Events

Based on Professor Koh’s forthcoming book, The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century “Few people understand the complex workings of our National Security Constitution better than Harold Hongju Koh, and no one analyzes and explains them better. In this outstanding scholarly achievement, Professor Koh describes the growing dysfunction caused by institutional failures in all three branches of our federal government, and recommends a badly needed, workable strategy for constitutional repair.” — Chris Coons, U.S. senator from Delaware.

Climate change is a reality and increasingly becoming an existential threat.  Canadian corporations that emit significant amounts of greenhouse gases have thus far borne little, if any, accountability for their climate impacts. This presentation will share the findings of a report authored by Professor Hassan M. Ahmad as part of a comparative project spearheaded by […]

In this wide-ranging talk, the author connects his own family history of mining in northern Ontario to the migrations of poor migrants into mining zones across the global south. This includes artisanal miners, numbering at least 40 million people world-wide, who rely on scraping a living from small-scale mining for gold, diamonds, and so-called “battery […]