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Gerry Weinstein |
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Gerry Weinstein |
Frank Dimant |
Allan Adel |
Ruth Klein |
Professor Geist is the Ontario Region Co-Chair of the League for Human Rights, is a world renowned expert in the evolving field of Internet law. The Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Professor Geist holds a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Master of Laws (LL.M.) degrees from Cambridge University in the UK and Columbia Law School in New York, and a Doctorate in Law (J.S.D.) from Columbia Law School. He has written numerous academic articles and government reports on the Internet and law, is a frequent columnist on technology law issues for the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen, and serves as editor and consultant to many leading Internet publications. He is also the author of the textbook Internet Law in Canada. In 2003, Dr. Geist became the first law professor to receive the Ontario Premier Research Excellence Award.
Professor Goldschläger is Ontario Region Co-Chair of the League for Human Rights, is an internationally acclaimed specialist in Holocaust education. Professor Goldschläger is the Director of the Holocaust Literature Research Institute and Professor of French at the University of Western Ontario. He received his degrees from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the University of Toronto. A prolific author, his most recent publications include Le Discours scientifique comme porteur de préjugés (Scientific Discourse as prejudice-carrier),1998; La Shoah: témoignage impossible? (The Shoah: impossible testimony?),1998; Building History: The Shoah in Art, Memory, and Myth, 2001; and Antisémitisme après la Shoah (Antisemitism after the Shoah), 2002. He is currently working on a book on Holocaust testimonies.
Marvin Kurz is National Legal Counsel to the League for Human Rights, is an experienced litigator who has successfully argued cases in all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has been appointed as a part time chairperson by the Board of Inquiry under the Police Services Act, presiding over police disciplinary cases and appeals. A member of the City of Toronto Mayor’s Committee on Community and Race Relations, he is a noted lecturer on legal issues and frequently acts as spokesperson for B’nai Brith Canada. He has appeared as counsel for the League in the Zundel hearings before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and, more recently, in various precedent-setting human rights cases before the Federal Court of Canada.
David Matas is Senior Legal Counsel to B’nai Brith Canada, is an internationally renowned refugee, immigration and human rights lawyer based in Winnipeg. A former President of the Canadian Council of Refugees, he is also active in such organizations as Amnesty International, Helsinki Watch, and the International Commission of Jurists. He has represented B’nai Brith in many international fora, such as the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. He is an accomplished author of several highly acclaimed publications, amongst them Justice Delayed: Nazi War Criminals in Canada (1987) with Susan Charendoff; Closing the Doors: The Failure of Refugee Protection (1989) with Ilana Simon; and Bloody Words: Hate and Free Speech (2000). His latest work is entitled Aftershook: Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism (2005). He has received numerous awards and honours, including an honourary doctorate from Concordia University.
Richard Warman is a Canadian human rights lawyer and activist based in Ottawa. Formerly a lawyer with the Canadian Human Rights Commission, he is a recognized expert and lecturer on hate on the Internet. He is best known for his dedication in countering far-right hate-based activity on the Internet, having personally brought a number of successful complaints under the Canadian Human Rights Act. A trailblazer in this field, he has succeeded in obtaining landmark decisions in a number of cases, including most recently in his complaint against Ontario-based white supremacists Alex Kulbashian and James Scott Richardson. In a recent landmark ruling on this case, the Tribunal for the first time held an Internet service provider liable for the hate material it carried on its site.