Canada Seminar

Digital Platforms, Innovation and Opportunity: What Future for Canada’s Cities? Shauna Brail, Associate Professor, the Institute for Management & Innovation, University of Toronto Mississauga The global growth and influence of digital platform firms (eg...

Free Expression and the Regulation of Online Content in the Canadian Context Michael Geist, law professor at the University of Ottawa, and Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law The Canadian government has embarked on a major Internet...

City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity Ran Hirschl, Professor of Government and the Earl E. Sheffield Regents Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, School of Law This is a Zoom Webinar event, please register here: https://harvard...

Struggles for Justice in the Great White North In the wake of the movement for racial justice and the defense of black lives, it is important to contextualize conflicts involving race, status and power, including around the use of the “n-word,” and to...

Rethinking Citizenship in the Anthropocene This panel explores the relationship between the ecology and membership in the polis. Modern citizenship prescribes a bundle of rights and duties, active participation in self-governance, as well as identity and...

"Canadian Oil at a Crossroads" Natural resources have long figured at the heart of Canada’s national imaginary and political economy. For the past half-century, Canadian resources [or oil? petroleum?] have played a crucial political and economic role in...

When States Take Rights Back: Citizenship Revocation and its Discontents Once considered outdated, citizenship revocation, the act of stripping born or naturalized citizens of their civic, political, social, and cultural membership rights has again...

Seeking Refuge in Dangerous Times A rise in brutal wars and natural disasters has propelled an unprecedented amount of people to leave their homes in search of refuge. Fleeing violence and despair, they often find that the journey and even the arrival are...

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED Working Against and With the State: The Law and Politics of Refugee Sanctuary and Resettlement Audrey Macklin, Director of the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies, Chair in International Human Rights Law, University of...

THIS EVENT IS CANCELED Speaking topic: TBA Ratna Omidvar, Independent Senator for Ontario, Senate of Canada