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Centre for Constitutional Studies
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The Centre for Constitutional Studies operates this channel. The Centre's objective is to encourage and facilitate the interdisciplinary study of constitutional matters in Canada and internationally. The Centre's research activities are complemented by an education program consisting of public lectures, conferences, and publications. The Centre is housed at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. Please visit our website for more information www.constitutionalstudies.ca/
Book Launch: Boundaries of Judicial Review w/ Justices Sossin & Jamal
This video is of a launch event for the book, Boundaries of Judicial Review: The Law of Justiciability in Canada, which featured presentations by authors Gerard Kennedy (University of Alberta, Faculty of Law) and Justice Lorne Sossin (Court of Appeal for Ontario), and comments by Supreme Court of Canada Justice Mahmud Jamal.
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Free Speech and Social Media
Просмотров 833 месяца назад
In this panel discussion, CCS Research Affiliate Dr Dax D'Orazio talks to Professor Emily Laidlaw (University of Calgary) and Jameel Jaffer (Knight First Amendment Institute) about the free speech implications of recent attempts to regulate social media in North America.
A Framework for Reconciliation? Bill C-92 at the Supreme Court
Просмотров 1033 месяца назад
This panel discussion was co-organized by the Centre for Constitutional Studies and the Wahkohtowin Law and Governance Lodge, both of which are located at the University of Alberta on Treaty 6 territory. The discussion was moderated by Koren Lightning (Legal Director of the Lodge) and features contributions by four expert panelists: Prof Naiomi Metallic (Dalhousie), Prof Josh Nichols (McGill), ...
Rachel Loewen Walker: Clips from "Trans Rights in Alberta" Panel
Просмотров 745 месяцев назад
In this video, Rachel Loewen Walker answers questions about the Saskatchewan government's policy on pronoun use in schools, which was passed using the Charter's notwithstanding clause shortly before the Alberta government announced its own set of policies relating to trans youth (including a policy on pronoun use in schools). Note: this video features clips from our online panel event, "Trans R...
Cheryl Milne: Clips from "Trans Rights in Alberta" Panel
Просмотров 505 месяцев назад
In this clip, Cheryl Milne (Executive Director, David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights) answers questions about the legal history of parental rights and about the role that different types of law might play in potentially challenging the Alberta government's proposed policies relating to trans youth. Note: this video features clips from our online panel event, "Trans Rights in Alberta," w...
Florence Ashley: Clips from "Trans Rights in Alberta" Panel
Просмотров 1755 месяцев назад
In this video, Professor Florence Ashley (University of Alberta) answer questions about the Government of Alberta's recently proposed policies relating to the availability of puberty blockers and hormone therapies for trans youth (under 16s) and the participation of trans women in women's sport. Note: this video features clips from our online panel event, "Trans Rights in Alberta," which took p...
Emmett Macfarlane: Provincial Constitutions & Unilateral Amendments to the Constitution of Canada
Просмотров 1985 месяцев назад
Emmett Macfarlane: Provincial Constitutions & Unilateral Amendments to the Constitution of Canada
Robert Brandom Lecture (CCS Law and Pragmatism Series)
Просмотров 1115 месяцев назад
Robert Brandom Lecture (CCS Law and Pragmatism Series)
Indigenous Self-Government & the C-92 Reference: Interview with Lisa Weber (Weber Law)
Просмотров 1458 месяцев назад
In the latest video in our CCS interview series, Lisa Weber provides a breakdown of the Supreme Court's recent judgment in the C-92 Reference, a case about the federal government's jurisdiction to affirm Indigenous self-government rights vis-a-vis child and family services.
Federalism & the Environment: Fireside Chat w/ Justices Huscroft & Feehan
Просмотров 1718 месяцев назад
Note: this video is cut short due to technical issues. In this video, Justice Grant Huscroft of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and Justice Kevin Feehan of the Court of Appeal for Alberta discuss jurisdictional issues surrounding environmental regulation in Canada, focusing in particular on the Supreme Court's high profile judgments on federal carbon pricing and impact assessment laws. The conv...
Alain-G Gagnon: Nationalism Under Scrutiny
Просмотров 1748 месяцев назад
In this lecture, Professor Alain-G Gagnon examines the promises of liberal nationalism and multinational federalism as concrete expressions of a renewed desire to build a common future in complex political settings. The lecture is presented as the Centre for Constitutional Studies' McDonald lecture, an endowed lecture hosted by the Centre annually.
Cheryl Misak Lecture: Pragmatism and the Law
Просмотров 52711 месяцев назад
The founders of pragmatism (Peirce, James, Oliver Wendell Holmes) had much to say about norms. In this talk, Professor Cheryl Misak (University of Toronto) looks at the promising view of law and its legitimacy which originates in the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes and then is continued in the next generation of pragmatists by John Dewey and C.I. Lewis.
17 Going on 23: Sentencing Children to Life in Canada
Просмотров 10911 месяцев назад
International human rights bodies have long recommended the abolition of life sentences for children but these punishments remain legal in many countries, including Canada. In 2008, the Supreme Court of Canada recognized the presumption of diminished moral blameworthiness of young people as a constitutional principle of fundamental justice and overturned a law that presumed young people (those ...
What Oakes Could Have Said: Guest Lecture by Professor Gregoire Webber (Queen's Law)
Просмотров 18311 месяцев назад
In this lecture, Professor Gregoire Webber (Queen's Law) presents an argument for rethinking how we approach section 1 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. In the case of R v Oakes, section 1 was understood to authorize justified infringements of the very rights and freedoms that the Charter guarantees. Emerging from the case is a conception of the human person that is opposed to oth...
Why the Notwithstanding Clause? Putting the Charter's Controversial Provision in Context
Просмотров 28211 месяцев назад
Section 33 of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms provides Canada’s federal and provincial legislatures with the power to enact legislation notwithstanding certain protections for rights. Debates over the clause have understandably been preoccupied with the question of whether and how the provision may allow legislatures to simply ignore rights and freedoms. In this talk, however, Dr. Rob De Luc...
The Impact Assessment Reference: Interview with Andrew Leach
Просмотров 21411 месяцев назад
The Impact Assessment Reference: Interview with Andrew Leach
Gregoire Webber Lecture: Notwithstanding Rights, Review, or Remedy?
Просмотров 550Год назад
Gregoire Webber Lecture: Notwithstanding Rights, Review, or Remedy?
Doug Ford, Voting Rights, and the Notwithstanding Clause: Interview with Professor Mike Pal
Просмотров 176Год назад
Doug Ford, Voting Rights, and the Notwithstanding Clause: Interview with Professor Mike Pal
Malcolm Lavoie: Trade and Commerce (Book Launch)
Просмотров 134Год назад
Malcolm Lavoie: Trade and Commerce (Book Launch)
Freedom of Assembly (After the Convoy Series) w/ Jamie Cameron
Просмотров 111Год назад
Freedom of Assembly (After the Convoy Series) w/ Jamie Cameron
The Concept of Necessity in Canada's Emergencies Act w/ Prof Nomi Claire Lazar
Просмотров 210Год назад
The Concept of Necessity in Canada's Emergencies Act w/ Prof Nomi Claire Lazar
The Convoy, the Commission, and the Charter - Cara Zwibel (CCLA)
Просмотров 210Год назад
The Convoy, the Commission, and the Charter - Cara Zwibel (CCLA)
The Alberta Sovereignty Act and Our Democratic Institutions: Interview with Prof Feo Snagovsky
Просмотров 578Год назад
The Alberta Sovereignty Act and Our Democratic Institutions: Interview with Prof Feo Snagovsky
The Alberta Sovereignty Act: Interview with Marion Sandilands
Просмотров 1,8 тыс.Год назад
The Alberta Sovereignty Act: Interview with Marion Sandilands
Alberta Sovereignty Act Panel Clip - Eric Adams
Просмотров 173Год назад
Alberta Sovereignty Act Panel Clip - Eric Adams
33rd Annual McDonald Lecture: Jacob Mchangama
Просмотров 66Год назад
33rd Annual McDonald Lecture: Jacob Mchangama
Richard Albert: Is the Supreme Court of Canada the Most Powerful Court in the World?
Просмотров 583Год назад
Richard Albert: Is the Supreme Court of Canada the Most Powerful Court in the World?
Charlottetown Accord Panel: A Nation in Crisis?
Просмотров 474Год назад
Charlottetown Accord Panel: A Nation in Crisis?
Free Expression Panel: The Problem of "Awful But Lawful" Speech
Просмотров 2652 года назад
Free Expression Panel: The Problem of "Awful But Lawful" Speech
Book Launch: Constitutionalizing Criminal Law, by Colton Fehr
Просмотров 1392 года назад
Book Launch: Constitutionalizing Criminal Law, by Colton Fehr