Runnymede Radio

In this special episode of Runnymede Radio, our Thompson Rivers University chapter president Trevor Ballantyne sits down with Professor David Livingstone, the chair of Vancouver Island University's Liberal Studies Department for a discussion of civic nationalism in Canada and the constitutionalism of Thomas D'Arcy McGee.

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Preston Jordan Lim, an assistant professor at the Charles Widger School of Law at Villanova University. Professor Lim discusses his forthcoming article in the Dicey Law Review on the originalism of F.R. Scott.

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Professor Steven Penney of the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law discusses recent Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence on the guarantee against cruel and unusual punishment.

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, long-time Runnymede friend and international lawyer Stephen Armstrong joins us to discuss his recent article in the Dicey Law Review on the constitutionality of 'Henry VII Clauses'.

This episode of Runnymede Radio is our encore presentation of panels from our Law & Freedom 2023 conference. This panel, on international law in Canadian courts,  features Prof. Dwight Newman, lawyer James Yap, graduate student Kerry Sun, and was moderated by Gerard Kennedy.

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Gerard Kennedy and Mark Mancini to discuss the differences between the Supreme Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of the United States and why, in their view, Canada's apex court should not be described as a partisan institution.

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Jesse Hartery, former McGill Runnymede chapter president and current PhD candidate at Melbourne Law School, to discuss his ongoing research on the theory and doctrine of Canadian federalism.

This panel featuring Professor Jamie Cameron, Professor Faisal Bhabha, Professor Finn Makela, and Derek Ross is a conversation on the state of academic freedom in Canada today. Moderated by Aaron Wudrick.

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Philippe Lagassé of Carleton University sits down to discuss what the accession of King Charles III means for the monarchy in Canada.

George Avraam and Prof. Hoi Kong in a discussion moderated by Christine Van Geyn discuss recent Supreme Court of Canada jurisprudence over section 15 of the Charter.

  This episode of Runnymede Radio is a special encore presentation of one of our best events from the past school year in which Professor Faisal Bhabha sat down with Professor Dwight Newman to discuss what they refer to as the emerging constitutional cleaves at the Supreme Court of Canada. This event was originally hosted by our Osgoode Hall Law School chapter in February 2023.

Prof. Ryan Alford, Prof. Leah West, Asher Honickman, and Cara Zwibel discuss the Emergencies Act and the 'Freedom Convoy' in a conversation moderated by Prof. Malcolm Lavoie. Please note that this panel was recorded before the Public Order Emergency Commission released its report regarding the invocation of the Emergencies Act.

Prof. Yuan Yi-Zhu, Prof. Lisa Kerr, and Prof. Steven Penney discuss the future of Section 12 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms following the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in R v Bissonnette. A conversation moderated by Jessica Kuredjian.    

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Professor Ryan Alford (Bora Laskin Faculty of Law) and Cara Zwibel (Canadian Civil Liberties Association) join our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger to discuss what we might expect to happen in the aftermath of the Emergencies Act inquiry.

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down with Brian Bird and Derek Ross. Brian and Derek are the co-editors of the recently released book Forgotten Foundations of the Canadian Constitution.

In this episode, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger is joined by Yuan Yi Zhu and Kerry Sun to discuss the Supreme Court of Canada's recent R v Bissonnette decision, a topic they have written about for The Spectator magazine. Yuan Yi Zhu is a doctoral candidate in international relations and incoming research fellow at the University of Oxford. Kerry Sun is a distinguished Runnymede alumnus...

  This episode of our podcast is a special encore presentation from one of our best events of the previous academic year, in which Justice Peter Lauwers of the Court of Appeal for Ontario presents a lecture on what he calls 'an operating manual for the judicial mind'. This lecture was originally delivered at the annual Runnymede Student Summit in July 2021, and again at the University of Saskatche...

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger sits down to discuss intellectual diversity with Geoffrey Sigalet, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics, Philosophy, and Political Science at the University of British Columbia - Okanagan, and Director of the UBC Centre for Constitutional Law and Legal Studies.

In this episode, Professor Ryan Alford of Lakehead University Bora Laskin Faculty of Law joins former University of New Brunswick chapter president Daniel Escott to discuss Parliament's invocation of the Emergencies Act.

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, Asher Honickman and Leonid Sirota -- long-time friends of the Runnymede Society -- debate unwritten principles in Canadian constitutionalism, in the context of the Supreme Court of Canada's decision in City of Toronto. This episode is guest hosted by Runnymede alumni Alexander Reschke.

In this episode of Runnymede Radio, host Kristopher Kinsinger is joined by University of Ottawa professor Carissima Mathen to discuss her and Michael Plaxton's latest book, "The Tenth Justice."

This episode of Runnymede Radio features a conversation with Professor Emmett Macfarlane, Professor of Political Science and the University of Waterloo.

https://runnymedesociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/mark-mancini-intvw1.mp3 This episode of Runnymede Radio features a conversation with our former National Director Mark Mancini on the state of the rule of law in Canada. Please note that this episode was recorded prior to the federal government's revocation of the Emergencies Act.

  Our first episode of Runnymede Radio for 2022 features our National Director Kristopher Kinsinger discussing the future of the Runnymede Society coalition.

This special episode of Runnymede Radio features Dr. Andy Summers of the London School of Economics Department of Law. Joined by the the Runnymede Society's Thomas Falcone, Dr. Summers discusses his recent work with the UK Wealth Tax Commission and the rule of law implications surrounding the possible implementation of a tax on wealth. https://runnymedesociety.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/podcast...