BLG student research mini conference
Presented by Borden Ladner Gervais, the Paul-André Crépeau Centre for Private and Comparative Law, & the Institute of Comparative Law, with additional support from Dean Daniel Jutras, this mini conference features 16 students who will talk about their research in two pairs of concurrent sessions.
14h40 Session 1A – Hearing the Other / À l’écoute de l’Autre - 312 NCDH
1. Fraser Harland – Taking the “Aboriginal Perspective” Seriously: The Place and Displacement of Indigenous Law in Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia
2. Sydney Warshaw – Independent Video Games in Libraries as a Feminist Act
3. Brian Bird – Prayer for Relief: Saguenay and State Neutrality toward Religion in Canada
4. Anne-Sophie Ouellet – La judiciarisation des inégalités de genre: l’insuffisance du traitement judiciaire de la pornographie
14h40: Session 1B – Governing Institutions / Les institutions de gouvernance- 316 NCDH
5. Benjamin Dionne – Le Sénat, l’avenir de la Confédération
6. Jennifer Anderson – Retroactivity in Common Law Jurisdictions: A Wrinkle in Time
7. Patrick Baud – Parliament’s Duty to Ask and Answer Constitutional Questions
8. Oleg Stratiev – Le manque de transparence dans le processus de nomination des magistrats à la Cour suprême : un pas en avant, deux pas en arrière
15h45 - Break
16h: Session 2A – Rights and Inclusion / Droits et intégration - 312 NCDH
9. Benny Chan – Physician-Assisted Dying and Decision-Making Capacity
10. Laurence Saint-Pierre Harvey – Pour une réforme du Sénat canadien guidé par une reconnaissance de la diversité : perspectives éthiopienne et sud-africaine
11. Pierre Lantoin – Réflexions sur la liberté d’expression à l’heure de la Loi antiterroriste de 2015
12. Didem Dogar – Turkey: The Challenging Problems of the Asylum Seekers Suspected of Criminality
16h: Session 2B – Regulating Technologies / La réglementation et la technologie - 316 NCDH
13. Stacey Smydo – Growing up in a Digital World: Should Children have the Right to Be Forgotten?
14. Jacob Heyka – International Tax Treaty Arbitration: A Historical, Procedural, and Normative Nightmare
15. Lex Gill – Towards Digital Constitutionalism? Mapping Attempts to Craft an Internet Bill of Rights
16. Maria Bun – CEFTA and CISFTA as Mechanisms for Introducing Free Trade in Central and Eastern Europe Post-
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17h - Wine & cheese – third floor NCDH
