Schedule of Classes: Seminars and Presentations
(subject to change)


Each seminar usually begins with one or more presentations.  The list of presentation topics (usually in the form of a debating proposition) and the current state of bookings for presentations is here .  To make a booking, please email me, ordering by topic number and indicating (when applicable) whether you will be arguing the "pro" side or the "con" side of the debating proposition.

Schedule of seminars (click on dates to get the assignments and reading lists for the seminar):

September 4 -  No class.

September 11 - Introduction and administrative matters; an opening dicsussion concerning the legitimacy of judicial review.

September 18 - Practice and procedure day.  A lecture on civil procedure and technical bars in constitutional cases.  Then a lecture on written advocacy.  A precedent book will be made available to those that desire it; it is also available online.  

September 25 - Section 2(b) (freedom of expression) and section 1 (justification).  Topics for papers to be submitted for approval by this date. 

October 2 - No class.   

October 9 - Section 15 (equality rights) and section 1 (justification). 

October 16 - Criminal law rights and remedies.

October 30 -  Section 7 (rights to life, liberty and security of the person and the principles of fundamental justice).

November 6 - Aboriginal rights / Constitutional law and administrative tribunals / Recent developments in division of powers
Paper-writers: 3-5 page outlines of your paper are due today.

November 9 -  Appellants' factums due at 11:59 p.m.

November 13 - Remedies - sections 24(1) and 52;  Oral advocacy instruction.

November 16 - Respondents' factums due at 11:59 p.m.

November 18 - November 27 - Possible dates for moots.

November 20 - The unwritten constitutional principles and Quebec secession / Judicial appointment.

November 27 -  No class.  Work on moots and papers.