An ‘eye-opening’ experience: Supporting student caseworkers at U of T’s Downtown Legal Services

Monday, August 21, 2023

Downtown Legal Services Fasken Building

Lawyer and clinic director, Prasanna Balasundaram (far left), with staff lawyers Asiya Hirji and Jennifer Fehr, alongside staff and summer caseworkers on the steps of the Fasken Building, home to U of T's community legal clinic and clinical legal education program, Downtown Legal Services. 

Toronto Life: CheatGPT? Professor Benjamin Alarie argues that ChatGPT is just another study tool

Monday, August 21, 2023

Alarie

Does the introduction of new AI tools like ChatGPT spell the end of university education as we know it? 

Professor Benjamin Alarie, Osler Chair in Business Law and former associate dean of the JD program, doesn't think so. 

Statement from Faculty of Law Dean Jutta Brunnée regarding a corporate gift

Friday, August 18, 2023

The Faculty of Law welcomes gifts that support our world-leading research and teaching and that align with our approved academic priorities. In December 2021, the Faculty received a donation from Amazon in the amount of US $450,000. The gift supported scholarship and experiential education in law and economics, a field in which we are globally recognized, and which spans diverse scholarly areas including competition law, innovation law, and law and technology.

The changes at Crown-Indigenous Relations send a cynical message: Opinion by Prof. Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii)

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

In an opinion published in the Globe & Mail (July 31), Professor Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii), Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the Faculty of Law, writes about the impact of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle on Indigenous relations. 

U of T Law welcomes new Associate Professor Galit A. Sarfaty

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

U of T Law is pleased to welcome legal scholar Galit A. Sarfaty, who joins the Faculty, effective August 1, 2023. 

Prof Galit A Sarfaty

(supplied photo by Macy Yap)