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The Invention of the Police: The New Yorker cites U of T Law Professor Markus D. Dubber

Thursday, July 16, 2020

Why did American policing get so big, so fast?

In an article for The New Yorker, author Jill Lepore explores the history of U.S. policing and cites University of Toronto Faculty of Law Professor Markus D. Dubber, director of U of T's Centre for Ethics:

"Under the rule of law, people are equals; under the rule of police, as the legal theorist Markus Dubber has written, we are not. We are more like the women, children, servants, and slaves in a household in ancient Greece, the people who were not allowed to be a part of the polis."

The Future of Work in the Age of Automation and AI: C4eJournal

Wednesday, July 15, 2020
C4eJournal the future of work in the age of automation and AI
 
Based on an international and interdisciplinary online conference in May 2020, hosted by the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics, the Future of Work in the Age of Automation and AI symposium explored the implications and complications that automation and AI have introduced into the work-leisure matrix, by considering possible futures of work that have been fram

Co-parenting during COVID-19: Professor Michael Saini draws on virtual solutions to connect children and parents — and prevent escalating legal disputes

Monday, July 13, 2020

Professor Michael Saini

Some media reports depict families in the COVID-19 world baking bread, playing board games and bonding, while other stories paint a dark picture of domestic strife, emotional trauma and even abuse. U of T Professor Michael Saini is studying this disparity and using technology to ease the strain on parents and children in the latter group.

Human Rights Watch Dispatches: JD student Elsie Tellier shares how her disability prepared her for COVID-19

Monday, July 13, 2020

Elsie Tellier

Photo courtesy of Elsie Tellier

In an article published on Disability Pride Day, July 12, for Human Rights Watch (HRW), Elsie Tellier (JD 2022), an International Human Rights Program (IHRP) summer fellow, shares how her disability prepared her for COVID-19: 

Quebec's clinical triage protocol opens door to discrimination: Professor Trudo Lemmens for Policy Options

Thursday, July 2, 2020

The province must clearly commit to upholding its ethical and legal obligations to people living with a disability when ventilators are in shortage

Law Professor Trudo Lemmens, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy and a professor with the University of Toronto's Dalla Lana School of Public Health and Joint Centre for Bioethics writes for Policy Options:

In Memoriam: The Honourable Robert A.F. Sutherland (1929-2020)

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Robert Sutherland

The Faculty of Law is saddened to hear of the passing of The Honourable Robert A.F. Sutherland (BA 1950, LLB 1954), Q.C., who died of of post COVID-19 complications in Toronto at the age of 90.

SJD student Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin awarded fellowship by the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History is pleased to announce the winners of its awards for 2020.

This year the Society's fellowship winner is Faculty of Law doctoral student Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, who is writing an intellectual history of Ētienne Parent, a leading Quebec constitutional thinker in the immediate pre- and post-Confederation period.

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