BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4//
BEGIN:VEVENT
UID:20251110T015144EST-8443p1lu2W@132.216.98.100
DTSTAMP:20251110T065144Z
DESCRIPTION:The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and Davies Ward
  Phillips & Vineberg welcome Michael Bryant (he/him)\, Executive Director 
 & General Counsel\, Canadian Civil Liberties Association\, for a timely an
 d challenging talk on how how COVID-19 has exposed Canada’s precarious sys
 tem of judicial review and public interest litigation. Professor Pearl Eli
 adis\, BCL'85\, LLB'85\, of the Max Bell School\, will act as moderator. T
 he opening remarks will be given by Nick Rodrigo\, Partner\, Davies.\n\nWe
  thank Davies for their sponsorship and support.\n\nMichael Bryant was the
  35th Attorney General of Ontario (2003-07)\, when that province passed it
 s emergency management legislation that initially applied during the COVID
 -19 pandemic. Since 2018\, he has led the Canadian Civil Liberties Associa
 tion\, a premier watchdog of domestic laws and regulations\, and a frequen
 t litigator before the Supreme Court of Canada. It is with both perspectiv
 es that Bryant critiques our system of judicial review in Canada\, particu
 larly during the pandemic\, and what happens to the rule of law in an emer
 gency. He argues that the judicial branch is the runt of Canada’s constitu
 tional litter\, permitting governments and legislatures to operate without
  sufficient constitutional scrutiny.\n\nAbout the speaker\n\nMichael Bryan
 t was born and raised in B.C.\, studied at UBC (BA\, MA)\, Osgoode Hall La
 w School (JD) and Harvard University (LLM). He clerked at the Supreme Cour
 t of Canada for Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin\, and then taught at King’s Co
 llege\, London (UK)\, U of T and Osgoode Hall. Before and after serving a 
 decade as provincial Member of Parliament in Ontario\, he practised law at
  McCarthy Tetrault LLP and Norton Rose Fulbright LLP. Bryant was recently 
 a public defender and defence counsel to indigent and indigenous people\, 
 and has published books on criminal law and public law. Father to a daught
 er who studies at 9IÖÆ×÷³§Ãâ·Ñ and a son at high school in Toronto\, Bryant was 
 named by Canadian Lawyer in 2019 as a Top 25 Most Influential in Canada’s 
 justice sector.\n
DTSTART:20211109T180000Z
DTEND:20211109T193000Z
LOCATION:Zoom: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/83223079813
SUMMARY:What Happens to the Rule of Law During a Pandemic?
URL:/law/channels/event/what-happens-rule-law-during-p
 andemic-334452
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR