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U of T Law once again offers free LSAT Course and Law School Prep Program for low-income students

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

For the second year running, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is offering a free LSAT and law school prep course for high potential undergrads with limited financial resources. This initiative is one of several the Faculty is undertaking to proactively identify and reduce barriers to applying to law school.

Groundbreaking Program on Ethics in Law and Business launches

Monday, March 11, 2013

Launch of the Program on Ethics in Law and Business

By Noel Semple, JD 2007, SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Legal Profession

Sixth annual See Yourself Here draws a record crowd and waitlist

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

See Yourself Here 2013

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo and Adrienne Ho, 2L

More than 150 high school students, undergraduates and adults from diverse communities across the GTA visited the Faculty of Law March 1, 2013, eager to get a glimpse into the life of a lawyer—and how to become one—at the sixth annual See Yourself Here open house, sponsored by TD Bank.

Prof. Brenda Cossman: "Canada's child pornography law has rightly been criticized for years"

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

In a guest editorial in the magazine Xtra!, Prof. Brenda Cossman comments on Canada's child pornography law, an issue recently brought to the fore by the controversy around comments by Tom Flanagan ("Canada's child pornography law has rightly been criticized for years," March 5, 2013).

Read the commentary on the Xtra! website or below.

The Hon. Lynn Smith presents the 2012-2013 Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

"The Quest for A Charter Equality Test: Has the Longest Way Round Been the Shortest Way Home?"

 By Aoife Quinn, 1L

 

“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” James Joyce, Ulysses

Welcome Day 2013 draws more than 150 admitted students

Thursday, February 28, 2013

The Faculty of Law’s annual Welcome Day greeted, conversed and interacted with more than 150 students who have been accepted for the 2013-2014 start.

Prof. Brenda Cossman awarded 2013 Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Professor Brenda Cossman has been awarded the Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize by the University of Toronto for her work as Professor of Law and as Director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. 

This prize is awarded to an individual who has made a positive and lasting contribution in one or more of the areas of education and action against discrimination; supporting the University’s mission to realize an exemplary degree of equity and diversity; and extending our knowledge as a consequence of our diversity.   

Libyan, Syrian conflicts and sexual violence: Conference looked at human rights and international law implications

Monday, February 25, 2013

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

After a long flight from Libya that landed in in a major Toronto snowstorm, Alaa Murabit, the 23-year-old co-founder of the grassroots Voice of Libyan Women movement, gave the keynote address at the Sexual  Violence in Libya and Syria Conference held on February 8, 2013 at the Faculty of Law.

Prof. Anver Emon's Islamic studies project receives Connaught Fund award

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Prof. Anver Emon recently landed a prestigious grant from the University of Toronto’s Connaught Fund.

The grant will fund the Connaught Summer Institute on Islamic Studies, August 12-22, 2013. The institute is a partnership between the Faculty of Law and Emmanuel College, and Emon is designing the program with Mark Toulouse, principal of Emmanuel College.

Prof. Anita Anand reviews research on link between better corporate governance and performance

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Prof. Anita Anand was quoted in the Globe & Mail on February 13, 2013 in “A Business Case for a Better Boardroom.” The article considered academic research on the link between better corporate governance practices and financial and shareholder results.  The article refers to Anand’s important findings: “research has found connections between board composition, ownership structure and the presence of institutional investors and ‘valuation outcomes’ for a company.

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