National Security Law

National Security Law episodes:

• 01.10.2018

  US Constitutional Law and National Security Nutshell for Canadians

  A brief nutshell lecture prepared for Canadians participating in the Georgetown National Security Crisis Law Simulation. The purpose of this nutshell is to provide a high level overview of US constitutional law, as contrasted to Canadian equivalents. The podcast also...

  
• 01.31.2017

  NS Nutshell (Control of Weapons of Mass Destruction)

  Brief podcast on international and Cdn law controlling proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, and also a brief discussion of export control law in this area.

  
• 01.31.2017

  NS Nutshell (Legal Responses to Epidemics and Disasters)

  Brief podcasts discussing legal responses to epidemics and disasters, including the federal Emergencies Act, Emergency Management Act, National Defence Act "public service" powers, and Quarantine Act and a general discussion provincial disaster and public health laws.

  
• 01.27.2017

  NS Nutshell (Tools for Restraining or Interrupting National Security Threat)

  Brief podcast on anti-terrorism peace bonds (recognizance with conditions), so-called "preventive detention" and the "threat reduction activities" of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service created by bill C-51.

  
• 01.26.2017

  NS Nutshell (Intelligence Sharing)

  Brief podcast on intelligence sharing by Cdn agencies to both domestic and international partners. Includes discussion of Five Eyes and the issue of intelligence sharing and risk of torture.

  
• 01.26.2017

  NS Nutshell (Tools of National Security Interdiction)

  Brief podcast on what I call "interdiction", focusing on border control measures, passport revocation, no fly lists, immigration security tools (like security certificates) and the controversial concept of citizenship revocation.

  
• 01.25.2017

  NS Nutshell (Intelligence and Evidence)

  Brief podcast on "intelligence to evidence"; that is, challenges and conundrums of using information collected by intelligence services in the prosecution of crimes, such as terrorism offences.

  
• 01.17.2017

  NS Nutshell (Terrorism Offences -- Terrorist Activity)

  First brief nutshell lecture on Canadian anti-terrorism criminal law. This lecture focuses on the predicate of (most) Canadian terrorism offences: that the impugned conduct involve "terrorist activity". Because of the complexity of this area, it may be best to view...

  
• 01.17.2017

  NS Nutshell (Terrorism Offences -- Terrorist Groups)

  Second podcast in the mini-series on anti-terrorism criminal law in Canada, focusing on the concept of "terrorist groups" in Canadian law.

  
• 01.17.2017

  NS Nutshell (Terrorism Offences -- Precise Crimes)

  Brief nutshell podcast summarizing the most important terrorism crimes in the Canadian Criminal Code, focusing on instruction, facilitation and participation offences and discussing the controversial new "advocacy and promotion of terrorism offences in general" speech crime.

  
• 01.12.2017

  NS Nutshell (Review of National Security Agencies)

  Brief podcast on accountability review of Canadian national security agencies. An earlier video version of this lecture is at http://tinyurl.com/z4jtr33

  
• 01.12.2017

  NS Nutshell (National Security Secrecy Law)

  Brief podcast on national security secrecy law in Canada, focusing on justifications for secrecy, secrecy in court proceedings and the Canada Evidence Act, national security and the Access to Information Act and the secrecy offences for unauthorized disclosures.

  
• 01.11.2017

  NS Nutshell (Deployment of the CAF)

  A brief podcast describing the law governing the international and domestic deployment of the Canadian Armed Forces

  
• 01.11.2017

  NS Nutshell (National Security Surveillance Law 101)

  Brief podcast providing an overview of Part VI of the Criminal Code, the CSIS Act surveillance warrant regime and the CSE foreign intelligence system, as well as introducing thorny issues around the collection of metadata.

  
• 01.11.2017

  NS Nutshell (CSE and Metadata Acquisition)

  Brief podcast lecture on the concept of metadata, private communications, foreign intelligence and the Communications Security Establishment, given controversies associated with the Snowden disclosures. Video version: http://tinyurl.com/znonx87

  
• 01.10.2017

  NS Nutshell (Organization in emergencies)

  Brief podcast on the federal Emergencies Act in Canada and its affect on law and governance.

  
• 01.09.2017

  NS Nutshell (NS organization)

  Brief podcast on the structure of Canadian national security institutions.