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Elder Constance Simmonds is the Elder-in-Residence at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, pictured during a drum making workshop at the Faculty in 2018 (photo Katie Tissington-Turner)

This year the University of Toronto Faculty of Law welcomed Elder Constance Simmonds as Elder-in-Residence.

University of Toronto Professor Rinaldo Walcott is the director of U of T's Women and Gender Studies Institute and an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). His research is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies, gender and sexuality.

Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property in his book, On Property. He argues the history of being bought and sold shapes Black people's relationship to the idea of property. 

In a new episode of The Champlain Society podcast, host Greg Marchildon interviews legal scholar, University Professor and Dean Emeritus Martin L. Friedland on his biography of the law school's first Dean, W.P.M. Kennedy, Searching for W.P.M. Kennedy: The Biography of an Enigma (University of Toronto Press 2020).

A colleague of Arthur Ripstein’s once described the 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant as “the philosopher for people who like philosophy too much.”

Ripstein freely admits belonging to this group.  He’s spent decades researching and teaching Kantian legal and political philosophy and is currently finishing his latest book about the philosopher, Kant and the Law of War. It will be available in September.