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Episode 29: Dignity Part V
Access to Justice, Dignity, Human Rights – Aug 31, 2021
An eight-part series on dignity. In this fifth episode, we will be exploring what changes were made to medical aid in dying legislation from Bill C-14 to Bill C-7.
Episode 28: Dignity Part IV
Access to Justice, Dignity, Human Rights – Aug 17, 2021
An eight-part series on dignity. In this fourth episode, we will be exploring the concept of dignity and the history of medical aid in dying (MAID) legislation and jurisprudence.
Episode 27: Institutions and A2J: From Barriers to Open Doors
Access to Justice, Administrative Law, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples – Jun 30, 2021
In this episode, Senior Legal Counsel Athanasios Hadjis welcomes Professor Patricia M. Barkaskas, who presents some conclusions of CIAJ's 2021 National Roundtable on Administrative Law entitled "All the Voices We Don't Hear."
Episode 26: Testimony of a Human Rights Advocate With Lived Experience of Disability
Access to Justice, Administrative Law, Human Rights – Jun 23, 2021
In this episode, Professor Philip Bryden, TransCanada Chair in Administrative and Regulatory Law at the University of Alberta Faculty of Law is interviewing lawyer, human rights advocate, and accessibility consultant Michael McNeely, on his own experience with the justice system as a deaf-blind person.
Episode 21: Remodeling Canadian Legal Traditions, Part 2: The Anishinaabe Perspective
Access to Justice, Indigenous Peoples – May 20, 2021
In this episode, the Honourable P. Colleen Suche, a judge of the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba, and University of Ottawa Faculty of Common law Professor Aimée Craft will be exploring Canadian legal traditions from the Anishinaabe perspective.
Episode 11: Dignity Part III
Access to Justice, Dignity, Human Rights – Feb 25, 2021
An eight-part series on dignity. In this third and last episode, we will be exploring how the judiciary should address the impact of systemic discrimination and oppression, as well as indignity, on an individual’s ability to access end-of-life ethics.
Episode 10: Dignity Part II
Access to Justice, Dignity, Human Rights – Feb 18, 2021
An eight-part series on dignity. In this second episode, we will be looking at the current landscape of dignity in the judiciary, namely in jurisprudence, the impact of systemic discrimination and oppression on dying with dignity, as well as the current legislation and short-comings of end-of-life ethics.
Episode 9: Dignity Part I
Access to Justice, Dignity, Human Rights – Feb 11, 2021
An eight-part series on dignity. In this first episode, we will be exploring whether dignity exists in the Canadian constitution, what the working definition of dignity entails, and how we explore dignity in an academic and legal context.