Sunday, June 12, 2016

Registration & Reception 4:00 pm 6:00 pm Lowertown Brewery 73 York St, , ON K1N 5T2 { Map }

Monday, June 13, 2016

8:00 am 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am 10:15 am Keynote Address Presented by Nancy McCormack

Nancy McCormack is an Associate Professor of Law and Librarian at Queen's University, Kingston, . She teaches legal research and writing to upper year and graduate law students, and has published widely on legal research and librarianship. She is the co-author of The Practical Guide to Canadian Legal Research (3rd ed. 2010; 4th ed. 2015), Updating Statutes and Regulations for all Canadian Jurisdictions (2012), Introduction to the Law and Legal System of Canada (2013), and Managing Burnout in the Workplace: A Guide for Information Professionals (2013). She was the recipient of the 2014 Denis Marshall Memorial Award for Excellence in Law Librarianship.

10:15 am 10:45 am Break

10:45 am 12:00 pm Introduction to Constitutional Law Presented by Adam Dodek

Professor Dodek teaches Public Law and Legislation, Constitutional Law, Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility, and a seminar on the . He is a founding member of the Faculty's Public Law Group, the director of The Professionalism Initiative and the co-founder of the Legal Writing Academy. He created and directs the Cavanagh LLP Professionalism Speaker Series which is the first and only speaker series in Canada dedicated to issues of ethics and professionalism. It is accredited by the Law Society of Upper Canada as an approved provider of Ethics and Professionalism CPD.

12:00 pm 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00pm 2:15 pm Brian Dickson Law Library Tours, website, LibGuides, legal research modules Presented by Margo Jeske

Margo Jeske has a bachelor’s degree in French translation (Queen’s University) and a master’s degree in Library Science (Western University). She worked for several years in federal government departments and agencies and at the Library of Parliament, before joining the Brian Dickson Law Library, as the Library Director. Margo is an active member of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries (CALL) and sits on the Law Libraries Section of the International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA).

2:15 pm 2:45 pm Break

2:45 pm 4:00 pm Secondary Sources Presented by Rick Harkin

Law Librarian at the Brian Dickson Law Library, University of Ottawa

All meals and breaks will be in room 419A | Sessions will be in rooms 421 and 430 | Washrooms are located beside Room 421.

Tuesday, June 14, 2016

8:00 am 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am 10:15 am Introduction to Criminal Law Presented by Graham Mayeda

Graham Mayeda joined the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa in 2005. His current research focuses on international trade and investment law, theories of global justice, law and development, criminal law, and legal philosophy. He began his academic career in philosophy, in which he received both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Toronto. His work in this area focuses primarily on the philosophy of Nishida Kitaro, Watsuji Tetsuro and Kuki Shuzo.

10:15 am 10:45 am Break

10:45 am 12:00 pm Introduction to Labour and Employment Law Presented by Joseph Roach

Joseph E. Roach, B.A. (S.C.), B.Ed. (N.B.), LL.B., is Emeritus Professor of Law and a graduate of the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section of the University of Ottawa, where he has been teaching property law, landlord and tenant law, and mortgage law for more than 40 years. He was the first Director of the French Common Law Program created at the University of Ottawa in 1977, and has played a key role in its development ever since, especially with respect to the French property law terminology. In light of his involvement in the Franco-Ontarian community he was awarded a life time membership with the Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario. He is also a member of the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Ottawa.

12:00 pm 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00pm 2:15 pm Introduction to Torts Presented by Heather McLeod-Kilmurray

Heather McLeod-Kilmurray holds an SJD from the University of Toronto, having been awarded a SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship, and an LL.M. first class from the University of Cambridge. She was law clerk to Chief Justice Isaac of the Federal Court of Appeal. She practiced as Counsel at All meals and breaks will be in room 419A | Sessions will be in rooms 421 and 430 | Washrooms are located beside Room 421.

Environment Canada, and as Assistant Solicitor at the Sheffield City Council in England.

2:15 pm 2:45 pm Break

2:45 pm 4:00 pm Publication of Case Law - Finding and Updating Cases Presented by Nathalie Léonard

Nathalie Léonard, BA, MLIS, is Head of Reference Services and a Law Librarian at the Brian Dickson Law Library at the University of Ottawa since 2002. She teaches Legal Research to first-year law students. She also offers help to law students and professors, other members of the University as well as to members of the public to locate legal information/documents. Previously, she worked at several specialized libraries in the federal government (Foreign Affairs, Privy Council Office, Federal Court) and at the County of Carleton Law Association.

6:00 pm Optional Dinner Mu Goong Hwa Garden (Korean BBQ) 376 RideauSt. { Map }

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

8:00 am 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am 10:15 am Training students, Law Clerks, and Lawyers Presented by Jennifer Walker, Michel-Adrien Sheppard & Channarong Intahchomphoo

Jennifer Walker is the Head Librarian at the County of Carleton Law Association. She completed her undergraduate degrees at Queen's University, and her Masters of Library and Information Studies at Dalhousie University. Currently, she serves as the Secretary of the Canadian Association of Law Libraries. Outside of the library, she is the Vice President of Twice Upon a Time / It était deux fois, a charitable organization providing free All meals and breaks will be in room 419A | Sessions will be in rooms 421 and 430 | Washrooms are located beside Room 421.

books to children in Ottawa (check it out at www.twiceuponatime.ca).

Michel-Adrien Sheppard is the Head of Library Assessment & E-Access at the Supreme Court of Canada library in Ottawa. He has worked at the Court since 2005. He is a graduate of the Master of Library and Information Studies program at McGill University in Montreal.

Channarong Intahchomphoo (BA, MIS, E-Business PhD Candidate) is employed at the University of Ottawa’s Brian Dickson Law Library as a Computer Reference Technician. He holds a bachelor’s degree (Chiang Mai University, Thailand) and an English/French bilingual master’s degree (University of Ottawa, Canada) both in Information Studies. His fields of research and current projects are: information and law, information organizations and emerging technologies, human-computer interaction, and electronic business (technologies, management, e-society) for vulnerable populations. He is also pursuing a doctorate in E-Business with the research topic of “Social Media in Urban Indigenous Communities in Ontario, Canada” at the University of Ottawa. He has published works in the Canadian Law Library Review and the Legal Information Management.

10:15 am 10:45 am Break

10:45 am 12:00 pm Reference Skills and Strategies in the Legal Environment Presented by Gloria Booth-Morrison

Gloria is a Science and Engineering Librarian at the University of Ottawa. She previously worked as Special Projects Librarian at Concordia University and has taught workshops about communication, project management and leadership.

12:00 pm 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00pm 2:15 pm Ethics, Information and the Law Presented by Andre Vellino

Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, University of Ottawa

Throughout his research, Professor Vellino has been

All meals and breaks will be in room 419A | Sessions will be in rooms 421 and 430 | Washrooms are located beside Room 421.

passionate about how to get machines to reason about information, starting with his Ph.D. thesis ("The Complexity of Automated Reasoning"). His work in logic programming at Bell Northern Research focused on using logic as a knowledge representation language and on an automated method -- constraint logic programming -- for reasoning about numeric relations on real intervals.

2:15 pm 2:45 pm Break

2:45 pm 4:00 pm Canadian Legal System Finding and Updating Legislation in Canada Presented by Emily Landriault

Emily is a law librarian, who has spent the last 2 years on assignment to the Copyright Office at the University of Ottawa, where she runs the U of O’s Copyright Education Campaign. She has been teaching a legal research course at the Faculty of Law since 2011. She is chair of the Webinar Committee for the Canadian Association of Law Libraries and Treasurer of the National Capital Association of Law Librarians. Emily has several years of legal research experience, having worked as a legislative librarian at both the Library of Parliament and the Ontario Legislature before joining the Brian Dickson Law Library at the University of Ottawa. Emily holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Guelph and a master’s degree in Library Studies from Dalhousie University.

4:00 pm 6:00 pm Optional NCALL Dinner The Albion Room 33 Nicholas St. (at the Novotel Ottawa hotel) { Map }

All meals and breaks will be in room 419A | Sessions will be in rooms 421 and 430 | Washrooms are located beside Room 421.

Thursday, June 16, 2016

8:00 am 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am 10:15 am Copyright Presented by Thomas Rouleau

Thomas Rouleau is the Officer and Manager of Copyright Services at the University of Ottawa. He holds a JD, and is in the process of completing an LL.M. with concentration in law and technology, both from uOttawa. In addition to his work at the University, Thomas works as a lawyer in the areas of technology and intellectual property – he articled at a major Bay street firm.

10:15 am 10:45 am Break

10:45 am 12:00 pm Introduction to Contracts Presented by Anthony Daimsis

Anthony Daimsis has been teaching at the University of Ottawa since 2003. He is the current Director of the National Program, a program that leads to a dual JD/LL.L degree.

Prof. Daimsis teaches Contracts and Torts law, International Sales law, International Commercial Arbitration and legal writing. He also supervises the common law Jessup, Vis and FDI moot teams and serves as the faculty's moot program coordinator. He has advised South Asian countries in the area of foreign investment and investment treaties.

12:00 pm 1:00 pm Lunch

1:00pm 2:15 pm Introduction to Human Rights and Social Justice Presented by Joanne St. Lewis

Joanne St. Lewis is a Law Professor in the Common Law Section of uOttawa. Her areas of current research include digital defamation and social justice communities; sexual violence and online harassment; and issues of racial profiling and terrorism policy. She is appointed to the Expert Roundtable on Carding/Street Checks established to advise the Ontario Police College in 2016. She is a member of the Law Commission of Ontario Advisory Committee on

All meals and breaks will be in room 419A | Sessions will be in rooms 421 and 430 | Washrooms are located beside Room 421.

Defamation in the Age of the Internet. She is a lecturer in the University of Southern California CREATE Homeland Security Center of Excellence, Executive Program on Counter-Terrorism.

2:15 pm 2:45 pm Break

2:45 pm 4:00 pm Introduction to Environmental Law Presented by Jamie Benidickson

Jamie Benidickson, Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, has taught a number of courses in environmental law, including Canadian Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, Water Law, and Environmental Sustainability.

4:00 pm 4:30 pm Conference Wrap up and Thank you’ s

All meals and breaks will be in room 419A | Sessions will be in rooms 421 and 430 | Washrooms are located beside Room 421.