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Indigenous languages art installation unveiled at U of T's Faculty of Law

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Rochelle Allan, left, acting manager of the Indigenous Initiatives Office, views the language installation with U of T law students

2019 is the United Nation's International Year of Indigenous Languages

Story and Photos by Lucianna Ciccocioppo

2019 Wright Memorial Lecture - “Institutions for Protecting Constitutional Democracy: Some Conceptual Preliminaries" by Prof. Mark Tushnet

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

By Peter Boisseau

The eminent Harvard Law School professor who delivered this year’s Cecil A. Wright Memorial Lecture says Americans can’t rely on the legal system to hold U.S. President Donald Trump accountable for allegedly conspiring with Russia in the 2016 election.

January 29th: St. George (Downtown) Campus is open

Tuesday, January 29, 2019

The University has resumed full operations at its St. George campus as of 6 a.m. Jan. 29, 2019. All classes and exams will be held as normally scheduled.

Latest campus status updates can be found here: https://www.utoronto.ca/campus-status

 

January 28th: Campus status due to inclement weather

Monday, January 28, 2019

Weather update: University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) is closed, as of 4 pm; classes at University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) will be cancelled as of 5 pm but will that campus remains open; the Downtown Toronto campus (St. George) will remain open but U of T is monitoring for tonight and tomorrow.

Human Rights Panel: Technological Experiments in the Digital Age

Friday, January 18, 2019

(L) Farida Deif (moderator), Canada director at Human Rights Watch; Petra Molnar, technology and human rights researcher at the IHRP; Irene Poetranto, senior researcher at the Citizen Lab; and Cynthia Wong, internet and human rights researcher at Human Rights Watch.

 

Story and photos by Chelsey Legge, 4L JD/MPP

Top 10 news stories of 2018

Thursday, January 10, 2019

Top 10From outstanding students and remarkable events to alumni achievements and new faculty, here are the stories that made you click in 2018.

Prof. Michael Trebilcock writes "For developing countries looking for guidance, role models are sorely lacking"

Monday, January 7, 2019

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Michael Trebilcock writes about the difficulty of finding relevant role models for developing countries looking to improve the quality of their institutions ("For developing countries looking for guidance, role models are sorely lacking," January 1, 2019).

Read the full commentary on the Globe and Mail website, or below.

 

Prof. Mayo Moran writes "The Macron Report and how we right history’s wrongs"

Friday, December 21, 2018

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Mayo Moran looks at the role of museums in debates about the restitution of cultural objects seized during colonialism, and points to Canadian examples where such objects have been returned to First Nations ("The Macron Report and how we right history’s wrongs," December 21, 2018).

Read the full commentary on the Globe and Mail website, or below.

The Macron Report and how we right history’s wrongs

By Mayo Moran

December 21, 2018

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