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Profs. Trebilcock and Iacobucci examine CRTC’s mandatory pick-and-pay proposal

Saturday, September 27, 2014

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.

Food security about entitlement, not availability, says scholar Anne Orford, Katherine Baker Memorial lecturer

Tuesday, September 23, 2014
portrait of Melcourne Law School professor Anne Orford

By Peter Boisseau

The wave of protests called the “Arab Spring” were as much about bread as freedom, says Melbourne Law School Professor Anne Orford, and brought into sharp focus a “dark side” of free trade principles lawyers helped create two centuries ago and now could help solve.

Prof. Markus Dubber awarded Konrad Adenauer Research prize by the Royal Society of Canada

Thursday, September 18, 2014
Portrait of Prof. Markus Dubber

Prof. Markus Dubber is the recipient of the prominent 2014 Konrad Adenauer Research Award from the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his efforts to promote academic collaboration between Canada and Germany. The award is given annually to a Canadian scholar in the humanities or social sciences, and is named by a jury of his peers, Royal Society of Canada Fellows, and representatives from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Alumna and former dean Mayo Moran installed as Trinity College provost & vice-chancellor

Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Portrait of Dr. Mayo Moran, Trinity College's 15th Provost and Vice-Chancellor

Alumna and former dean of the Faculty of Law, Mayo Moran, SJD 1999, was installed as the 15th provost and vice-chancellor of Trinity College, in the University of Toronto, at its 2014 Matriculation Convocation ceremony September 3rd.

The annual event welcomes new students to Trinity College and this year included Dr. Moran’s formal installation.

Faculty of Law alumnus and gold medal graduate Bill Graham, LLB 1964, is the current Trinity College chancellor and also participated in the ceremony.

Aboriginal Youth Summer Program inspires another cohort of students

Friday, September 12, 2014

By Promise Holmes Skinner, AYSP Coordinator and Aboriginal Law Program Coordinator

They came from all over Canada, some from the far North and some from remote communities, to learn about the law. This year, the Aboriginal Youth Summer Program drew 23 First Nations, Inuit and Métis high school students eager to meet one another in a big city and immerse themselves in law and legal issues affecting their communities.

Special issue of UTLJ devoted to the residential school litigation and settlement

Wednesday, September 10, 2014

The new issue (64:4) of the University of Toronto Law Journal (UTLJ) is a special issue devoted to the residential school litigation and settlement, co-edited by Profs. Mayo Moran and Kent Roach. As well as their introduction, each of them contributes an article, along with articles by other distinguished scholars including frequent visitor to the U of T law school, Prof. John Borrows.

See the issue web page on the University of Toronto Press website.

Profs. Hirschl and Shachar elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Prof. Ayelet Shachar, professor of law and political science, and Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism, and Prof. Ran Hirschl, professor of political science and law, and Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.

Law school days are here for Class of 2017

Friday, September 5, 2014

Law students are back and have hit the books but this year about 200 1Ls have already completed their first credit, thanks to the new Legal Methods Intensive course that took place the last two weeks of August.

“Legal Methods was an excellent introduction to academic expectations, and to legal thinking and concepts, and gave me some insight into the time management skills law school will require,” says Judith Manger.

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