Professor Ed Morgan to Lecture at UNB Law
"A Sovereign Palestine? The 'Ins' and 'Outs' of International Law"
Thursday, April 1, 2010, 11:30 am
On Thursday, April 1, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. in Room 2A of Ludlow Hall, Professor Ed Morgan will deliver a lecture entitled, "A Sovereign Palestine? The ‘Ins' and ‘Outs' of International Law". Professor Morgan is a professor of law at the University of Toronto and former national president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. A light reception will follow in the lounge. This event is approved for 1.5 hours of CLE credit of the Law Society of New Brunswick.
Biography
Ed Morgan is a Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He teaches in the areas of international law and constitutional law. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1988, he was educated at Northwestern University (B.A.), University of Toronto (LL.B.) and Harvard Law School (LL.M.). He clerked with Madam Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada and practiced civil litigation at Davies, Ward & Beck in Toronto. Professor Morgan has written numerous law journal articles, case comments, book chapters and texts dealing with international and constitutional law, including International Law and the Canadian Courts (Carswell, 1990) and The Aesthetics of International Law (U. Toronto Press, 2007). From 1998 to 2004 he was legal counsel to Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) and from 2004 to 2007 he was national president of CJC.
Professor Morgan has appeared at all levels of Canadian courts as well as the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and the Decolonization Committee of the United Nations, and has provided expert evidence on international law to numerous U.S. federal and state courts in jurisdictional disputes and conflict of laws cases. He has represented Canadian Jewish Congress, the Islamic Foundation of Toronto, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Assembly of First Nations, PEN Canada, Hasbara Fellowships, the Writers' Union of Canada, the Epilepsy Association of Toronto, NORML Canada, the African Canadian Legal Clinic and other public interest groups in numerous constitutional, and public interest appeals, and has argued sovereign immunity cases in the Ontario courts, the U.S. federal courts, and the Supreme Court of Canada on behalf of and in challenges to a number of national governments. He has testified on matters of law reform, national security, and foreign affairs before Parliamentary committees in both the House of Commons and the Senate.
