PLG -  The Executive’s Constitution

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Speaker: <a href="https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-law/common-law/faculty/macdonnell-vanessa" title="https://www.tcd.ie/law/people/kavana23" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Associate Professor Vanessa MacDonnell</a> (University of Ottawa)Chair: <a href="https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/88834" title="https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/88834" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Berihun Gebeye</a> (UCL Laws)Commentators: <a href="https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/30970" title="https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/30970" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Jeff King</a>, <a href="https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/7092" title="https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/7092" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Professor Colm O'Cinneide</a> and <a href="https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/89811" title="https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/89811" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dr Ewan Smith</a> (UCL Laws)About the Book: The executive makes constitutional judgment calls more often than any other branch of state, and yet very little is known about the process by which these decisions are made. Professor MacDonnell’s new empirical research takes readers inside Canada’s federal executive and offers a vivid picture of the complex intra-institutional processes by which the constitution is construed in the everyday business of government.About the Speaker: Vanessa MacDonnell is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) and Co-Director of the uOttawa Public Law Centre. Her research examines the constitutional functions of the executive branch, inter-institutional relationships, unwritten constitutional norms and principles, and the relationship between Canada’s legal and political constitutions. Her work has been published in the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Law &amp; Ethics of Human Rights, the University of Toronto Law Journal and the McGill Law Journal, and she is the Canadian Principal Investigator on a $1.7 million interdisciplinary, international research project on unwritten constitutional norms and principles funded in Round 7 of the Open Research Area Competition.About the Group: The UCL Public Law Group is a community of scholars working in the field of public law, broadly understood. Our aim is to provide a supportive forum for the discussion and development of theoretical and doctrinal questions in constitutional theory, comparative constitutional law, human rights, judicial review, legal and political theory, and more. <a href="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/research/groups-and-projects/ucl-public-law-group" title="https://www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/research/groups-and-projects/ucl-public-law-group" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Read more about the group and its work.</a>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@tingeyinjurylawfirm?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" title="https://unsplash.com/@tingeyinjurylawfirm?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Tingey Injury Law Firm</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-holding-sword-statue-during-daytime-DZpc4UY8ZtY?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" title="https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-holding-sword-statue-during-daytime-DZpc4UY8ZtY?utm_content=creditCopyText&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=unsplash" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Unsplash</a>

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