McDonald Constitutional Lecture Series

The 20th Annual McDonald Lecture (2008)
What Federalism Means in Québec
Professor Guy Laforest
Department of Political Science, Laval University

The 19th Annual McDonald Lecture (2007)
The Future of International Justice
Mr. Richard J. Goldstone
Justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (Ret.), Former Chief Prosecutor, UN International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda

 The 18th Annual McDonald Lecture (2006)
The Challenges of Security in an Open Society
The Honourable Anne McLellan
Counsel at Bennett Jones LLP and the first Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the Institute for US Policy Studies, University of Alberta

The 17th Annual McDonald Lecture (2005)
Three Ways to Make a Constitution
Professor Donald Horowitz
James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science
Duke University

The 16th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (2004)
Human Rights: Southern Voices
Professor William Twining
FBA, QC, DCL, JD, LLD
Emeritus Quain Professor of Jurisprudence
Faculty of Laws, University College of London

The 15th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (2003)
Legislating with Integrity
Professor Jeremy Waldron
Maurice and Hilda Friedman Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law and Philosophy
Columbia University

The 14th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (2002)
What is a Good Constitution Good for?
Professor Frank I. Michelman
Robert Walmsley University Professor
Harvard School of Law

The 13th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (2001)
The Charter Revolution: Is it Undemocratic?
Dean Peter Hogg
Dean, Osgoode Hall Law School

The 12th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (2000)
Quebec Succession: 1995 and Now
Professor Robert A. Young
Professor and Canada Research Chair in Multilevel Governance
Department of Political Science, University of Western Ontario

The 11th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1999)
Searching for Multinational Canada: The Rhetoric of Confusion
Professor Alan C. Cairns
Adjunct Professor Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo

The 10th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1998)
Equality Jurisprudence in the South African Constitutional Court
Justice Albie L. Sachs

The 9th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1997)
Contributing to Democracy: Some Paradoxes of the 1990's
Professor Carole Pateman
University of Sydney

The 8th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1996)
Can Democracy Survive McWorld's Market Myths?
Professor Benjamin R. Barber
The Whitman Professor of Political Science, Rutgers University
Director of the Walt Whitman Centre for the Culture and Politics of Democracy

The 7th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1995)
The Constitution of Dying: Exploring the Right to Medically-Assisted Suicide
Professor George P. Fletcher
Cardozo Professor of Jurisprudence
University of Columbia

The 6th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1994)
Sovereignty, Racism and Human Rights: Indian Self-Determination and the Modern World Legal System
Professor Robert A. Williams, Jr.
E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies
James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona

The 5th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1993)
The Crisis of Multi-National Federations: Post-Charlottetown Reflections
Professor Philip Resnick
Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia

The 4th Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1992)
Reconceiving Rights as Relationship
Professor Jennifer Nedelsky
Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Toronto

The 3rd Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1991)
Can National Unity Survive the Charter?
Professor Charles Taylor

The 2nd Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1990)
The Possibility of Interpretive Liberalism
Professor Mark V. Tushnet

The 1st Annual McDonald Constitutional Lecture (1989)
Equality, Democracy, and Constitution: We the People in Court
Professor Ronald Dworkin