THE CAMBRIDGE LECTURES 2015


July 5 to 11, 2015


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SUNDAY, JULY 5

12:00 p.m.

Check-in at Queens' College, University of Cambridge

12:00-2:30 p.m.

Buffet Luncheon - Bar/Conservatory

7:00 p.m.

BBQ - Lyon Court


MONDAY, JULY 6

7:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall

8:45 a.m.

Welcome - Fitzpatrick Hall

The Honourable Robert J. Sharpe, Ontario Court of Appeal, Chairman and President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies

"A Cambridge Education"
Professor Richard Fentiman, Fellow, Queens' College, Chair of the Faculty Board, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge

9:15 a.m.

"Judging Social and Economic Rights: The South African Experience"
Moderator: The Honourable Constance Hunt, retired Justice of the Courts of Appeal of Alberta, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut
Lecturer: Albie Sachs, retired Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa

10:35 a.m.

Health Break - Lyon Court

11:00 a.m.

"Pluralism, Positivism and the Justification of Human Rights"
Moderator: Patricia Jackson, Torys LLP, Toronto
Lecturer: Baroness Onora O'Neill, House of Lords, Chair of the Equality and Human Rights Commission

12:30 p.m.

Luncheon - Dining Hall

2:00 p.m.

"Speaking to the Public: A Role for Judges"
Moderator: Paul Schabas, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP, Toronto
Lecturer: Sir Alan Moses, recently retired Judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, now Chair of the Independent Press Standards Organization

4:15 p.m.

Group Photograph of Delegates and Lecturers - Walnut Tree Court (weather permitting)

5:30 p.m.

Reception - President's Garden
Host: Alan Kessel, Deputy High Commissioner for Canada to Great Britain and Northern Ireland

7:00 p.m.

Dinner - Dining Hall


TUESDAY, JULY 7

7:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall

9:00 a.m.

"The End of English Civil Justice (As We Knew It)"
Moderator: Lori Sterling, Federal Deputy Minister of Labour, Ottawa
Lecturer: Dame Hazel Genn, Dean of Law, University College London

10:30 a.m.

Health Break - Lyon Court

11:00 a.m.

"Law and Religion"
Moderator: The Honourable Ron Veale, Supreme Court of Yukon
Lecturer: The Honourable Judge Guido Calabresi, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

12:30 p.m.

Luncheon - Dining Hall

2:00 p.m.

"Policing: A Message from Scotland"
Moderator: The Honourable Robert G. Richards, Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan
Lecturer: Karyn McCluskey, Director, Violence Reduction Unit, Glasgow, Scotland

4:15 p.m.

Group Photograph of Delegates and Lecturers - Walnut Tree Court (rain date)

7:00 p.m.

Dinner - Dining Hall

After dinner

Film: "The Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter" followed by a discussion with Albie Sachs, retired Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, moderated by Professor Kent Roach, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto


WEDNESDAY, JULY 8

7:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall

9:00 a.m.

"Shakespeare and the Foundations of Constitutional Thought"
Moderator: Janet Minor, Treasurer, Law Society of Upper Canada
Lecturer: Professor Denis Galligan, Faculty of Law and Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University, with Dr. Francesca Galligan, Curator, Rare Books, Bodleian Library, Oxford University

10:30 a.m.

Health Break - Lyon Court

11:00 a.m.

"Politics and the law - legislating to restrict judicial review for 'disrupting the process of government' (Lord Chancellor Grayling)"
Moderator: Guy Pratte, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Toronto
Lecturer: Lord David Pannick, Q.C., House of Lords and Blackstone Chambers

12:30 p.m.

Luncheon - Dining Hall

2:00 p.m.

NO SCHEDULED LECTURES

FREE EVENING

No dinner in Dining Hall


THURSDAY, JULY 9

7:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall

9:00 a.m.

"Justice, Truth, and Proof: Theory and Practice"
Moderator: The Honourable Glenn Joyal, Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Bench of Manitoba
Lecturer: Professor Susan Haack, University of Miami School of Law

10:30 a.m.

Health Break - Lyon Court

11:00 a.m.

"Edmund Burke: Philosopher, Politician, Prophet"
Moderator: The Honourable David H. Jenkins, Chief Justice of Prince Edward Island
Lecturer: Jesse Norman, Member of Parliament for Hereford & South Herefordshire, United Kingdom

12:30 p.m.

Luncheon - Dining Hall

2:00 p.m.

"No Justice Without Lawyers"
Moderator: The Honourable Julie Dutil, Quebec Court of Appeal
Lecturer: Professor Adrian Zuckerman, Faculty of Law, Oxford University

4:00 p.m.

"A Look at Some of Europe's Best Paintings"
Moderator: The Honourable Stephen Goudge, retired Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal, now counsel to Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP, Toronto
Lecturer: Julian Porter, Q.C., author of 149 Paintings You Really Need to See in Europe (So You Can Ignore the Others), Toronto

7:00 p.m.

Dinner - Dining Hall


FRIDAY, JULY 10

7:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast - Dining Hall

9:00 a.m.

"Whither the Common Law"
Moderator: Charles F. Scott, Barrister-Arbitrator, Toronto
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom

10:30 a.m.

Health Break - Lyon Court

11:00 a.m.

"Public Criticism of Judges: Need We be Concerned?"
Moderator: The Honourable Paul Crampton, Chief Justice of the Federal Court
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Dyson, Master of the Rolls, Court of Appeal of England and Wales

12:30 p.m.

Luncheon - Dining Hall

2:00 p.m.

"Law and Politics in Post-Election Britain"
Moderator: The Honourable Robert P. Armstrong, Q.C., Past Chair and Past President, Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, and retired Justice of the Ontario Court of Appeal
Lecturer: Joshua Rozenberg, Britain's leading legal journalist

7:00 p.m.

Dinner - Dining Hall


SATURDAY, JULY 11

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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