Law groups in the UK, including the Bar of England and Wales, Criminal Bar Association, Bar of Human Rights Committee and Commonwealth Lawyers’ Association, have joined in the critique of Canada’s handling of the Omar…
Four students, one current and three recent graduates of Osgoode Hall, have launched human rights complaints against Maclean’s magazine for an article entitled, “The Future Belongs to Islam,” by Mark Steyn. Below is a recent…
Naomi Wolf, author of The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot, has an interesting premise on how the rule of law is eroded in society. She claims there is a discernable…
The Right to Remain Silent The Toronto Star published an editorial on R v. Singh, where the Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a Jagrup Singh, who was interrogated even after requesting to remain silent…
by Alex Dimson (from the October Issue of Nexus, Western Law’s Student Newspaper) It takes business savvy and a tempering of salary goals but ultimately a career in public interest can be highly rewarding, one…
The session on Making Prevention Feasible and the discussion with Luis Moreno Ocampo revealed two different conceptions of the role of International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecution. Prevention and the Role of Prosecutor Justice Richard Goldstone…
The panel on Making Prevention Feasible, chaired by Prof. Stephen Toope, focused on the proposal for a UN Emergency Peace Service, how to affect the inertia which plagues government action, and how to train negotiating…
Chaired by Professor William Schabas (Irish Centre for Human Rights), the panel included Professor Catherine Lu (McGill University), Professor Gary Bass (Princeton University), and Justice Richard Goldstone (Constitutional Court of South Africa, Prosecutor – International…
On October 11th, the Global Conference on the Prevention of Genocide begins in Montreal. The Echenberg Family Conference on Human Rights is organized by the McGill Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism and the…
After reading R. v. Keegstra one might assume that protecting “identifiable groups” from hate communications is an objective maintained through all levels of government and their subsidiary agencies. For we live in a country that…
Fear of Islamic Schools Based on False Stereotypes Muneeza Sheikh, Daniel Simard and Khurrum Awan On Aug. 28, representatives from the Muslim, Jewish, Hindu and Sikh communities came together to express support for John Tory’s…
The origins of the Canadian legal system are clearly within the common law tradition, specifically that of the United Kingdom. The founding document of Canada’s existence, the Constitution Act 1867, determined the federation, distribution of…
