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September 2026

Legislative Drafting Conference (2026 Edition)

Date: September 9-11, 2026

Location: In person — Fairmont Château Laurier, 1 Rideau St, Ottawa, ON — and online

The biennial Legislative Drafting Conference will tackle the most important challenges in modern legislation.
• Participation at this program is accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory.

Past programs

2024-11-26 Webinar | The (Dis)Connect between Legislative Drafting and Statutory Interpretation: Perspectives from Three Branches of Government
2024-09-16 Legislative Drafting Conference (2024 Edition)
2024-05-23 Webinar | Judicial Review of Regulations: Vavilov or Vires?
2023-11-09 Webinar | The Power of Languages and Stories in Drafting Indigenous Laws
2022-11-16 Webinar | Legislative Drafting [series] - Cosmetics Regulation and Product Labelling in Canada: The Challenges
2022-09-08 Legislative Drafting Conference (2022 Edition)
2021-06-07 Legislative Drafting Webinar | Legislative Drafting in Time of Pandemic
2021-05-17 Legislative Drafting Webinar | Artificial Intelligence in Administrative Decision-Making
2020-10-01 Online Program | Legislative Drafting Conference (20th Anniversary) | Making Laws in a Post-Modern World: Are You Ready?
2020-06-17 Legislative Drafting Webinar | Judicial Review of Delegated Legislation: The Long and Winding Road to Vavilov
2019-03-20 Webinaire sur la rédaction législative (in French only)
2019-03-11 Webinar on Legislative Drafting: A Rules-based Approach to Measuring Prescriptivity in Canadian Regulations
2018-09-13 2018 Legislative Drafting Conference: Charting Legislative Courses in a Complex World
2018-05-23 Webinar on Legislative Drafting (in French)
2017-11-14 Webinar on Legislative Drafting: Mathematics in Legislation
2017-02-01 Webinar on Legislative Drafting
Legislative Drafting and Legislated Forms: Plato, Prescription and Paradox
2016-09-12 Legislative Drafting Conference – The New Legislative Counsel: At the Intersection of Law, Policy and Politics