2nd annual Global Generations: Legal Perspectives on
International Human Rights Law
February 17, 2006
Panelist Judges
Rosemary Cairnsway
Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. B.Mus. (Queen's), M.Mus. (Western), LL.B. (ibid), LL.M.,
(Queen's), of the Bar of Ontario
Professor
Cairns Way teaches criminal law, constitutional law and legal theory. She is the
author/editor of Dimensions of Criminal Law, 3rd edition, as well as various
articles on criminal law theory and on the impact of the Charter of Rights and
Freedoms on the substantive criminal law. She served as Vice-Dean of the
English Program from 1999 – 2003. From 1996 - 1999, Professor Cairns Way
was the full-time project coordinator of the National Judicial Institute`s Social Context Education Program, a
national education program for the Canadian judiciary on issues of equality.
She is currently completing a book describing and evaluating the project with
co-author Brettel Dawson. The book, tentatively
entitled Contextual Judging: A Canadian Approach to Judicial Education will be
published in the fall of 2005. Professor
Cairns Way’s approach to teaching is both
critical and constructive – her objectives for teaching and research are
in imagining the progressive possibilities of law to achieve social justice and
respond to the diverse realities of Canadian society. Her current research is
focused on the infusion of equality values into judicial education, law school
pedagogy, professional responsibility and the substantive criminal law.
Craig Forcese
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. B.A.,
McGill (1992), M.A. (International Affairs) Carleton University (1997), LL.B. (summa cum laude), University of
Ottawa (1997), LL.M., Yale University (2001); of the bars of Ontario, New York
and the District of Columbia
Craig Forcese teaches public international
law, national security law, administrative law and public
law/legislation. Much of his present research and writing relates to
national security, human rights and democratic accountability. He is the
first co-author of Laws of Government: The Legal Foundations of Canadian
Democracy (Irwin Law, 2005) (700 pages). Craig has authored articles
that have appeared, or are forthcoming, in: European Journal of
International Law, Berkeley Journal of International Law, Yale
Journal of International Law, Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal,
George Washington International Law Review, Alberta Law Review, Ottawa
Law Review, Canadian Foreign Policy, University of Toronto Faculty of
Law Review, and the MSU Journal of International Law. Prior
to joining the law school faculty, Craig practiced law with the Washington D.C.
office of Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP in the areas of international trade
law, international commercial arbitration and commercial litigation.
François Larocque
Assistant Professor, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. B.A., LL.B. (Ottawa), doctorant (Cambridge), du Barreau du Haut-Canada, professeur
adjoint, Directeur du programme national (common law)
François Larocque is an assistant professor at the Common Law
Section and director of the National Program. His main areas of interest
include transnational human rights litigation,
constitutional law, legal history and philosophy. He is currently a PhD
candidate at the University of Cambridge.
François Larocque est professeur
adjoint à la Section de common law et directeur du Programme national. Il s'intéresse
principalement au contentieux
civil transnational pour violations des droits de la personne, au droit constitutionnel, à l'histoire et à la philosophie
du droit. Il est doctorant à l'Université de Cambridge.
Manon Lavoie
International Law Administrator, University of Ottawa,
Faculty of Law.
Donald McRae
Full Professor, University of Ottawa,
Faculty of Law. FRSC, LL.B. (Otago), LL.M. (ibid.), Dipl.Int.Law (Cant.), of the Bars of New Zealand and Ontario,
Donald McRae is the Hyman Soloway
Professor of Business and Trade Law, and former Dean in the Common Law Section
of the Faculty of Law, at the University
of Ottawa. He has
advised the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade of the
Government of Canada and has been counsel for Canada in fisheries, maritime
boundary and investment arbitrations. He was the Chief Negotiator for Canada for the
Pacific Salmon dispute. He has also advised the Government of New Zealand
on international trade law and other international law matters. Professor
McRae has chaired and sat on dispute settlement panels under the Canada-US Free
Trade Agreement, the US-Israel Free Trade Agreement, and NAFTA, and has
appeared as counsel before WTO panels and the Appellate Body and been a member
of two WTO panels. Professor McRae has published widely on international law,
law of the sea and international trade law. He is a member of the Board of
Editors of the Journal of International Economic Law, and is Editor-in-Chief of
the Canadian Yearbook of International Law.
Corinne Elizabeth Skarstedt
Vice President (Ottawa)
CLAIHR National,
Corinne Elizabeth Skarstedt
currently serves as a
volunteer Vice President, Acting Treasurer and Board member of Canadian Lawyers
for International Human Rights (CLAIHR), a not-for-profit, non-governmental
organization dedicated to analyzing laws, institutions and practices affecting
human rights in Canada and globally. She is an active advisory member of a
number of judicial and academic institutions, including the Canadian Human
Rights Commission (CHRC) and the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL).
Corinne currently works on behalf of the Canada Research Chair, Communications,
Law and Governance at Carleton
University. Corinne
has presented her research at various international fora
and is currently working on a dissertation which is provisionally entitled, “Maximizing
the Effects of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights (ICESCR): An Investigation into Canada’s
Compliance With Its Socio-economic Human Rights
Obligations”, based on her on-going research initiatives in Canada
and abroad. Her focal expertise includes comparative analyses and implications
of Western welfare states’ policies pertaining to poverty and social
inclusion. Corinne has several years of experience working for international
organizations, including, the Centre for International Sustainable Development
Law (CISDL) and the United Nations Environment Programme
(UNEP) in Montreal.
Corinne returned to academia in order to pursue her Master of Arts Degree in
Legal Studies. In 2003, She completed her
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Law from Carleton
University, graduating Magna
Cum Laude. Corinne also holds a B.A. in History from Concordia University (1990).
Julian Walker
Board Member CLAIHR National; Nelligan
O'Brien Payne LLP
Julian Walker is currently an associate with Nelligan
O'Brien Payne LLP in Ottawa.
His practice includes a full range of corporate and litigation work in the fields
of condominium, construction, and real estate and development law. He provides
legal services to developers, directors, managers, owners and insurers of
condominiums.
Julian obtained a Master's degree in English Literature from the University of Western Ontario. It was studying
Post-Colonial literature that made Julian first consider studying International
Law