Articles of Interest

(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.
• BLOGS: Follow along with two of our interns as they experience a summer in Ghana and the Yukon! Check out Carmen Gustafson's adventures up North in her blog here.
• BLOGS: Check out Chris Samuel's blog of his experiences in Ghana here.
• Le comité Avocats canadiens à l'étranger de l'Université de Montréal vient de faire paraître la 3e édition de son journal Perspectives internationales. Disponible ici en version PDF.
• Today’s Needs, Tomorrow’s Consequences: A report from the University of Ottawa's Student Chapter's fourth annual conference
• Knowledge and Confidence: Setting Examples for Development in Bangladesh
• Dispatch from Ghana - Chelsea Paradis, University of Ottawa
• Interview with Carolyn McCool, a Canadian laywer working abroad
• 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?

• "You Learn the Most from the Hardest Things" online | .pdf
  Stephanie Nolen, Address to graduates of King's College, Globe and Mail, May 22, 2009
• 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
• Andrew Cohen • Beyond our borders.
  Ottawa Citizen, February 12, 2008
• Democracy or Development - Which Comes First? (PDF 72kb)
  University of Ottawa Common Law Bulletin, 2007
• Democratization isn't a bad word (PDF 102kb)
  Ottawa Citizen, May 29, 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
• Pro bono policies entrenched: Approved free legal work now carries the same weight as billable hours at Bay Street's big law firms
  Financial Post, January 12, 2005
• Pro Bono Rising - Canadian Bar Association
  The Canadian Bar Association, August/September 2004
• Law Beyond Borders
  Address by Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice and Attornery General of Canada, August 16, 2004
• The Export of Criminal Justice
  Lecture by Louise Arbour