Upcoming programs

Programs

Upcoming programs

Calendar

September 2024

Legislative Drafting Conference (2024 Edition)

Date: September 16-18, 2024

Location: In person - Shaw Centre, 55 Colonel By Drive, 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.

November 2024

Webinar | The (Dis)Connect between Legislative Drafting and Statutory Interpretation: Perspectives from Three Branches of Government

Date: November 26, 2024

Location: Online

This webinar explores the specialization of legislative drafting, the lack of awareness of its conventions among other legal professionals, and offers recommendations to better align drafting and statutory interpretation from the perspectives of the three branches of government.
• English program with simultaneous interpretation

Past programs

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