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Date

June 11,  2021

Program accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory
Accreditation: Accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory (5 hours 30 minutes).

Overview

In this year’s Annual National Roundtable on Administrative Law, we look to stretch our commitment to accessible justice.

Special Guest

• The Honourable Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, Supreme Court of Canada

Co-Chairs

• Mr. Michael Gottheil, Chief of the Commission and Tribunals, Alberta Human Rights Commission
• Mr. Athanasios Hadjis, Senior Legal Counsel, Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada
• The Honourable James W. O’Reilly, CIAJ President

Speakers

• Paul Aterman, Chairperson, Social Security Tribunal of Canada
• The Honourable Judge Mary Kate Harvie, FASD Court, Manitoba
• Laverne Jacobs, Associate Professor and Associate Dean, Research & Graduate Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Windsor
• Sophie Lefebvre, Executive Director, Mile End Legal Clinic
• Julie Matthews, Executive Director, Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO)
• Michael McNeely, Law Graduate, Accessibility Consultant, and Self-Advocacy Instructor, Canadian Helen Keller Centre
• Paul Muldoon, Lawyer; Former Associate Chair, Assessment Review Board
• Selwyn A. Pieters, Barrister & Solicitor, Pieters Law Office (Ontario)
• Gary Stein, Lawyer; Executive Director - Community Legal Services of Ottawa
• Anita Szigeti, Founding Principal, Anita Szigeti Advocates, Toronto
• Surprise Guest: The Honourable Justice Ardith Walkem, Supreme Court of British Columbia

Related PowerPoint presentations and papers are available in the library under "documentation."

Date
The first episode of this series was webcast on May 17, 2021 and the second one on June 7, 2021.

List of webinars (scroll down to access the videos)

• Episode 1, May 17, 2021: Artificial Intelligence in Administrative Decision-Making (1 hour 20 minutes CPD)
  With Professor Paul Daly, Chair in Administrative Law and Governance, University of Ottawa; Patrick McEvenue, Director – Express Entry & Digital Policy, Strategic Policy and Planning, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada; Michelle Mann, General Counsel, Legal Services, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, Government of Canada
  
  
• Episode 2, June 7, 2021: Legislative Drafting in Time of Pandemic (1 hour 30 minutes CPD)
  With Glenn Joynt, Legislative Counsel and Assistant Deputy Minister, Legislative Counsel Division, Manitoba Justice; Riri Shen, Deputy Assistant Deputy Minister, Public Law and Legislative Services Sector, Department of Justice Canada; Mark Spakowski, Chief Legislative Counsel, Ministry of the Attorney General, Ontario

Overview

This three-part webinar series held in collaboration with PwC Canada will initiate a discussion on the future of justice and help pave the way to a major roundtable, taking place in the spring of 2022. The webinar’s aim is to refine the participants’ knowledge of key trends affecting the administration of justice. These topics will then be examined at greater depth during our roundtable. This series will provide attendees with in-depth knowledge and insights that will help build a future with improved justice services and better outcomes for families, businesses, and society.

60 to 90-minute webinars
Participation in this program is accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory.

List of webinars (scroll down to access the videos)

• Webinar #1, May 12, 2021: Hybrid Courts – The New Operational Normal

• Webinar #2, June 16, 2021: Redesigning Justice Administration − Pillars and Obstacles of Innovation

• Webinar #3, November 30, 2021: Transforming the Justice System: Exploring a Trauma-Informed Approach

Date
Webcast on April 14, 2021

This 90-minute webinar was made possible thanks to the support of the New Brunswick Law Foundation.

Language: In English, with simultaneous interpretation
Audience: All judges

Speakers

• The Honourable Justice Peter D. Lauwers, Court of Appeal for Ontario
• Barbara Morris (Ph. D., U of Toronto), legal writing instructor and consultant

Moderator

• The Honourable Chief Justice Tracey K. DeWare, Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick

Topics Overview

How to write concise, clear, complete and convincing decisions; the issue-driven approach; point-first writing; bias in judgment writing: how to become aware and overcome them, etc.

Date
Webcast on March 17, 2021

This 90-minute webinar was made possible thanks to the support of the New Brunswick Law Foundation.

Language: In English, with simultaneous interpretation
Audience: All judges, court employees

Speakers

• The Honourable Justice Patrick Healy, Court of Appeal of Quebec
• Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Dean, Full Professor, Faculty of Law – Civil Law Section, University of Ottawa

Moderator

• The Honourable Chief Justice Marc Richard, Court of Appeal of New Brunswick

Topics Overview

Sentencing in other provinces; mental health components; probation services; alternatives to long-term imprisonment; etc.

Related documentation:

• Dean Marie-Eve-Sylvestre's PowerPoint Presentation CIAJ March 17, 2021

Date
Webcast on February 17, 2021

This 90-minute webinar was made possible thanks to the support of the New Brunswick Law Foundation.

Language: In English, with simultaneous interpretation
Audience: All judges, court employees and lawyers (defence and Crown)

Speakers

• Jennifer Cox, Staff Lawyer, Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, Dalhousie University
• Jade M. Pictou, Barrister & Solicitor, Mackillop Pictou Law Group
• Jonathan Rudin, Lawyer, Program Director, Aboriginal Legal Services, Toronto
• The Honourable Justice Jessica Wolfe, Ontario Court of Justice

Moderator

• The Honourable Chief Justice Tracey K. DeWare, Court of Queen’s Bench of New Brunswick

Topics Overview

Why do we use Gladue reports? How are they being used in other provinces? Who writes them? Have they changed anything since their implementation?

Related documentation:

• Gladue Awareness Project – Final Report (ILC Press_AdvancedReadingCopy)

This free webinar series held in partnership with Courthouse Libraries BC has been designed to initiate discussion and pave the way to a major national conference on Indigenous Peoples and the Law to be held in Vancouver on November 17-19, 2021. The webinars aim to enrich the participants’ knowledge of the subjects that will be component parts of the larger issues examined at the conference, providing attendees with in-depth knowledge so as to enrich the discussions that will take place.

60 to 90-minute webinars
Participation in this program is accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory.

List of webinars (scroll down to access the videos)

• 1^st Webinar: Overview of the Progress of the Calls to Action (October 14, 2020)
  (In English, with simultaneous interpretation)
  Speaker:  Senator Murray Sinclair 
  Moderator: The Honourable Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin, Superior Court of Justice (Ontario) 
• 2^nd Webinar: The Next Stages of Indigenous Governance in Quebec (October 21, 2020)
  (In French, with simultaneous interpretation)
  Speakers: Chief Ghislain Picard, Assembly of First Nations Quebec-Labrador (Innu from the community of Pessamit), Ken Rock, Executive Director, Uashat mak Mani-utenam Economic Development Corporation
  Moderator: Michèle Moreau, Lawyer
• 3^rd Webinar: Looking at British Columbia’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (November 4, 2020)
  (In English, with simultaneous interpretation)
  Speakers: Regional Chief Terry Teegee, British Columbia Assembly of First Nations (Takla Lake First Nation); Professor Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond (Aki-Kwe), Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia; Senior Associate Counsel, Woodward & Company (Muskeg Lake Cree Nation)
  Moderator: Professor Bradford Morse, Faculty of Law, Thompson Rivers University  
• 4^th Webinar: Discussing the Promises and Problems with the Act respecting First Nations, Métis and Inuit Children, Youth and Families (January 20, 2021)
  (In English, with simultaneous interpretation)
  Speakers: Professor Hadley Friedland, University of Alberta Faculty of Law; Co-Founder, Wahkohtowin Law & Governance Lodge; Koren Lightning-Earle, Lawyer, Wahkohtowin Law & Governance Lodge (Samson Cree Nation, Alberta); Professor Naiomi Metallic, Chancellor’s Chair in Aboriginal Law and Policy, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University (Listuguj Mi’gmaq First Nation)
  Moderator: Jennifer Cox, Staff Lawyer, Dalhousie Legal Aid Service, Dalhousie University
• 5^th Webinar: Investigating the Indigenous Languages Act (February 17, 2021)
  (In English, with simultaneous interpretation)
  Speakers: Chief Ronald E. Ignace (Stsmél̓qen), Skeetchestn Band, Adjunct Professor, Anthropology, Simon Fraser University (Secwepemc (Shuswap) Nation); Professor Mariane Ignace, departments of Linguistics and Indigenous Studies, Simon Fraser University; Director, SFU’s Indigenous Languages Program and First Nations Language Centre; Professor Sarah Morales, Sarah Morales, Associate Professor, Faculty of law, University of Victoria (Coast Salish, Cowichan)
  Moderator: The Honourable Justice W. James W. O’Reilly, Federal Court; President, CIAJ
• 6^th Webinar: Court Changes after the COVID-19 Pandemic and Indigenous Cultural Relevancy (March 10, 2021)
  (In English, with simultaneous interpretation)
  Speakers: Judge Brent Hoy, Provincial Court, British Columbia; Jennifer Carmicheal, Crown Counsel at Ministry of Children and Family Development and Mark Gervin, Gervin Law
  Moderator: Scott Robertson, Senior Associate, Nahwegahbow Corbiere Genoodmagejig Barrister & Solicitors (Six Nations of the Grand River, Hodinöhsö:ni’);

Date
Webcast on June 23, 2020

60-minute webinar
Participation in this program is accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory.

Overview

More than half of the COVID-19 cases in Canada are linked to seniors’ homes. Is this fallout a reflection of a disregard for older people in Canadian society? Which safeguards should have been in place to prevent such a failing, and what can we do to protect our seniors in the future? In what ways should Canadian law adapt to better shield seniors and vulnerable people from becoming casualties amidst health and legal crises?

Speakers

• Martine Lagacé, Associate Vice-President, Research Promotion and Development, University of Ottawa
• Jane Meadus, Institutional Advocate, Advocacy Centre for the Elderly

Moderator

• Maria Aylward, Lawyer, Manager, Project and Business Development, CIAJ

Overview

Date
Webcast on May 20, 2020

90-minute special webcast with simultaneous interpretation
Participation in this program is accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory.

Overview

In his latest book, Online Courts and the Future of Justice, Professor Richard Susskind, one of the world’s most-cited authors on the future of legal services, writes about how online courts are destined to transform litigation. Our distinguished guests will debate whether technology can transform the legal system and offer better access to justice.

Speakers

• The Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada
• Professor Richard Susskind, OBE, internationally renowned author, speaker and adviser

Moderator: The Honourable Justice James W. O’Reilly, Federal Court; President, CIAJ

Date

May 29,  2020

Program accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory. 

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• Welcome Remarks (00:04:33)
  Co-Chairs: • Mr. Michael Gottheil, Chief of the Commission and Tribunals, Alberta Human Rights Commission • Mr. Athanasios Hadjis, Senior Legal Counsel, Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada • The Honourable Justice W. James O’Reilly, Federal Court; President, CIAJ
  
• Introduction (00:12:18): Towards a Unified Theory of Administrative Law?
  With Lauren J. Wihak, Lawyer, McDougall Gauley LLP Barristers + Solicitors
  
  
• Panel 1 (00:58:14): The Vavilov Framework
  With Professor Paul Daly, Chair in Administrative Law and Governance, University of Ottawa
• Panel 2 (00:42:07): What Is the Role of Tribunals ***Note: image quality is low
  With Mr. Geoff Plant, Q.C. (former Attorney General of British Columbia responsible for the introduction of the Administrative Tribunals Act in BC)
• Panel 3 (01:02:08): Time Is on My Side—but Should it Be?
  With Ms. Shannon Salter, Chair, Civil Resolution Tribunal; Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
• Panel 4 (01:16:30): Long (Or Short) Arm of the Law
  With Ms. Alyssa Tomkins, Partner, Caza Saikaly, Ottawa • Professor Nicolas Lambert, Faculty of Law, Université de Moncton • The Honourable Justice Lorne Sossin, Superior Court of Justice (Ontario)
• Panel 5 and Closing Remarks (01:11:04): Towards a Unified Theory of Administrative Law. Is It Possible? Is It Desirable?
  With The Honourable Justice Yves-Marie Morissette, Court of Appeal of Quebec (TBC) • Mr. Michael Gottheil, Chief of the Commission and Tribunals, Alberta Human Rights Commission • Mr. Peter Engelmann, Goldblatt Partners, LLP

Related PowerPoint presentations and papers are available in the library under "documentation."

Date
Webcast on May 20, 2020

90-minute special webcast with simultaneous interpretation
Participation in this program is accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory.
Specific accreditation: 1 hour and 30 minutes of Professionalism content (Ontario)

Overview

In his latest book, Online Courts and the Future of Justice, Professor Richard Susskind, one of the world’s most-cited authors on the future of legal services, writes about how online courts are destined to transform litigation. Our distinguished guests will debate whether technology can transform the legal system and offer better access to justice.

Speakers

• The Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C., Chief Justice of Canada
• Professor Richard Susskind, OBE, internationally renowned author, speaker and adviser

Moderator: The Honourable Justice James W. O’Reilly, Federal Court; President, CIAJ

Date

March, April and May 2020

List of webinars (scroll down to access the videos)

• Episode 1, March 25, 2020: Becoming the Boss of Your Mental Health: Self-Management Practices for Anxiety in the Workplace (1.25 hour CPD)
  With Ms. Nadia Hammouda, English Community Lead, Revivre *** This episode is for CIAJ Members only.

• Episode 2, April 1, 2020: Mindfulness and Meditation Practices in Times of Crisis (0.75 hour CPD)
  With Ms. Heather Cross, Lawyer, Here + Now

• Episode 3, April 8, 2020: Stuck at Home: Tips and Tricks for Surviving (And Thriving) During a Crisis (1 hour CPD)
  With Valérie Gobeil, Lawyer, Head of Development, GSoft and Tamara Mosher-Kuczer, Lawyer, Capelle Kane

• Episode 4, April 22, 2020: Building Mental Health into Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs (1 hour CPD)
  With Liz Horvath, B.A.Sc., CRSP, Manager, Workplace Mental Health, Opening Minds, Mental Health Commission of Canada

• Episode 5, May 6, 2020: Administrative Tribunals and COVID-19: Challenges, Solutions and Takeaways (1 hour CPD)
  With Jennifer Khurana, Vice-Chairperson, Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, and David A. Wright, Chair, Law Society Tribunal, Ontario

Date
The first episode of this series was webcast on February 19, 2020

List of webinars (scroll down to access the videos)

• Episode 1, February 19, 2020: Vavilov: Impact on Legislative Drafting (75 minutes CPD)
  With Professor Paul Daly, Chair in Administrative Law and Governance, University of Ottawa. Moderator: Professor John Mark Keyes, University of Ottawa
  
  
• Episode 2, June 17, 2020: Judicial Review of Delegated Legislation: The Long and Winding Road to Vavilov (90 minutes CPD)
  With Professor John Mark Keyes, Faculty of Law – Common Law Section, University of Ottawa. Moderator: Professor Mistrale Goudreau, Civil Law Section University of Ottawa

Date
The first episode of this series was webcast on January 30, 2020

List of webinars (scroll down to access the videos)

• Episode 1: January 30, 2020: New Standard of Review: The Essentials (1 hour CPD)
  With The Honourable Justice David W. Stratas, Federal Court of Appeal (Speaker) and Dr. Gerald Heckman, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba (Moderator)
  This webinar is made possible thanks to the technical support of the Federal Court of Appeal.

• Episode 2: May 25, 2020: Six Months of Vavilov, Where Are We Now? (1 hour CPD)
  With Professor Paul Daly, Chair in Administrative Law and Governance, University of Ottawa

Date

Online program in 4 parts of 3 hours each, on September 10-18-24 and October 1, 2020.

Program accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory. 

***Some technical problems occurred during the live broadcasts. The video prices have been revised accordingly***

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• Part 1, September 10, 2020 (2:32:56): Post-Modern Law (Jump to 00:18:50 for the beginning of the Conference)
  - From 00:18:50: Keynote Address: Machine-Made Law –The Next Step in AI? 
  With Professor Gillian Hadfield
  - Law as Code: Drafting Laws to Facilitate the Automated Delivery of Law
  With Jason Morris, Scott McNaughton, Marek Bilinski (Technical issues, incomplete session), Jennifer Dufresne and Charles Duperreault
  
  
• Part 2a, September 18, 2020 (2:14:01): Legislative Drafting 
  - Gender Inclusivity in Legal Discourse
  With Louise Langevin, Kyle Kirkup (In French Only)
  Part 2b, September 18, 2020 (00:38:32)
  - Gender Inclusivity in Legal Discourse
  With Peter Birt (Original presentation in English)
  
  
• Part 3, September 24, 2020 (1:48:51): Legislative Interpretation
  - From 00:10:27: Legislative Interpretation: Interpretative Presumptions / Deeming Provisions / Transitional Provisions
  With France Allard and Sylvie Parent
  
  
• Part 4, October 1, 2020 (2:40:07): Regulatory Matters
  - Post-Modern Regulation: Keeping up With a Changing World
  With Patricia Pledge and Claude Lesage
  - Regulation-Making Powers: Balancing Parliamentary Sovereignty Regulatory Flexibility and Judicial Review
  With Lorne Neudorf, Lerissa Thaver and Ajay Ramkumar

Related PowerPoint presentations and papers are available in the library under "documentation."

Date

October 16-18,  2019

Program accredited in provinces where CLE requirements for lawyers are mandatory. / Formation dont l’admissibilité a été confirmée par le Barreau du Québec aux fins de la formation continue obligatoire.

Theme

The 2019 annual conference on the impact of artificial intelligence and social media on legal institutions is taking a hard, critical look at the challenges that courts and the legal profession must face in order to maintain public confidence in the administration of justice.

Our relationship with information is being disrupted by technology: our means of communication are evolving, information is flowing in a network of complicated channels, and language is changing with the plethora of acronyms and emoticons that arise every day.

Artificial intelligence designers are proposing inventions that assist with human decision-making. Documentary evidence today includes screen shots, the traceability of which is questionable. The legal guarantees for reputation and privacy protection are colliding with information dissemination and the use of it for often questionable purposes.

How can courts and the legal profession evolve and adapt to new technologies to ensure that they remain consistent in their mission to promote and protect the administration of justice?

Co-Chairs

• Mr. Patrick A. Molinari, Ad. E., FRSC, Lavery Lawyers; President, CIAJ
• The Honourable Justice James O’Reilly, Federal Court; First Vice-President, CIAJ

Planning Committee

• Professor Benjamin Alarie
• The Honourable Justice Frances Kiteley
• Mr. Eric Lavallée
• Ms. Christine O’Doherty
• The Honourable Justice P. Colleen Suche
• Professor Pierre Trudel
• Professor Martine Valois, Ad. E.
• Professor Nicolas Vermeys

List of webinars and language (scroll down to access the videos)

• Panel 1 (1:22:10): The Risks and Rewards of Emerging Technologies
  With Derek Ruths (in English), Jennifer Stairs (in English) and Lorne Sossin (in English)
• Panel 2 (1:11:34): The Influence of Social Media on the Work of Decision-Makers
  With Pierre Trudel (in French), Peter D. Lauwers (in English) and Frances Kiteley (in English)
• Panel 3 (1:16:14): How Will Technology Alter the Truth-Seeking Process and Its Legitimacy?
  With Mark J. Sandler (in English), Sophie Bourque (in French) and Yves Boisvert (in French)
• Panel 4 (1:-09:58): Value Extraction from Data Collection: Will We Be Needing Lawyers in the Digital Era?
  With Alain Lavoie (in French), Eric Lavallée (in French) and Benjamin Alarie (in English)
• Panel 5 (1:28:05): Protection in the Internet Era: Privacy, Defamation and Online Reputation
  With Pierre-Luc Déziel (in French), Sue Gratton (in English) and Frédéric Letendre (in French)
• Panel 8 (1:31:18): Student Panel: Vulnerability and Control: Deepfakes, Image-Based Abuse and Online Harm
  With Yuan Stevens (in English), Nareg Froundijian (in English) and Suzie Dunn (in English), after Xavier Dionne's opening presentation in French)
• Panel 9 (1:29:18): Increasing Sources of Information and Integrity of the Law
  With Laurence Bich-Carrière (in French) and Nicolas Vermeys (in French)
• Panel 10 (1:24:43): Do Modern Communication Techniques and Public Opinion Affect Judicial Decision-Making?
  With Charles Moumouni (in English), Lucie Rondeau in French) and Michele H. Hollins (in English)

Related PowerPoint presentations and papers are available in the library under "documentation."

Note: Panels 6 and 7 are not available.

Date

Le mercredi 20 mars 2019

Ce webinaire de 90 minutes est parrainé par le programme de diplôme post-baccalauréat en rédaction législative de l’Université Athabasca.

Thème

Les légistes suivent des consignes standardisées pour la rédaction de textes législatifs et réglementaires. Dans ce webinaire, nous verrons comment de tels standards peuvent faciliter l’extraction d’informations fondée sur des règles. En s’appuyant sur une étude de cas portant sur la réforme de la réglementation, le professeur Alschner expliquera comment appliquer les règles issues de la rédaction législative pour mesurer automatiquement la prescriptivité (un concept relatif concernant les commandements par rapport aux autorisations) des règlements fédéraux canadiens. La prescriptivité a été mesurée en comptant les termes associés à la signalisation dans un corpus de 2 300 règlements canadiens. Les résultats obtenus sont significatifs quant aux caractéristiques des textes réglementaires pouvant être pertinentes pour l’élaboration de politiques. Ces résultats offrent des paramètres de base en vue d’effectuer une réforme de la réglementation. Ils attirent notre attention sur la valeur des analyses faites à partir de règles tirées de la rédaction législative. Le professeur Alschner présentera également un prototype de logiciel qui facilite l’examen des règlements en aidant les autorités à distinguer une « bonne » réglementation d’une « mauvaise » réglementation devant être modifiée ou abrogée.

Conférencier

Le professeur Wolfgang Alschner, Faculté de droit – Section de droit civil, Université d’Ottawa

Wolfgang Alschner est un spécialiste du droit économique international et de l’analyse computationnelle du droit. Il enseigne à la Section de Common Law de la Faculté de droit de l’Université d’Ottawa, de même qu’à l’École de science informatique et de génie électrique de la Faculté de génie. Il fait partie des chercheurs du Centre de recherche en droit, technologie et société de la même université. Avant de se joindre à l’Université d’Ottawa, Me Alschner a travaillé à titre de chercheur indépendant pour la Section sur les accords internationaux d’investissement de la CNUCED pendant plusieurs années. Il a aussi été chercheur invité à l’Institut de hautes études de Genève ainsi qu’au World Trade Institute à Berne, en Suisse. Me Alschner est titulaire d’un doctorat en droit international de l’Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement de Genève, d’une maîtrise de la Stanford Law School, d’une maîtrise en affaires internationales de l’Institut de hautes études, de même que d’un LL.B. de l’University of London et d’un baccalauréat en relations internationales de l’Université de Dresde, en Allemagne.
Modératrice: La professeure Mistrale Goudreau, Faculté de droit – Section de droit civil, Université d’Ottawa

Date

Monday, March 11, 2019

Sponsored by the Post-Baccalaureate Diploma in Legislative Drafting program at Athabasca University. 

Theme

Legislative drafters follow formalized conventions when crafting statutory and regulatory texts. Professor Wolfgang Alschner will explore how such conventions can facilitate rules-based information extraction. Using regulatory reform as a case study, he will show how to apply rules derived from legislative drafting to automatically measure prescriptivity—a relative concept of commands in relation to permissions—in federal Canadian regulations. We measured prescriptivity by counting associated signaling terms across a corpus of 2,300 Canadian regulations. The resulting prescriptivity scores meaningfully describe policy-relevant characteristics of regulatory texts. These scores provide a basic metric to inform regulatory reform and highlight the value of rules-based analytics derived from legislative drafting conventions. Professor Alschner will also discuss how to facilitate the review of regulations using a software prototype that helps regulators to tell a “good” regulation worth preserving from a “bad” one in need of amendment or repeal.

Speaker

Professor Wolfgang Alschner, Faculty of Law – Common Law Section, University of Ottawa

Wolfgang Alschner is an empirical legal scholar specialized in international economic law and the computational analysis of law. He is a permanent faculty member of the Common Law Section with cross-appointment to the Faculty of Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also a faculty member of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society at the University of Ottawa. Wolfgang holds a PhD in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, a Master of Law from Stanford Law School, a Master in International Affairs from the Graduate Institute as well as an LLB from the University of London and a BA in International Relations from the University of Dresden, Germany.

Moderator: Professor John Mark Keyes, Faculty of Law – Common Law Section, University of Ottawa

Date

Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Friday, October 19, 2018

Theme

The theme of Justice and Mental Health will be discussed by panellists who will attempt to bridge the gap between the Justice and Healthcare systems; what is the interrelation between vulnerable groups and mental illness as it plays out in the courts (civil and criminal) and administrative tribunals?

Speakers from various disciplines, including lawyers, judges, psychologists, psychiatrists, correctional professionals and social workers, will approach issues in an inclusive manner that incorporates the diverse perspectives of the various populations and advocates concerned. Among others, we will view the two systems through the lens of a medical context, a social context, a correctional view and a rehabilitation-centred view. We will also hear stories from individuals that have passed through the criminal and healthcare spheres, and have come out the other side with a unique perspective on the systems at play. The conference will conclude with a student panel entitled Law and Happiness, where we will explore how mental health issues affect law students and lawyers. What resources are available to manage the mental health of those who operate within the legal profession

It has been said that courts are the emergency rooms for unaddressed mental health issues. This conference will assess the tools available to the justice system to manage such issues when they arise with respect to litigants, witnesses and the accused.

Honorary Chair

• Senator Kim Pate, Senate of Canada

Co-Chairs

• Mr. Patrick A. Molinari, Ad. E., FRSC, Lavery Lawyers, President, CIAJ
• The Hon. James O’Reilly, Federal Court, First Vice-President, CIAJ

Planning Committee

• Mr. Mark Benton, Q.C. CEO, Legal Services Society of British Columbia
• Deputy Commissioner Brenda Butterworth-Carr, Commanding Officer, E Division, RCMP
• Professor Jennifer Chandler, Faculty of Law - Common Law Section, University of Ottawa
• The Honourable Judge Dominique Larochelle, Court of Quebec
• Ms. Sapna Mahajan, Director, Mental Health Prevention and Promotion – Workplace Initiatives Mental Health Commission of Canada
• Mr. André A. Morin, Ad. E., Chief Federal Prosecutor, Public Prosecution Service of Canada
• The Honourable Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin, Superior Court of Justice, Ontario
• The Honourable Justice P. Colleen Suche, Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench, CIAJ Second Vice-President
• Professor Martine Valois, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal
• Mr. David A. Wright Chair, Law Society Tribunal

Date

Wednesday, September 13, 2018
Thursday, September 14, 2018

Theme

The 2018 bi-annual Legislative Drafting Conference will tackle one of the most pervasive challenges in modern legislation: complexity, beginning with its principal drivers in public policy. Why does our world generate legislative complexity? And how can legislation address this complexity intelligibly, coherently and effectively?

Conference sessions will also focus on examples of today’s complexity challenges in international trading relationships, cannabis de-criminalization and the interaction of state law with indigenous legal traditions. Other sessions will focus on pragmatic drafting solutions to particular facets of these challenges, such as interjurisdictional coherence, resolving policy blockages, drafting for clients with limited policy-resources and achieving legislative coherence over time. The conference will include a wide range of speakers from Canada, the UK and beyond.

Planning committee

Co-Chairs 

• Annette M. Boucher
• John Mark Keyes

Members

• Richard Denis
• Janet Erasmus
• Wendy Gordon
• Laura Hopkins
• Hoi Kong
• Jacqueline Kuehl
• Sandra Markman
• Eric Milligan
• Melanie Mortensen
• Peter J. Pagano
• Isabelle Parrot
• Mark Spakowski