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Advocacy In Ip Litigation In The Supreme Court: A Presentation By Justice Marshall Rothstein Of The Supreme Court Of Canada, Marshall Rothstein, David Vaver Oct 2015

Advocacy In Ip Litigation In The Supreme Court: A Presentation By Justice Marshall Rothstein Of The Supreme Court Of Canada, Marshall Rothstein, David Vaver

David Vaver

The Honourable Mr. Justice Marshall Rothstein of the Supreme Court of Canada shares his thoughts regarding the five important copyright cases (known as the “Copyright Pentalogy”) that he took part in deciding earlier this year.


Fossil Capitalism & The Implications Of The New Pipeline Proposals For Environmental Justice In Canada, Dayna Nadine Scott Oct 2015

Fossil Capitalism & The Implications Of The New Pipeline Proposals For Environmental Justice In Canada, Dayna Nadine Scott

Dayna N. Scott

Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Dayna Scott employs the concept of "networked infrastructures" drawn from the literature in critical geography to reveal the environmental justice implications of the coast-to-coast crude oil network that is currently being contemplated in Canada. Her talk was delivered on January 30, 2013 as part of the Osgoode Faculty Research Seminar Series.


Income Splitting, Lisa C. Philipps Oct 2015

Income Splitting, Lisa C. Philipps

Lisa Philipps

Lisa Philipps, Associate Vice-President Research at York University and Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, discusses income splitting, tax policy, inequality and the family.


Panel 5: Access To Justice, Janet E. Mosher, Trevor C. W. Farrow, Michael J. Trebilcock, Lorne Sossin Oct 2015

Panel 5: Access To Justice, Janet E. Mosher, Trevor C. W. Farrow, Michael J. Trebilcock, Lorne Sossin

Janet Mosher

PANEL V: ACCESS TO JUSTICE: Moderator: Lorne Sossin, Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School; Speaker: Janet Mosher, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, "Access to Justice Amid Threats of Contagion"; Speaker: Trevor Farrow, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, "What is Access to Justice?"; Discussant: Michael Trebilcock, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto.


Panel 4: Civil Liberties, Nathalie Desrosiers, Fay Faraday, Sonia Lawrence, James Stribopoulos Oct 2015

Panel 4: Civil Liberties, Nathalie Desrosiers, Fay Faraday, Sonia Lawrence, James Stribopoulos

Sonia Lawrence

PANEL IV: CIVIL LIBERTIES: Moderator:James Stribopoulos, Professor, Osgoode HallLaw School; Speaker: Nathalie Desrosiers, General Counsel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association & Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, "The Advocacy Function in Canada and the Role of Non-Government Organizations"; Speaker: Fay Faraday, McMurtry Clinical Visiting Fellow, Osgoode Hall Law School, "Civil Society and Rights Litigation: Grassroots Nourishing the Charter Tree"; Discussant: Sonia Lawrence, Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School.


The Canadian Legal Profession: Clone, Hybrid, Or Mutant?, Philip Girard Oct 2015

The Canadian Legal Profession: Clone, Hybrid, Or Mutant?, Philip Girard

Philip Girard

Philip Girard delivers the James L. Lewtas Lecture at Osgoode Hall Law School on November 21, 2011 on the topic, "The Canadian Legal Profession: Clone, Hybrid, or Mutant?"


The Legal Implications Of Commercializing Intellectual Property Rights, Giuseppina D'Agostino Oct 2015

The Legal Implications Of Commercializing Intellectual Property Rights, Giuseppina D'Agostino

Giuseppina D'Agostino

Giuseppina D'Agostino, an expert in intellectual property and technology law and an Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School on IP law and commercialization.


Advocacy Skills And Ip: Observations From The Bench, Roger Hughes, Giuseppina D'Agostino Oct 2015

Advocacy Skills And Ip: Observations From The Bench, Roger Hughes, Giuseppina D'Agostino

Giuseppina D'Agostino

Justice Roger T. Hughes of the Federal Court of Canada shares his experience and talks about the process a judge goes through in arriving at a judgment.


Copyright Exceptions As Users’ Rights? An Empirical Critique, Emily Hudson, Giuseppina D'Agostino Oct 2015

Copyright Exceptions As Users’ Rights? An Empirical Critique, Emily Hudson, Giuseppina D'Agostino

Giuseppina D'Agostino

Dr. Emily Hudson, the Career Development Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at the Oxford Intellectual Property Research Centre at the University of Oxford, questions the prevailing legal and academic perceptions of the CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada (2004 SCC 13) judgment.


Copyright In The Music Industry, Robert Levine, Brett Danaher, Giuseppina D'Agostino Oct 2015

Copyright In The Music Industry, Robert Levine, Brett Danaher, Giuseppina D'Agostino

Giuseppina D'Agostino

In celebration of Canadian Music Week, the IP Osgoode Speaker Series presented a panel discussion on “Copyright and the Music Industry” featuring journalist/author Robert Levine and Brett Danaher, Assistant Professor of Economics at Wellesley College. Levine spoke about the current state of copyright and the public discourse surrounding it. He argued the need for more effective enforcement mechanisms for rights holders. Danaher explored one such enforcement mechanism as he presented statistics drawn from his research on the effect of France’s Hadopi anti-piracy laws on iTunes sales.


Journalists And Their Secret Sources, Jamie Cameron Oct 2015

Journalists And Their Secret Sources, Jamie Cameron

Jamie Cameron

Jamie Cameron, Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, on confidential sources, free press and the link to democratic values.


"Simply A Constitutional Legal Question?": Law, Religion And The Modern State, Benjamin L. Berger Sep 2015

"Simply A Constitutional Legal Question?": Law, Religion And The Modern State, Benjamin L. Berger

Benjamin L. Berger

Benjamin L. Berger, Associate Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, on key questions about law, religion, and social change.