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The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce new faculty members Vincent Chiao and Anthony Niblett

Saturday, November 12, 2011

(June 16, 2011) The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce Vincent Chiao and Anthony Niblett will be joining the Faculty as assistant professors this summer.
 

Student Rebecca Sutton, on leave of absence in Darfur - "Looking for answers in Darfur"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

JD student Rebecca Sutton, who is currently on leave of absence to work with War Child Canada in Darfur, has written an article in the Ontario Council for International Cooperation magazine iAM: ideas, actions, movements about some of the work War Child Canada is doing there ("Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right thing? Looking for answers in Darfur," March 2011).

Prof. Jutta Brunnee's award-winning book featured in symposium in journal "International Theory"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Prof. Jutta Brunnée's award-winning book, Legitimacy and Legality in International Law: An Interactional Account, co-authored with Stephen J. Toope, is the subject of a print symposium in the latest issue of the journal International Theory (2011: Volume 3 - Issue 2).

The symposium includes contributions from Martti Koskenniemi, Jeffrey L. Dunoff, and Christian Reus-Smit, along an introduction and response by Jutta Brunnée and Stephen J. Toope:

Prof. Ed Morgan - "Canada has no business prosecuting Bush"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

In a commentary in the National Post, Prof. Ed Morgan examines the problems with Amnesty International's call for Canada to prosecute former President G.W. Bush for war crimes when he visits Canada ("Canada has no business prosecuting Bush," October 14, 2011).

Read the full commentary on the National Post website.

Five students receive Cressy Awards for outstanding extra-curricular contributions

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Cressy Award winners, 2011
Faculty of Law Cressy Award winners (L-R) : Ryan Liss, Padraic Ryan, Brendan Morrison, Kathryn Ionson and Karim Amlani

The University of Toronto has announced the 2011 winners of the Gordon Cressy Awards, and five Faculty of Law students are among the winners.

Prof. Ed Iacobucci appointed Competition Policy Scholar at C.D. Howe Institute

Saturday, November 12, 2011

(July 7, 2011) Prof. Ed Iacobucci has been appointed Competition Policy Scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute.

“Ed will provide advice and guidance to the Institute’s Competition Policy Council, which comprises top-ranked academics and practitioners active in competition policy,” said Finn Poschmann, the Institute’s VP Research and chair of the Council. “The Council provides expert, independent analysis of emerging competition policy issues, including those potentially faced by the Competition Bureau.”

Prof. Jacob Ziegel - "Unacceptable delays in Supreme Court appointments"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

In a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly, Prof. Jacob Ziegel condemns the delay in appointing replacements for the two Supreme Court of Canada justices who retired this year ("Unacceptable delays in Supreme Court appointments," Sept. 23, 2011).

Read the full commentary on the Faculty Blog.

Prof. Colleen Flood - "Wrestling with Big Pharma"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Colleen Flood proposes New Zealand's model for purchasing drugs for its health care system as one that Canada can learn from ("Wrestling with Big Pharma," June 2, 2011).

Read the full commentary.

Two LLM students prepare report on violence against journalists in Mexico for IHRP and PEN Canada

Saturday, November 12, 2011

REVISED June 10, 2011.

(June 3, 2011) In a report, Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists, the Faculty of Law's International Human Rights Program (IHRP) and PEN Canada expose the Mexican government’s repeated failure to protect the human rights of journalists, its complicity in a number of rights violations against them, and the web of Mexican laws that limit freedom of expression and effectively gag journalists who seek to expose government corruption.

Profs. Choudhry and Trebilcock - "Public insurance: a solution to Canada's legal crisis"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Profs. Sujit Choudhry and Michael Trebilcock have written a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly calling for the establishment of public insurance for legal costs in Ontario and other provinces as a solution to the problem of access to justice for the middle classes ("Public insurance: a solution to Canada's legal crisis," June 10, 2011).

Read the commentary on The Lawyers Weekly website.

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