School is back in session! We're excited to welcome students to our CLF chapters at 20 law schools across Canada. Our first Clubs Day of 2024 was at Osgoode Hall - thanks so much to our student leaders for welcoming incoming 1Ls and creating spaces for students of faith!

Delighted, with Derek Ross of Christian Legal Fellowship, to convene a symposium on Sept. 26 at Allard School of Law on the constitutional meaning of freedom in Canada! With a stellar set of speakers, this will be a wonderful event. We hope you can join us! Register here: tinyurl.com/4zwn3nue

So excited for this program, and to learn from such a stellar group, including @richard__moon Benjamin Berger Kathryn Chan Howie Kislowicz Brian Bird Dwight Newman Margot Young Ben Perrin Kristopher Kinsinger 🍁 Preston Jordan Lim and several others not on Twitter!

On September 26, LCC President Shauna Van Praagh delivered a keynote address entitled “Oh Canada, Our Free and Democratic Society” at the Shape of Freedom Symposium, hosted by Allard School of Law and organized by Christian Legal Fellowship.

1/2 Thrilled critical McGill-Queen's University Press volume w/fellow editors/authors Ramona Coelho & Trudo Lemmens being released Apr 2025, w/expert clinical, legal, ethical, PwLE, disability & indigenous perspectives on #AssistedSuicide in 🇨🇦 amazon.com/Unravelling-MA… w/accessible ePUB format

Now Available: Supreme Court Law Review - ow.ly/iUyL50TCjVh - This title offers Canadian and international perspectives on the theme of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Available online: ow.ly/UegB50TCjVi #LexisNexisCanada Derek Ross Melanie Bueckert

Committee reviewing euthanasia in Canada finds some deaths driven by homelessness fears, isolation apnews.com/article/canada…

Opinion: Canadians with disabilities are dying needlessly theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

May we never break faith with those who sacrificed so much to pass the torch to us, and to our children. Lest we forget.

Now Available: Equal and Inalienable Rights: Essays on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - ow.ly/kTCy50Ucf1S - This collection offers Canadian and international perspectives on the theme of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

Glad to be part of this collection on the UDHR

I offer some preliminary thoughts on competing equality arguments in recent constitutional challenges to commercial sex offences in Canada

Allard Law professor Isabel Grant (Isabel Grant) and co-authors argue that judicial oversight over MAID acts as a crucial safeguard, not a hindrance. via The Vancouver Sun vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/…

Looking forward to appearing as guest speaker on Monday at a Lunch and Learn event of @usasklaw chapter of Christian Legal Fellowship on topic of Law, Religion, and the Charter

I welcome feedback on a new article on The Right of Equal Access to Public Service-a right protected in the UDHR and Canada’s international commitments but rarely referenced in our case law to date. Hope to generate some further thought on this protection: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Happy to have a teaching assignment for the coming academic year that includes a new course on Law & Religion. Will be working hard to deliver an excellent course for students of all religions (and none) that engages thoughtfully with complex intersections of law and religion.

Significant, and unanimous, decision from SCOTUS today highlights the need for nuanced understandings of the diverse ways that religious communities express faith through charity. supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf…

Today marks the World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. Human trafficking isn’t just happening in faraway places – it is a major problem right here in Canada. Read more about that, and CLF's efforts to #EndHumanTrafficking, here: christianlegalfellowship.org/blog/2025world…

Yes we must do better. Freedom of religion or belief is not only an inalienable right, #FoRB is core to our very humanity. The right to have, adopt and change thought, conscience, religion or belief-without coercion-is an absolute right & cannot be infringed in any circumstances

Looking forward to speaking this afternoon with the USask College of Law chapter of Christian Legal Fellowship on current issues in religious freedom