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In the lead-up to exams and the holiday season, the student group Chords of Appeal held a caroling session in the rotunda outside the Bora Laskin Law Library to entertain students and relieve some of their stress. Canadian Lawyer magazine has featured their caroling session in an article about law students getting into the holiday spirit, discussing the event with Chords of Appeal choir director Meghan Bridges ("Students get into the holiday spirit," December 10, 2012).

A new report published by the Faculty of Law's International Human Rights Program (IHRP) and child-rights organization Plan Canada finds that school-related gender-based violence (SRGBV) is a major factor threatening the education of children, especially young girls, in many countries of the world, including Canada.

The Faculty of Law's Prof. Anita Anand has been named to the Diversity 50 list. She is one of 50 Canadians selected by the Canadian Board Diversity Council, as an individual "who has competencies that align with the needs or requirements of Canadian boards of directors."

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. David Schneiderman, with Prof. Gus Van Har of Osgoode Hall Law School, looks at the the potential financial stake that legal experts who may comment on the Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection Agreement could have in its outcome ("Self-interested lawyers and the Canada-China FIPA," Nov. 26, 2012).

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