THE CAMBRIDGE LECTURES 2025
PROGRAMME OF STUDY
July 13 - 19, 2025
12:00 p.m.
Check-in at Queens' College, University of Cambridge
12:00 p.m.
Buffet Luncheon - Bar/Conservatory
7:00 p.m.
Dinner - BBQ - Lyon Court
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast - Dining Hall
9:00 a.m.
Lectures - Fitzpatrick Hall
The President’s Welcoming Remarks: Guy J. Pratte, President of
the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and Senior Counsel,
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
The Patron’s Welcoming Remarks: The Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.,
Chief Justice of Canada and Patron of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies
9:15 a.m.
“A Conversation with Canada’s Ambassador to the United Nations”
Moderator: Scott Maidment, Partner, McMillan LLP
Lecturer: Robert K. Rae, PC, CC, OOnt, KC, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Canada to the United Nations
11:00 a.m.
Health Break - Lyon Court
11:30 a.m.
“Lessons from America”
Moderator: The Honourable Andromache Karakatsanis, Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Lecturer: The Lord Jonathan Sumption OBE, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (Retired) and author of
The Hundred Years War, Volumes I to V and The Challenge of Democracy and the Rule of Law
1:00 p.m.
Luncheon - Dining Hall
2:15 p.m.
“Tilted Scales: The Supreme Court in the Second Age of Trump”
Moderator: Ira Nishisato, Senior Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Lecturer: Joan Biskupic, CNN’s Chief Supreme Court Analyst and Author of
Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court’s Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences
4:45 p.m.
Group Photograph of Lecturers and Delegates, Walnut Tree Court (Weather Permitting)
5:30 p.m.
Reception - Walnut Tree Court
Host: The Honourable Ralph Goodale, High Commissioner for Canada to the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7:00 p.m.
Dining Hall
“O’Canada”
Grace and Toast to the King: The Honourable Robert P. Armstrong,
Arbitrator and Mediator, Arbitration Place
Introduction: Guy J. Pratte, Chair and President of the Canadian Institute for
Advanced Legal Studies and Senior Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Greetings: The Honourable Ralph Goodale, High Commissioner for Canada to the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Northern Ireland
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast - Dining Hall
9:00 a.m.
"The Power of Telling the Human Stories Behind the Legal Headlines"
Moderator: The Honourable Glenn D. Joyal,
Chief Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Manitoba
Lecturer: Professor David Kinley,
Chair of Human Rights Law, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney,
Expert Member of Doughty Street Chambers, London and
Author of The Liberty Paradox: Living with the Responsibilities of Freedom and
In a Rain of Dust: Death, Deceit, and the Lawyer Who Busted Big Asbestos
10:30 a.m.
Health Break - Lyon Court
11:00 a.m.
"The Tokyo War Crimes and the Making of Modern Asia"
Moderator: The Honourable Georgina R. Jackson,
Justice of the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan
Lecturer: Professor Gary Bass,
William P. Boswell Professor of World Politics of Peace and War,
Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University and
Author of Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
12:30 p.m.
Luncheon - Dining Hall
2:00 p.m.
"Insolvency, Justice and the Justices"
Moderator: The Honourable Geoffrey B. Morawetz,
Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Justice for Ontario
Lecturer: Dr Riz Mokal, Barrister, South Square
4:45 p.m.
Group Photograph of Lecturers and Delegates - Walnut Tree Court (Rain Date)
7:00 p.m.
Dinner - Dining Hall
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast - Dining Hall
9:00 a.m.
"Criminal Justice - Is It Our System That's Broken, or our Thinking?"
Moderator: The Honourable Malcolm Rowe,
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Lecturer: Her Honour Wendy Joseph KC,
Former Judge of the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales
(The Old Bailey) and Author of Rough Justice: Do We Have the Law We Deserve and
Unlawful Killings, Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey
10:30 a.m.
Health Break - Lyon Court
11:00 a.m.
"The Independence of Lawyers and the Rule of Law: President Trump and Paul, Weiss, and Other Law Firms and Other Recent Examples"
Moderator: Patricia D.S. Jackson,
Arbitrator and Mediator, Arbitration Place
Lecturer: Lord David Pannick KC,
Blackstone Chambers and Author of Advocacy: The Hamlyn Lectures
12:30 p.m.
Luncheon - Dining Hall
12:30 p.m.
Visit to Canada House and Middle Temple (Optional)
2:00 p.m.
NO SCHEDULED LECTURES
FREE EVENING - No Dinner in Dining Hall
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast - Dining Hall
9:00 a.m.
"How Did America's President Become Its Greatest National Security Threat?"
Moderator: Nadia Effendi, Partner, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Lecturer: Professor Harold Hongju Koh,
Sterling Professor of International Law, Yale Law School and
22nd Advisor to the United States Department of State and
Author of The National Security Constitution in the 21st Century
10:30 a.m.
Health Break - Lyon Court
11:00 a.m.
"Brexit and Beyond"
Moderator: Randall J. Hofley, Senior Partner, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP
Lecturer: Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Law and Senior Fellow, UK in a Changing Europe
12:30 p.m.
Luncheon - Dining Hall
2:00 p.m.
"The Role of the Judge in Questions of Morality"
Moderator: Renée Maria Tremblay,
Deputy Executive Legal Officer, Chambers of the Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.,
Chief Justice of Canada
Lecturer: The Honourable Mrs. Justice Nathalie Lieven DBE,
Justice of the High Court of England and Wales, Family Division
4:00 p.m.
"Living and Working in the Temple in Fact and Fiction: A Conversation with Sally Smith KC Barrister, Biographer and Crime Novelist"
Lecturer: Sally Smith KC
Moderator: The Honourable Robert J. Sharpe, Arbitrator and Mediator, Arbitration Place
Session to be held in the Old Dining Hall
7:00 p.m.
Dinner - Dining Hall
7:30 a.m.
Breakfast - Dining Hall
9:00 a.m.
"The Rule of Law: A Northern Irish Viewpoint"
Moderator: The Honourable Suzanne Côté,
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lord Stephens of Creevyloughgare,
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
10:30 a.m.
Health Break - Lyon Court
11:00 a.m.
"The Shifting Sands of Judicial Deference: A Comparative Approach"
Moderator: The Honourable Nicholas Kasirer,
Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada
Lecturer: The Right Honourable Lady Simler,
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
12:30 p.m.
Luncheon - Dining Hall
2:00 p.m.
"A Conversation with the Chief Justice of Canada and the President of the Courts of England and Wales"
Moderator: Guy J. Pratte,
President of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Legal Studies and
Senior Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Lecturers: The Right Honourable Richard Wagner, P.C.,
Chief Justice of Canada and Lady Chief Justice, The Right Honourable the Baroness Carr of Walton-on-the-Hill,
President of the Courts of England and Wales
7:00 p.m.
Dinner - Dining Hall