APSS Presents- Allies (In)justice: Canada, the United States, and Omar Khadr
An informal lunch and learn event with Professor Gerard J. Kennedy
Friday, March 21, 2014 | 12-2 PM | BA024 (Bahen Centre for Information & Technology) | LIGHT LUNCH SERVED
On July 27, 2002, American forces shot and captured Omar Khadr after a firefight in Ayub-Kheyl, Afghanistan. Khadr was incarcerated and subsequently charged by a military tribunal for killing an American solider using a grenade. Despite being a Canadian citizen and only fifteen years of age, the Canadian government made no significant claim to have Khadr extradited to Canada, prompting outrage for alleged civil rights abuses.
Join the Association of Political Science Students for its third and final lunch and learn event of the year as we welcome Professor Gerard J. Kennedy to discuss the legal dimensions of this case.

SPEAKER- Gerard J. Kennedy
Gerard Kennedy is a litigator at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, and a lecturer at the University of Toronto for the course on international law (POL 340).
Kennedy’s practice encompasses class action defence, administrative and regulatory matters and corporate­commercial litigation. Kennedy joined the firm in 2012 after completing his LL.M. at Harvard Law School. At Harvard, Gerard served as a research assistant to Dean Martha Minow and Professor Philip Heymann. He was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2011 after clerking at the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto. In 2009, he interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
Kennedy earned his J.D. from Queen’s University. At Queen’s, he was a research assistant for ten faculty, in addition to serving as Senior Associate Editor of the Queen’s Law Journal and Vice­President (Academic) of the Queen’s Law Students’ Society. He participated in the Gale, Jessup and Fasken moots.