Peter Biro

Biography:

PETER L. BIRO is the Founder and President of democracy think-tank, Section 1, Senior Fellow of Massey College, Centre Associate of the University of British Columbia Centre for Constitutional Law and Legal Studies and Chair Emeritus of the Jane Goodall Institute. He is the Editor, most recently, of The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms, and Controversies (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024). He is an Adjunct Professor in the University of Toronto Faculty of Law where he teaches Constitutional Law in the GPLLM Program.

Activities:

• 2022-04-11 – Notwithstanding Clause at 40: Canadian Constitutional Democracy at a Crossroads
• 2023-01-18 – The Unwritten Constitution: Conventions, Traditions and Norms in Our Populist Age
• 2023-03-16 – Ethics Series — The Ethics of Political Spin
• 2024-04-15 – Book Launch — "The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms, and Controversies"

Publications:

• 2022-12-31 – Constitutional Democracy Under Stress: A Time For Heroic Citizenship
• 2024-04-02 – The Notwithstanding Clause and the Canadian Charter: Rights, Reforms, and Controversies