Program

The Honourable David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada)

Introduction by Assistant Professor Marcus Moore & Assistant Professor Samuel Beswick (Allard Law)

Chair: Professor Debra Parkes (Allard Law)

• Associate Professor Jane Thomson (The University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law) — “‘Til Death Do Us Part… And Then Also for the Rest of Your Life: Marriage Clauses in Canadian Wills”

• Professor Jennifer L. Schulz (The University of Manitoba Faculty of Law) — “Mediator Liability in Canada, the USA, England, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa”

• Assistant Professor Alan Hanna & Emmaline English (The University of Victoria Faculty of Law) — “Can a Moose be a Party to a Contract? Nuanced Spaces for Indigenous Perspectives in Canadian Contract Law”

Chair: Professor Benjamin Goold (Allard Law)

• Associate Professor Daniele Bertolini (Toronto Metropolitan University Ted Rogers School of Business Management) — “Unpacking Entire Agreement Clauses: On the (Elusive) Search for Contractually Induced Formalism in Contractual Adjudication”

• Professor Nathalie Vezina (Université de Sherbrooke Faculté de droit) — “Of Power and Limits: Bargaining Power and the Limits of Private Law Regarding Exclusion of Liability Clauses”

• Assistant Professor Greg Bowley (The University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law) & John Enman-Beech (The University of Toronto Faculty of Law) — “The Power and Limits of Unconscionability: Debating the the Impact of Uber v Heller on Canadian Contract Law”

Professor Lionel Smith (McGill University Faculty of Law) — “Confusion, Illusion, or Delusion: The Irreducible Core of the Common Law Trust”

Introduction by Assistant Professor Marcus Moore & Assistant Professor Samuel Beswick (Allard Law)

Chair: Assistant Professor Régine Tremblay (Allard Law)

• Associate Professor Alexandra Popovici (Université de Sherbrooke Faculté de droit) — “Rights and Powers in Québec’s Private Law”

• Luigi Buonanno (Bocconi University School of Law) — “A Subsidiary Model of Joint and Several Liability: Responsibility for Another’s Debt Between Common Law and Civil Law Traditions”

• David Campbell (The University of Oxford Faculty of Law) — “The Limits of Tortious Defences”

• Assistant Professor Stéphane Sérafin (The University of Ottawa Faculty of Law) & Kerry Sun (Sullivan & Cromwell LLP) — “Beyond Corrective Justice? Inducing Breach of Contract Reconsidered”

Chair: Professor Hoi Kong (Allard Law)

• Professor Helge Dedek (McGill University Faculty of Law) — “When Rights Became ‘Subjective’”

• Assistant Professor Manish Oza (The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law) — “Voluntary Associations and the Rule of Law”

• Assistant Professor Marcus Moore (The University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law) — “What is Private Law? Exploring Possibilities of Enhanced Social Justice in Private Ordering Against the Spectre of Authoritarianism”

• Professor Stephen Waddams (The University of Toronto Faculty of Law) — “Legal Change and the Temptation of Elegance”

Marshall Rothstein C.C. Q.C. (former Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada)

Introduction by Professor Ngai Pindell (Dean of Allard Law)

Note: The servery will close at 7:25pm.

Chair: Professor Cristie Ford (Allard Law)

• Professor Ádám Fuglinszky (Eötvös Loránd University School of Law) — “Private Law Liability Powered and Limited by European Regulatory Law: The Effects of the Liberalization of the Railway Sector in Europe on the Contractual and Extracontractual Liability of Railway Companies”

• Dr. Bogna Kaczorowska (The University of Wrocław Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics) — “Regulatory Relevance and Legitimacy of Contract Law in Juxtaposition to Private Ordering”

• Professor Hilary Young (The University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law) — “Anti-SLAPP Laws’ Unintended Consequences”

• Sofia Santinello (Università degli Studi di Padova) — “Fiduciary Obligations in the Expanding World of Data Trusts”

Chair: Emeritus Professor Joost Blom Q.C. (Allard Law)

• Professor Mitchell McInnes (The University of Alberta Faculty of Law) — “COVID-19 and the Limits of Contractual Frustration”

• Jakub Adamski (McGill University Faculty of Law / Université de Montréal Faculté de droit) — “Merger of Contract Law”

• Assistant Professor Krish Maharaj (The University of Manitoba Faculty of Law / Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law) — “The Supreme Court’s Take on Pre-Existing Legal Relations: An Undue Limit on The Power of Promissory Estoppel”

Angela Swan O.C. (Aird & Berlis LLP) — “A Solicitor Looks at the Law of Contracts”

Introduction by Professor Gordon Christie (Allard Law)

Chair: Professor Graham Reynolds (Allard Law)

• Assistant Professor Martine Dennie (The University of Manitoba Faculty of Law) — “Tying Tort to Professional Sport: Culture, Common Law, and the Reasonable Hockey Player”

• Assistant Professor Maytal Gilboa (Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Law) — “Biased but Reasonable: Bias Under the Cover of Standard of Care”

• Aaron Yoong (Singapore Management University Yong Pung How School of Law) — “The Limits of Vicarious Liability”

• Associate Professor Desmond Ryan (Trinity College Dublin School of Law) — “The Power and limits of Close Connection: Assessing the Legacy of Bazley v Currey through Three Recent Case Studies”

Chair: Emeritus Professor Joost Blom Q.C. (Allard Law)

• Dr. Lachlan Deyong (Université de Montréal Faculté de droit) — “Structural Barriers to Deterring Medical Harm in Canadian Medical Malpractice”

• Professor Margaret Hall (Simon Fraser University School of Criminology) — “Beyond the “King’s Peace”: Rethinking Direct Interferences with the Person”

• Dr. Majid Pourostad — “Jone’s Limited Protection of Intrusion on Seclusion”

• Assistant Professor Samuel Beswick (The University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law) — “The Open Casebook Revolution: Tort Law”