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Daniel Michaels, a 3L JD student, is the recipient of the 2011 CBA James H. Bocking Memorial Award for his paper, “An Analysis of Visa and Mastercard Merchant Restraints: Illegal Price Maintenance or a Necessary Tool for the Efficient Working of the Credit Card Network Services Market.” The award is presented annually for the best scholarly paper submitted to the CBA’s National Competition Law Section on a subject directly related to Canadian competition law or policy.

Prof. Mohammad Fadel was a member of a panel on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin that discussed "Five Questions About 9/11" (Sept. 9, 2011) to mark of the 10th anniversary of the attack.

Watch the video on the TVO website.

Prof. Mohammade Fadel has written a commentary in Foreign Policy magazine's The Middle East Channel arguing that Egypt's reformers should focus on economic issues first ("Why Egyptian progressives should be chanting 'economy first'", July 18, 2011).

Read the full article on the Foreign Policy website.

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Ed Morgan looks at the legal issues involved in the attempt by Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas to have the United Nations declare his country a state. He suggests it could have some unexpected results ("The surprise factor of Palestinian sovereignty," September 21, 2011).

Read the full commentary.