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SJD student Haim Abraham writes "Trump’s misguided logic for bombing Syria" in Toronto Star

Monday, April 10, 2017

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, SJD student and Vanier Scholar Haim Abraham analyzes President Trump's speech regarding the U. S. cruise missile attack on a Syrian air base in the context of International Law ("Trump’s misguided logic for bombing Syria," April 7, 2017).

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website, or below.

 

Understanding reconciliation with the Blanket Exercise

Saturday, April 8, 2017

By Peter Boisseau / Photography by Lucianna Ciccocioppo

On an early spring day, dozens of students, faculty and other members of the University of Toronto law school community who have gathered in Rowell Room in Flavelle House listen quietly as they are warned that what they are about to experience will not be easy.

How the new Internet-based model of selling human attention evolved: Columbia Law's Tim Wu, author, The Attention Merchants, gives 2017 Grafstein Lecture

Thursday, April 6, 2017
Tim Wu

"I think the web has come close to hitting rock bottom..."

By Peter Boisseau

Like the snake oil salesmen of yesteryear, U.S. President Donald Trump has mastered the most “despicable” techniques of harvesting human attention, author Tim Wu told a University of Toronto law school audience at the 2017 Grafstein Lecture in Communications.

Law students describe experience of taking part in "U of T Women in House"

Thursday, April 6, 2017

Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella '70 talks with the U of T Women in House students
Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Abella '70 talks with the U of T Women in House students

Prof. Simon Stern writes "How easy is it for police to search your texts? The Supreme Court is set to decide"

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

In a commentary in the Ottawa Citizen, Prof. Simon Stern looks at the issues in an upcoming Supreme Court of Canada case that will decide to what extent police can search text messages on people's mobile phones ("How easy is it for police to search your texts? The Supreme Court is set to decide," March 21, 2017).

Read the full commentary on the Ottawa Citizen website, or below.

 

Moot results: Another stellar year for our teams

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

As always, U of T Law is proud of the accomplishments of its talented student mooters, and its negotiation and arbitration competition teams. Read on for the results of the 2017 moots and negotiation and arbitration competitions.

Professor Lisa Austin receives Connaught Global Challenge Award for “Information Technology, Transparency and Transformation Lab”

Saturday, March 11, 2017

Prof. LIsa AustinIndividual lives are increasingly “datafied” and this information is collected, warehoused, analyzed and distributed across the globe on a massive scale. As individuals become more and more “transparent,” the technology that is driving this massive transformation becomes more and more opaque. This “transparency gap” is a problem for all stakeholders in the information age.

All Families Are (Now) Equal: MPP Cheri DiNovo speaks at the LGBTQ+ Workshop

Friday, February 24, 2017

MPP Cheri DiNovo (2nd from left) at the LGBTQ+ Workshop

By Haim Abraham 

On December 5, 2016, Ontario’s Bill 28, termed the All Families Are Equal Act (Parentage and Related Registrations Statute Law Amendment), 2016, received royal assent. The LGBTQ+ Workshop held a session with MPP Cheri DiNovo, who tabled the Bill, and Kirsti and Jennifer Mathers McHenry, whose story prompted its legislation.

IHRP director Samer Muscati calls for end of immigration detention of children, in Ottawa Citizen

Thursday, February 23, 2017

In a commentary in the Ottawa Citizen, International Human Rights Program (IHRP) director Samer Muscati outlines the problem of immigration detention of children in Canada and proposes solutions ("More than 200 Canadian children have been held in immigration detention since 2011. Let's end that inhumanity," February 23, 2017).

The op-ed is based on the IHRP report Invisible Citizens: Canadian Children in Immigration Detention.

 

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