These six-week series will maintain a uniform structure, however each iteration will introduce fresh content and new cases. The objective of this series is to develop a critical understanding of the constant evolution of criminal law in Canada. Examining the way Canadians think, talk and act on criminal justice and how this has shaped the criminal justice system today. The series will be taught from a legal-process perspective that will concern itself with legislative, administrative, judicial and private ordering and their interactions. This process is also rooted in a pragmatic approach to politics which attempts to understand competing perspectives and achieve some form of reconciliation between them.
Dates: Tuesdays, March 26 – April 30, 2024.
Time: 10:00am-12:00pm
Location: Hybrid, Online & In-Person (Participants can choose to attend in person or online).
- Online via Zoom
- In-Person, Carleton University Campus – Pigiarvik (ᐱᒋᐊᕐᕕᒃ) (formerly Robertson Hall)
Registered participants will receive an email from the LLeaP team, sharing the zoom information, room number and parking instructions prior to the first day of this series.
Topics:
- Week 1: Defining Crime and Criminal Law Powers in Canada
- Week 2: Defences under the Common Law and by Statute
- Week 3: Statutory Defences
- Week 4: The Right to Counsel
- Week 5: Evidence Law
- Week 6: Trials, Juries, and Laypeople’s Roles in Criminal Law
About the Lecturer: Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich is an adjunct professor with the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University. Rebecca received her Ph.D. in 2015 from the Carleton University Department of Law and Legal Studies. She has an LL.M. and LL.B., received from Queen’s University in 2002 and 2001 respectively, and holds a Graduate Certificate in Women’s Studies from the University of Cincinnati.
In addition to several years teaching at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law, Rebecca has taught at the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Law, and at the University of Cincinnati. She has been a columnist for the Lawyers Weekly and has authored and co-authored several legal textbooks for students and legal system practitioners, including lawyers, paralegals and police. Rebecca is a co-editor of Robson Hall Law School’s criminal law and justice blog and is a research associate with the UK’s Restorative Justice for All Institute.
Rebecca has been an Ontario lawyer since 2003. She worked in private practice from 2003 – 2009, performing a wide range of litigation work. She has worked for six years as Staff Lawyer, Law Reform and Equality, to the Canadian Bar Association, then as a Policy Counsel with the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. Subsequently, Rebecca did criminal prosecution work as a per diem Crown Attorney with the Ministry of the Attorney General in Ottawa.
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