Women on boards increase profitability: diversity panel makes business case

Wednesday, March 5, 2014
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By David Kumagai, 2L

What should Canada do about the lack of women serving on corporate boards?

A panel of experts gathered at Victoria College on March 3 to debate this question. “Diversity on Canadian Corporate Boards” was the topic for the first event of a five-part speaker series called All Aboard, presented by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law’s Global Professional LLM program.

Prof. Denise Réaume - "‘Dead hand of the Church’ evident in Quebec’s debate on values"

Friday, September 20, 2013

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Denise Réaume argues that, in the name of secularism and rejection of Quebec's religiously claustrophobic past, the Parti Québécois' Charer of Values in fact re-enacts that history of insularity ("‘Dead hand of the Church’ evident in Quebec’s debate on values," September 19, 2013).

CANCELLED Legal Theory Workshop - Speaker: Adam Cox

THIS WORKSHOP HAS BEEN CANCELLED

 

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.

 

Human Rights Reform in Ontario: A Time for Change

Lorne Sossin
Monday, April 24, 2006

For over fifteen years, there has been a growing dissatisfaction with the human rights process in Ontario.  This dissatisfaction has been expressed by members of equity seeking communities, by human rights advocates and by lawyers practicing in the area of human rights. During that time, there have been four government-initiated reviews of human rights enforcement systems in Canada, one specifically directed at the Ontario legislation, one dealing with the very similar federal human rights complaint system, and two reviewing the systems in other provinces. Despite the fact that each of these reviews made very similar recommendations for reform of the human rights complaint process, to date no major reform has been undertaken in Ontario. That is, until now.

On February 20th, 2006, Attorney General Michael Bryant announced proposals to reform the human rights system of Ontario.  The proposals call for direct access to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario rather than the current system in which the Commission screens all complaints and decides which complaints will be referred on to a hearing in front of the Tribunal.

Migrating Same Sex Marriages

Brenda Cossman
Wednesday, March 12, 2008

I have just posted a new article on SSRN entitled "Betwixt and Between Recognition: Migrating Same Sex Marriages and the Turn to the Private".   

The paper looks at some parallels  between conflict of laws cases and New York Times wedding annoucements in recognizing same sex marriage. Here is the abstract:

"The paper explores migrating same sex marriages - that is, same-sex marriages or civil unions entered in one jurisdiction that migrate to another and seek recognition, calling upon the private law of conflicts.

A Terrorist on the Faculty?

Ed Morgan
Monday, August 10, 2009

Cross-posted from www.NewMajority.com (first published July 31, 2009)

The Middle East dispute may seem interminable, but its shadow conflict – the one being waged on university campuses – appears every bit as complex and insoluble.

The latest round in Canada involves Hassan Diab, an Ottawa-based lecturer who for a number of years has had a part time appointment teaching Introduction to Sociology at Carleton University’s summer program. French authorities have asked for his extradition from Canada, accusing him of being the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist that blew up a Paris synagogue in 1980. Four people died in the bombing on Rue Copernic, and the incident signaled a wave of attacks against Jewish targets that brought the ongoing Israeli-Arab fight home to European Jews in a startlingly new way.

In November 2007, French authorities, acting on information supplied by German intelligence and gleaned from the files of the old East German Stasi, put out a warrant for the arrest of a Lebanese-born PFLP operative named Hassan Diab. In October 2008, the fugitive was identified as the Ottawa academic and he has been fighting against extradition in the Canadian courts ever since.

Discussion of Prof. Ayelet Shachar's New Book

Monday, August 17, 2009

As noted in an earlier post, Prof. Ayelet Shachar recently published her latest book, The Birthright Lottery. It has received a considerable amount of attention.

A story on the front page of the "Insight" section of the Saturday Toronto Star ("Born lucky? Then pay for it," May 2, 2009) discussed Prof. Shachar's book and proposals in detail, and concluded that "Shachar has raised the bar on the discussion of equality." Read the full article on the Toronto Star website.

It was also the subject of a feature review by Andrew Coyne in the July/August 2009 issue of the Literary Review of Canada (LRC).

Prof. Shachar's work has also been profiled in the Spring 2009 issue of Edge, the magazine about research at the University of Toronto. Read the Edge profile (PDF).

Prof. Ayelet Shachar's New Book: "The Birthright Lottery"

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Shachar_birthright Prof. Ayelet Shachar's new book, The Birthright Lottery, has been published by Harvard University Press.

From the publisher:

The vast majority of the global population acquires citizenship purely by accidental circumstances of birth. There is little doubt that securing membership status in a given state bequeaths to some a world filled with opportunity and condemns others to a life with little hope. Gaining privileges by such arbitrary criteria as one’s birthplace is discredited in virtually all fields of public life, yet birthright entitlements still dominate our laws when it comes to allotting membership in a state.

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