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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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

Aboriginal Law Program launches Elder-in-Residence Program

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Cat Criger (left)
Cat Criger (left), with student Lindsay Borrows at the 2012 Aboriginal Law Students’ Association Fall Feast

Islamic scholars at Faculty of Law Summer Institute visit gay and lesbian mosque

Monday, August 26, 2013

Prof. Anver Emon (centre) leads participants in Summer Institute on Islamic Studies
Prof. Anver Emon (centre, blue shirt) leads participants in Summer Institute on Islamic Studies on one of their visits.

By Vito Cupoli

Most visitors to Toronto are not taken on a surprise trip to the city’s only Islamic mosque for gays and lesbians.

In Memoriam: James M. Tory, Class of 1952 & First Gold Medallist

Tuesday, August 20, 2013
James M. Tory portrait

The law school is deeply saddened at the loss of one of our most distinguished alumni, James M. Tory Sr. (Class of 1952), who passed away August 19, 2013, aged 83. Jim was the modern law school’s first gold medalist and went on to a career as one of Canada’s leading business lawyers at his firm, Torys LLP.  

Faculty of Law’s first free LSAT prep course helps send seven students to law school

Friday, August 16, 2013

Updated April 2, 2014

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

Seven students* who participated in the Faculty of Law’s first free Law School Admission Test (LSAT) preparatory program for qualified, low-income students—the first one in Canada—have been accepted to law schools, two of them at the University of Toronto in September. [To date, 14 students in total have received admissions to law schools across Canada.]

‘Incentivizing’ safety isn’t as easy as it sounds, counters our law student

Monday, August 12, 2013

Our law students write

In response to a recent National Post oped by 3L Laura Mcgee, "Don't regulate safety, incentivize it," law student Andrew Mihalik responds with a ‘tread with caution’ post.

Mihalik says incentives can be a good way to effect a socially desirable outcome. But the second-year JD/MBA student reminds us behavioural economics has shown that people do not always react in self-interested, rational ways.

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