|
|
|
About Joseph E. Magnet
Joseph E. Magnet Biographical Information
Joseph Eliot
Magnet, F.R.S.C., B.A., LL.B., LL.M., Ph.D. is Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa. He clerked for
Chief Justice Brian Dickson at the Supreme Court of Canada, served as Crown
Counsel in Ottawa, Distinguished Visiting
Professor, Boalt
Hall Law
School, University
of California, Berkeley,
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Tel
Aviv University,
Visiting Professor, Université
de Paris, France,
Visiting Professor, University of Haifa, Israel, and Visiting Professor, Central European
University, Budapest. He has acted as counsel in more
than 200 constitutional cases in the Supreme Court of Canada and the trial
and appellate courts of Ontario, Quebec, and Manitoba.
He has been advisor to the Canadian Federal, Provincial and Territorial
Governments on constitutional matters, a frequent invited expert before
Senate and House of Commons Committees; counsel to individual Senators and
Members of the House of Commons; counsel for First Nations, minority
groups, corporations and others. He is General Counsel to the Congress of
Aboriginal Peoples with responsibility for all constitutional, treaty and
Aboriginal rights litigation and Chief Negotiator and Lead Counsel for First
Nations in Land Claims Processes. He was elected to the Royal Society of
Canada in 1998.
Professor
Magnet is the author of eighteen books, including:
Professor Magnet has lectured widely on
constitutional law, in Canada
and around the world. He is a regular radio, television and op-ed
commentator on legal subjects for the major national media.
Cases Argued
Professor Magnet has been counsel in more than two hundred
constitutional, administrative and criminal cases before trial courts,
courts of appeal, the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of
Canada. He was lead counsel in the Manitoba Language Rights Reference,
the Prostitution Reference, the Bill 101 cases, Canada v.
Stephen Marshall, Canada v. Joshua Bernard, Reference re
Minority Language Education Rights, Lovelace v. Ontario, R.
v. Powley and other cases that hammered out
the framework of the modern Canadian Constitution. Several of his facta are available online
on this website.
Professor Magnet is Chief Negotiator for Lac Seul
First Nation in claims against governments and others for flooding the
First Nation’s reserve. Professor Magnet negotiated the Final Agreement for
the first ever settlement of any of these claims. The settlement created
the most significant pool of capital in the First Nation’s history and
conferred on the First Nation scholarships, employment and other benefits
for the future. See http://www.opg.com/news/releases/NewsNov16_06.asp.
Professor Magnet is lead
counsel for Pikangikum First Nation in its
dispute with Canada
over contaminated water and other infrastructure. Professor Magnet’s
advocacy resulted in a partial settlement of these claims for a package
valued at over $65 million. See http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nr/prs/j-a2007/2-2870-eng.asp
.
Courses
Taught by Professor Magnet
§
CML2313
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW II – Division
of Powers
§
CML1213
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW I – Charter
of Rights and Freedoms
§
CML2314
CONSTITUTIONAL LITIGATION
§
CML2212
ADMINISTRATIVE LAW
Previous Courses Taught by Professor
Magnet
§
Federalism
§
Comparative
Constitutional Law (at University
of Haifa, Israel)
§
Comparative
Minority Rights (at Tel Aviv
University, Israel)
§
Constitutional
Theory (at Central European University
Budapest)
§
Current
Issues in Constitutional law
§
International
Protection of Minorities
§
Minority
Rights in the Multinational
State
§
Administrative
Law
§
Supreme
Court of Canada Seminar
§
Provincial
Criminal Court Seminar
|
|
