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The Faculty of Law, friends, family and colleagues are mourning the loss of Justice Romain Pitt, a trailblazing lawyer and judge who died last week at the age of 84. 

Born in Grenada and arriving in Toronto at the age of 19 to study at the University of Toronto, Pitt went on to co-found the first partnership of black lawyers in Canada and serve as a founding director of Caribana, now known as the Toronto Caribbean Carnival.

In an op-ed published in the Financial Post, May 5, lawyer and adjunct professor Richard C. Owens, writes on why Canada’s drug discovery system seems broken. 

"Firms are supposed to maximize shareholder value. Nothing more. It is difficult to see how these firms’ decisions do that, at least in the short term. The cause for their apparently paradoxical behaviour may be rooted in the politics of defending the intellectual property system we rely on for drug discovery in societies that are increasingly hostile to private enterprise."

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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 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.