Webinar Archive

Guidelines for better legal workshops: best practices for effective public legal education presentations

Access to Justice Week (A2J Week) brings together a range of justice sector stakeholders to develop meaningful, public-centred solutions that advance systemic change in the justice system. OJEN is pleased to support A2J Week in 2021 with activities for students, teachers, community workers, and legal professionals. To learn more about A2J Week events in Ontario, […]

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How OJEN Helps Make Teaching Law a Breeze

Join OJEN staff in this webinar to learn about how our programs and resources engage your students and meet curriculum expectations. We will walk you through our Courtrooms & Classrooms program, some of our most popular resources, and our annual events. Whether you’re teaching law for the first time or have been teaching for years, […]

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Ideology and Violence: Why Charging Incels with Terrorism May Make Matters Worse

In late February 2020, a 17-year-old was arrested after allegedly stabbing two women at a massage parlour in Toronto’s north end. One woman died and the other was seriously wounded in the attack. The accused was initially charged with first degree murder and attempted murder under the Criminal Code. When investigation into the accused’s social […]

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Justice Centres: From the Courtroom to the Community

The Ontario Justice Education Network will be providing a webinar on Ontario’s Justice Centres. These centres are part of a new and innovative strategy to move justice out of traditional courtroom settings and into community, help connect vulnerable and marginalized persons with wrap-around services and treatment, and disrupt cycles of offending. Speakers of varied backgrounds, […]

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Non-Consensual Sharing of Intimate Images

The Ontario Justice Education Network is offering a free online webinar at our annual Summer Law Institute. In this session, teachers will explore legal issues around the non-consensual sharing or publication of intimate images. Representatives from the Reclaim Pro Bono Project will talk about technology-facilitated violence (TFV) and the civil and criminal remedies that you […]

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Not a Puppet on a String: Prosecuting a Former Child Soldier for War Crimes

As a young child, Dominic Ongwen was abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), a rebel militia operating in Uganda, South Sudan, the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. His parents were killed and he was forced to serve as a child soldier in the group. Ongwen rose among the ranks […]

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OJEN’s New Resources 2021

Secondary school teachers, join us for a free online session highlighting OJEN’s new resources for the classroom! A long-time favourite of the Summer Law Institute, OJEN staff present new resources available for your classroom. This year’s webinar will feature a number of online resources and plans for program delivery throughout the year! Date and Time: Tuesday, […]

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Pride and Protest: A Celebration or Fight for Rights?

In celebration of National Coming Out Day, (October 11th), this free webinar explores human rights and advocacy issues that are currently facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities in Canada. It examines the heightened levels of homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia, interpersonal and structural racism, intimate-partner violence, and other forms of violence facing queer, trans and non-binary communities. It also […]

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Privacy and Protection in the Digital Age

Our first PD webinar of the 2022-23 school year is an important and topical discussion about personal online privacy. The session is led by Tiffany Wong, a legal and privacy expert from the Canadian financial services industry. With so much of our own and young people’s lives existing online these days, it is important to […]

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R. v. Sullivan: Extreme Intoxication as a Defence

R. v. Sullivan centres on the use of extreme intoxication as a defence in a criminal case. The Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) unanimously concluded that section 33.1 of the Criminal Code of Canada, which states that self-induced intoxication is not a defence, is not constitutional. The release of their decision reverberated through many different […]

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