CROSSING NORTH AMERICAN BORDERS IN
LAW AND LEGAL EDUCATION
A CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN CONSORTIUM ON LEGAL EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA FACULTY OF LAW
2 - 4 OCTOBER 2008
Leonard B.
Rosenberg
Professorship
University of
Houston Law
Center
Hyman
Soloway Chair
in Business
and Trade Law
CROSSING NORTH AMERICAN BORDERS IN
LAW AND LEGAL EDUCATION
A CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP OF THE
NORTH AMERICAN CONSORTIUM ON LEGAL EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA FACULTY OF LAW
2 - 4 OCTOBER 2008
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2
Arrivals
Lord Elgin Hotel
100 Elgin Street
7:30 p.m.
Welcome Gathering
Sir John A. Pub
284 Elgin Street
Near Maclaren St.
Reservation is under “Nicole LaViolette”
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3
RIDEAU CLUB
99 Bank Street (15th floor)
Workshop sessions on Friday will be held at the RIDEAU CLUB, a short walk from
the Hotel Lord Elgin. This private club was founded in 1865, and its members have
included many of Canada’s political, business and legal leaders.
PLEASE NOTE – The Rideau Club has a dress code that requires business
attire – jackets and ties for men; skirts, dresses or suits (including pantsuit)
for women.
8:00 a.m.
Participant Check-In & Breakfast
Main Lounge
A continental breakfast will be
served compliments of the law firm of
Blakes, Cassels & Graydon LLP
9:00 a.m.
Welcome
Dean Nathalie Des Rosiers & Dean Bruce Feldthusen
Professor Stephen Zamora
Professor Gabriel Cavazos
Keynote Address “Legal Reform in Mexico”
9:15 a.m.
Speaker:
Hernán Ruiz Bravo
Legal Affairs Counsellor, Embassy of Mexico in Canada
10:30 a.m.
Coffee Break
11:00 a.m.
Concurrent Workshop Sessions
1. Intellectual Property and Information Law – Open Access and Privacy
Room to be confirmed
Elizabeth Judge (Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor

Creative Commons and Open Access -- Tina Piper (McGill) and Elizabeth
Judge (Ottawa), Discussants
Creative commons, open access law, and other licensing strategies for
publication; publishing with open access law reviews ; negotiating open
access with traditional publishers ; researching open access publication
venues ; open access and the development agenda ; roles of the scholar;
library and university ; open access and curriculum design

Geoprivacy -- Teresa Scassa (Ottawa), Discussant
Location privacy; privacy in public spaces; jurisdictional issues

Open Source Software -- Greg Vetter (Houston), Discussant
Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)
Licensing taxonomy and impacts on the FOSS movement; attribution-only
licenses based on copyright; weak copyleft licenses; strong copyleft licenses;
the impact of patent-licensing or trademark provisions in any of these; license
proliferation; government entanglement with FOSS, whether that be
regulation of it, support of it, posture to it in procurement, or promotion of it in
technology development and/or policy.
2. Transnational Indigenous Legal Issues
Room to be confirmed
Brad Morse (Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor

Environmental Degradation, Climate Change & Indigenous Survival -Constance Macintosh (Dalhousie), Discussant

The Inter-American System and recent court cases on indigenous
issues -- Evan Fox-Decent (McGill), Discussant

Methodology and Applied Research, with a Focus on Indigenous Law) -Jorge Alberto González Galván (UNAM-IIJ), Discussant
3. Family Law
Room to be confirmed
Nicole LaViolette (Vice Dean, Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor

Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Creating & Regulating Modern
Families in North American Jurisdictions -- Vanessa Gruben (uOttawa),
Discussant . Participants will discuss similarities and differences in the
regulation of assisted reproductive technologies.

Child Custody : Deciding Disputes Within and Across Borders -- Barbara
Atwood (Arizona), Discussant. Participants will discuss similarities and
differences in approaches towards child custody disputes.
4. International Trade Law
Room to be confirmed
Anthony Van Duzer (Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor

Evaluating NAFTA’s experience with the supplemental agreements on
labor and environmental cooperation
-The Environmental Agreement and Commission -- Armand de
Mestral (McGill), Lee Paddock (GWU) and Gabriel Cavazos (ITESM),
Discussants
-The Labor Agreement and Commission -- Stephen Zamora (Houston)
and (name to be added), Discussants

The Future of Environmental and Labour Rights in North America– How
will the next US administration deal with Trade and the Environment and
Trade and Labour Rights? -- David Gantz (Arizona) and Gil Winham
(Dalhousie), Discussants
12:00 p.m. Lunch
Main Lounge
Introduction:
Prof. Tracey Lindberg (uOttawa)
Speaker:
Claudette Dumont-Smith, Commissioner
Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The establishment of the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation
Commission was part of a settlement agreement between the Canadian government,
former students of the schools, churches that ran the schools, and First Nations
organizations. It is the first commission of its kind in North America and its mandate is to
examine the human rights abuses that were systemic within the Canadian residential
school system.
1:30 p.m.
Concurrent Workshops - (Continuation, in same rooms)
1. Intellectual Property Law
2. Indigenous Law
3. Family Law
4. International Trade Law
2:30 P.M.
Break
2:45 P.M.
Plenary Session
Main Lounge
Reports from breakout sessions – each group to report on themes or
ideas from the breakout sessions that will be of interest.
3:30 P.M.
NACLE Student Essay Competition
Presentations of award-winning papers by NACLE students, with
commentary from NACLE faculty on each paper
4:30 p.m.
Adjourn
Free time to explore Ottawa
7:30 p.m.
Dinner
Sweetgrass Bistro
108 Murray Street
SWEETGRASS BISTRO is Ottawa’s first and only restaurant featuring aboriginal
cuisine. It is located in the trendy and unique Byward Market area of Ottawa. The
restaurant offers seasonal dinner menus that follow the ancient paths of North
America’s Aboriginal peoples, and is aboriginal owned and operated.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4
For NACLE Student Participants
9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
uOttawa students will accompany you on a tour of several sites in the National
Capital. Please meet at 8:45 a.m. in the lobby of the Lord Elgin Hotel. You will
rejoin the workshop for lunch at the law faculty.
Faculty of Law
University of Ottawa
Fauteux Hall, 57 Louis Pasteur Street
9:00 a.m.
Room 147
Plenary session : ATransnational Pedagogy: Best Practices@
This plenary session will address the goals and challenges we face in providing
greater opportunities for cross-border exchange of ideas among students and
professors in North America. Law professors with experience in using innovative
approaches to transnational teaching will discuss their experiences with international
teaching projects.
9:45 a.m.
Coffee Break
Sponsored by
Programme
de common law
en français
Main Foyer
Fauteux Hall
10:00 a.m. Concurrent Workshops –Transnational Curriculum Development
1. Intellectual Property Law
Room 315

Transnational Technology Law Courses: Successful Course Design,
Collaborative Pedagogical Technologies, and Copyright Issues in
Transnational Curriculum Development , Elizabeth Judge (uOttawa,
Common Law), Convenor
Jeremy DeBeer (Ottawa), Discussant -- discussing Digital Music Law, a
multijurisdictional and multidisciplinary course taught at Universidad de
Puerto Rico and Ottawa; videoconferencing, podcasting, and other
collaborative technologies for teaching
Tina Piper (McGill) and Elizabeth Judge (Ottawa), Discussants -- Creative
Commons and open access to facilitate transnational course design;
copyright issues with transnational curriculum design (e-reserve policies,
course management software, site licenses)
2. Indigenous Law
Room 316
Larry Chartrand (Ottawa, Common Law), Convenor

Jorge Alberto González Galván (UNAM), « Empirical Research Methods
in Law, especially in the field of Aboriginal Law »

Peter Oliver (Ottawa, Common Law), “Teaching Indigenous Rights from
a Cross-cultural Perspective to a Multicultural Student Body”

Sébastien Grammond (Ottawa, Droit civil), “Summer School in Cree
Territory”, & Jean-Paul Lacasse (Ottawa, Droit civil), “Summer School
in Innu Territory”
3. Family Law
Room 106
A discussion of collaborative cross-border teaching projects, including the NACLE
course on Comparative North American Family Law
4. International Trade Law
Room 102
A discussion of experiences with cross-border teaching of NAFTA and international
trade law, with Tony VanDuzer (Ottawa), Gabriel Cavazos (ITESM), Armand de
Mestral (McGill), Stephen Zamora (Houston) and others, with an emphasis on
developing specific projects for student interaction among NACLE members.
12:00 p.m.
Lunch
Sponsored by
Hyman Soloway Chair
in Business and Trade Law
Tsampalieros Atrium
3rd Floor
General discussion: Issues and Challenges in promoting NACLE Student
Exchanges
1:00 p.m.
Room 147
NACLE Student Essay Competition
Presentations of award-winning papers by NACLE students, with commentary
from NACLE faculty on each paper
3: 00 p.m.
Adjourn
Free time to explore Ottawa
7:00 p.m.
Dinner
Sponsored by :
Leonard B. Rosenberg
Professorship
University of Houston Law Center
Le Tartuffe
133 Notre-Dame-de-l'île
Gatineau, Québec
Located in a historical house, this Québec restaurant is minutes from downtown
Ottawa. The fare at Le Tartuffe is a pleasing union of the owner’s French origins
with Outaouais influences. Quite unlike Molière's well-known, hypocritical theatre
character of the same name, Le Tartuffe has a warm, unpretentious atmosphere.
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 5
Lord Elgin Hotel
MacDonald Room
8:30 a.m.
NACLE Business Meeting - Faculty Representatives
10:30 a.m.
Adjourn