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'We have urgent work to do': New book by Professor Kent Roach on why Canadian policing needs to change

Wednesday, July 13, 2022

Professor Kent RoachKent Roach has thought a lot about policing throughout his lifetime. He even aspired to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) as a young boy. 

But rather than donning the red serge, the professor at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law has spent his career extensively studying policing – often from the perspective of an insider.

Jérémy Boulanger-Bonnelly (SJD) examines how COVID-19 shifted public access to Canada's courtrooms online: U of T News

Monday, July 11, 2022

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(photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 upended the operations and practices of industries and institutions around the world almost overnight – and, in the realm of law, that includes the concept of open courts.

Daniel Del Gobbo (SJD 2021) to join U Windsor Law faculty in 2023

Monday, July 11, 2022

Daniel Del Gobbo (SJD 2021) will join the Faculty of Law at Windsor University in 2023. Del Gobbo is currently a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at McGill University's Faculty of Law.

Matthew Marinett (JD 2012, LLM 2016, SJD) appointed to faculty at TMU's Ted Rogers School of Management

Monday, July 11, 2022

Matthew Marinett

Doctoral candidate (SJD) Matthew Marinett (JD 2012, LLM 2016) has been appointed an Assistant Professor in the Law and Business Department of the Ted Rogers School of Management at Toronto Metropolitan University.

Léa Brière-Godbout (SJD) appointed to UQAM's Department of Legal Sciences

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Lea Briere-Godbout

Léa Brière-Godbout (SJD) has been appointed a professor in the Department of Legal Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), effective July 1, 2022.

U of T Law welcomes three new faculty members

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

The Faculty is pleased to welcome three accomplished faculty members joining U of T Law, effective July 1, 2022: 

Assistant Professor Abdi Aidid

Prof Abdi Aidid

 

Guy Jacques Pratte (LLB 1982) named a Member of the Order of Canada

Wednesday, June 29, 2022

More than a dozen University of Toronto researchers, professors, alumni and supporters have been recognized with an Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honour.

Acclaimed scholar John Borrows named The Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

John BorrowsIn January, Professor John Borrows will begin teaching a new course to all first-year U of T Law students that addresses the intersection of Indigenous Peoples’ laws with Canada's laws (photo by David Ball)

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