Welcome & Opening of the 2020 CUSLI Experts' Meeting.

• Date: 01 January 2021

Speakers: Stephen J. Petras, Jr., Dr. Christopher Sands & The Honorable Jane Harman

MR. STEPHEN J. PETRAS: Welcome, everyone, to a program put on by the Canada-United States Law Institute and the Canada Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center. This program is on "The United States and Canada: Outlook for Bilateral Relations in 2021." We'd like to welcome all of you. The Canada-United States Law Institute is happy to collaborate again with the Canada Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center on assessing the impact of an important election. We did this together last year, assessing the Canadian national election, and it's been a pleasure to work again with the Wilson Center.

Let me briefly tell you a little bit about the Canada-United States Law Institute. CUSLI is, first, a law institute focused on legal and policy issues facing and impacting the two countries. We have two presidents: Erika Chamberlain, dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario, and Michael Scharf, co-dean of Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

We also have two co-chairs: Jim Peterson, former Minister of International Trade of Canada, and Jim Blanchard, former congressman from Michigan, former governor of Michigan, and former U.S. Ambassador to Canada. We also have two national directors. Chi Carmody, professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Western Ontario, is our Canadian national director, and I am the U.S. national director from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

CUSLI focuses on policy and legal issues facing the two countries. We do this through our Experts' Meeting, our Annual Conference, and our scholarly articles published in the Canada-United States Law Journal. This coming year, in...