12th Annual National Forum: Administrative Law & Practice

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Topics will reflect developments as at November 2016 and will include:

• Overview of the most significant decisions since December 2015
• Regulatory dynamics of marijuana legalization: what will be subject to administrative challenge?
• Administrative law and the dying: regulatory issues including rules for health professionals and hospitals following on federal legislation
• Federal Court Jurisdiction after Canadian Transit Co. v. Windsor: interjurisdictional immunity and jurisdiction over local matters
• The Syrian refugee crisis and the residential schools claims process: ethical and professional challenges for lawyers
• New approaches to electoral law, including campaign finance rules
• Regulation and the sharing economy (Uber, AirBnB, etc.): challenges for municipal regulation
• How is Canadian administrative law responding to rapid demographic change, in such areas as hidden adjudicator bias and regulation of boardroom diversity?
• Trinity Western redux: the latest developments
• Canadian lawyers and adjudicators participating in global regulatory and adjudicative processes (World Anti-Doping Agency, sports tribunals, NAFTA, etc.)
• The latest on the standard of review and about new dilemmas of ‘fairness’

Faculty

Chairs

• Lorne Sossin, Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School
• Brendan van Niejenhuis, Stockwoods LLP
• Sean Gaudet, Senior Counsel, Public Law Section, Justice Canada

• Ranjan K. Agarwal, Bennett Jones LLP
• Jonathan Batty, Director, Compliance and General Counsel, Elections Ontario
• Mary Ellen Bench, City Solicitor, Legal Services Division, City of Mississauga
• Benjamin L. Berger, Associate Dean (Students) and Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
• Yasmin Dawood, Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Diana W. Dimmer, Director, Litigation, City of Toronto Legal Services, City of Toronto
• Rebecca C. Durcan, Steinecke Maciura LeBlanc
• Joan M. Gilmour, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
• Kate Glover, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, Western University
• Andrew Green, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Omar Ha-Redeye, Fleet Street Law
• Shelby Askin Hager, City Solicitor, Corporation of the City of Windsor
• Nader Hasan, Stockwoods LLP
• John B. Laskin, Torys LLP
• Trudo Lemmens, Professor, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
• Janet E. Minor, Barrister and Solicitor
• Michael H. Morris, Senior General Counsel, Public Law Section, Justice Canada
• Sandra Nishikawa, Counsel, Crown Law Office – Civil Law, Ministry of the Attorney General (ON)
• Luisa J. Ritacca, Stockwoods LLP
• Craig M. Scott, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School
• Aron Solomon, Innovation Lead, LegalX and Senior Advisor (Education Technology), MaRS Discovery District
• The Hon. Justice David W. Stratas, Federal Court of Appeal
• Lorne A. Waldman, Waldman & Associates
• Grant Wedge, Executive Director, Policy, Equity and Public Affairs, The Law Society of Upper Canada
• Vicki A. White, Co-Director, Legal Department, The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
• Alan N. Young, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

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