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Jennifer M. Welsh is the Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy and a Distinguished James 91黑料网 Professor at 91黑料网. She was previously the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at 91黑料网, and prior to that served as Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. From 2013-2016, she served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect. She currently sits as a member of the IDP Protection Expert Group, based in UNHCR.

Pearl Eliadis is an Associate Professor (professional) at the Max Bell School of Public Policy and teaches at the Faculty of Law. Pearl is also a practising lawyer specializing in human rights and divides her time between her practice and 91黑料网. In her law practice, Pearl has served as a senior consultant to the UN and has successfully led complex, global projects with the UNDP and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She has also served in-country in seven countries in the Global South and has worked on human rights projects for Iraq and Afghanistan.In Canada, Pearl has a decade of progressive experience in the Ontario and federal public services and served on the advisory council of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. She has authored several publications on human rights, public policy, and democratic governance. Her 2014 monograph, Speaking Out on Human Rights: Debating Canada鈥檚 Human Rights System, won the Huguenot Society of Canada Award and remains a leading text on human rights commissions and tribunals in Canada. She currently leads legal reform initiatives with the Quebec Homelessness Prevention Policy Collaborative and in 2025 was elected Chair of the Official Language Rights Expert Panel of Canada鈥檚 Court Challenges Program.

Eliadis, Pearl. Speaking Out on Human Rights: Debating Canada鈥檚 Human Rights System. 91黑料网-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Eliadis, Pearl. 鈥淭he Evolution of Human Rights in Canada.鈥� In Human Rights: Principles and Practice in Canada and Internationally, edited by Christine Szurlej. Toronto: Emond, 2026.

Eliadis, Pearl. 鈥淪o to Speak: Canadian free expression is not Canadian free speech.鈥� Review of The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression, by Richard Moon. Literary Review of Canada (2025). .听

Eliadis, Pearl. 鈥淜now Your Rights.鈥� Democracy, Explained. Apathy is Boring, 10 November 2025. .听

Born in Canada, educated at the University of Toronto and Harvard, The Honourable Michael Ignatieff is a university professor, writer and former politician. Between 2006 and 2011, Ignatieff served as an MP in the Parliament of Canada and then as Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and Leader of the Official Opposition. He is a member of the Queen鈥檚 Privy Council for Canada and holds thirteen honorary degrees. Between 2012 and 2015 he served as Centennial Chair at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs in New York. Between 2014 and 2016 he was Edward R. Murrow Chair of the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. Ignatieff was until recently the Rector and President of Central European University in Budapest. He stepped down at the end of July 2021, to stay as a Professor in the History Department. He is a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.

Ignatieff, Michael. 鈥淲hen we at last awake.鈥� Substack. February 8, 2026. .听

Ignatieff, Michael. 鈥淢ichael Ignatieff: Mark Carney is taking a calculated risk in his relationship with Donald Trump.鈥� Toronto Star. January 31, 2026. .听

Ignatieff, Michael. 鈥淭he Sun King Is Back鈥攁nd His Name Is Trump.鈥� The Walrus. January 27, 2026. .

Ignatieff, Michael. 鈥淭he Trump Revolution.鈥� Substack. July 30, 2025. .听

Ignatieff, Michael. The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror. Princeton University Press, 2004.

David M. Shribman (moderator)听became executive editor of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on February 3, 2003. He came to Pittsburgh from The Boston Globe where he was assistant managing editor, columnist and Washington bureau chief. He now teaches at the Max Bell School of Public Policy. Mr. Shribman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1995 for his coverage of Washington and the American political scene. He writes a weekly column, "My Point," syndicated throughout the United States, and a biweekly column for the Globe and Mail.听He served as national political correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, covered Congress and national politics for The New York Times and was a member of the national staff of The Washington Star. A native of Salem, Massachusetts, he began his career at The Buffalo Evening News, where he worked on the city staff before being assigned to the paper's Washington bureau.

Jamal Greene is the Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses in constitutional law, the law of the political process, and comparative constitutional law. He is the author of How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession With Rights Is Tearing America Apart, as well as numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on constitutional law and theory. From January 2023 to December 2024, he served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the DOJ Office of Legal Counsel. He served as a law clerk to the Hon. Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to the Hon. John Paul Stevens on the U.S. Supreme Court. He earned his J.D. from Yale Law School and his A.B. from Harvard College.

Hina Shamsi is the director of the ACLU National Security Project, which is dedicated to ensuring that U.S. national security policies and practices are consistent with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights. She engages in litigation, research, and policy advocacy on issues including the freedoms of speech and association, privacy and surveillance, discrimination against racial and religious minorities, use of force, unlawful detention, and torture. Her work includes a focus on the intersection of national security and counterterrorism policies with international human rights and humanitarian law. Ms. Shamsi is also a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School, where she teaches a seminar on international human rights.

Margot Young is Professor in the Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia. After studying at the University of British Columbia, the University of Toronto, and the University of California, Berkeley, Professor Young began her teaching career at the Faculty of Law at the University of Victoria. Professor Young teaches in the areas of constitutional and social justice law. She is the Director of the Social Justice Specialization at the law school and organized the Law and Society Speakers Series for close to a decade. Professor Young served three terms as Chair of the university-wide Faculty Association Status of Women Committee. She is a research associate with Green College, the Peter Wall Institute of Advanced Studies, and the Centre for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice at UBC. She sits on the boards of Justice for Girls, Community Legal Assistance Society, and David Suzuki Institute. Professor Young鈥檚 research interests focus on equality law and theory, women鈥檚 economic right, urban theory, and local housing politics and rights. She is also working on the intersections between environmental justice, social justice, feminism, and human rights. Professor Young was co-editor of the collection Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship and Legal Activism and was Co-Principal Investigator of the Housing Justice Project.

Lynch, Kevin G., and James R. Mitchell.听A New Blueprint for Government: Reshaping Power, the PMO, and the Public Service. University of Regina Press, 2025.

Shribman, David. 鈥淭he U.S. attack on Iran is not legal, but that does not matter with American presidents.鈥� The Globe and Mail, 1 March 2026. .

Shribman, David. 鈥淪upreme Court asserts its independence by issuing sharp rebuke to Trump.鈥� The Globe and Mail, 20 February 2026. .听

Shribman, David. 鈥淒emocracy in the U.S. uncertain after a year of the Trump stress test.鈥� The Globe and Mail, 20 January 2026. .听

Shribman, David. 鈥淭he most consequential president of our lifetime.鈥� The Globe and Mail, 16 January 2026. .听

Greene, Jamal. 鈥淔ree Expression in the Shadow State.鈥� Reconstructing Free Expression (blog), 19 February 2026. .

Greene, Jamal. 鈥淚鈥檓 a legal scholar. We鈥檙e in a constitutional crisis 鈥� and this is the moment it began.鈥� MS NOW, 26 April 2025. .

Greene, Jamal. 鈥淭rump as a Constitutional Failure.鈥� Indiana Law Journal 93, no. 1 (2018): 93-109. .

Greene, Jamal. How Rights Went Wrong: Why Our Obsession with Rights is Tearing America Apart. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.

Shamsi, Hina. 鈥淗ow NSPM-7 Seeks to Use "Domestic Terrorism" to Target Nonprofits and Activists.鈥� American Civil Liberties Union. October 15, 2025. .听

Shamsi, Hina. 鈥淭rump's Expanded Domestic Military Use Should Worry Us All.鈥� American Civil Liberties Union. April 16, 2025. .听

Rumyana van Ark. 鈥淓pisode 6: Counter-Terrorism, Civil Liberties, and National Security with Hina Shamsi.鈥� After 9/11. The ICCT Podcast. .听

Fadel, Leila. 鈥淭rump using National Guard in LA is an 'abuse of power,' says national security expert.鈥� NPR, 9 June 2025. .听

Tortell, P., Young, M., & Nemetz, P. (2017).听Reflections of Canada: Illuminating Our Opportunities and Challenges at 150+ Years. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia.听

Young, Margot. "Why Rights Now? Law and Desperation." In Poverty: Rights, Social Citizenship, and Legal Activism, edited by Margot Young, Susan B. Boyd, Gwen Brodsky, and Shelagh Day, 317鈥�36. UBC Press, 2007. .

Kong, H., & Young, M.听(2024).听Constitutional Crossroads: Editorial Introduction.听Constitutional Forum,听32(4), i-iii.听

Young, Margot. "Social Justice and the Charter: Comparison and Choice." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 50, no. 3 (2013): 669鈥�98. .

Nandini Ramanujam (moderator) is the Co-Director and Director of Programs of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism at 91黑料网's Faculty of Law. She also directs the International Human Rights Internship Program as well as Independent Human Rights Internships Program. She is the 91黑料网 representative for the Scholars at Risk Network and served on the Steering Committee of the Scholars at Risk Network, Canada section from 2016-22. She was appointed Associate Professor (Professional) in the Faculty of Law in April 2014, and then appointed to the rank of Full Professor (Professional) in June 2020. She was named co-director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism in 2021. Nandini Ramanujam鈥檚 research and teaching interests include Law and Development, Institutions and Governance, Economic Justice, Food Security and Food Safety, the role of civil society and the Fourth Estate (Media) in promotion of the rule of law, as well as the exploration of interconnections between field based human rights work and theoretical discourses.

David Cole is the Hon. George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center and former National Legal Director of the ACLU. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books and is legal affairs correspondent for The Nation. He is the author or editor of ten books, including No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, and Engines of Liberty: How Citizen Movements Succeed. David has litigated many pathbreaking cases in the Supreme Court, including鈥� Texas v. Johnson, which extended First Amendment protection to flag burning;鈥� Bostock v. Clayton County, which established that Title VII bans discrimination on the basis of transgender status and sexual orientation; and National Rifle Association v. Vullo, which held that government officials cannot use their regulatory authority to coerce private parties into blacklisting a disfavored political organization. He has received many awards for his civil liberties work.

Sarah Harding was appointed Dean and Weldon Professor of the Schulich School of Law in August 2023. Prior to her return to Canada and Dalhousie, she was a Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law for 25 years and an Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research for seven of those years. Her research and teaching has focused on comparative constitutional law and cultural heritage related issues. She has presented her work at conferences all over the world and she is an award-winning teacher. She holds degrees from 91黑料网, Dalhousie, Oxford, and Yale.

Louis-Philippe Lampron听is a full professor in the Faculty of Law at l鈥橴niversit茅 Laval, in Quebec City, a regular researcher at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research on Diversity and Democracy (CRIDAQ) at , and co-spokesperson of the Research Group on Human Rights of the Faculty of Law of Universit茅 Laval (GEDEL). His research interests focus, in general, on the protection of human rights in Canada and in international law. In recent years, Professor听Lampron听has been particularly interested in several legal issues related to the implementation of fundamental freedoms and of equality rights, on which he frequently has to speak publicly and has published several articles as well as the books听Maudites Chartes : 10 ans d'assauts contre la d茅mocratie des droits et libert茅s, Somme Toute (2022) and听La Hi茅rarchie des droits - convictions religieuses et droits fondamentaux au Canada, Peter-Lang (2011).

Ramanujam, Nandini, and Kassandra Neranjan. "Human Rights Pedagogy for Empowering the Agency of Students: An Assessment of IHRIP through the Capabilities Approach Framework." Inter Gentes 3, no. 2 (March 2024). .

Ramanujam, Nandini, and Francesca Farrington. "Market-Engaging Institutions: The Rule of Law, Resilience and Responsiveness in an Era of Institutional Flux." Hague Journal on the Rule of Law 15 (2023): 329鈥�52. .听

Ramanujam, Nandini, and Alexander Agnello. "The Shifting Frontiers of Law: Access to Justice and Underemployment in the Legal Profession." Osgoode Hall Law Journal 54, no. 4 (2017): 1091鈥�116. .

Ramanujam, Nandini, and Miatta Gorvie. "Shifting Ground, Solid Foundations: Imagining a New Paradigm for Canadian Civil Society Engagement." Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice 32, no. 1 (2015): 45鈥�70. /law/files/law/2015-ramanujam-shifting-ground.pdf

Cole, David D. "Judging the Next Emergency: Judicial Review and Individual Rights in Times of Crisis." Michigan Law Review 101 (2003): 2565鈥�95. .

Cole, David D. "Beware Trump's Two-Pronged Strategy Undermining Democracy."听The Guardian, December 14, 2025.听听

Cole, David D., and Daniel Drake. "Contempt of Court." New York Review of Books, February 14, 2026. .听

Cole, David D., and Daniel Drake. "A Constitutional Redline." New York Review of Books, March 22, 2025. .听

Harding, Sarah. "Courts in Context." In Proceedings from The New Role of Supreme Courts in the Political and Institutional Context: A Comparative Approach. Annuario di Diritto Comparato e di Studi Legislativi (2012).听

Harding, Sarah. "The Supreme Court of Canada." Annuario di Diritto Comparato e di Studi Legislativi (2011).听

Harding, Sarah. "Comparative Reasoning and Judicial Review." Yale Journal of International Law 28 (2003): 409.

Brunelle, Christian, and Louis-Philippe Lampron. "L'avenir de la libert茅 d'expression: quels enjeux, quelles menaces?" Cahiers de droit 53 (2012): 683-685.

Lampron, Louis-Philippe, and Eug茅nie Brouillet. "Le principe de non-hi茅rarchie entre droits et libert茅s fondamentaux : l'inaccessible 茅toile?" Revue g茅n茅rale de droit 41, no. 1 (2011): 93鈥�141.

Lampron, Louis-Philippe, and Simon Viviers. "R茅forme de l'茅ducation : le retour de la loi du silence." La Presse, 14 avril 2025. .

Lampron, Louis-Philippe. "Trump au Madison Square Garden : les institutions d茅mocratiques am茅ricaines seront test茅es le 5 novembre prochain." Les billets de l'Observatoire de la libert茅 d'expression, 30 octobre 2024.

Jennifer M. Welsh (moderator)听is the Director of the Max Bell School of Public Policy and a Distinguished James 91黑料网 Professor at 91黑料网. She was previously the Canada 150 Research Chair in Global Governance and Security at 91黑料网, and prior to that served as Chair in International Relations at the European University Institute and Professor in International Relations at the University of Oxford, where she co-founded the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict. From 2013-2016, she served as Assistant Secretary-General and Special Adviser to the UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on the Responsibility to Protect. She currently sits as a member of the IDP Protection Expert Group, based in UNHCR.

Thomas听d'Aquino, C.M., LL.D.听is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, corporate director,听educator听and national best-selling author. He is the听Chairman听of Thomas听d'Aquino听Capital, Founding CEO of the Business Council of Canada, and听Honourary听Professor at the IVEY School of Business at Western University. He has served as Special Assistant to the Prime Minister of Canada and as Professor of International Trade Law at the University of Ottawa. He is acknowledged as one of the private sector architects of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement and the NAFTA.听

Kari Heerman is a senior fellow and director of Trade and Economic Statecraft at the Brookings Institution. Previously, Dr. Heerman was acting chief economist in the Office of the Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of State. In that role she led the office鈥檚 team in its mission of providing advice and analysis on complex, emerging issues at the intersection of economics and foreign policy; offering tools to advance economic diplomacy; and serving as a liaison to technical experts in economics across academia, industry, partner governments, and other institutions. Prior to joining the State Department, Dr. Heerman was a deputy assistant United States trade representative in the Office of Trade Policy and Economics at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR). She served as a senior economist at the White House Council of Economic Advisers focusing on international economic issues from 2021-2023.

Rigby, Vincent, and Lawrence Herman. "Trump, Greenland and the Arctic: Is Canada Next on the Menu?" Expert Group on Canada-U.S. Relations, Canadian Global Affairs Institute. February 11, 2026.听听听

Rigby, Vincent, and Norman Hillmer. "It's Time for Canada to Have a Foreign Policy."听Policy Options. April 1, 2025.听听

Expert Group on Canada-US Relations [Beatty, Perrin, Fen Osler Hampson, Lawrence Herman, Gary Mar, Mark Norman, Vincent Rigby, et al.]. "A Canada-First Response to Donald Trump."听Policy Magazine. January 1, 2025.听听

d'Aquino, Thomas. "Defeating the Trump Threat 鈥� A Winning Canada Strategy." Notes for remarks to the Rockcliffe Park Speakers Series, March 26, 2025. .听

d'Aquino, Thomas, and Jennifer Stewart. "To Meet This Moment, Canada Needs a New Grand Coalition." Policy Magazine, March 4, 2025. .

d'Aquino, Thomas. "Canada's Carpe Diem Moment." Policy Magazine, January 13, 2025. .

d'Aquino, Thomas. "Thomas d'Aquino: A Christmas Message for President-Elect Donald Trump." The Hub, December 28, 2024. .

d'Aquino, Thomas P., and David Stewart-Patterson.听Northern Edge: How Canadians Can Triumph in the Global Economy. Toronto: Stoddart, 2001.听

Heerman, Kari, and Elena Patel. "After IEEPA: New Section 301 Investigations and Why Public Input Matters." Brookings. March 16, 2026.听听

Heerman, Kari. "Now What? The Limits of Tariff-Driven Economic Statecraft after IEEPA." Brookings. March 5, 2026.听听

Heerman, Kari, and Ian Sheldon. "Refining USMCA to Strengthen Integration of North American Agricultural Sector." Brookings. March 5, 2026.听听

Heerman, Kari. "Is US Trade Policy on a New Path?" Brookings. February 19, 2026.听听

Kyle Wyatt (moderator) is the editor and executive director of the Literary Review of Canada, named the country鈥檚 best literary magazine at the 2025 National Magazine Awards. Having studied theory and history at the University of Nebraska鈥揕incoln as an undergraduate, he holds a PhD in literature and print culture from the University of Toronto, where he won the A.S.P. Woodhouse Prize for best dissertation in the Department of English. His writing has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, as well as the Times Literary Supplement, The Walrus, and other newsstand titles. As an editor, he has received multiple National Magazine Awards, and he has edited or art-directed many other award-winning or anthologized reviews, essays, and illustrations.

Fritz Byers received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, with Honors in American History from Duke University (B.A. 1977), and his law degree from Harvard Law School (J.D. 1981). He has been in solo private practice for nearly forty years, specializing in constitutional law, communications, criminal justice, health care, and environmental law. He taught First Amendment and Communications Law as an adjunct faculty member the University of Toledo College of Law for 15 years.

Audrey Cooper听is the editor-in-chief of The Banner, which she joined in 2025 as part of her lifelong mission to save local news 鈥� the kind that fuels civic conversations, strengthens communities and occasionally delights. Before joining The Banner in 2025, she served as editor-in-chief of New York Public Radio, where she built a multiplatform newsroom serving millions of residents with podcasts, news articles, live talk shows and in-depth investigative reporting. Under her leadership, the organization was named a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize for the first time in its 100-year history. Prior to that experience, Audrey became the youngest woman ever hired as the top editor of a major U.S. newspaper when she took the helm of the San Francisco Chronicle. There, she transformed the newsroom into a digital powerhouse and played an instrumental role in its financial turnaround. The Chronicle earned nearly every major national journalism award during her tenure, and the California News Publishers Association named it the state鈥檚 best large newspaper every year she led it.

Joshua Sealy-Harrington is an Associate Professor and the Chair in Palestinian Human Rights in Canada at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. Before joining Windsor Law, he was an Assistant Professor at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, where he was voted 鈥淧rofessor of the Year鈥� by the student body and awarded 鈥淧erson of the Year鈥� by the faculty association for his steadfast defence of Palestinian and academic freedom. His research applies critical legal theory to questions of race, gender, and disability justice, and his scholarship has been widely cited by courts and tribunals across Canada, including in leading Supreme Court of Canada decisions concerning criminal and constitutional law. As Counsel at Power Law, Professor Sealy-Harrington strategically mobilizes criminal, constitutional, and international law to advance the interests of marginalized groups, including Black and Indigenous accused, trans and intersex youth, religious and linguistic minorities, women and children, and communities in the Global South. Moreover, Professor Sealy-Harrington consulted as a constitutional and legal expert for Soulpepper Theatre鈥檚 Canadian adaptation of the Tony- and Pulitzer-nominated play 鈥淲hat the Constitution Means to Me鈥�. Before joining the academy, Professor Sealy-Harrington completed three judicial clerkships鈥攖wo at the Supreme Court of Canada (for Justice Cl茅ment Gascon) and one at the Federal Court (for Justice Donald J. Rennie, now of the Federal Court of Appeal).

Wyatt, Kyle. "Forged Fronts: On Souvenirs and Shams.鈥� Literary Review of Canada, February 2026. .

Wyatt, Kyle. "Indecent Exposure: Conflict, collectibles, and other contradictions.鈥� Literary Review of Canada, January - February 2026. .听

Wyatt, Kyle. "Armed Forces: Mapping a world of chaos.鈥� Literary Review of Canada, May 2025. .

Wyatt, Kyle. "Don't Stop the Presses." Literary Review of Canada, June 2020. .

Shattuck, J. H. F., & Byers, F. (1981). An egalitarian interpretation of the First Amendment. Harvard Civil Rights鈥揅ivil Liberties Law Review, 16(2), 377鈥�403. .

Byers, Fritz. "Consensus Prison Reform: A Possible Dream." In Impossible Jobs in Public Management, edited by Erwin C. Hargrove and John C. Glidewell. University Press of Kansas, 1990. .

Cooper, Audrey. 鈥淐oronavirus Closed Our Newsroom but Has Not Slowed the Journalists.鈥� San Francisco Chronicle, March 16, 2020. .

Cooper, Audrey. 鈥淪F Police Try to Suppress the Press with a Sledgehammer.鈥� San Francisco Chronicle, May 15, 2019. .

Cooper, Audrey. 鈥淟etter to Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook News Feed Change Hides News, Hurts Nation.鈥� San Francisco Chronicle, January 12, 2018. .

Sealy-Harrington, Joshua. "Twelve Angry (White) Men: The Constitutionality of the Statement of Principles."听Ottawa Law Review, March 2020.听

Sealy-Harrington, Joshua. "Is Free Expression Really About Power?"听Free Expression Podcast, October 2022.听

Sealy-Harrington, Joshua. "Righteous student activism and evolving anti-Palestinian reprisal in Canada."听Canadian Dimension, July 2024.听

Pasternak, Shiri, Rogin, Jillian & Sealy-Harrington, Joshua. "Canadian lawyers borrow from U.S. playbook to quash Palestine solidarity."听The Breach, April 2025.听

Boivin, Sarah, Balsam, Corey, El Farra, Dalia, Sealy-Harrington, Joshua & Gelman, Emmaia. "Silenced In Our Name."听Independent Jewish Voices, June 2025.听

Sealy-Harrington, Joshua, Majid, Dania & Karakatsanis, Alec. "'When Genocide Wasn鈥檛 News'听and 'Copaganda': Anti-Palestinian Racism and Pro-Police Bias in Media."听Chair in Palestinian Human Rights in Canada, Sept 2025.听听

Sealy-Harrington, Joshua. "Upside Down: Anti-Palestinian Racism, Judicial Bias, and Inverted Racial Power."听Queens Law Podcast, March 2026.听

Inez Jabalpurwala (moderator)听is a distinguished leader in public policy and non-profit management. She is the President and CEO of the Public Policy Forum, one of Canada鈥檚 leading public policy think tanks. PPF is an independent, non-partisan and non-profit organization, working to inject fresh thinking into Canadian policymaking. Research projects include initiatives on inclusive economic growth and on building Canada鈥檚 skills strategy in the face of unprecedented pressures on our public policy framework and the rapidly changing face of Canada-US relations. Before joining PPF, Inez led public health initiatives on brain health and preventing brain disease, including as Founding President and CEO of the Brain Canada Foundation from 2001 to 2020. Inez has been named one of Canada鈥檚 Most Powerful Women by the Women鈥檚 Executive Network on three occasions 鈥� in 2007, 2016 and again in 2022.

Sharry Aiken is a law professor and founding academic director of the Graduate Diploma in Immigration and Citizenship Law at Queen鈥檚 University. Both her scholarship and advocacy focus on the inequalities embedded in Canadian immigration and refugee law. She has represented the Canadian Council of Refugees (CCR) in a number of precedent-setting cases before the Supreme Court of Canada and currently serves as co-chair of the CCR鈥檚 Legal Affairs Committee, president of FCJ Refugee Centre and co-editor-in-chief of the PKI Global Justice Journal, published by Queen鈥檚 Law.

Ted Gallivan became Deputy Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship on March 23, 2026. Before this appointment, Ted was interim Deputy National Security and Intelligence Advisor to the Prime Minister (DNSIAPM) since February 2025. In this role, he supported the Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council and the National Security and Intelligence Advisor in advising the Prime Minister and Cabinet on national security and intelligence matters, coordinating government responses to threats, and liaising with foreign governments and the intelligence community. Prior to his role as DNSIAPM, Ted served as Executive Vice-President of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA), as well as the Assistant Commissioner of the Compliance Programs Branch at the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA). Ted began his career with Customs and Excise in 1991 as a summer intern at the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Interim Processing Centre. He then went on to hold several senior positions at the CRA.

John Thon Majok is Director of Refugee and Forced Displacement Initiative (RAFDI) at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) where is also Senior Advisor for Institutional Development. He leads and provides strategic direction for RAFDI , which seeks to expand the space for new perspectives, constructive dialogue, and sustainable solu颅tions through evidence-based analysis, aiming to inform policies and improve approaches for understanding forced displacement in a global context. His research鈥攊nformed by lived experience in refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya鈥攆ocuses on conflict-induced forced displacement and refugee resilience, self-reliance, integration, education, resettlement, and durable solutions to protracted displacement, with a special interest in East Africa.

Aiken, Sharryn, and Colin Grey. "Equality Rights and the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement." Supreme Court Law Review (3d) 5 (2025). Available at SSRN: 听

Aiken, Sharryn, and Harini Sivalingam. 鈥淣arratives of Harm and the Case for Detention Abolition.鈥� Mondi Migranti 1 (2024): 85-101. .听

Aiken, Sharryn, and Stephanie J. Silverman. 2021. 鈥淒ecarceral Futures: Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice towards an Abolitionist Future.鈥澨�Citizenship Studies听25 (2): 141鈥�61. doi:10.1080/13621025.2021.1890405.

Aiken, Sharryn, and Stephanie J. Silverman. A World Without Cages Bridging Immigration and Prison Justice. New York: Routledge, 2024.

Majok, John Thon. "Refugee Resilience: A Reason for Optimism in the Unpredictable World of Forced Displacement." In Rays of Optimism: Bright Spots in Foreign Policy, edited by Mark A. Green, 17. Washington, DC: Wilson Center, 2025. .

Martin, Susan, James Hollifield, and John Thon Majok. US Leadership Matters in Addressing Forced Displacement Crisis: Six Major Issues with Recommendations for Refugee Policy and Programming. RAFDI Working Group Report No. 1. Washington, DC: Wilson Center, March 2024. .

Majok, John Thon. 鈥淰ulnerability is Not Inability: Unlocking Refugee Potential to Contribute Positively.鈥� Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. 18 June 2024. .

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