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By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

Alissa Saieva, Class of 2017, brought a trifecta of firsts to the Faculty of Law when she started here on August 18th: She’s the first in her family to attend law school, the first Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS) graduate to attend U of T Law, and indeed the first LAWS grad be accepted into any law school.

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, Prof. Larissa Katz looks at the law behind who controls the sidewalk, after the incident in which Brookfield Properties seized bicycles locked to a pole in the public right-of-way in front of the Hudson's Bay Centre at Bloor and Yonge ("It’s not ‘Who took my bike,’ but 'Who really controls the sidewalk?'", August 19, 2014).

Participants are now one step closer to practicing law in Ontario

Thirty students in the Internationally Trained Lawyers Program celebrated their successful program completion recently with a commencement ceremony and lunch, and many now have success stories to share.

The Faculty of Law is deeply saddened to announce the passing of student Schreiber Pereira. He had completed his second year at law school and spent the previous semester in London, UK at the Centre for Transnational Legal Studies.

Schreiber also obtained his undergraduate and graduate degrees at the University of Toronto, and he will be very missed by the U of T community across various faculties.