Lunch will be served in Buchanan Penthouse at 12 pm. Dr. Robert Leckey's lecture will start at 12:30 pm.
This talk will provide an overview of recen t efforts by Quebec to assert a distinctive conception of secularism and to protect the French language. It will situate them as examples of efforts t o amend the provincial constitution. Recent events in Ontario show that swe eping use of the notwithstanding clause in the Canadian Charter of Rights a nd Freedoms is not solely a Quebec phenomenon. Still the justifications for using it and the larger project of which it forms part are distinctive. Th e talk will touch on the differing narratives that prevail in English-langu age and French-language mainstream media.
Robert Leckey\, Ad. E.\, teaches and researches in family law\, c onstitutional law\, and comparative law at the Faculty of Law\, McGill Univ ersity\, where since 2016 he has been dean and Samuel Gale Professor. He ha s degrees in English literature (B.A.H.\, Queen’s) and in law (B.C.L. & LL. B.\, McGill\; S.J.D.\, Toronto). He has received\, among other awards\, the Prix de la Fondation du Barreau du Québec\, th e Canada Prize of the International Academy of Comparative Law\, the John W . Durnford Award for Teaching Excellence (awarded by the McGill Law Student s’ Association)\, the McGill Principal’s Prize for Excellence in Teaching\, and the McGill Principal’s Change-maker Prize (Public Engagement through M edia). A former member of the Global Young Academy\, he is an associate mem ber of the International Academy of Comparative Law and of the Royal Societ y of Canada’s College of New Scholars\, Artists\, and Scientists. His books include the collections After Legal Equality: Family\, Sex\, Kinship (Routledge\, 2015) and Marital Rights (Routledge\, 2017) and the m onograph Bills of Rights in the Common Law (Cambridge University Pre ss\, 2015).
A former clerk for Justice Michel Bastarache at the Supre me Court of Canada\, he is a member of the Law Society of Ontario and an Ad vocate Emeritus of the Barreau du Québec. A for mer president of Egale Canada\, the country’s L GBT lobby group\, and former chair of its Legal Issues Committee\, he parti cipates regularly in continuing education for lawyers and judges.
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