The Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice organizes and conducts conferences and specialized seminars and prepares comprehensive background papers.
Among the cutting-edge issues examined over the years:
- Indigenous Peoples and the Law
- The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Social Media on Legal Institutions
- Justice and Mental Health
- The Charter Challenge Conundrum: The Clash of Rights and Values and the Canadian Cultural Mosaic (Cultural and Religious Diversity in the Administration of Justice)
- Civil Justice and Economics: A Matter of Value
- Aboriginal Peoples and the Law: “We are all Here to Stay”
- Privacy in the Age of Information
- How Do We Know What We Think We Know: Facts in the Legal System
- The Courts and Beyond: The Architecture of Justice in Transition
- Terrorism, Law & Democracy: 10 years after 9/11
- Sentencing and Corrections: Sentencing Theory Meets Practice
- Taking Remedies Seriously
- Reasonable Accommodation and the Role of the State: A Democratic Challenge
- Doing Justice: Dispute Resolution in the Courts and Beyond
- Sustainable Development and the Law: People – Environment – Culture
- Technology, Privacy and Justice
- Governance of Public Institutions, Professions, Corporations, Tribunals and Courts: Ethics, Responsibility and Independence
- Participatory Justice In a Global Economy: The New Rule of Law?
- The Canadian Highway to the International Criminal Court: All Roads Lead to Rome
- Dialogues about Justice: The Public, Legislators, Courts and the Media
- Terrorism, Law & Democracy: How is Canada Changing following September 11?
- Citizenship and Citizen Participation in the Administration of Justice
- Science, Truth and Justice
- The Judiciary as Third Branch of Government: Manifestations and Challenges to Legitimacy
- Changing Punishment at the Turn of the Century: Finding a Common Ground
- Justice to Order: Adjustment to Changing Demands and Co-ordination Issues in the Justice System in Canada
- The Administration of Justice in Commercial Disputes
- Dawn or Dusk in Sentencing
- Human Rights in the 21st Century: Prospects, Institutions and Processes
- Public Perceptions of the Administration of Justice
- Open Justice
- Filtering and Analyzing Evidence in an Age of Diversity