Day 1 − 2023 Annual Conference on The Law of Borders (5:11:22)

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2023 

8:00 – 9:00 am | REGISTRATION AND BREAKFAST

9:00 – 9:30 am | LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, WELCOME REMARKS AND INTRODUCTION

Master of Ceremony

  • Athanasios Hadjis, Vice-Chair, Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

Honorary Chair

  • The Honourable Justice Mahmud Jamal, Supreme Court of Canada

CIAJ President

  • The Honourable Justice P. Colleen Suche, Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba; President, CIAJ

9:30 – 10:15 am | KEYNOTE SPEAKER

  • Her Excellency Yuliya Kovaliv, Ambassador of Ukraine, Canada

10:15 – 10:30 am | BREAK

10:30 am – Noon | PANEL 1 – The Paradox of Borders: An Overview of the Conference

Chair

  • The Honourable Justice James W. O’Reilly, Federal Court; Past-President, CIAJ

Speakers

  • Ferry de Kerckhove, former Canadian Ambassador; Professor, Centre for International Policy Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa
  • Audrey Macklin, Professor & Rebecca Cook Chair in Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
  • Delphine Nakache, Full Professor, Faculty of Law – French Common Law, University of Ottawa
  • Doug Saunders, Journalist, Author & Columnist, The Globe and Mail

12:00 – 1:00 pm | LUNCH

1:00 – 2:30 pm | PANEL 2 – Migrants and Workers

Chair

  • The Honourable Justice P. Colleen Suche, Court of King’s Bench of Manitoba; President, CIAJ

Speakers

  • Amanda Aziz, Staff Lawyer, Migrant Workers Centre
  • Eugénie Depatie-Pelletier, Doctor in law, Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, Université Laval; Executive director, Association for the Rights of Household and Farm Workers
  • Constance MacIntosh, Professor, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University

2:30 – 2:45 pm | BREAK

2:45 – 4:00 pm | PANEL 3 – Borders, Barriers, and Legal Pluralism

Chair

  • Sarah Rowe, J.D. Candidate, Faculty of Law – Common Law Section, University of Ottawa

Speakers

  • Efrat Arbel, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia
  • Ryan Stuart Beaton, lawyer, Juristes Power Law
  • Asha Kaushal, Associate Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia

4:00 – 4:30 pm | CIAJ MEMBERS ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

5:00 – 7:30 pm | COCKTAIL

2023  I  CIAJ’s 47th Annual Conference on The Law of Borders (October 25-27, 2023 in Ottawa and Online)