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Friends of the WCFIA Canada Program - <br>
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Please welcome Professor Kerry Rittich, our fall 2004 William Lyon Mackenzie
King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, who joins us from the University
of Toronto's Faculty of Law. Prof. Rittich will be chairing the Weatherhead
Center for International Affairs Canada Program's Seminar Series, listed
below, attached, and posted to <a
href="http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada">http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada</a>
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The series is free, open to the public, and off the record. Hope to see
you there.<br>
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<b>WCFIA CANADA PROGRAM ~ FALL 2004 SEMINAR SERIES<br>
<br>
<u>MONDAY, OCTOBER 4th</u><br>
<br>
THE HON. MARTIN CAUCHON AND <br>
PROF. BRENDA COSSMAN <br>
<br>
<i>SAME SEX MARRIAGE<br>
The Problem of Reconciling Legislative Change to Social Reality: a Canadian
Approach</i><br>
<br>
4-6 p.m., <a href="http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/tour/">Pound Hall, Room
102, Harvard Law School</a>, Cambridge<br>
</b>Martin Cauchon, a partner at the Law firm Gowling Lafleur Henderson and
former minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada served as President
of the Liberal Party of Canada (Québec) from 1993 to 1995. Throughout his
distinguished political career, Mr. Cauchon has held many pivotal cabinet
positions, including Secretary of State for Economic Development in Québec,
Minister of National Revenue, and Minister of Justice. Brenda Cossman is
a professor of law at the University of Toronto. Publications include the
co-authored Bad Attitudes on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler
Decision; Subversive Sites: Feminist Engagements with Law in India, and Secularism's
Last Sigh? as well as numerous articles in these areas. She is co-editor
(with Judy Fudge) Privatization, Law and the Challenge to Feminism. She has
written extensively on the legal regulation of adult personal relationships,
including same sex marriage.<br>
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<b><u><br>
MONDAY, OCTOBER 18th<br>
</u><br>
PROF. HARRY W. ARTHURS<br>
B.A., LL.B., LL.M, LL.D. (Hon), D. Litt (Hon.), OC, OO, FRSC, FBA<br>
<br>
<i>The Hollowing Out of Corporate Canada: Implications for Public Policy<br>
</i><br>
4-6 p.m., Rooms 2 & 3 - <a
href="http://www.hfc.harvard.edu/directions.html">Harvard Faculty Club</a>,
20 Quincy Street, Cambridge</b><br>
Harry W. Arthurs is University Professor of Law and Political Science and
President Emeritus of York University. He has been Dean of Osgoode Hall
Law School, President of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, a member
of the Economic Council of Canada, a Bencher of the Law Society of Upper
Canada, Chair of the Council of Ontario Universities, is a former Killam
Fellow, Associate of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and academic
visitor at several English and Canadian universities. He has written extensively
on labour law and administrative law, legal theory and history, the legal
profession and legal education and higher education policy and governance.
His book Without the Law (1985) traced the rise of the administrative state
in 19th century England.<br>
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<b><u>MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST </u><br>
<br>
THE HON. DAVID MILLER, Mayor of Toronto<br>
<br>
<i>The Future of the City<br>
</i><br>
4-6 p.m., Theatre Room - </b><b><a
href="http://www.hfc.harvard.edu/directions.html">Harvard Faculty Club</a></b><b>,
20 Quincy Street, Cambridge<br>
</b>Mayor Miller has a degree in economics from Harvard, a law degree from
the University of Toronto, and he remains a member of the Law Society of
Upper Canada. Before running for public office, he was a partner at the prominent
Toronto law firm Aird & Berlis, where he specialized in employment and
immigration law and shareholder rights.<br>
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The Canada Seminar is off the record, free and open to the public, and chaired
by Professor Kerry Rittich, the fall 2004 William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting
Professor of Canadian Studies. The seminars listed above are subject to
change and more may be added at a later date. For more information, please
contact Helen Clayton, program coordinator, at: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu">hclayton@wcfia.harvard.edu</a>
or (617) 495-3671.<br>
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Weatherhead Center for International Affairs<br>
1033 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138<br>
<a href="http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada">http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada</a><br>
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