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The Honourable Charles D. Gonthier

Reports & Videos

The organisers of the ‘Responsibility, Fraternity and Sustainability in Law’ symposium in memory of the honourable Charles D. Gonthier are pleased to make available video clips and reports from all of the symposium panels and keynotes. These materials will allow for everyone to benefit free of charge from the many presentations given by leading and upcoming scholars, judges and practitioners during the symposium.

Panels

The Man, the Jurist: His Beliefs and Principles

Professor Jacques-Yvan Morin, Professor Emeritus, University of Montreal
The Honourable Lawrence A. Poitras, Borden Ladner Gervais, Montreal
The Honourable Claire L’Heureux-Dubé, Quebec City
The Honourable Frank Iacobucci, Torys, Toronto
Professor Fabien Gélinas, Faculty of Law, McGill University

Making Law Fraternally

Professor Duncan French, Faculty of Law, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Professor Markus Gehring, CISDL, Faculty of Law (Civil Law), University of Ottawa, Ottawa, & Faculty of Law, Cambridge University
Mr. Neshan Gunasekera, Director, Weeramantry International Center for Peace Education and Research (WICPER), Colombo, Sri Lanka
Ms. Arezou Farivar, McCarthy Tetrault, Toronto

Making Law Responsibly

Professor Marie-Claire Belleau, Faculty of Law, Laval University, Quebec City, Professor Rebecca Johnson, Faculty of Law, University of Victoria, Victoria
Mr. Vincent Caron, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal, Montreal
Ms. Sarah A. Mason-Case, IDLO, CISDL & Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal

Responsibility and Democracy

Mr. Ryan Rempel, Research Branch, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Winnipeg
Professor Charles-Maxime Panaccio, Faculty of Law (Civil Law), University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Professor Matthew P. Harrington, Faculty of Law, University of Montreal, Montreal
Mme Julie Latour, Loto-Québec, Montréal
Mr. Nelson Dordelly-Rosales, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa

Sustainability and the Law

Mr. Kishan Khoday, U.N. Deputy Representative in Saudi Arabia
Dr. Maya Prabhu, CISDL & Yale School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Mr. Benoît Mayer, CISDL & Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal
Mr. Jean-Benoît Deschamps, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, Ottawa

Responsibility and Legislation

Justice David Stratas, Federal Court of Appeal, Ottawa
Professor Finn Makela, Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke
Professor Karen Eltis, Faculty of Law (Civil Law section), University of Ottawa, Ottawa

Fraternity and Alternative Conceptions of Law

Professor DeLloyd Guth, Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Professor Pierre Larouche, Faculty of Law, Tilburg University, Tilburg, Netherlands
Professor Konstantia Koutouki, CISDL & Faculty of Law, University of Montreal, Montreal
Ms. Mara Verna, CISDL & Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal

Responsibility and Judicial Independence

Justice Pierre Dalphond, Quebec Court of Appeal, Montreal
Justice Georgina Jackson, Saskatchewan Court of Appeal, Regina
Justice Thomas Cromwell, Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa

Responsibility and Corporations

Professor Richard Janda, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal
Professor William Tetley, Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal
Professor Valentina Durán Medina, CISDL & Clinic Department, Faculty of Law, University of Chile, Santiago
Ms. Jola Gjuzi, Ph.D. Student, Bucerius Law School, Hamburg, Germany
Ms. Jillian Friedman, CISDL & Faculty of Law, University of Montreal, Montreal

Fraternity and Equality

Justice Nicole Duval-Hesler, Quebec Court of Appeal, Montreal
Ms. Nathalie Desrosiers, General Counsel Canadian Civil Liberties Association, Toronto
Professor Ravi Malhotra and Ms. Morgan Rowe, Faculty of Law (Common Law section), University of Ottawa, Ottawa
Mr. Azim Hussain, Ogilvy Renault, Montreal
Ms. Sandrina Antohi, CISDL & Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal

Keynote address
Justice Albie Sachs, former Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Cape Town, South Africa

Responsibility and Private Law

Justice Louis LeBel, Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
Professor Raymonde Crête and Professor Mario Naccarato, Faculty of Law, Laval University, Quebec City
Justice Nicholas Kasirer, Quebec Court of Appeal, Montreal

Fraternity in Constitutional and International Law

Justice Ian Binnie, Supreme Court of Canada, Ottawa
Justice Guy Canivet, Constitutional Council, Paris
Dr. Kamal Hossain, Dr Kamal Hossain and Associates, Dhaka, Bangladesh

A Legacy of Responsibility, Fraternity and Sustainability

HE Judge CG Weeramantry, Weeramantry International Center for Peace Education and Research & former Vice-President, International Court of Justice, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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