Guest Speaker Joanna Baron

The Department Of Political Science presents Guest Speaker

Joanna Baron

Executive Director, Canadian Constitution Foundation

Pandemic Panic: Covid, the Courts, and Civil Liberties

Thursday, October 26

H 1220

4-6pm

Join Joanna Baron, author of the forthcoming book Pandemic Panic, for a lecture and discussion about the various areas of liberty that were impacted by government actions during the pandemic, how the judiciary responded to an unprecedented public health situation, and whether we should be concerned for the protection of our liberties going forward.

Joanna Baron is Executive Director of the Canadian Constitution Foundation, a national legal charity that defends fundamental freedoms in courts of law and public opinion. She studied law at McGill University, trained in barrister's chambers in London UK, clerked at the Ontario Court of Appeal and practiced criminal law with the late Edward Greenspan Q.C.

sponsored by the Speaker Series in Political Theory

for more information contact Dr. Travis D. Smith at travis.smith@concordia.ca