2026 Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture
Wednesday, March 25, 2026 - 4:10pm to 6:00pm
Location: J140, Professor A.V. Dicey Classroom
If you require accommodation(s) please contact events.law@utoronto.ca
The modern law school at U of T was founded in 1949. Building on the tradition of the academic study of law spearheaded by Professor W.P.M Kennedy, Dean Cecil "Caesar" Wright and his colleagues rejected the profession-led, apprenticeship-oriented model of legal training that prevailed in Ontario at the time and established U of T’s Faculty of Law.
This re-conception of legal education has proven to be the enduring key to our success and has carried our Faculty to pre-eminence among law schools in Canada and into the ranks of the very best law schools in the world.
We invite world-renowned academics to share their insights at this annual lecture named after Dean Wright.
Frank and Bernice J. Professor of Regulatory Law and Policy New York University School of Law
Aziz Z. Huq is the Frank and Bernice J. Greenberg Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and associate professor of sociology. His books include How to Save a Constitutional Democracy (2018) (with Tom Ginsburg), The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies (2021), and The Rule of Law: A Very Short Introduction (2024). His scholarship is published in leading law, social science, political science, and criminology journals. He also writes for Politico, the London Review of Books, and many other general interest publications. Before teaching, Huq represented civil liberties claimants with the Brennan Center for Justice, and worked for the International Crisis Group in Afghanistan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. He was also a law clerk for Judge Robert D. Sack (US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit), and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Supreme Court of the United States).