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The International Human Rights Program (“IHRP”) at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the release of a plain-language guide to assist affected communities to access the Review Process of the Office of the Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Counsellor for Canada (“CSR Counsellor”).  The report, called On Disputed Ground: A Community User’s Guide to the Review Process of the Office of the Extractive Sector Corporate Social Responsibility Counsellor (Canada), was produced by a group of volunteer law students in the 2010-2011

In a commentary in the National Post, Prof. Jacob Ziegel analyzes the procedure announced by the federal government for the selection of new members of the Supreme Court of Canada, and calls for a better system to be implemented ("The right way to pick Supreme Court judges," August 19, 2011).

Read the full commentary.

Corporate Knights magazine has once again ranked the University of Toronto Faculty of Law first for sustainability among Canadian law schools.

(Sept. 16, 2011) The University of Toronto Faculty of Law ranks number one again in Maclean’s annual ranking of professional schools.

The law school leads in the common law school rankings, with Osgoode, UBC and McGill tying with Queen’s rounding out the top five.