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Updated: Law professor appears on Jeopardy!

Friday, December 27, 2013

On set: Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, left, with Faculty of Law Professor Anthony Niblett.


UPDATED Jan. 6, 2014: Prof. Niblett won $19,601 on Christmas Day and finished in second place on Boxing Day, with a $2,000 win. Questions that stumped him? "Too many to list, I'm afraid," he said.


By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

“I’ll take really cool academics for $500.”

Looking forward and looking back: 72 years of the Law Review

Wednesday, December 18, 2013

From left: Prof. Simon Stern, Ljiljana Stanic, the Honourable Justice Kathryn N. Feldman, Adrienne Ho
From left: Prof. Simon Stern, Ljiljana Stanic, the Honourable Justice Kathryn N. Feldman, Adrienne Ho

By Adrienne Ho & Ljiljana Stanić

Top 10 Faculty of Law news stories for 2013

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

We're thrilled to see you clicking and reading a variety of our web stories. Thanks to Google analytics, we were able to compile our own Top 10 list.

Here are the Faculty of Law's most read news stories for 2013:

 

10. A Convocation to remember

More than 200 graduates of the Faculty of Law were lucky enough to have an honorary degree recipient and commencement address like no other at their June 7 convocation ceremony.

 

SJD student Y.Y. Chen - "Ontario right to fix Ottawa's mistake on refugee health care"

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, SJD student Y.Y. Brandon Chen says that the Ontario government's decision to provide health care to refugee claimants, after funding for it was withdrawn by the federal government, is an important human rights success that could also benefit the province in the long run ("Ontario right to fix Ottawa's mistake on refugee health care," December 12, 2013).

SJD student Kyle Kirkup - "With sex-work ruling, Supreme Court can be on the right side of history"

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, SJD student Kyle Kirkup looks at the upcoming the Supreme Court of Canada decision on Canada's prostitution laws, arguing that the court should strike down the three provisions currently restricting sex work ("With sex-work ruling, Supreme Court can be on the right side of history," December 17, 2013).

Prof. Lisa Austin and others - "Our data, our laws"

Friday, December 13, 2013

In a commentary in the National Post, Prof. Lisa Austin and other specialists in privacy and technology law write that Canadians need international agreements to protect the privacy of their data stored on servers in the United States ("Our data, our laws," December 12, 2013).

Read the full commentary on the National Post website, or below.

Jackman Law Building and Renewal design lands Canadian Architect Award

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The Jackman Law Building and Faculty Renewal design by Hariri Pontarini Architects (HPA) and B + H Architects has landed a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for 2013, one of six announced today in Canadian Architect magazine.

PBSC director Nikki Gershbain: "Law students can help solve Canada’s access-to-justice crisis"

Tuesday, December 10, 2013

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Nikki Gershbain, National Director of Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC), argues that law students can make a significant contribution to improving access to justice in Canada ("Law students can help solve Canada’s access-to-justice crisis," December 9, 2014).

Sustainable Companies Project: A Letter from Oslo, Norway

Tuesday, December 10, 2013
SJD student Carol Liao speaking at podium during the conference

By Carol Liao, SJD candidate

How do we integrate environmental concerns into the decision-making of companies? This question brought together a league of world-class scholars from across the globe, culminating into a final conference of the Sustainable Companies Project on December 5-6 in Oslo, Norway.

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