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Home About Us Contacts Previous Conferences Forthcoming Conferences Publications Research Interchange	Previous Conferences BACS 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 2008 Health, 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 2007 Commonalities and Departures: Canadian-UK Perspectives in Legal History Canada 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' 2007 Conference Programme.pdf 2006 Anglo-Canadian Perspectives on Contract and Unjust Enrichment/Restitution Canadian 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 2005 Canada-UK Perspectives on Public International Law Canada 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' 2004 Gender, Sexuality and the Law: Anglo-Canadian Perspectives Canada 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'. 2003 Current issues in Tort: UK and Canadian Perspectives Keynote Speakers: Chief Justice McLachlin (Supreme Court of Canada) and Professor Basil Markesinis (University College London) 2002 Rights in Information: Canadian and UK Perspectives Canada House, March 6th 2002 2001 The Development of a Human Rights Culture Canada 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 Commission" click here for press release
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