Join us for an online lecture by Professor Preston Jordan Lim on his upcoming paper, “The Great Depression and Canada’s Originalist Decade,” on Wednesday November 20th at 12-1 PM PST. This event is presented by the Runnymede Society’s Vancouver Lawyer Chapter and accredited by the Law Society of British Columbia.

Professor Lim will be talking about how Canada’s leading legal thinkers during the 1930s primarily reasoned through Canada’s 1867 constitution in originalist terms, followed by a brief Q&A period. This talk will be of interest to students of Canadian legal history and Canadian constitutional interpretation, and lawyers practicing or interested in public law. The paper is forthcoming in the Osgoode Hall Law Journal.

Professor Lim holds an AB summa cum laude from Princeton University, a Master in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University, where he studied as a Schwarzman Scholar, and a JD from Yale Law School. He has served as a Policy Advisor to the Honourable Erin O’Toole, who was the then-foreign affairs critic in the Parliament. Professor Lim was a law clerk to the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario and to Chief Justice Richard Wagner of the Supreme Court of Canada.

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