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Law students step outside the classroom, step up for the probono Wills Project

Friday, March 21, 2014

Project tackles planning for low-income clients, students gain practical skills

By Karen Gross

CLP panel discussion: Making Life Work- The Perpetual Balancing Act

Wednesday, March 19, 2014
CLP panel discussion: Making Life Work- The Perpetual Balancing Act

By Kim Snell, director, Centre for the Legal Profession

Making Life Work: The Perpetual Balancing Act, held by the Centre for the Legal Profession at the Faculty of Law on March 11, featured distinguished panelists: The Honourable Madam Justice Rosalie Abella, Jean Fraser, Trisha Jackson and moderator, Sheila Gibb. The audience of more than 100 people, including students, alumni, and practicing lawyers, heard important advice on the challenges of juggling a law career with the demands of raising a family and outside interests.

See Yourself Here 2014 drew a record crowd of eager future law students

Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Law students welcome attendees to See Yourself Here: (left) Moderator Jonathan Chan, David St. Bernard, Emma Arenson, David Bach, Ledya Yohannes and Hani Migally.


Outreach program welcomed students from diverse schools across the GTA, as law school continues to be a compelling goal

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

Revisiting the Civility Debate, with The Hon Madame Justice Katherine Swinton

Saturday, March 15, 2014

By K. Elhatton-Lake

The Hon. Madam Justice Katherine SwintonDoes civility matter in the practice of law? On March 6, 2014, The Hon. Madam Justice Katherine Swinton challenged the audience, at the Program on Ethics in Law and Business lunch time session on "Revisiting the Civility Debate," to consider how the legal profession should approach the incivility among its members.

Listen to Prof. Audrey Macklin's talk on the 1914 Komagata Maru episode and Canadian citizenship

Friday, March 14, 2014

Prof. Audrey Macklin was invited to deliver a lecture on the 100th anniversary of the 1914 Komagata Maru episode, in which migrants from India arriving by ship in Vancouver were denied permission to enter Canada. Her talk, "Getting to We: The Komagata Maru, The Unmaking of Empire and the Making of a Settler Society," is part of the Komagata Maru Week project marking the episode's centennial.

Webcast: "Ethical Issues in the Law Firm Setting" - Program on Ethics in Law & Business conference

Thursday, March 13, 2014

If you missed the first annual conference of the Program on Ethics in Law and Business, on the subject of "Ethical Issues in the Law Firm Setting," or if you want to remind yourself of some of the insights of the conference speakers, you can now watch the entire conference, or any part of it, on YouTube.

Watch the conference on YouTube (2 hours 45 minutes).

Prof. Yasmin Dawood co-authors open letter about Fair Elections Act

Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Prof. Yasmin Dawood is a co-author, along with Monique Deveaux, Melissa Williams, Maxwell Cameron, Patti Lenard, and Genevieve Fuji Johnson, of an open letter to the Government of Canada regarding the proposed Fair Elections Act. The letter notes several serious concerns about the proposed provisions in the Act.

Prof. Audrey Macklin - "How Canada keeps some immigrant women in their place"

Monday, March 10, 2014

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Audrey Macklin and immigration  lawyer Lorne Waldman analyze the ways in which Canada's immigration laws exacerbate the vulnerability of immigrant women ("How Canada keeps some immigrant women in their place," March 7, 2014).

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

Grafstein Lecture: Crowdsourcing industries spawn global pool of digital workers with no labour rights

Monday, March 10, 2014
black and white image of turn of the century mother working at home menial labour

By David Kumagai, 2L

“Crowdsourcing industries are wiping away over 100 years of labour struggles overnight,” Professor Trebor Scholz told his audience during the 2014 Grafstein Lecture in Communications.

Women on boards increase profitability: diversity panel makes business case

Wednesday, March 5, 2014
silhouettes of diverse headshots

By David Kumagai, 2L

What should Canada do about the lack of women serving on corporate boards?

A panel of experts gathered at Victoria College on March 3 to debate this question. “Diversity on Canadian Corporate Boards” was the topic for the first event of a five-part speaker series called All Aboard, presented by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law’s Global Professional LLM program.

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