What is the force and scope of the Charter in administrative contexts? Professor Mark Mancini of Thompson Rivers University tackles this issue by taking a look at key cases that have marked significant shifts in the role that the Charter has played in administrative law.על ידי Runnymede Radio

Will the Power v Canada decision significantly shift the way that parliamentary privilege operates in Canada? Professor Philippe Lagassé of Carleton University and Professor Leonid Sirota of the University of Reading discuss the controversial Power decision and its impacts on the relationship between Canada's legislative and judicial branches.…

Let's take a look at key moments in Runnymede history: its inception, core values, and plans for the future. Naomi Papavero, Operations and Communications Director of the Runnymede Society, sits down with Tim Haggstrom, Runnymede's current National Director, and Joanna Baron, the founding National Director, to discuss how the Society has evolved ov…

In this final encore episode from Runnymede's Law & Freedom 2024 national conference, Justice Malcolm Rowe of the Supreme Court of Canada delivers a keynote lecture on constitutionalism in a free and democratic society.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this encore episode from Runnymede's Law & Freedom 2024 national conference, Mark Mancini of the University of British Columbia moderates a panel discussion on the Federal Court's ruling on the 2022 invocation of the federal Emergencies Act, featuring Professor Ryan Alford, Sujit Choudhry, and Professor Michelle Gallant.…

In this encore episode from Runnymede's Law & Freedom 2024 national conference, Moira Lavoie of Reynolds Mirth Richards & Farmer LLP moderates a panel discussion on the state of administrative law in Canada, featuring Justice David Stratas of the Federal Court of Appeal, Jennifer Bernardo, and Mark Mancini. This episode has been accredited for 20 E…

In this encore episode from Runnymede's Law & Freedom 2024 national conference, Professor Gerard Kennedy of the University of Alberta moderates a panel discussion on emerging issues in the Canadian law of federalism with Professor Michelle Gallant, Paul Warchuk, and Samuel Beswick.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this encore episode from Runnymede's Law & Freedom 2024 national conference, National Director Kristopher Kinsinger moderates a panel discussion on reputation and free expression in the practice of defamation law, featuring Adam Goldenberg, Asher Honickman, and Lorne Honickman. This episode has been accredited for 20 EDI professionalism minutes …

In this encore episode from Runnymede's Law & Freedom 2024 national conference, Aaron Wudrick of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute moderates a panel discussion on emerging issues in the Canadian law of federalism with Brett Carlson, Patricia Paradis, Derek Ross, and Professor Mary Shariff.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this encore episode from Runnymede's Law & Freedom 2024 national conference, Justice Peter Lauwers sits down with Chief Justice Michael Tulloch of the Ontario Court of Appeal for a fireside discussion on the rule of law and legal practice. This episode has been accredited for 20 EDI professionalism minutes with the Law Society of Ontario.…

In this special episode of Runnymede Radio, guest host Jake McConville sits down with Professor Ryan Alford of Lakehead University and Stéphane Sérafin of the University of Ottawa to discuss the Quebec Court of Appeal's recent decision in Hak v. Quebec, concerning the constitutionality of Quebec's Act respecting the laicity of the state.…

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Jamie Cameron, professor emerita at Osgoode Hall Law School, and Richard Moon, professor at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law, to discuss the “forgotten freedom” of peaceful assembly.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Colton Fehr, Professor at the University of Saskatchewan’s College of Law, to discuss his recently released book, Judging Sex Work: Bedford and the Attenuation of Rights.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this special episode of Runnymede Radio, guest hosts Xavier Foccroulle Ménard and Jake McConville sit down with Adrian Vermeule, the Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, to discuss the development of doctrine and his 2022 book, Common Good Constitutionalism.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Kerri Froc, Professor at UNB Law and Derek Ross, Executive Director of Christian Legal Fellowship, to discuss the future of MAID Laws in Canada.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, host Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Asher Honickman, partner with Jordan Honickman Barristers, to discuss recent changes in the law of defamation, including the Supreme Court of Canada’s 2023 decision in Hansman v Neufeld.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Lauren Heuser, the founding publisher and editor of Canadian Affairs, to discuss how the federal Online News Act has affected publishers both large and small.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this special episode of Runnymede Radio, our Thompson Rivers University chapter president Trevor Ballantyne sits down with Professor David Livingstone, the chair of Vancouver Island University's Liberal Studies Department for a discussion of civic nationalism in Canada and the constitutionalism of Thomas D'Arcy McGee.…

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Preston Jordan Lim, an assistant professor at the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University. Professor Lim discusses his forthcoming article in the Dicey Law Review on the originalism of F.R. Scott.…

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Professor Steven Penney of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law discusses recent Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence on the guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, long-time Runnymede friend and international lawyer Stephen Armstrong joins us to discuss his recent article in the Dicey Law Review on the constitutionality of 'Henry VII Clauses'.על ידי Runnymede Radio

This episode of Runnymede Radio is our encore presentation of panels from our Law & Freedom 2023 conference. This panel, on international law in Canadian courts, features Prof. Dwight Newman, lawyer James Yap, graduate student Kerry Sun, and was moderated by Gerard Kennedy.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Gerard Kennedy and Mark Mancini to discuss the differences between the Supreme Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of the United States and why, in their view, Canada's apex court should not be described as a partisan institution.…

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Jesse Hartery, former McGill Runnymede chapter president and current PhD candidate at Melbourne Law School, to discuss his ongoing research on the theory and doctrine of Canadian federalism.על ידי Runnymede Radio

This panel featuring Professor Jamie Cameron, Professor Faisal Bhabha, Professor Finn Makela, and Derek Ross is a conversation on the state of academic freedom in Canada today. Moderated by Aaron Wudrick.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Philippe Lagassé of Carleton University sits down to discuss what the accession of King Charles III means for the monarchy in Canada.על ידי Runnymede Radio

George Avraam and Prof. Hoi Kong in a discussion moderated by Christine Van Geyn discuss recent Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence over section 15 of the Charter.על ידי Runnymede Radio

This episode of Runnymede Radio is a special encore presentation of one of our best events from the past school year in which Professor Faisal Bhabha sat down with Professor Dwight Newman to discuss what they refer to as the emerging constitutional cleaves at the Supreme Court of Canada. This event was originally hosted by our Osgoode Hall Law Scho…

Prof. Ryan Alford, Prof. Leah West, Asher Honickman, and Cara Zwibel discuss the Emergencies Act and the 'Freedom Convoy' in a conversation moderated by Prof. Malcolm Lavoie.Please note that this panel was recorded before the Public Order Emergency Commission released its report regarding the invocation of the Emergencies Act.…

Prof. Yuan Yi-Zhu, Prof. Lisa Kerr, and Prof. Steven Penney discuss the future of Section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms following the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R v Bissonnette. A conversation moderated by Jessica Kuredjian.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Professor Ryan Alford (Bora Laskin Faculty of Law) and Cara Zwibel (Canadian Civil Liberties Association) join our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger to discuss what we might expect to happen in the aftermath of the Emergencies Act inquiry.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Brian Bird and Derek Ross. Brian and Derek are the co-editors of the recently released book Forgotten Foundations of the Canadian Constitution.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger is joined by Yuan Yi Zhu and Kerry Sun to discuss the Supreme Court of Canada's recent R v Bissonnette decision, a topic they have written about for The Spectator magazine. Yuan Yi Zhu is a doctoral candidate in international relations and incoming research fellow at the University of Oxfo…

This episode of our podcast is a special encore presentation from one of our best events of the previous academic year, in which Justice Peter Lauwers of the Court of Appeal for Ontario presents a lecture on what he calls 'an operating manual for the judicial mind'. This lecture was originally delivered at the annual Runnymede Student Summit in Jul…

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down to discuss intellectual diversity with Geoffrey Sigalet, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan, and Director of the UBC Centre for Constitutional Law and Legal Stud…

In this episode, Professor Ryan Alford of Lakehead University Bora Laskin Faculty of Law joins former University of New Brunswick chapter president Daniel Escott to discuss Parliament's invocation of the Emergencies Act.על ידי Runnymede Radio

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Asher Honickman and Leonid Sirota -- long-time friends of the Runnymede Society -- debate unwritten principles in Canadian constitutionalism, in the context of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in City of Toronto. This episode is guest hosted by Runnymede alumni Alexander Reschke.…

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, host Kristopher Kinsinger is joined by University of Ottawa professor Carissima Mathen to discuss her and Michael Plaxton's latest book, "The Tenth Justice."על ידי Runnymede Radio

This episode of Runnymede Radio features a conversation with Professor Emmett Macfarlane, Professor of Political Science and the University of Waterloo.על ידי Runnymede Radio

https://runnymedesociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/mark-mancini-intvw1.mp3This episode of Runnymede Radio features a conversation with our former National Director Mark Mancini on the state of the rule of law in Canada. Please note that this episode was recorded prior to the federal government's revocation of the Emergencies Act.…

Our first episode of Runnymede Radio for 2022 features our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger discussing the future of the Runnymede Society coalition.על ידי Runnymede Radio

This special episode of Runnymede Radio features Dr. Andy Summers of the London School of Economics Department of Law.Joined by the the Runnymede Society's Thomas Falcone, Dr. Summers discusses his recent work with the UK Wealth Tax Commission and the rule of law implications surrounding the possible implementation of a tax on wealth.https://runnym…

Our first episode of Runnymede Radio for 2021 features Professor Malcolm Lavoie of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law discussing his recent University of Toronto Law Journal article, "The Implications of Property as Self-Government." https://runnymedesociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/podcast-january-7.mp3…

This month's episode of Runnymede Radio features a conversation with Dr. Gerard Kennedy from the University of Manitoba Robson Hall School of Law. Dr. Kennedy discusses the recent Supreme Court of Canada decisions in Atlantic Lottery and Nevsun and their relationship to the rule of law in private law jurisprudence.https://runnymedesociety.ca/wp-con…

This episode features a wide-ranging discussion with Mark Walters -- Dean of the Queen's University Faculty of Law -- on his upcoming book, A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition: ‘A Legal Turn of Mind’.https://runnymedesociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/podcast-september-23b.mp3על ידי Runnymede Radio

Runnymede Radio is back!This episode features Philippe Lagassé, associate professor and the Barton Chair at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. Professor Lagassé and our National Director Mark Mancini discuss parliamentary prorogation in light of recent events in Ottawa. A timely and informative conversation. https://runnymedesocie…

This episode features Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, the Member of Parliament for Beaches-East York – a riding he has represented since 2015. As a parliamentarian, Mr. Erskine-Smith currently sits on the Standing Committee on Industry, Science and Technology.Before politics, Mr. Erskine-Smith worked as a lawyer in Toronto. He obtained his undergraduate a…

This episode features Dr. Ryan Alford, an Associate Professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law at Lakehead University.Dr. Alford received his doctorate in public, constitutional, and international law from the University of South Africa. He also holds a master’s degree from the University of Oxford and a law degree from New York University. He is …

This episode of Runnymede Radio features Shannon Salter, the Chair of British Columbia’s Civil Resolution Tribunal – Canada’s first online tribunal.Ms. Salter earned her BA and LLB from the University of British Columbia, and her LLM from the University of Toronto. She clerked at the Supreme Court of British Columbia before practising civil litigat…

This episode of Runnymede Radio features Carissima Mathen, a law professor at the University of Ottawa. Interviewed by Mark Mancini, the National Director of the Runnymede Society, Professor Mathen discusses her book entitled Courts Without Cases: The Law and Politics of Advisory Opinions, released in 2019 by Hart Publishing. Below is a blurb descr…