Battling the Many Barriers Facing People with Disabilities in Society: A New Legislative Alternative to Traditional Human Rights/Charter Litigation
Le聽Groupe de recherche en sant茅 et droit (RGHL), en collaboration avec le Centre sur les droits de la personne et le pluralisme juridique (CHRLP), accueille David Lepofsky pour une conf茅rence en droit et sant茅.聽
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Pourquoi tant de personnes handicap茅es au Canada exigent-elles des lois f茅d茅rales et provinciales en mati猫re d'accessibilit茅? Parce qu'elles ne veulent pas avoir 脿 combattre les obstacles 脿 l'accessibilit茅 un 脿 un. Apprenez-en davantage sur les lois qu'elles ont gagn茅es en Ontario et au Manitoba, et celles qui sont en d茅veloppement en Nouvelle-脡cosse, 脿 Terre-Neuve et au f茅d茅ral. D茅couvrez le r么le crucial que les juristes peuvent jouer dans la d茅fense de la justice sociale.
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Le conf茅rencier
[En anglais seulement] David Lepofsky is a visiting professor (part-time) at Osgoode Hall Law School and an adjunct member of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. He holds volunteer leadership roles in the disability community. 聽He is chair of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act Alliance and the chair of the Toronto District School Board鈥檚 Special Education Advisory Committee.
Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1981, Lepofsky practised law with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto from 1982 to 2015, in constitutional, civil, administrative and criminal law. In 2004, he was appointed to the position of General Counsel. He has appeared on at least 30 cases in the Supreme Court of Canada in his career, as counsel or co-counsel, and in some 200 cases in the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Since 1991, he has been a part-time member of the University of Toronto鈥檚 Faculty of Law, where he teaches an advanced constitutional law seminar on freedom of expression and press. In January 2016, he also became a part-time visiting professor of legal ethics and public interest advocacy at Osgoode Hall Law School.聽
Formation d鈥檜n dispensateur reconnu aux fins de la formation聽continue obligatoire pour une dur茅e de 1,5 heures.
