Ottawa 2008 Program
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CROSSING NORTH AMERICAN BORDERS IN
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NORTH AMERICAN CONSORTIUM ON LEGAL EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA FACULTY OF LAW
2 - 5 OCTOBER 2008
[DRAFT PROGRAM – SEPT. 30, 2008 – additional names and details forthcoming]
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2
Arrivals at Lord Elgin Hotel, 100 Elgin Street (see http://www.lordelginhotel.ca)
7:30 p.m. Welcome Gathering
Sir John A. Pub ,
284 Elgin Street
Near Maclaren St.
Reservation is under “Nicole LaViolette”
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
RIDEAU CLUB
99 Bank Street (15th floor)
Workshop sessions on Friday will be held at the RIDEAU CLUB, 99 Bank Street (15th floor), a short walk from the Hotel Lord Elgin. This private club was founded in 1865, and its members have included many of Canada’s political, business and legal leaders.
PLEASE NOTE – The Rideau Club has a dress code that requires business attire – jackets and ties for men; skirts, dresses or suits (including pantsuit) for women.
8:00 a.m. Participant Check-In & Breakfast
A continental breakfast will be served compliments of the law firm of
| Blakes, Cassels & Grayson LLP |  |
9:00 a.m. Welcome
Dean Nathalie DesRosiers & Dean Bruce Feldthusen
Professor Stephen Zamora
Professor Gabriel Cavazos
9:15 a.m. Keynote Address
Speaker:
Hernán Ruiz
Legal Affairs Counsellor
Embassy of Mexico in Canada
10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:00 a.m. Concurrent Workshop Sessions
Concurrent workshop sessions are designed to maximize the exchange of ideas. For this reason, presenters are referred to as “discussants,” to encourage an interplay between the leader of the discussion and other NACLE participants.
1. Intellectual Property and Information Law – Open Access and Privacy
Elizabeth Judge (Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor
• Creative Commons and Open Access -- Tina Piper (McGill) and Elizabeth Judge (Ottawa), Discussants
• Geoprivacy -- Teresa Scassa (Ottawa), Discussant
Location privacy; privacy in public spaces; jurisdictional issues
• Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Licensing -- Greg Vetter (Houston), Discussant - Licensing taxonomy and impacts on the FOSS movement; attribution-only licenses based on copyright; weak copyleft licenses; strong copyleft licenses; the impact of patent-licensing or trademark provisions in any of these; license proliferation; government entanglement with FOSS, whether that be regulation of it, support of it, posture to it in procurement, or promotion of it in technology development and/or policy.
2. Transnational Indigenous Legal Issues
Brad Morse (Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor
• Environmental Degradation, Climate Change & Indigenous Survival -- Constance Macintosh (Dalhousie), Discussant
• The Inter-American System and recent court cases on indigenous issues -- Evan Fox-Decent (McGill), Discussant
• La méthodologie de la recherche appliquée en droit, et en droit indigéne, en particulier (Methodology and applied research, with a focus on indigenous law) -- Jorge Alberto González Galván (UNAM-IIJ), Discussant
11:00 a.m. Concurrent Workshop Sessions (continued)
3. Family Law
Nicole LaViolette (Vice Dean, Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor
• Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Creating & Regulating Modern Families in North American Jurisdictions -- Vanessa Gruben (UOttawa), Discussant
Participants will discuss similarities and differences in the regulation of assisted reproductive technologies.
• Child Custody : Deciding Disputes Within and Across Borders -- Barbara Atwood (Arizona), Discussant
Participants will discuss similarities and differences in approaches towards child custody disputes.
4. International Trade Law
Anthony Van Duzer (Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor
• Evaluating NAFTA’s experience with the supplemental agreements on labor and environmental cooperation
o The Environmental Agreement and Commission -- Armand de Mestral (McGill), Lee Paddock (GWU) and Gabriel Cavazos (ITESM), Discussants
o The Labor Agreement and Commission -- Stephen Zamora (Houston) and (name to be added), Discussants
• The Future of Environmental and Labour Rights in North America– How will the next US administration deal with Trade and the Environment and Trade and Labour Rights? -- David Gantz (Arizona) and Gil Winham (Dalhousie), Discussants
12:00 p.m. Lunch
Introduction:
Prof. Tracey Lindberg
Speaker:
Claudette Dumont-Smith, Commissioner
Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The establishment of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission was part of a settlement agreement between the Canadian government, former students of the schools, churches that ran the schools, and First Nations organizations. It is the first commission of its kind in North America and its mandate is to examine the human rights abuses that were systemic within the Canadian residential school system.
1:30 p.m. Concurrent Workshops - (Continuation of morning sessions)
1. Intellectual Property Law
2. Indigenous Law
3. Family Law
4. International Trade Law
2:30 P.M. Break
2:45 P.M. Plenary Session
Main Lounge
Reports from breakout sessions – we will ask each group to report on themes or ideas from the breakout sessions that will be of interest
3:30 P.M. NACLE Student Essay Competition
Presentations of award-winning papers by NACLE students, with commentary from NACLE faculty on each paper
4:30 p.m. Adjourn
Free time to explore Ottawa
7:30 p.m. Dinner
Sweetgrass Bistro
108 Murray Street
SWEETGRASS BISTRO is Ottawa’s first and only restaurant featuring aboriginal cuisine. It is located in the trendy and unique Byward Market area of Ottawa. The restaurant offers seasonal dinner menus that follow the ancient paths of North America’s Aboriginal peoples, and is aboriginal owned and operated.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4
Saturday’s workshop sessions will all be held at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law,
Fauteux Hall, 57 Louis Pasteur Street, a short walk from the Hotel Lord Elgin.
| For NACLE Student Participants |
| 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. uOttawa students will accompany you on a tour of several sites in the National Capital. Please meet at 8:45 a.m. in the lobby of the Lord Elgin Hotel. You will rejoin the workshop for lunch at the law faculty. |
9:00 a.m. Plenary session : A Transnational Pedagogy: Best Practices
This plenary session will address the goals and challenges we face in providing greater opportunities for cross-border exchange of ideas among students and professors in North America. Law professors with experience in using innovative approaches to transnational teaching will discuss their experiences with international teaching projects.
9:45 a.m. Coffee Break
| Main Foyer Fauteux Hall |
Sponsored by Programme de common law en français |
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10:00 a.m. Concurrent Workshops –Transnational Curriculum Development
NACLE professors will work on specific projects to provide cross-border education opportunities in the classroom
1. Intellectual Property Law
Transnational Technology Law Courses: Successful Course Design, Collaborative Pedagogical Technologies, and Copyright Issues in Transnational Curriculum Development”
Elizabeth Judge (uOttawa, Common Law), Convenor:
• Jeremy DeBeer (Ottawa), Discussant -- discussing Digital Music Law, a multijurisdictional and multidisciplinary course taught at Universidad de Puerto Rico and Ottawa; videoconferencing, podcasting, and other collaborative technologies for teaching
• Tina Piper (McGill) and Elizabeth Judge (Ottawa), Discussants -- Creative Commons and open access to facilitate transnational course design; copyright issues with transnational curriculum design (e-reserve policies, course management software, site licenses)
2. Indigenous Law
Larry Chartrand (Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor
• Jorge Alberto González Galván (UNAM), « Les techniques de recherches empiriques en droit et en droit indigéne, en particulier »
• Peter Oliver (Ottawa, Common Law), “Teaching Indigenous Rights from a Cross-cultural Perspective to a Multicultural Student Body”
• Sébastien Grammond (Ottawa, Droit civil), “Summer School in Cree Territory”, & Jean-Paul Lacasse (Ottawa, Droit civil), “Summer School in Innu Territory”
3. Family Law
Room 106
A discussion of collaborative cross-border teaching projects, including the NACLE course on Comparative North American Family Law
4. International Trade Law
Room 102
A discussion of experiences with cross-border teaching of NAFTA and international trade law, with Tony Van Duzer (Ottawa), Gabriel Cavazos (ITESM), Armand de Mestral (McGill), Stephen Zamora (Houston) and others, with an emphasis on developing specific projects for student interaction among NACLE members.
12:00 p.m. Lunch
| Tsampalieros 3rd Floor |
Sponsored by Hyman Soloway Chair in Buiness Trade Law |
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General discussion: Issues and Challenges in promoting NACLE Student Exchanges
1:00 p.m. NACLE Student Essay Competition
Room 147
Presentations of award-winning papers by NACLE students, with commentary from NACLE faculty on each paper
3: 00 p.m. Adjourn
Free time to explore Ottawa
7:00 p.m. Dinner
| Le Tartuffe 133 Notre-Dame-de-l'île Gatineau, Québec |
Sponsored by Leonard B. Rosenberg Professorship University of Houston Law Center |
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Located in a historical house, a stone's throw from the Canadian Museum of Civilization, this Québec restaurant is minutes from downtown Ottawa. The fare at Le Tartuffe is a pleasing union of the owner’s French origins with Outaouais influences. Quite unlike Molière's well-known, hypocritical theatre character of the same name, Le Tartuffe has a warm, unpretentious atmosphere.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5
Lord Elgin Hotel
MacDonald Room
8:30 a.m. NACLE Business Meeting - Faculty Representatives
10:30 a.m. Adjourn
Downloadable Resources
561_NACLE_Sept_30_Ottawa_program.doc
562_NACLE_Sept_30_Ottawa_program-f.doc