Established in 2014 through sponsorship from McKercher LLP, the McKercher Lecture Series at the College of Law brings a wide range of informative, educational and entertaining speakers to enlighten and engage with the law school community.
September 25, 2023 McKercher LLP Lecture Series Presents: AI and the Practice of Law: What the 00100001 is happening? Guest Speakers: Andrew Arruda, CEO/Cofounder Flexpa and, Joseph Gill, McKercher LLP
October 02, 2023 McKercher LLP Lecture Series Presents: Is Buying Silence Legal? Guest Speaker: The Honourable Marilou McPhedran
March 6, 2023 McKercher LLP Lecture Series Presents Law Foundation of Saskatchewan Lecture: Guest Speaker: Dr. Anna Lund
Feb 27, 2023 McKercher LLP Lecture Series Presents: Guest Speaker: Dr. Tracey Lindberg
Feb 13, 2023 McKercher LLP Lecture Series Presents: The Hon. Gerald Morin, OC, KC
Jan 30, 2023 McKercher LLP Lecture Series Presents: Guest Speaker David Nehwegahbow
Jan 16, 2023 McKercher LLP Lecture Series Presents: Paths in Law: A Conversation with Three of Canada's Top Young Lawyers
Nov. 21, 2022 McKercher Lecture Series Presents: Stephen Poloz
October 24, 2022 McKercher Lecture Series Presents: Guest Speaker The Hon. Michael J Moldaver
Oct 17, 2022 McKercher Lecture Series Presents: Michael W. Milani, KC
Oct. 5, 2022 McKercher Lecture Series Presents: Access to Justice Week Panel
Sept 20, 2022 McKercher Lecture Series Presents: The Hon. Kirsty Duncan, M.P. Finding a Path to Safe Sport
March 15, 2022 McKercher LLP Lecture Series with the Honourable David Lametti
March 7, 2022 McKercher LLP Lecture_Gertler Lecture Honourable Nicholas Kaiser
February 28, 2022 McKercher LLP Lecture Series with Ena Chadhad
January 31, 2022 McKercher LLP Speaker Series with Jean Teilliet
November 1, 2021 McKercher LLP Lecture Series: Psychedelic Psychiatry
2020 Ariel F. Sallows Lecture - The Time of Misogyny: Gender, Politics, and the Stories we Tell
March 11, 2020. "Creating a revenge porn tort" ft. Professor Hilary Young (UNB)
March 2, 2020. 2020 Shumiatcher Lecture on Law and Literature. “Harry Potter goes to law school” ft. Lenora Ledwon
Feb. 3, 2020. 2020 Wunusweh Lecture in Aboriginal Law ft. Tony Mandamin
Jan. 20, 2020. Guest Panel: Developments in problem-solving courts.
Oct. 28, 2019. Discarding Old Prejudices: Judicial Precedent and Aboriginal Title
Oct. 7, 2019. Comparing Access to Constitutional Justice in Australia and Canada
Sept. 23, 2019. The law can be hazardous to your clients' health - and yours too.
March 14, 2019: Gertler Family Lectureship in Law - The Rt. Hon. Richard Wagner, PC, Chief Justice of Canada
Feb. 25, 2019: Law, advocacy and public perspectives: The Impacts of the Boushie Case
Jan. 28, 2019: Food Deserts in Saskatchewan: The Right to Food Security
Oct. 29, 2018: The Hon. Catherine Wedge, BC Supreme Court
Oct. 23, 2018: Saskatchewan Law Review Lecture ft. Orlando Da Silva
Oct. 3, 2018: The Heald Lecture in Administrative Law presented by Senator Kim Pate
Sept. 24, 2018: Pipeline and Politics: The Trans Mountain Controversy
Sept. 17, 2018: Cronkite Memorial Lecture in Public Law ft. Dick Pound, CC, OQ, QC, senior member of the International Olympic Committee
Feb 28, 2018: Jury reform in Canada with Kent Roach, Professor and Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy, University of Toronto.
Marilyn Poitras, College of Law professor and former commissioner to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, delivered the 2018 Wunusweh Lecture in Aboriginal Law on Feb. 26.
Feb. 12, 2018 lecture "Access to Justice: What's a Family Law Judge to Do?" with the Honourable Justice R. James Williams, of the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Family Division, leading family law judge and educator.
Kevin Wilson, Ron Piché, and Dr. Michael Szafron discuss the implications of marijuana legalization in Canada from three different standpoints.
Nov 23, 2017: Alumnus and co-founder of Silicon Valley company ROSS Intelligence Andrew Arruda (JD '14) stopped by the college for a pop-up event.
Nov. 9, 2017: John A. Stack Memorial Forum with Former Prime Minister Paul Martin.
Oct. 13, 2017: Renowned Indigenous-industry agreement scholar Ciaran O'Faircheallaigh presents on negotiated agreements and Indigenous peoples: opportunities and challenges.
Sept. 25, 2017: Prominent Toronto-based entertainment lawyer Susan Abramovitch kicks off the 2017-18 McKercher Lecture Series at the College of Law.
The Hon. Anne Dugas Horsman from the New Brunswick Provincial Court and Linda Neilson from the University of New Brunswick, present "Designing New Court Systems in Family Violence Cases"
The Right Honourable Beverley McLachlin, PC, Chief Justice of Canada presents the Gertler Family Lectureship in Law on March 6, 2017.
Justin Winters, Hollywood screenwriter, lecturer, producer and development executive presented "The Role of Law in Storytelling" onFeb. 6, 2017.
Grand Chief Derek Nepinak from the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs presented the 2017 Wunusweh Lecture in Aboriginal Law on January 16, 2017.
Shannon Salter, Chair of the Civil Resolution Tribunal, presents "Dispute Resolution in the Digital Age" on Jan. 11, 2017.
The Hon. Chief Judge Thomas Crabtree from the BC Provincial Court presented "Social Media and Transparency in the Justice System" on Oct. 31, 2016.
The Hon. Thomas Cromwell delivered the annual Saskatchewan Law Review Lecture entitled "Movement on access to justice or an access to justice movement? Where Access to justice in civil and family matters goes from here" on Oct. 25, 2016.
On Oct. 24, 2016, John Courtney, Political Studies Professor Emeritus, U of S; David McGrane, Political Studies, U of S; and Bonita Beatty, Indigenous Studies, U of S participate in a panel discussion on whether our voting system should be changed and if so, how.
Paul Finkelman, Ariel F. Sallows Chair in Human Rights presents "Unjust justices: The United States Supreme Court , the problem of slavery, and modern human rights" on Oct. 17, 2016.
Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law at Columbia University presents "Branding the dream: Racial democracy and constitutional politics in the 'Age of Obama'" on Oct. 3, 2016.
Gemma Smyth and Adam Vasey presented "Clinical and experiential learning in Canada: A snapshot of the field and future pathways" on Sept. 26, 2016.
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