8:30am – 9:00am

Light Breakfast

9:00am – 9:30am

Welcome Address

• Professor Barbara Crow, Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies

9:30am – 10:00am

Conference Chairperson's Opening Remarks

• Hon. James O’Reilly, Federal Court (Canada), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

10:00am – 10:30am

10:30am – 12:00pm

Article 1F (a) -- Crimes Against Peace, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity

Panel Chairperson: Hon. James O’Reilly, Federal Court (Canada), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Professor James C. Simeon, Deputy Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University

• Nancy Weisman, Legal Counsel, Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Toronto, Ontario

• Dominic Laferriere, Manager, Security and Intelligence Section, Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Article 1F(b) – Serious Non-Political Crimes Outside the Country of Refuge

Panel Chairperson: Judith Gleeson, Judge of the Upper Tribunal (Immigration and Asylum Chamber), London, United Kingdom

• Professor Jennifer Bond, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa

• Professor Satvinder Juss, School of Law, King’s College London, United Kingdom

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Networking Break

3:00pm – 4:30pm

Article 1F(c) – Guilty of Acts Contrary to the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations

Panel Chairperson: Professor David Cantor, Director, Refugee Law Initiative, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, United Kingdom

• Joseph Rikhof, Senior Counsel, War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity Section, Justice Canada, Ottawa, Canada

• Professor Sharry Aiken, Associate Dean (Research), Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada

• Hon. Kashim Zannah, Chief Justice, High Court of Justice, Maiduguri, Nigeria

4:30pm – 5:00pm

Closing Remarks

• Dr. Volker Turk, Director, Division of International Protection, UNHCR, Geneva, Switzerland

• Hon. James O’Reilly, Federal Court (Canada), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

• Professor James C. Simeon, Deputy Director, Centre for Refugee Studies, School of Public Policy and Administration, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, York University