

 

Jillian Siskind (Toronto)

“Complicity in Crimes against Humanity: The Intersection of International Criminal and Canadian Refugee Law”.

 

Jennifer Koshan (Calgary)

“International Law & Equality Rights: Trends in Supreme Court Jurisprudence”.

Administrative Law

 

France Houle (Montreal)

"A Competence : a Prerequisite to Independence ?”

 

Laverne Jacobs (Osgoode)

“Independence and the Information and Privacy Commission: An Empirical Study".

 

Gerald Heckman (Osgoode)

“Independence, International Law and Canadian Refugee Determinations”.

 

 

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

 

3:45-5:15 Concurrent Sessions

International Law (3)

 

Neil Craik (Toronto/UNB)

“Transforming Interests: International EIA and Compliance Theory".

 

Dianna Kyles (Queen’s)

“Merging Standards in Conflicts of Law: A Comment on Beals v. Saldanha ".

 

Andrew Green (Toronto)

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Identity & Law

 

Mary Jane Mossman (Osgoode)

“Historical Patterns of Gender and Professionalism in Law : Challenges for Two Women ‘in Law’”.

 

Maneesha Deckha (Victoria)

“Show Some Respect: The Range of Regard for Non-Persons in Law”.

 

Heather Conway (Queen’s, Belfast)

"Perpetuating Religious Prejudices from Beyond the Grave: An Anglo-Canadian Perspective".

 

 

CALT Dinner for New Professors

 

 

Law Forum

 

June 2, 2004

9:00-10:30

Maxime St-Hilaire (McGill)

 

 

 

Kimberley White (York)

 

  

 

 

Bruce Mabley (Laval)

 

 

“Reflections on the Development of a Legal Epistemology”.

 

"From 'Knowing' to Legal Knowledge: Deconstructing the Common-Sense Adjudication of Expertise in Early-20th Century Canadian Murder Trials."

 

“The End of Legal Knowledge”.

 

10:30-10:45 Coffee break

 

10:45-12:15

 

Thaddeus Hwong (Osgoode)

 

 

 

Samuel E. Trosow (Western Ontario)

 

 

 

Arthur J. Cockfield (Queen's)

 

 

 

“On Legal Statistics: Is Quantitative Analysis of Judicial Decision Making Legal Knowledge?”

 

“The Ownership and Commodification of Legal Knowledge”.

 

 

“Toward a Law and Technology Theory”

 

Lunch (Sponsored by Council of Canadian Law Deans)

 

 

Legal Dimensions 2004: Law and Citizenship

 

June 2, 2004 

2:00-3:30

Moderator: Roderick Wood, Commissioner, Law Commission of Canada

Discussant: Roderick Wood, Commissioner, Law Commission of Canada

 

Dr. Siobhan Harty

Senior Policy Analyst, HRDC
&

Dr. Michael Murphy

Institute of Intergovernmental Relations

Queen’s University

 

Michel Coutu

École de relations industrielles

 

Mary Condon (Osgoode)

&

Lisa Philips (Osgoode)

 

 

 

“Multinational Citizenship: Practical implications of a theoretical model”

 

 

 

 

“The Crisis of the Welfare State: A Demise of Social Citizenship? A Sociolegal Viewpoint”

 

“Connecting Economy, Gender and Citizenship : Possibilities and Limits”

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break

4:00-5:30

Moderator: Roderick Wood, Commissioner, Law Commission of Canada

Discussant: Professor Richard Janda, Faculty of Law, McGill

 

Kim Barry

Furman Fellow, NYU School of Law

 

Audrey Macklin (Toronto)

 

 

Richard Devlin (Dalhousie)

&

Dianne Pothier (Dalhousie)

 

“External Citizenship”

 

 

“Law, Citizenship and Legal Citizenship”

 

“Legal Responses to Disability: Elements of a Theory of Disitizenship”

 

RECEPTION

(SPONSORED BY THE LAW COMMISSION OF CANADA)

 

- Closing Banquet-


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