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In the 2024 Global Ranking of Academic Subjects by the independent ShanghaiRanking Consultancy, U of T Law ranked first in Canada and in the top 25, globally.

U of T Law is one of only two Canadian schools to rank in the global top 50.

U of T also ranked in the top 100 globally in 42 subjects in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2024, released last week – a feat matched only by the University of Michigan.

Who owns animals after they break free and taste freedom? 

The recent case of 43 lab monkeys who escaped from a lab in South Carolina, raises many important ethical questions.

To help answer these complex questions, author and Psychology Today writer Marc Bekoff interviews Professor Angela Fernandez.

Fernandez applies a style of legal history known as "legal archaeology."

Toronto Life’s “annual ranking of the people whose courage, smarts and clout are changing the world as we know it,” include three Faculty of Toronto alumni.

Elevation Pictures co-president Laurie May (LLB 1993) is recognized for “filling movie screens with top-tier talent.”

Former Asper Centre constitutional litigator-in-residence, Nader Hasan (JD 2006) is named “for proving innocence against all odds.”

In a commentary for Vox.com, Professor Angela Fernandez and co-author, Professor Justin Marceau, Brooks Institute Faculty Research Scholar of Animal Law and Policy at Sturm College of Law, discuss the legal considerations when a captive animal becomes free. They write: