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The new award will recognize the best annual submission to the Faculty of Law's student-edited Indigenous Law Journal

Métis lawyer Justin Basinger (1987-2020), a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is being remembered through the establishment of an annual prize designated to the academic journal he once co-edited. Family, friends and colleagues united to contribute more than $35,000 to establish the endowed award.

Watch four of the law school's most skilled mooters (Mackenzie Faulkner and Madeleine Andrew-Gee vs. Militza Boljević and Ema Ibraković) make their submissions to members of the panel of Honourable Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada: Rosalie Silberman Abella (BA UC 1967, LLB 1970), Andromache Karakatsanis (BA VIC 1977) and Mahmud Jamal (BA TRIN 1989). 

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.