SUNDAY, JULY 7 |
12:00 p.m. | Check-in at Queens' College, University of Cambridge |
12:00-2:30p.m. | Buffet Luncheon - Bar/Conservatory |
7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
MONDAY, JULY 8
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
8:45 a.m. | Welcome - Fitzpatrick Hall |
| The Honourable Robert P. Armstrong, Q.C., Chairman and President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies
The Right Honourable Lord Eatwell of Stratton St. Margaret, President of Queens' College, University of Cambridge
Professor Eilís Ferran, Chair of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge |
9:10 a.m. | "Does History Matter?"
Moderator: The Honourable Chief Justice Robert G. Richards, Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan, Regina
Lecturer: Professor Patrick Allitt, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia |
10:35 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "The Outbreak of World War I"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Wendy Matheson, HOntario Superior Court of Justice, Toronto
Lecturer: Professor Margaret MacMillan, Warden, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford |
12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "Can Secret Justice Ever Be Fair?"
Moderator: Ira Nishisato, Toronto, Ontario
Lecturer: Lord Macdonald of River Glaven, Q.C., Warden, Wadham College, University of Oxford
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4:15 p.m. | Group Photograph of Delegates and Lecturers - Walnut Tree Court (weather permitting) |
5:30 p.m. | Reception - President's Garden
Host: His Excellency Gordon Campbell, High Commissioner for Canada to Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall
After Dinner Speaker: His Excellency Gordon Campbell, High Commissioner for Canada to Great Britain and Northern Ireland
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TUESDAY, JULY 9
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall (English Breakfast optional) |
9:00 a.m. | "International Financial Regulation: The Reform That Has Failed"
Moderator: Guy J. Pratte, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Ottawa
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Eatwell of Stratton St. Margaret, President of Queens' College, University of Cambridge
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "The U.S. Supreme Court and Campaign Financing: Citizens United and the Gospel"
Moderator: The Honourable Douglas H. Carruthers, Q.C., former Judge of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and former Chair of the Ontario Review Board, Toronto
Lecturer: The Honourable Judge Guido Calabresi, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Woodbridge, Connecticut
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "The Right to Strike and Freedom of Association"
Lecturer: Roy L. Heenan, O.C., Q.C., Chairman Emeritus of Heenan Blaikie LLP, Montreal, and Professor Manfred Weiss, J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany, and former President of the International Industrial Relations Association
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4:15 p.m. | Group Photograph of Delegates and Lecturers - Walnut Tree Court (rain date) |
7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
WEDNESDAY, JULY 10
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
9:00 a.m. | "The Nascent Constitutional Jurisprudence of South Africa with Selective Reference to the Influence of Canadian Jurisprudence"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
Lecturer: Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke, Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "Reflections on Atticus Finch and Scout: Lessons Learned in the Law"
Moderator: Charles F. Scott, Lax O'Sullivan Scott Lisus, Toronto
Lecturer: Chilton Davis Varner, President of the American College of Trial Lawyers, Atlanta, Georgia
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | NO SCHEDULED LECTURES
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
THURSDAY, JULY 11
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall (English Breakfast optional) |
9:00 a.m. | Michael Enright in conversation with The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "Judicial Independence and the Independence of the Bar"
Moderator: Thomas G. Conway, Treasurer, Law Society of Upper Canada, Ottawa
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lady Justice Hallett DBE, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Chairman of the Judicial College, former Treasurer of the Inner Temple and former Chair of the Bar Council of England and Wales, London
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "Human Rights or Citizens' Privileges?"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Jacques R. Fournier, Court of Appeal of Quebec, Montreal
Lecturer: Shami Chakrabarti, Director of Liberty (the United Kingdom's National Council for Civil Liberties), London
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4:00 p.m. | Rap Session "An Opportunity to Ask Questions of a Judge of the Supreme Court of Canada"
Moderator: Brian R.D. Smith, Q.C., Gowlings LLP, Victoria
Lecturer: The Honourable Justice Marshall Rothstein, Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
Location: OLD DINING HALL
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
FRIDAY, JULY 12
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
9:00 a.m. | "The Role of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom"
Moderator: The Honourable Chief Justice J. Derek Green, Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador (Court of Appeal), St. John's
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, London
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "The Disunited Kingdom: Great Britain and Scottish Nationalism Since 1707"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Margaret E. L. Larlee, Court of Appeal of New Brunswick, Fredericton
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Sumption, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, London
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "Human Rights, Democracy and Elections in Iran"
Moderator: Patricia D. S. Jackson, Torys LLP, Toronto
Lecturer: Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Laureate and former lawyer and Judge in Iran, London
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FREE EVENING | No dinner in Dining Hall |
SATURDAY, JULY 13
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7:30 -9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
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SUNDAY, JULY 14
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7:30 -9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall |
MONDAY, JULY 15
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
9:00 a.m. | "Is the European Convention Under Threat?"
Moderator: William L. Ryan, Q.C., Stewart McKelvey, Halifax
Lecturer: Baroness Helena Kennedy of The Shaws, Q.C., a member of the House of Lords and Chair of Justice (the British arm of the International Commission of Jurists), London
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "Pandora's Box and the International Criminal Court in its Second Decade"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Jo-Ann Prowse, British Columbia Court of Appeal, Vancouver
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Justice Fulford, Court of Appeal of England and Wales and former Judge of the International Criminal Court, London
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "England Does Not Love Coalitions"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Stephen T. Goudge, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Toronto
Lecturer: Professor Andrew Gamble, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
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7:00 p.m. | Dinner - Dining Hall
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8:30 p.m. |
"The Judge and The General" is a PBS documentary film about Judge Juan Guzmán Tapia's attempts to bring General Augusto Pinochet to justice for human rights crimes. The film will be screened to provide context for Judge Guzmán's lecture on Tuesday, July 16.
Location: FITZPATRICK HALL
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TUESDAY, JULY 16
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7:30 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
9:00 a.m. | "A New Approach to Sentencing in England and Wales"
Moderator: The Honourable Chief Justice Annemarie E. Bonkalo, Ontario Court of Justice, Toronto
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Justice Leveson, Court of Appeal of England and Wales and Chairman of the Sentencing Council, London
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10:30 a.m. | Health Break - Lyon Court |
11:00 a.m. | "Liberating Ireland: Daniel O'Connell, Oratory and the Law"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Myra Bielby, Courts of Appeal of Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Edmonton
Lecturer: Dr. Patrick Geoghegan, Associate Professor in History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
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12:30 p.m. | Luncheon - Dining Hall |
2:00 p.m. | "The Chilean Dictatorship and the Judiciary"
Moderator: The Honourable Justice Constance Hunt, Courts of Appeal of Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, Calgary
Lecturer: The Honourable Juan Guzmán Tapia, former Judge who prosecuted General Pinochet, Santiago, Chile
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7:00 p.m. | Closing Dinner - Dining Hall
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 17
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6:30 a.m. | Coffee and croissants for early morning departures - Dining Hall |
7:30-9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall |
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