Ethics of COVID: Professors Sophia Moreau and Trudo Lemmens featured in upcoming Centre for Ethics talks

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

The Centre for Ethics (C4E) at the University of Toronto, led by Faculty of Law Professor Markus D. Dubber, C4E director, is where conversations about ethics happen, sitting at the interface between academic research and public discourse.

Professor Markus Dubber cited in Artforum

Monday, May 4, 2020

Artforum is an international monthly magazine, based in New York City, specializing in contemporary art with over 2.3 million site visitors, annually.

Author Stuart Schrader on policing and COVID-19 ("The Harm or Law") quoted research by Faculty of Law Professor and Centre for Ethics director, Markus D. Dubber:

The court backs creators, not universities: Op-Ed by Richard C. Owens

Friday, May 1, 2020

In an op-ed published in the Financial Post, April 30, lawyer and adjunct professor Richard C. Owens, discusses how universities have relied on ‘fair dealing’ provisions of the Copyright Act to photocopy material for students.

"Parliament needs to address the copyright mess the case has uncovered. For years, it has been engaged in an overdue review of the Act. But it hasn’t moved forward because the government and our copyright establishment essentially won’t support, and even opposes, our creative community. It’s time that changed." 

Faculty of Law welcomes new Alumni Association (LAA) members, thanks outgoing members

Friday, May 1, 2020

The 2020 Annual General Meeting of the Faculty of Law Alumni Association (LAA) was virtually held on Tuesday, April 28, 2020. 

Three new members were elected a three-year term: Steven Elliott (1995), Laura Fric (1993) and Michael Hong (2004). The LAA unanimously renewed Brian Livingston (1980) for a second three-year term.

Law Times: Technological tracing in immigration law offers cautionary tale amid COVID-19, says IHRP's Petra Molnar.

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Lawyer Petra Molnar, acting director of the Faculty's International Human Rights Program, says her experiences in immigration law raise questions about the use of technology to monitor people’s movements.

Google should start playing nice with the news media: Op-Ed by Richard C. Owens

Thursday, April 30, 2020

Lawyer Richard C. Owens is a senior Munk fellow of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law. In an op-ed published April 28 in the National Post, he writes why Google should compensate the media for content provided in its news service.

‘Students facing an unprecedented summer’: U of T Law creates 60 new research positions, increases funded summer opportunities to $1.1 million

Tuesday, April 28, 2020

U of T Jackman Law building

Abdullah Khan was making plans to work outside Toronto this summer. But like many of his first-year classmates, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law student found his employment prospects dwindle, due to the global pandemic.

“I’m looking for other law-related opportunities, but remote ones are hard to come by,” says Khan.

Professor Douglas Sanderson for the GB Geo-Blog: COVID-19 Strategy From Indigenous Memory of Pandemics

Friday, April 24, 2020

For the Geo-Blog with Global Brief, an international affairs magazine, Faculty of Law Professor Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) examines COVID-19 strategy from Indigenous memory of pandemics. He writes: 

"My purpose here, in this first post of my Geo-Blog with GB, is twofold: first, argue for the kind of government coordination that is not my people’s experience of government crisis response; and second, to say a little bit about how my people understand the nature of the problem before us."

Walsh Family Law Negotiation Competition

Monday, April 20, 2020

U of T Law student mooters

Jason Silverberg, Matthew Walwyn, Morgan Watkins and Celina Kassam

The Walsh Family Law Moot and Negotiation Competition is named to recognize the late Supreme Court of Canada Justice George Tucker Walsh and his contributions to the growth and development of family law.

Op-Ed by Professor Trudo Lemmens: COVID-19 triage orders mustn't work against those with disabilities

Monday, April 20, 2020

Governments need to affirm ethical and human rights obligations to persons with disabilities

In an op-ed for CBC's Opinion section published April 19, Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Roxanne Mykitiuk, director of the Disability Law Intensive Program at York University and U of T Faculty of Law and Dalla Lana School of Public Health Professor Trudo Lemmens write how COVID-19 triage orders mustn't work against those with disabilities.