TRU Inaugural Professional Lecture – Chris Hunt – TRU Newsroom
TRU and Kamloops community members are invited to learn how ‘reasonable expectation of privacy’ (REP) is determined when a person’s privacy is in question under ‘unreasonable search or seizure.’
On Tuesday, April 4, TRU Faculty of Law Professor Dr. Chris Hunt presents a lecture titled Normative Tensions in Constitutional Privacy Rights Adjudication at TRU’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture series.
Hunt, who was promoted to professor in April 2022, delves into the different approaches the court takes in assessing a claimant’s REP and how these differing approaches can create tensions related to the objectivity of privacy and the growing trend of government surveillance.
TRU’s Inaugural Professorial Lectures publicly celebrate a major milestone in the academic careers of the university’s newly appointed tripartite professors. These lectures provide an opportunity for the public to meet new professors and to gain an understanding of their scholarship, research and teaching. The series is organized by TRU’s Professorial Lecture Committee, with generous support from the Office of the Provost and Vice-President Academic.
There is limited seating attendance at this event. Please RSVP by Wednesday, March 29.
Bio
Dr. Chris Hunt joined the Faculty of Law at TRU in 2012 as a founding faculty member. He earned his LLM and PhD from Cambridge University, clerked for the justices of the Supreme Court of British Columbia and practiced commercial litigation in Vancouver. Hunt’s research focuses on privacy law, evidence law and the law of obligations. His academic papers have been cited by numerous courts and law commission reports in Canada and abroad, including multiple times by the Supreme Court of Canada.