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THE OSGOODE CERTIFICATE IN
HUMAN RIGHTS
THEORY AND PRACTICE
May 25 – 29, 2020
5 Consecutive Days
In Person
How well do you understand the
complex world of human rights?
Program Director
Failure to comply with human rights laws can be very
costly for organizations, in money, time and potential
reputational damage. Human rights issues continue to
be front page news – from the continued impact of
the #MeToo Movement and the rise in workplace
harassment investigations, to the ongoing inquiries
involving alleged discrimination in local school boards Patrick Case, LSM, LL.B., LL.M.
– examples are everywhere. Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall
Law School, York University
This comprehensive program – now in its seventh
successful year – has been designed to give you the
knowledge and skills to competently and confidently Location
handle human rights issues. Osgoode Professional
Development
1 Dundas Street West, 26th Floor
Register today at: Toronto, ON
osgoodepd.ca/humanrights
The Osgoode Certificate in
Human Rights
Theory and Practice
Found in every province and territory as well
New approaches to as federally, human rights legislation touches
equality, diversity and
every individual and organization. Whether
inclusion ensure that
human rights issues you’re dealing with human rights issues in the
will continue to impact workplace, the classroom or other settings,
governments, public you need to understand how to interpret and
institutions and the
correctly apply the appropriate regulatory
private sector.
framework to protect your organization, your
Are you prepared? employees and yourself.
This unique in-depth program is designed specifically for lawyers,
human rights and human resources professionals.
Our highly distinguished faculty of practicing lawyers and academics
with years of experience in this field will equip you with the knowledge
and practical skills you need to competently and confidently handle
What a phenomenal
day-to-day challenges, as well as more complex human rights issues.
program! Each day has
led us into a much richer
In-class lectures will be supplemented by simulations, case studies
understanding of such
and hands-on workshops providing a practical, skills-focused learning
important issues and ideas.
experience.
Laura Mae Lindo
former Director, Diversity and Equity Office,
Wilfrid Laurier University
In this practical, hands-on certificate
program, you can build upon your Who Should
knowledge of: Attend
• The concepts of discrimination and harassment • Human Rights Professionals
• The duty to accommodate in relation to gender, disability, religion/creed, • Human Resources Professionals
family status and other human rights grounds
• Human Rights Lawyers
• Resolving conflicts involving competing rights
• Employment and Labour Law
• The interplay between human rights legislation and other related Practitioners
legislative regimes
• In-House Counsel
• The review and implementation of institutional human rights policy
• Trade Union Representatives
• Strategic decision-making to resolve complaints through informal or
• Diversity/Equity/Inclusion Officers
formal processes
• Disability and Return to Work
• The role of human rights agencies (Commissions, Tribunals,
Managers
Advocacy Centres) and the Courts
• Human Rights and Equity
• Advocacy before human rights or other tribunals
Consultants
• Identifying and resolving ethical issues and issues of fairness in
human rights matters
• Dealing with the aftermath of a human rights complaintTaught by a highly distinguished faculty of leading
Human Rights experts
Program Director Program Faculty
Lisa Addario Amelia Golden
Member, Canadian Industrial Relations Board Golden Investigations
Raj Anand Neil Guthrie
WeirFoulds LLP Director of Professional Development, Research
& Knowledge Management, Aird & Berlis LLP
Anthony Anirud
Human Rights Commissioner, York Region Sharmaine Hall
Patrick Case District School Board Executive Director, Human Rights Legal
Support Centre
LSM, LL.B., LL.M. Sarah Atkinson
Adjunct Professor, Mediator, Workplace Investigator, Marian MacGregor
Lawyer, Workplace Resolutions Executive Director, Centre for Human Rights,
Osgoode Hall Law School,
Equity and Inclusion, York University
York University Colleen Bauman
Goldblatt Partners LLP Clara Matheson
Counsel/Manager of Intake Services,
Kim Bernhardt
Human Rights Legal Support Centre
Bernhardt Arbitration & Mediation
Amanda Pask
Advisory Board Nicole S. Bernhardt
Human Rights & Equity Specialist,
Cavalluzzo LLP
NSB Consulting Holly Reid
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
Antonella Ceddia Sarah Mason-Case
Lawyer, Litigation Section, Scholar, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, Bruce Ryder
City of Toronto, Legal Services Division Fulbright Visiting Researcher, Harvard University Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School,
York University
Antonella Ceddia
Shelagh Day Lawyer, Litigation Section, City of Toronto, Jo-Ann Seamon
President & Senior Editor, Legal Services Division Senior Counsel/Manager, Legal Services,
Canadian Human Rights Reporter Human Rights Legal Support Centre
Ena Chadha
Fo Niemi Conflict Resolution, Mediation & Human Rights Jayashree (Jay) Sengupta
Executive Director, Centre for Human Rights Commissioner, Peel District
Rajesh Dhir
Research-Action on Race Relations (CRAAR) School Board
Executive Director and Chief Legal Counsel,
Dora Nipp Ontario Human Rights Commission Daniel Sheppard
Human Rights Education & Change Goldblatt Partners LLP
Mahejabeen Ebrahim
Specialist, Ontario Human Rights Human Rights and Equity Advisor, Morgan Sim
Commission Lakehead Public Schools Parker Sim LLP
Geri Sanson Peter Engelmann Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell
Sanson Law Office Professional Corporation Goldblatt Partners LLP Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
Insiya Essajee Ryan D. White
Susan Ursel
Counsel, Legal Services and Inquiries, Cavalluzzo LLP
Ursel Phillips Fellows Hopkinson LLP
Ontario Human Rights Commission
Dianne Wintermute
Melany Franklin Staff Lawyer, ARCH Disability Law Centre
Mediator, Sideroad ADR
This program exceeded my expectations, which were high to
begin with. The speakers were very engaging and informative.
Susan A. Richer, Richer & Richer, OttawaAgenda
DAY 1
Faculty Faculty
May 25, 2020 Anthony Anirud, Human Rights Commissioner, Sarah Atkinson, Mediator I Workplace
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. York Region District School Board Investigator I Lawyer, Workplace Resolutions
Human Rights: Theory and Practice Patrick Case, LSM, LL.B., LL.M., Kim Bernhardt, Bernhardt Arbitration &
Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, Mediation
• Theories of rights – the Hohfeldian York University
analytical system Nicole S. Bernhardt, Human Rights &
Bruce B. Ryder, Associate Professor, Equity Specialist, NSB Consulting
• The Canadian Human Rights system – Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
history and current practices Rajesh Dhir, Executive Director and
Chief Legal Counsel, Ontario Human Rights
- domestic provincial human rights law and
DAY 2 Commission
policy
May 26, 2020 Melany Franklin, Mediator, Sideroad ADR
- the Federal level, including the Bill of
Rights, Canadian Human Rights Act and 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Marian MacGregor, Executive Director,
the Employment Equity Act Duty to Accommodate/Dealing Centre for Human Rights, Equity and
- the Constitution: Canadian Charter of with Competing Rights Inclusion, York University
Rights and Freedoms Clara Matheson, Counsel/Manager of
- the human rights interplay with the • The duty to accommodate: theory and Intake Services, Human Rights Legal
Charter [ss.15, 7, 2(b)], the influence of practice Support Centre
international human rights standards - recognizing the need to accommodate Amanda Pask, Cavalluzzo LLP
• The bigger picture - procedural and substantive
Holly Reid, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP
accommodation
- the evolution of the concepts of equality
Dianne Wintermute, Staff Lawyer,
and discrimination - information-gathering and assessing needs
ARCH Disability Law Centre
- universality of human rights principles/ - making informed decisions
cultural relativism (within a Canadian - implementing the decision
context) DAY 3
- the importance of record-keeping
- cultural change and organizational May 27, 2020
- the limits of accommodation: undue
change 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
hardship and the key factors to consider
• The enforcement of human rights laws in
• Intersectionality: addressing multiple Evidence in Human Rights Matters/
Canada Simulation Exercise
grounds in human rights claims
- the spectrum of human rights systems
• Competing rights and (argued) hierarchies
in Canada This practical, interactive session will use the
of rights
Kahneman “thinking fast and thinking slow”
- roles of those with rights, duties and
- identifying competing rights analysis to show how “embedded self-
responsibilities under human rights law
- tips and tools for dealing with competing delusions” that impact decision-making can
rights and resolving conflict be overcome.
Lunchtime Keynote: “The Impact of
Climate Change on Human Rights” • Proving discrimination • Questioning assumptions in human
• Guidance for developing and implementing rights matters
Sarah Mason-Case, Scholar,
Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, model human rights policies in your - what mental processes shape our
organization judgement about evidence in human
Fulbright Visiting Researcher,
Harvard University rights fact situations?
Small-group exercise: the duty to
- when assessing evidence, how do
accommodate in relation to disability,
intuition and emotion combine with
creed and family status
deliberative thought?• Record-keeping In the afternoon, the focus shifts to the DAY 5
- highlighting best practices remedial powers of human rights tribunals.
In addition to discussing the more traditional May 29, 2020
- special concerns with medical remedies of damages and/or reinstatement 9:00 a.m. – 4:15 p.m.
recordkeeping (for example, in a case of discrimination Advanced Topics in Human Rights
- dealing with concerns regarding in the workplace), faculty will also explore
Law and Practice
electronic record-keeping what systemic remedies are available in
- current complex issues in systemic such cases.
• Workplace investigations
discrimination and intersectional • Debriefing the simulation
• Advancing the law
discrimination
• Writing a report in contemplation of a
• How it works at the Human Rights Tribunal:
review – tips and tools
Simulation: Participants will engage in an from application to decision, and what
in-class simulation exercise of analyzing • Interplay between human rights legislation to do if your organization receives an
and attempting to resolve a workplace and other legislative provisions application
human rights dispute that has proceeded - employment standards • Judicial review
to investigative stage.
- disability accessibility legislation - assessing the tribunal’s reasoning
processes: Determining what kinds of
Faculty - labour laws
• The remedial powers of human rights
human rights decision making attracts
Lisa Addario, Member, Canadian Industrial judicial intervention
tribunals
Relations Board - key judicial review cases
• Systemic remedies: current examples
Patrick Case, LSM, LL.B., LL.M., of innovative solutions being crafted by • Investigating sex-based and race-based
Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, human rights tribunals discrimination
York University • New developments in human rights law: a
• Damages
Mahejabeen Ebrahim, Human Rights and panel discussion
• Overcoming the practical challenges to
Equity Advisor, Lakehead Public Schools
Amelia Golden, Golden Investigations
enforcing human rights settlements
Faculty
Jo-Ann Seamon, Senior Counsel/Manager, Faculty Raj Anand, WeirFoulds LLP
Legal Services, Human Rights Legal Colleen Bauman, Goldblatt Partners LLP Patrick Case, LSM, LL.B., LL.M.,
Support Centre Adjunct Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School,
Ena Chadha, Conflict Resolution,
York University
Mediation & Human Rights
Antonella Ceddia, Lawyer – Litigation Section,
DAY 4 Peter Engelmann, Goldblatt Partners LLP
City of Toronto, Legal Services Division
May 28, 2020 Neil Guthrie, Director of Professional
Insiya Essajee, Counsel, Legal Services and
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Development, Research & Knowledge
Inquiries, Ontario Human Rights Commission
Evidence in Human Rights Matters Management, Aird & Berlis LLP
Amelia Golden, Golden Investigations
(continued)/Remedies Sharmaine Hall, Executive Director,
Human Rights Legal Support Centre Daniel Sheppard, Goldblatt Partners LLP
Day 4 commences with a follow up and Morgan Sim, Parker Sim LLP
Jayashree (Jay) Sengupta, Human Rights
debrief of the Day 3 simulation exercise.
Commissioner, Peel District School Board Ryan D. White, Cavalluzzo LLP
This session focuses on exploring the
experiences gleaned from the simulation Njeri Damali Sojourner-Campbell,
exercise to better understand the concepts Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
of systemic racism and sexism in the
workplace. The learning outcomes will also
be connected to the applicable case law.Registration Details
Fee per Delegate Here’s what past
$2,995 plus HST attendees have said:
Newly licensed (2017 – 2020): $1,497.50 plus HST
Fees include attendance, program materials, lunch and break refreshments. The five days of intensive
Group discounts are available. Visit www.osgoodepd.ca/group-discounts for sessions were most
details. Please inquire about financial assistance. rewarding. As a human
rights practitioner, I got the
Program Changes opportunity to deepen my
We will make every effort to present the program as advertised, but it may theoretical understanding
be necessary to change the date, location, speakers or content with little or of human rights law in
no notice. In the event of program cancellation, York University’s and Osgoode Canada. Simultaneously,
Hall Law School’s liability is limited to reimbursement of paid fees. I gathered new skills in
promoting the prevention of
Cancellations and Substitutions
human rights violations at
Substitution of registrants is permitted at any time. If you are unable to find the post-secondary level....
a substitute, a full refund is available if a cancellation request is received in Thanks to Pat Case for
writing 21 days prior to the program date. If a cancellation request is made his vision and having the
with less than 21 days notice, a $150 administration fee will apply. No other courage to step into
refund is available. the ‘gap’.
For further program–related information, please contact: Nancy Sims
Director, Centre for Human Rights,
David Thomas, Program Lawyer at 416.270.7316 Equity & Diversity, Humber College
or email dthomas@osgoode.yorku.ca
I leave this program
impressed, motivated
Certificate of Program Completion and so much more
knowledgeable on human
In order to successfully complete the program and obtain an Osgoode rights issues. I will be
Certificate in Human Rights Theory and Practice, participants must attend all recommending it to my
program modules and satisfactorily pass an on-line multiple-choice exam. colleagues unequivocally.
Laura Colella
Lawyer, Arbitrator, Mediator, Facilitator
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