Join us on Friday, April 4, 2025

The 28th iteration of the Constitutional Cases conference will be held on Friday, April 4, 2025 at Osgoode Professional Development in downtown Toronto (1 Dundas St W, #2602).

Osgoode Hall Law School’s Annual Constitutional Cases Conference, recognized as the leading constitutional law conference in Canada, brings together many highly respected constitutional scholars, lawyers, students, and experts for an insightful and practical analysis of the Supreme Court’s significant constitutional judgments of the past year.

This year's program explores key 2024 Supreme Court of Canada decisions on Indigenous self-governance, constitutional structure in criminal justice, and administrative law. It examines the relationship between Indigenous rights and the Charter, structural issues in criminal law, and evolving standards in judicial review, offering insights into the Court’s approach to constitutional interpretation and governance.

The 2025 keynote Laskin Lecture will be given by The Honourable Mary T. Moreau, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada, who, during her career, litigated several landmark cases involving minority language rights and the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

This year, we have chosen to recognize the benefits of being in person along with the flexibility  and access that online options offer by holding this conference in a hybrid fashion.

Professors Sonia Lawrence, Benjamin L. Berger and Emily Kidd White
Annual Osgoode Constitutional Cases Conference Chairs

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Sponsors

York Centre for Public Policy and Law

Past Papers & Recordings

Click here for papers from Osgoode's Constitutional Cases Conferences 2001-2023, published in the Supreme Court Law Review.

Click here to watch recordings of the 2021-2024 conferences.