Lorne Waldman
Part-time Professor
57 Louis Pasteur St.
Ottawa,
Ontario
Canada
K1N 6N5
lorne.waldman@uOttawa.ca
(613) 562-5794
(613) 562-5124
Lorne Waldman LL.B. (Osgoode), LL.M (Toronto) practices exclusively in the area of immigration, refugee and human rights law, and has done so since 1979. Mr. Waldman appears very frequently at all levels of the courts in Canada where he has argued many of the leading cases in these areas such as: the representation of Mr. Maher Arar at the Commission of Inquiry into the Actions of Canadian Officials in Relation to Maher Arar. He has appeared frequently at the Supreme Court of Canada in successful appeal before the Supreme Court of Canada in Pushpanathan; Burns and Rafay , where he acted as counsel for the Senate of the Republic of Italy when it intervened before the Supreme Court of Canada; the two Charkaoui appeals where he acted for the Canadian Bar Association when it intervened before the Supreme Court of Canada; the second Khadr appeal at the Supreme Court where he represented the Canadian Bar Association when it intervened before the Supreme Court of Canada.
He represented the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in its intervention before the Ontario Court of Appeal in the case of A.M.R.I. v. K.E.R. which raisies issues related to the reconciliation of Canada’s obligations under the Hague Convention and the Refugee Convention in relation to the return of a child under the Hague Convention.
Mr. Waldman was appointed as a Special Advocate by the Minister of Justice in February 2008.
He is also several reference works, including Immigration Law and Practice, 2nd Edition (Butterworths), Canadian Immigration and Refugee Law Practice, 2007 Edition (Butterworths, 2006) and The Definition of Convention Refugee(Butterworths, 2001) and comments frequently in the media on immigration and national security matters.