Guest Speakers Program
2011-2012 Guest Speakers:
Professor Edward Rock, University of Pennsylvania, presented "Adapting to the New Shareholder-Centric Reality: Creditor Protection" on March 26, 2012.
Professor Kent Greenfield, Boston College Law School, presented "The Myth of Choice: Personal Responsibility in a World of Limits" on March 12, 2012.
Laurie Pawlitza, Treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, presented “What it’s like to be a Law Profession Regulator in 2012” on March 5, 2012.
Professor Adam Dodek, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, presented “Solicitor-client privilege 2.0: Challenges and opportunities for the privilege in the wired world” on February 13, 2012.
Judge Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, B.C. Representative for Children and Youth, delivered the Silas E. Halyk, QC, Visiting Scholar in Advocacy Lecture titled “Who Speaks for the Child? The Role of Advocacy in the Life and Children and Youth” on February 1, 2012.
Professor Kent Roach, University of Toronto, presented “The 9/11 effect: Comparative counter terrorism” on January 26, 2012.
Professor Natasha Affolder, University of British Columbia Law School, presented “Bargaining for Biodiversity” on January 23, 2012.
Robert Leckey, McGill University Faculty of Law, presented "Two Mothers in Fact and Law" on November 21, 2011.
Michele Goodwin, Everett Fraser Professor, University of Minnesota Law School and University of Minnesota School of Public Health, presented “The Nature of Property and Ownership of the Human Body” on November 14, 2011.
Dr. Sharon Hubbs Wright, St. Thomas More College, University of Saskatchewan, presented “Reported Conflict and Natural Disaster: A Case Study of the Wakefield Manor Leet Courts Through the Fourteenth Century Plague Epidemics” on October 31, 2011.
Mary Eberts, the Ariel Sallows Chair in Human Rights at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, presented “Settler Reflections: Knowing and Refusing to Know about Canada’s Missing and Murdered Aboriginal Women” at the Ariel Sallows Chair in Human Rights Lecture on October 24.
John Ralston Saul, in honour of the 75th Anniversary of the Saskatchewan Law Review, presented “A Different Model of the Nation-State - Canada in the World and the Aboriginal Influence” at the 14th Annual Saskatchewan Law Review Lecture, Monday, October 17.
Fiona Sampson, founder of The Equality Effect and former Litigation Director, Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), discussed "The Equality Effect: Canadians and Africans Seeking Justice Together." This lecture was presented together by the College of Law and the Ariel Sallows Chair in Human Rights on October 12.
Bruce Pardy, a professor in the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University, discussed “Justice Should be Blind: Environmental Instrumentalism and the Rule of Law” on October 3.
Professor Stephen Coughlan, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, presented “Criminal Justice in a Post-Rule of Law World” for the 2011 Culliton Lecture in Criminal Law, on Monday, September 19, 2011.
Jerome Slavik, Ackroyd LLP, Edmonton, discussed "Aboriginal Communities Negotiating with the Crown and Industry," which was presented by the College of Law, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Group and Aboriginal Law Sections of CBA Saskatchewan on Monday, September 26, 2011.
2010-2011 Guest Speakers:
Professor Jeremy DeBeer, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, presented “Judging Biotech: How Courts Control our Crops” at the college on Monday, March 21, 2011.
Associate Chief Judge Clifford Toth, Provincial Court of Saskatchewan, presented “An Introduction to Therapeutic Justice” at the college on Thursday, March 17, 2011. Judge Toth also chairs the Therapeutic Justice Committee of the Canadian Council of Judges, Sitting in the Regina Drug Court.
Peter Grant, QC, of Peter Grant & Associates, presented “The Role of the Courts in Assisting Reconciliation between the Crown and the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada: The Unfinished Business of Delgamuukw” at the college on Monday, March 14, 2011.
Professor Teresa Scassa, Canada Research Chair in Information Law at the University of Ottawa, presented “Intellectual Property Rights on Steroids: Reasons to Worry about Anti-Ambush Marketing Legislation”at our college on Monday, March 7, 2011.
The Honourable Mr. Justice Thomas Cromwell, Supreme Court of Canada, presented "The Ethical Dimensions of Practical Judgment" for the Third Gertler Family Lectureship in Law Honouring the Robert McKercher Family at Convocation Hall at the U of S on Wednesday, February 9, 2011.
Phil Fontaine, Ishkonigan, and former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations, presented "Social Justice, Reconciliation and Moving Forward" for the John Ambrose Stack Memorial Lecture held at our college on Wednesday, February 2, 2011.
Aaron Fox, QC, McDougall Gauley LLP, presented "Farmboy Advocacy" for the Si Halyk, QC, Visiting Scholar in Advocacy Lecture held at our college on Monday, January 31, 2011.
Naresh Singh, Canadian International Development Agency, presented "The Legal Empowerment of the Poor" at our college on Monday, January 17, 2011.
Jennifer Stoddart, Privacy Commissioner of Canada, presented "Privacy in the Era of Social Networking" at our college on Monday, November 22, 2010.
Heather McNaughton, former chair of the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal presented "Canadian Models for Human Rights Protection: What Next?" at the college on Monday, November 1, 2010.
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin of the Supreme Court of Canada spoke on “Access to Justice” to a packed house at the College of Law on October 27, 2010.
Professor David Vaver, of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University spoke on "The Immorality of Intellectual Property" at the Cronkite Lecture on September 27, 2010.
Professor Ernie Walker of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Saskatchewan led off the 2010-2011 Guest Speakers Program at the College of Law with his presentation, "Cold Cases," on September 20, 2010.
