Supreme Court Law Review, 2nd Series, Volume 110

Maxime St-Hilaire holds a doctorate in law (LLD) from Laval University and is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law at Université de Sherbrooke, where he teaches constitutional law and legal philosophy. In 2021, he won this University’s research and creation award, in the human sciences category, for his book titled Les Positivismes juridiques au XXe siècle. Normativismes, sociologismes, réalismes (PUL, 2020). In 2014, he won the “Prix Minerve 2014” award for his book titled La lutte pour la pleine reconnaissance des droits ancestraux: problématique juridique et enquête philosophique (Yvon Blais, 2015). He co-edited, with Joanna Baron, the book/special-issue Attacks on the Rule of Law from Within (Lexis/SCLR, 2019), and has published more than 35 articles and chapters, among numerous other publications in scholarly and media sources, and given more than 60 talks around the world. While a doctoral student, he served as law clerk to the hon. Marie Deschamps J., at the Supreme Court of Canada (2009-10), after an internship at the Venice Commission (2007-8).

Ryan Alford is Professor at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Lakehead University. An expert on the rule of law and the importance of non-derogable rights during states of emergency, he is the author of Permanent State of Emergency (MQUP, 2017) and Seven Absolute Rights (MQUP, 2020), along with numerous other published works. Professor Alford was the only academic granted standing by the Public Order Emergency Commission, where he made submissions on the necessity of amendments to the Emergencies Act. He is also a Bencher of the Law Society of Ontario, where he serves as the Vice-Chair of the Tribunal Committee, and he is also an Adjudicator of the Law Society Tribunal.

Kristopher Kinsinger is the national director of the Runnymede Society. He received his Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Waterloo in 2016 and his Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2019, where he was awarded the Bora Laskin Prize for writing the best paper in his year on the topic of law, religion and society. He was called to the Ontario bar in 2020 and completed his Master of Laws in McGill University in 2021 on a Joseph Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship and as the recipient of the Pilarczyk Graduate Award in Law. Kristopher is currently pursuing a litigation practice with Jordan Honickman Barristers in Toronto and is an adjunct lecturer in law at Redeemer University in Ancaster.