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Several professors from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa intervened in the References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act before the Supreme Court of Canada. In this post, meet Professor David Robitaille who represented the Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement (CQDE) and Équiterre as an intervener to argue the national interest doctrine.
Several professors from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa intervened in the References re: Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act before the Supreme Court of Canada. In this video, Professor Nathalie Chalifour speaks about her role as an intervener alongside Professor Anne Levesque as they co-represented Friends of the Earth and the National Association of Women in the Law (NAWL) to bring a climate justice and feminist argument before the Court.
Several professors from the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa intervened in the References re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act before the Supreme Court of Canada. This video features Professor Stewart Elgie, an expert in law and economics, who represented Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission as an intervener before the Supreme Court to argue that carbon and pollution pricing are among the most effective ways to counter today’s pressing environmental problems.
How can we advance access to justice? How does such a goal fit into the efforts of a legal researcher?
For David Robitaille, it is people who are at the heart of constitutional law. In this video from the series ” Viv(r)e la recherche en droit ”, he explains how the right to a healthy environment is lived on a daily basis, outside of the law. In telling the story of a citizen’s struggle to protect her land, he shows us why we need research in law.
