Michael Nesbitt on Terrorism Prosecutions in Canada

In this episode, Michael Nesbitt, Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Calgary Faculty of Law, discusses his article "An Empirical Study of Terrorism Charges and Terrorism Trials in Canada between September 2001 and September 2018," which will be published by Criminal Law Quarterly. Nesbitt begins by describing how Canada first adopted terrorism offenses in the wake of September 11, based on laws adopted in other common law countries. He explains how he created a comprehensive dataset of all the terrorism offenses charged or tried in Canada, and describes the observations and conclusions he drew from that dataset. Among other things, he observes that it suggest that the RCMP tasked with anti-terrorism have focused on Islamist terrorism to the exclusion of white nationalist terrorism. Nesbitt is on Twitter at @MichaelJNesbitt.This episode was hosted by Brian L. Frye, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Frye is on Twitter at @brianlfrye. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.