Articles of Interest

Articles of Interest

CLA-ACE Articles

(Official reports and executive summaries from CLA-ACE internships can be found on our reports page)

• Le comité Avocats canadiens à l’étranger de l’Université de Montréal vient de faire paraître la 4e édition de son journal Perspectives internationales. Disponible ici en version PDF.
• Knowledge and Confidence: Setting Examples for Development in Bangladesh
• Dispatch from Ghana – Chelsea Paradis, University of Ottawa
• 2005 CLA-ACE Summer Internship: An Unforgettable Experience in Timor-Leste.
• Supreme Court Justices Address Canadian Lawyers Abroad Conference on Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law.
• So You Want To Be An International Lawyer?

Other

• Submission on Abolishing Articles to the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC)
• Catherine McKenna, CLA-ACE Executive Director, Submission to the LSCU Licensing and Accreditation Task Force, May 31, 2008
• Abolishing articles: it’s the only real solution
  Catherine McKenna, CLA-ACE Executive Director, The Lawyers Weekly, September 19, 2008
• Democracy or Development – Which Comes First? (PDF 72kb)
  University of Ottawa Common Law Bulletin, 2007
• Independent judiciary vital for Afghanistan (Page 1 – PDF 95kb) (Page 2 – PDF 149kb)
  The Lawyers Weekly, March 23, 2007
• Top court judge questions whether we afford to presume innocence in the face of terrorism.
  Ottawa Citizen, March 21, 2005
• Courts must balance rights, security, Justice: But Binnie isn’t sure where the line should be drawn.
  National Post, March 21, 2005

Press

CLA-ACE News & Press Releases

News

• NEWS: CLA-ACE Co-Founders Catherine McKenna & Yasmin Shaker, along with 2009 Summer Intern Brittany Twiss, give a presentation about CLA’s student program to LexisNexis Canada,one of our sponsors. For details about the presentation, click here. To see pictures, click here [Flickr].
• CLA-ACE’s ACWHRP Project is covered in the Globe and Mail! Click here to read the article online or in .pdf [52 kb]
• Our interns are blogging! Read about Annabel’s adventures in Accra, and Andrew’s experiences in Indonesia.
• The donation of books to the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) have arrived in Kumasi, Ghana! For pictures, click here [Flickr].
• EVENT: The ACWHRP Customary Law and Marital Rape subcommittees met in Nairobi, Kenya, in Feburary, 2010. For more details about the ACWHRP’s work, click here. To see photos from the workshop, click here [Flickr].
• CLA-ACE Executive Director Catherine McKenna visits Ghana for our Clinical Legal Education project at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST)
• Olthius Kleer Townshend takes on Pro Bono Project with the Arctic Athabaskan Council
• CLA-ACE Honours Memory of Former Chief Justice Antonio Lamer
• CLA-ACE shows support for Pakistan legal community
• Developing countries need business lawyers — CLA-ACE featured in The Lawyers Weekly. (PDF)
• From the I.C.C. to the I.C.T.R: A look at whether International Criminal Law is Making a Difference
  Anthony McIntyre reports from Canadian Lawyers Abroad’s 2nd Annual Conference on March 10, 2006.
• International Criminal Law Symposium Features Former Canadian Ambassador to the UN & Former Prosecutor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.
• CLA-ACE at the Canadian Council of International Law annual conference in Ottawa.
• Ottawa University Chapter of CLA-ACE hosts successful CLA-ACE Symposium on Counter-Terrorism and the Rule of Law

Press Releases

• The University of Ottawa’s Student Chapter of Canadian Lawyers Abroad – Avocats canadiens à l’étranger (CLA-ACE) is holding its fourth annual conference on Friday, February 29, 2008 at the University of Ottawa (PDF)
• CLA CONFERENCE 2007: Conference Agenda (PDF)
• Democracy or Development – Which Comes First? CLA-ACE Conference, February 23, 2007 at the University of Ottawa (PDF)
• Announcing the Release of the Inaugural Edition of the CLA-ACE Legal Journal “International Legal Perspectives”.