[Sci-tech-public] Canada Program Seminar Series - Fall 2004

[Helen Clayton]

Friends of the WCFIA Canada Program -

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 
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada  

The series is free, open to the public, and off the record.  Hope to see 
you there.

WCFIA CANADA PROGRAM ~ FALL 2004 SEMINAR SERIES

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4th

THE HON. MARTIN CAUCHON AND
PROF. BRENDA COSSMAN

SAME SEX MARRIAGE
The Problem of Reconciling Legislative Change to Social Reality: a 
Canadian Approach

4-6 p.m., Pound Hall, Room 102, Harvard Law School 
<http://www.law.harvard.edu/about/tour/>, Cambridge
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.

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 18th

PROF. HARRY W. ARTHURS
B.A., LL.B., LL.M, LL.D. (Hon), D. Litt (Hon.), OC, OO, FRSC, FBA

The Hollowing Out of Corporate Canada: Implications for Public Policy

4-6 p.m., Rooms 2 & 3 - Harvard Faculty Club 
<http://www.hfc.harvard.edu/directions.html>, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
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.

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1ST

THE HON. DAVID MILLER, Mayor of Toronto

The Future of the City

4-6 p.m., Theatre Room - Harvard Faculty Club 
<http://www.hfc.harvard.edu/directions.html>, 20 Quincy Street, Cambridge
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.

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: 
hclayton at wcfia.harvard.edu or (617) 495-3671.

Weatherhead Center for International Affairs
1033 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA  02138
http://www.wcfia.harvard.edu/seminars/canada



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