Environmental Imperatives and the Need for Judicial Change

Concordia University Jurist-in-Residence Morton S. Minc invites you to the conference:

Environmental Imperatives and the Need for Judicial Change, presented by The Honourable Madam Justice Nicole Duval Hesler, former Chief Justice of the Court of Appeal of Quebec.

Topics to be discussed:

• When does an environmental concern become an environmental imperative?
• The evolution of environmental litigation over the last decades, from statutory infractions to stopping pipelines and forestry operations.
• The continuing expansion of the scope of environmental issues.
• Repeated failures to meet environmental objectives, both locally and globally.
• Increased tolerance of restrictive laws for the public good.
• The way forward: the precautionary principle, obligatory redundancy, and deliberate overshooting of objectives.
• Judicial activism vs paradigm shifts.
• What will the public expect, what will the public demand, will the judicial role need revisiting?