Message from the Executive Director

Reading through the impressive articles written by our law students, I am struck by the level of engagement and interest that the students have with the leading constitutional issues in Canada. I am also pleased that the Asper Centre is able to offer the opportunities for these students to study and debate such important issues as climate change, voting rights, media freedom and aboriginal rights, through the lens of our constitution. I am very grateful for the work that the students have done, both on behalf of the Asper Centre and for the outside organizations who have partnered with us. Their work is central to work of the Centre and enables us to comment on and influence contemporary constitutional issues throughout Canada. We frequently hold a panel discussion for students with practising lawyers who have managed to incorporate constitutional law into their legal practices. While constitutional law is taught in 1L and is a foundational course there are few who get to practise in this area the way that I do. However, the group of alumni we draw upon from government, labour law, aboriginal law and legal clinics, among a number of other areas of practice, give the students who are drawn to constitutional law for the same reasons that I was, inspiration for how they could incorporate this area of great interest into their futures as lawyers.

Cheryl Milne Executive Director