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Dear Faculty Community,

I write to provide a brief update on the search for a new director for the International Human Rights Program (IHRP). As many of you will know, we resumed the search for a director in June. In the course of the search process, we extended an offer to the preferred candidate. I can now share the news that the preferred candidate expressed their appreciation for what they described as a good-faith offer, but ultimately decided to decline.

For 15 years, the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics has served as a nexus for research and discourse on the ethical aspects of virtually every subject imaginable – from artificial intelligence to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yet, today’s scholars of ethics aren’t only looking at new problems. They’re also questioning the very foundations of what many think of as received wisdom. 

Congratulations to University of Toronto Department of Political Science and Faculty of Law Professor Ran Hirschl who has won the 2021 Stein Rokkan Prize for his book City, State: Constitutionalism and the Megacity, published by Oxford University Press in 2020.

Last week, the Faculty of Law welcomed its first-year cohort of 215 JD students.