Prof. David Schneiderman wrote an oped in the Globe and Mail analyzing why an investment court for a comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) is not the way to proceed, even though there are some advantages to the system. He argues "as long as a broad set of rights are conferred upon foreign investors and their interpretation is left to a cadre of investment-law personnel, the regime will remain flawed. It certainly is not worth saving by way of a new investment court."

The latest edition of the University of Toronto Law Journal is a special symposium issue on the theme of "Public Law for the Twenty-First Century," edited by Prof. David Dyzenhaus.

In a series of commentaries in the Financial Post, Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh has analyzed the proposal for a national securities regulator put forward by the federal government and five provincial governments. Read the series on the Financial Post website:

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, SJD student and Trudeau Scholar Kyle Kirkup argues that a Canadian Judicial Council (CJC) investigation is targeting a victim of "revenge porn" and should be dropped ("The legal inquiry into Justice Lori Douglas must end," October 22, 2014).

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Profs. Michael Trebilcock and Edward Iacobucci, with lawyer Lawson Hunter, have written a commentary in the Financial Post arguing against the CRTC's proposal to require TV providers to provide "pick and pay" channel selection options for consumers ("CRTC’s mandatory pick-and-pay proposal deeply misguided," September 25, 2014). The article is based on a report prepared by the authors for the C.D.