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David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights - part of the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, since 2008.

Realizing Constitutional rights through advocacy, research and education.

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📢 In collaboration with CELA, we've created an Environmental Legal Action Guide — for activists fighting for environmental justice in Ontario.

Covers:
*Environmental Bill of Rights
*Nuisance law
*Charter & Indigenous rights
*Proposals for law & policy reform

Read: aspercentre.ca/wp-content/u... 💚
August 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
ICYMI 📢 Call for Papers: The Asper Centre invites abstracts for a symposium on litigating positive rights under the Charter (at U of T Law).

Deadline for Abstracts: June 30, 2025.

Details: aspercentre.ca/event/call-f... — please share!🙏
June 3, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We're intervening w/NAWL @nawlanfd.bsky.social at the SCC next week in this case about Quebec’s exclusion of refugee claimants fr/subsidized daycare as a s.15 Charter violation.

FACTUM: aspercentre.ca/.../05/41210...

Thanks to pro-bono counsel Kerri Froc @kerrifroc.bsky.social & Suzanne Zaccour🙏
May 6, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Our 2025 OUTLOOK Newsletter is out, with contributions from @uoftlaw.bsky.social students about recent constitutional law decisions from the SCC and Ontario Court of Appeal, Asper Centre working group updates, and an update about our Voting Age challenge🙏

READ: aspercentre.ca/wp-content/u...
April 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
📢 CALL for PAPERS📢

Attention legal scholars and practitioners❗❗

The Asper Centre is pleased to announce a call for papers for an upcoming symposium focused on litigating positive rights under the Charter.

Abstracts are due JUNE 30, 2025.

READ: aspercentre.ca/event/call-f...

Pls share widely 🙏
April 23, 2025 at 7:26 PM
We are pleased to be convening this upcoming special lecture at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law, featuring Kim Murray on:

Crimes Against Humanity and Indian Residential Schools in Canada

February 25, 2025 at 5:00pm EST. Registration Required.

More information here: uoft.me/mg25
February 6, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Many thanks to Prof Margot Young for a terrific Constitutional Roundtable yesterday - enthralling us with her talk on Zombie Concepts: Contagion in Canadian Equality Law!

Don't miss another chance to hear Prof Young at our BOOK LAUNCH event tomorrow. More INFO here: aspercentre.ca/event/litiga...
January 15, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🎧🎙 Episode 6 of Season 4 of Charter: A Course podcast is now available!

With special guests, UofT Law's Professor John Borrows & Jessica Orkin of Goldblatt Partners LLP.

Listen to this episode wherever you stream your podcasts OR find it on our website here: aspercentre.ca/charter-a-co...
January 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM
🎧🎙️Thanks for tuning in to "Charter: A Course" in 2024🙏

We’ve wrapped up 5 of the 7 episodes of Season 4 of the podcast - the last 2 episodes will drop in Jan 2025!

Please LIKE & FOLLOW us wherever you stream your podcasts, so you won't miss any future episodes.

aspercentre.ca/charter-a-co...
December 10, 2024 at 5:10 PM