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In an op-ed for the Toronto Star, published May 12 ("The Big Debate: Should those with immunity get a COVID-19 digital passport?") U of T Law Professor Sophia Moreau and Queen's Law Professor Sabine Tsuruda, say digital immunity passports for COVID-19 raise troubling moral and legal issues.

The Board of Governors of Ontario Tech University has appointed Mitch Frazer, an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, as the university's fourth Chancellor. He assumes the role of Chancellor immediately and will be formally installed at a ceremony to be announced.

The Faculty of Law, friends, family and colleagues are mourning the loss of Justice Romain Pitt, a trailblazing lawyer and judge who died last week at the age of 84. 

Born in Grenada and arriving in Toronto at the age of 19 to study at the University of Toronto, Pitt went on to co-found the first partnership of black lawyers in Canada and serve as a founding director of Caribana, now known as the Toronto Caribbean Carnival.

In an op-ed published in the Financial Post, May 5, lawyer and adjunct professor Richard C. Owens, writes on why Canada’s drug discovery system seems broken. 

"Firms are supposed to maximize shareholder value. Nothing more. It is difficult to see how these firms’ decisions do that, at least in the short term. The cause for their apparently paradoxical behaviour may be rooted in the politics of defending the intellectual property system we rely on for drug discovery in societies that are increasingly hostile to private enterprise."