Check-in at Queens' College, University of Cambridge

Buffet Luncheon - Bar/Conservatory

Dinner - BBQ - Lyons Court

Breakfast - Dining Hall

Lectures - Fitzpatrick Hall

The President's Welcoming Remarks: Guy J. Pratte, Chair and President of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Senior Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

The Patron's Welcoming Remarks: The Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada and Patron of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies

“The British Constitution: What Has Been Happening to It?”
Moderator: Patricia D.S. Jackson, Arbitrator and Mediator, Arbitration Place
Lecturer: The Lord Jonathan Sumption, OBE, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (Retired) and author of The Hundred Years War, Volumes 1 to V and Law in a Time of Crisis

Health Break - Lyon Court

“Planning for the Unforeseen: Pandemic Response and Vaccines in the UK”
Moderator: The Honourable Robert P. Armstrong, K.C., Arbitrator and Mediator, Arbitration Place
Lecturer: Madelaine McTernan, CB, Director General Nuclear, Ministry of Defence, United Kingdom, and previously Director General, UK's Covid-19 Vaccine Task Force

Luncheon - Dining Hall

“Enemies of the People?”
Moderator: The Honourable Robert J. Sharpe, Arbitrator and Mediator, Arbitration Place
Lecturer: Joshua Rozenberg, Britain's leading legal journalist and author of Enemies of the People?: How Judges Shape Society

Group Photograph of Lecturers and Delegates, Walnut Tree Court (Weather Permitting)

Reception - Fellows' Garden
Host: The Honourable Ralph Goodale, High Commissioner for Canada to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Dinner - Dining Hall
“O'Canada”
Grace and Toast to the King: The Honourable Robert P. Armstrong, Arbitrator and Mediator, Arbitration Place
Introduction: Guy J. Pratte, Chair and President of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Senior Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Greetings: The Honourable Ralph Goodale, High Commissioner for Canada to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Breakfast - Dining Hall

“A Discussion with Canada's Ambassador to the United Nations”
Robert K. Rae, PC, CC, OOnt, KC, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations in New York and Guy J. Pratte, Chair and President of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Senior Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Health Break - Lyon Court

“The Historical Origins and Mythologies of Putin's War against Ukraine”
Moderator: Randall J. Hofley, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Lecturer: Orlando Figes, Professor of History, Birbeck College, University of London (Retired) and author of The Story of Russia

Luncheon - Dining Hall

“The Independence of the Judiciary and Some of its Enemies”
Moderator: The Honourable Michelle O'Bonsawin, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Lecturer: The Right Honourable the Baroness Hale of Richmond, DBE, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (Retired) and author of Spider Woman: A Life

Group Photograph of Lecturers and Delegates - Walnut Tree Court (Rain Date)

Dinner - Dining Hall

Breakfast - Dining Hall

“Field Works: What Farming Could Teach Us About the Law”
Moderator: Nadia Effendi, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Lecturer: Sarah Langford, 3PB Barristers and author of In Your Defence and Rooted: Stories of Life, Land and a Farming Revolution

Health Break - Lyon Court

“AI and Dispute Resolution”
Moderator: Ira Nishisato, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Lecturer: Richard Susskind, OBE, Visiting Professor Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and author of Tomorrow's Lawyers: An Introduction to Your Future and Online Courts and the Future of Justice

Luncheon - Dining Hall

Visit to the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (Optional)

NO SCHEDULED LECTURES

No Dinner in Dining Hall

Breakfast - Dining Hall

“Why Do We Believe in a Rule of Law? A Historical Perspective”
Moderator: The Honourable Nicholas Kasirer, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Lecturer: Professor Fernanda Pirie, St Cross College, University of Oxford and author of The Rule of Laws: A 4,000 Year Quest to Order the World

Health Break - Lyon Court

“Reckless Disregard: The Case for Saving Sullivan in an Age of Doubt, Division and Disinformation”
Moderator: Pierre Bienvenu, Ad. E., IMK LLP
Lecturer: David E. McCraw, Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, The New York Times Company and author of Truth in our Times: Inside the Fight for Press Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts

Luncheon - Dining Hall

“The Privileges Committee of the House of Commons v The Right Honourable Boris Johnson MP: Fairness and Parliamentary Committees”
Moderator: The Honourable Sheilah Martin, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Lecturer: Lord David Pannick, KC, House of Lords and Blackstone Chambers and author of Advocacy: The Hamlyn Lectures

Dinner - Dining Hall

Breakfast - Dining Hall

“The Art and Science of Judicial Fact Finding”
Moderator: The Honourable Andromache Karakatsanis, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lady Rose of Colmworth DBE, PC, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom and Judicial Committee of the Privy Council

Health Break - Lyon Court

“The Dangers of Advocacy: Courage and Cowardice in the Courtroom”
Moderator: The Honourable Paul B. Schabas, Justice of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice
Lecturer: Thomas Grant, KC, Barrister, Wilberforce Chambers, Visiting Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and author of The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid

Luncheon - Dining Hall

“A Fireside Chat with the Chief Justice of Canada”
The Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada and
The Honourable Mahmud Jamal, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada

Dinner - Dining Hall

Breakfast - Dining Hall

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