Many of the recent decisions by the United States Supreme Court appear to favour the Trump Administration – and have been decided on the “shadow docket”. Important well-established precedents have been reversed or curtailed to be more in line with the Trump Administration’s views. Mexico recently underwent a radical restructuring of its Supreme Court. What does all of this mean? Are the Supreme Courts of the United States and Mexico becoming more politicised and moving toward becoming effectively an arm of the executive branch of government? And what is the situation in Canada?

The session will explore these questions and more, including the effect of the recent decisions/events on the rule of law, the dangers (or not) these decisions/events present to our constitutional democracies, and what all this means for those doing business in North America. The speakers are a highly regarded constitutional law professor from Georgetown University School of Law, a retired Justice of the Mexican Supreme Court, and a former Minister of Justice of Canada.