Workshop Program

Charter Rights and Values in the Administrative State: Where is Doré?

Friday, May 8, 2026

Peter A. Allard School of Law, UBC

Allard Hall, 1822 East Mall

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Thursday, May 7

5:00 – 7:00: Cinq à sept at Professor Alexandra Flynn’s House

Friday, May 8

8:30 – 9:15: Light breakfast – Terrace Lounge

9:15 – 9:30: Welcome and land acknowledgement

9:30 – 11:00:

Panel 1: Scoping Doré

Chair: Alexandra Flynn

Location: Allard Hall, Room 335

  • Meera Bennett – A Simplified Approach to the Charter Values Framework
  • Kevin Bouchard + Monica Popescu – Doré and Vavilov Under Threat: York’s Bifurcated Approach to Judicial Review
  • Sujit Choudhry – Where do Charter values come from? The Charter as an objective order of values
  • Mary Liston – Mooring and Grounding: (Charter) Values in Text, Context and Purpose

11:00 – 11:15: Break

11:15 – 12:45:

Panel 2: Charter Values and the Standard of Review

Chair: Margot Young

Location: Allard Hall, Room 335

  • Mark Mancini – Robust Reasonableness Review
  • Julia Riddle – Lawlessness by Design: How Doré’s Continued Failure to Create Administrative Accountability Has Entrenched and Emboldened Unconstitutionality
  • Vincent Roy – Doré Methodology and Judicial Overreach Following CSFTNO’s Expansion of the Role of Charter Values

12:45 – 2:15:

Lunch and Judicial Dialogue

Moderator: Alexandra Flynn

Location: Allard Hall, Terrace Lounge, Room 402

  • Paul Daly: setting the scene
  • Hon. Alexander Pless and Hon. Lorne Sossin

2:15 – 3:45:

Panel 3: (Dis)Unity of Public Law?

Chair: Hoi Kong

Location: Allard Hall, Room 335

  • Genevieve Cartier – Reconciling Administrative Autonomy, the Integrity of Administrative Law and the Unity of Public Law: Doré’s Mission Impossible?
  • Evan Fox-Decent – Doré’s Imperial Parsimony
  • Megan Pfiffer – Three Pictures of the Person in Canadian Public Law
  • Richard Stacey – Doré’s Doctrinal Debacle: Salvaging Sound Reasoning from Bad Doctrine

3:45 – 4:00: Break

4:00 – 5:30:

Panel 4: What is Doré’s Future?

Chair: Richard Mailey

Location: Allard Hall, Room 335

  • Joel Bakan – The Hidden Promise of Doré
  • Mani Kakkar + Erica McLachlan – Over-Policing of Minorities & Charter Values: How the Charter Value of Equality Should Shape the Standard of Care
  • Anthony Sangiuliano – Proportionality in Public Administration and the Problem of Algorithmic Discrimination

5:30 – 5:45: Closing

6:30: Dinner at Wildlight Kitchen + Bar