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vLex "Fastcase 50" honours U of T Law Prof Benjamin Alarie as a legal tech visionary

Thursday, August 24, 2023

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Awarded by vLex, legal intelligence company, the "Fastcase 50 Honorees" award honours the law’s "smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, lawyers, and leaders."

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Private citizen of the world: Remembering U of T’s Karen Knop

Thursday, August 24, 2023

(Photo by Veikko Somerpuro courtesy of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is recognizing the extraordinary scholarship of Karen Knop (1960-2022), a professor of international law who held the Faculty’s Cecil A. Wright Chair.

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How should we regulate frontier AI models? Professor Gillian Hadfield and Noam Kolt (SJD) contribute to multi-author white paper

Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Could the next generation of state-of-the-art foundation models could have capabilities that severely threaten public safety and global security?

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An ‘eye-opening’ experience: Supporting student caseworkers at U of T’s Downtown Legal Services

Monday, August 21, 2023

Downtown Legal Services Fasken Building

Lawyer and clinic director, Prasanna Balasundaram (far left), with staff lawyers Asiya Hirji and Jennifer Fehr, alongside staff and summer caseworkers on the steps of the Fasken Building, home to U of T's community legal clinic and clinical legal education program, Downtown Legal Services.

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Toronto Life: CheatGPT? Professor Benjamin Alarie argues that ChatGPT is just another study tool

Monday, August 21, 2023

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Does the introduction of new AI tools like ChatGPT spell the end of university education as we know it?

Professor Benjamin Alarie, Osler Chair in Business Law and former associate dean of the JD program, doesn't think so.

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New books by U of T Law alumni

Saturday, August 19, 2023

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Meet the U of T Law JD Class of 2026

Friday, August 18, 2023

U of T Law is ready to welcome 214 JD students to campus!

JD Class of 2026 from the JD Guide

Click to view a PDF of the JD Class Profile + Fun Class Facts

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Statement from Faculty of Law Dean Jutta Brunnée regarding a corporate gift

Friday, August 18, 2023

The Faculty of Law welcomes gifts that support our world-leading research and teaching and that align with our approved academic priorities. In December 2021, the Faculty received a donation from Amazon in the amount of US $450,000. The gift supported scholarship and experiential education in law and economics, a field in which we are globally recognized, and which spans diverse scholarly areas including competition law, innovation law, and law and technology.