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Gloria Carpenter, who studied at U of T before going on to become the first Black woman to graduate from Cambridge, stands in the back row, on the left, in this photo in the 1943 edition of Torontonensis (photo courtesy of University of Toronto Archives)

U of T law students Ahmed Elahi, Geri Angelova, Zoë Sebastien and Karen Chen with Supreme Court of Canada Justice Malcolm Rowe (centre)

University of Toronto law students took first place in the Wilson Moot – a competition created honour the outstanding contributions to Canadian law made by the late Honourable Bertha Wilson. 

Should we celebrate the Weinstein verdict? It’s complicated writes U of T Law Professor Brenda Cossman, director of the Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at U of T. 

In an op-ed for the Globe and Mail, Cossman writes: 

"In a New York court, Judge James Burke cautioned the jury not to see the case as a referendum on #MeToo. He is absolutely right; the criminal trial was about the exacting standards of proof that had to be established by the prosecution to find the former Hollywood mogul criminally responsible.