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Prof. Colleen Flood interviewed on CBC radio about assisted suicide

Thursday, September 26, 2013

Prof. Colleen Flood was interviewed on several CBC radio stations across Canada about the issue of assisted suicide on Sept. 25, 2013.

Listen to the interview on the CBC Radio Vancouver show On the Coast (Sept. 25, at around the 1:01:45 mark to 1:08:00 mark).

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Faculty members cited in Ontario Superior Court decision on oath to the Queen

Monday, September 23, 2013

Three faculty members have been cited in a decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on whether the requirement for new citizens of Canada to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen. In his decision, Justice Edward Morgan cited articles by Professors Lorraine Weinrib, Ayelet Shachar, and Ran Hirschl. He also cites former faculty member Sujit Choudhry.

See the full decision on CanLII.

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Prof. Denise Réaume - "‘Dead hand of the Church’ evident in Quebec’s debate on values"

Friday, September 20, 2013

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Denise Réaume argues that, in the name of secularism and rejection of Quebec's religiously claustrophobic past, the Parti Québécois' Charer of Values in fact re-enacts that history of insularity ("‘Dead hand of the Church’ evident in Quebec’s debate on values," September 19, 2013).

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Maclean's ranks Faculty of Law No. 1 once again

Friday, September 20, 2013

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law ranks No. 1 again in the annual Macleans Professional Schools Rankings.

In addition, the Faculty of Law ranks No. 1 in Elite Firm Hiring, Faculty Hiring and Faculty Journal Citations.

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JD/MBA students launch web app for legal referrals

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Two JD/MBA students have started a technology project to make legal referrals easier. Jonathan Bega and Parsa Pezeshki, both Class of 2014, and Hamid Tavakoli, a Dalhousie computer science graduate, have developed a web application to process lawyer-to-lawyer referrals for paying clients and pro bono files.

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"Camelawt" greets the Class of 2016

Friday, September 13, 2013

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo / Photos by Lucianna Ciccocioppo, Brian Nguyen and Ashvin Singh

While most of downtown Toronto was buzzing with Toronto Film Festival crowds last week, “Camelawt” descended at the Faculty of Law to greet about 200 new students, equipped with maps and mobile directions to Victoria University, our transitional space. The Game of Thrones-themed orientation week kicked off their first year of law school.

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Ontario selects Dean Moran to lead review of Disabilities Act

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

The provincial government has appointed Dean Mayo Moran, SJD 1999, to head a comprehensive review of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), which governs the accessibility standards for customer service, information and communications, employment, transportation and the design of public spaces.

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Prof. Jutta Brunnée elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Faculty of Law Professor Jutta Brunnée, associate dean of the graduate program, is one of 84 new Fellows—one of nine from the University of Toronto—elected to the prestigious Royal Society of Canada. Reflecting diverse backgrounds and disciplines, these new Fellows were elected by peers in recognition of their outstanding scholarly, scientific and artistic achievement.

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Prof. Ariel Katz cited in Supreme Court of Israel decision on copyright

Friday, September 6, 2013

On Tuesday, Sept, 3, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an important decision regarding the interface between copyright and competition law and the oversight of collective rights management organizations. The decision includes three citations of two articles by Prof. Ariel Katz.

The decision was written by Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, previously a law professor at Tel Aviv University, who was a Distinguished Visitor at the Faculty of Law several times recently before her appointment to the Supreme Court last year.