RECENT PRESENTATIONS AND PUBLICATIONS
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Aboriginal law
Speaker, Canadian Bar Association Aboriginal Law Conference, Implementing Indigenous Governance, June 2018, Whitehorse, YT
Author, How Principles From Modern Treaties Can Invigorate Historic Treaties, book chapter in The Right Relationship, Borrows and Coyle ed., U of T Press, 2017
Co-chair, Ontario Bar Association Institute program – Emerging Trends and Developments in Aboriginal law, February 2016
Author, The Journey of Reconciliation: Understanding our Treaty Past, Present and Future, Caledon Institute of Social Policy, January 2014
Co-chair, Ontario Bar Association Aboriginal Law Institute program – Whither treaties? Feb 2014
Speaker, Indigenous Bar Association annual conference, Historic Treaties: Bargains Made in Hard Times, Orillia, ON, Oct 8-9, 2013
Moderator, Aboriginal Justice Panel, Canadian Bar Association National Aboriginal Law conference, Victoria, BC, April 11-12, 2013
Chair, Law and Policy – The Aboriginal Context, conference for Department of Justice Canada lawyers, Ottawa, December 20, 2011.
Author, The Interpretation of Modern Treaties and the Honour of the Crown, National Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 26, No. 1 (2009).
Presenter, The Role of the Courts in Relation to Modern Treaties, Northern Judges Conference, National Judges’ Institute, Whitehorse, March 4, 2006.
Speaker and organizer, Aboriginal Law 2001 Conference, Whitehorse, November 2-3, 2001.
Speaker, First Nation Self-Government in the Yukon, CBA national conference, Aboriginal Governance: 2001 and Beyond, Yellowknife, April 2001.
Author, Negotiated vs. Judge-Made Aboriginal Law: Bridging the Two Solitudes, LLM Thesis, 2000.
The Charter and Human Rights
September 2017 – Transgender awareness training for Ontario government staff
March 2015 – presentation to Department of Justice Canada lawyers- Employment equity and career planning – part of International Women’s Day panel “We can lead”
October 2015 – training for Yukon Human Rights Commissioners – human rights law, procedural fairness, decision-making
Oct 2015 – presentation to Yukon Law Society members on Yukon’s human rights system
May 2014 – co-chaired Ontario Bar Association Program – From Accommodation to Integration – transgender issues
March 2014 – chaired Ontario Bar Association Panel on the Bedford decision (prostitution) – Constitutional law, Charter, Policy
Chair, Ontario Bar Association program, Reconciling Different Views of Human Rights: The Aboriginal Perspective, July 22, 2010.
The Charter and Race, Presentation to the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers conference, Toronto, November 8, 2008.
The Invisibility of Race in Section 15: Why Section 15 of the Charter has not done more to Promote Racial Equality, co-author Joseph Cheng, Journal of Law and Equality, 5:1 (2006).
Co-chair of major national conference: Equality: The Heart of a Just Society: Looking Back, Looking Forward, October 27-28, 2005, Toronto, www.law.utoronto.ca/conferences/equality.html
Policy, Politics and Law: Changing Relationships in Light of the Charter, National Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 9 (1998).
International Philanthropy in Action: Human Rights, The Philanthropist, 12:4 (1995).
Professional leadership and development
Speaker, Diversity on Boards and Tribunals, January 2013, Department of Justice Canada
Speaker at Ontario Bar Association Articling Student program, October 2011
Speaker, Managing Large Litigation Projects and Teams, March 2010, Department of Justice Canada
Chair, Tom Marshall Award Program for Excellence in Public Sector Law – 2009 and 2010
Speaker, National Paralegal Symposium, Policy Issues in Major Cases, March 2009, Department of Justice Canada
Co-chair and speaker, Ontario Bar Association Institute, Litigating in the Public Sector, Toronto, February 2008
Speaker, Federal Prosecution Service conference, Policy Issues in Criminal Litigation, August 2006
Speaker, Maytree/Wellesley Public Policy Institute, Creating Choices: Policy Menus and Recommendations, January 2006
Speaker, Queen’s University Masters of Public Administration Course, Concepts of Accountability, March 2006
Speaker, Department of Justice Canada Civil Litigation Conference, Policy Integration from a Regional Perspective, October 2005
Speaker, Ontario Attorney-General Legal Directors’ Institute, The Confluence of Law and Policy, October 2004