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Previous ConferencesBACS Legal Studies Group conferences have provided a established focal point for innovative scholarship and key debates in the area, bringing together a broad selection of prominent academics, professionals and policy makers. This page contains a list of our conferences to date. A number of our conferences have led to published output, please consult our publications page for further details of conference publications 2008Health, Law and Policy in Canada and the United Kingdom: Common Challenges, Divergent Directions?Canada House, London, Friday 4th July 2008 Keynote Speaker: Professor Martha Jackman (University of Ottawa) Title: “Condition Critical? Canadian Charter Review as an Accountability Mechanism in the Health Care Context” Conf. Programme 08 PDF Conf. Programme 08 Word
2007Commonalities and Departures: Canadian-UK Perspectives in Legal HistoryCanada House, London, 22 June 2007 Keynote Speaker: Professor Wesley Pue (University of British Columbia) Title 'Civilising the Wild Places in Britain and Canada: Lawyers and their Courts'
2006Anglo-Canadian Perspectives on Contract and Unjust Enrichment/RestitutionCanadian High Commission, London, 30 June 2006 Keynote Speaker: Professor Stephen Waddams (University of Toronto) Title 'The relation between Contract and Unjust Enrichment' 2006 Conference Programme .pdf file 2006 Conference Programme .rtf file 2005Canada-UK Perspectives on Public International LawCanada House, London, 24 June 2005 Keynote speaker: Professor Stephen Toope (McGill University/Trudeau Foundation) Title:‘Public Commitment to International Law: Canadian and British Media perspectives on the Use of Force' 2004Gender, Sexuality and the Law: Anglo-Canadian PerspectivesCanada House, London, March 10th 2004 Keynote Speaker: Professor Brenda Cossman (University of Toronto) Title: "The legal regulation of sex and sexuality in Canada: In-Laws, Out-Laws and the challenge to heteronormativity'. 2003Current issues in Tort: UK and Canadian PerspectivesKeynote Speakers: Chief Justice McLachlin (Supreme Court of Canada) and Professor Basil Markesinis (University College London) 2002Rights in Information: Canadian and UK PerspectivesCanada House, March 6th 2002 2001The Development of a Human Rights CultureCanada House, March 7th 2001 Keynote Speakers: Madam Justice Rosalie Abella (Court of Appeal for Ontario) Title: "Human Rights, Civil Liberties and Judicial Expectations" Professor Peter Russell (Emeritus Professor of Political Science, Ontario University) Title: "The White Man's Courts as Agents of Indigenous Decolonisation?" Professor Brice Dickinson (Chief Commissioner, Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission) Title: "The Adequacy and Effectiveness of the Northern Ireland Human Rights
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