Law in Action Within Schools featured in Toronto Star

Friday, April 8, 2011

(Feb. 22, 2011) The Toronto Star features a great program that the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is proud to be a part of and involved with the Toronto Board of Education: Law in Action Within Schools, or LAWS, has more than five years of proven success in helping high school students think seriously about pursuing post-secondary education and possibly careers in law.

 Read today's story here.

 

LAWS hosts Third Annual Justice Conference for Aboriginal Youth

Friday, April 8, 2011

Stephen Augustine, Curator of Ethnology, Eastern Maritime at The Museum of Civilization with Amanda Carling, 2L
Stephen Augustine, Curator of Ethnology, Eastern Maritime at The Museum of Civilization with Amanda Carling, 2L, in the Faculty Lounge, holding the replica Wampum belt created by Mr. Augustine following his session on the traditional use of Wampum.

Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh - "National securities regulation: A saga of political futility"

Friday, April 8, 2011

Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh has published a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly about the ongoing difficulties involved in the attempt to establish a National Securities Regulator ("National securities regulation: A saga of political futility," February 18, 2011).

Read the full commentary.

Dean Mayo Moran interviewed on BNN about new GPLLM program

Friday, April 8, 2011

Dean Mayo Moran was interviewed on the Business News Network (BNN) about the new Global Professional LLM (GPLLM), Canada's only executive-style program in global business law ("Business Without Borders," Trading Day, Dec. 1, 2010).

Watch the interview on the BNN website.

Ad Hockers reunite for Constitute! film screening at Faculty of Law

Friday, April 8, 2011
Screening of "Constitute!"
Constitute! producer Susan Bazilli with disabity rights activist Meenu Sikand and one of the main women in the film, Linda Palmer Nye.

By Susan Bazilli

Faculty of Law invited to submit clerkship applications to the International Court of Justice

Friday, April 8, 2011

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that it has just been invited by the International Court of Justice in The Hague to join a very small number of elite law schools internationally that may submit applications from graduating students to the Court’s nine-month “University Traineeship Programme.”

Justice for Kenyan rape victims through the lens of Canadian law

Friday, April 8, 2011

International Human Rights Program and Law and Feminism Series take a closer look at "160 Girls" project

By Alice Tsier, 1L

“In Kenya, every 30 minutes a girl is raped.” This is the chilling statistic that Fiona Sampson, the executive director of Equality Effect, uses to explain the urgency of her organization’s work.

Launch of the new Canadian Securities Law Portal

Friday, April 8, 2011

(Jan. 26, 2011) Faculty of the University of Toronto law school, led by Prof. Anita Anand, have launched the Canadian Securities Law Portal.

The portal is dedicated to facilitating discussion and debate regarding the proposed national securities regulator, including gathering together in one place all of the relevant material for the federal reference to the Supreme Court of Canada, and provincial references to the courts of appeal of Alberta and Quebec. These constitutional references are extremely important to the future of capital markets in Canada.

Anti-SLAPP advisory committee, chaired by Dean Mayo Moran, produces final report

Friday, April 8, 2011

Calls for quick test for courts to recognize Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation

An advisory committee chaired by the Faculty of Law's Dean Mayo Moran to investigate the issue of Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation, or SLAPP, has produced its final report on crafting anti-SLAPP legislation. The report is now available online

JD/MSW program celebrates 20th anniversary

Friday, April 8, 2011
JD/MSW reception

By Kate Joseph

(Jan. 28, 2011) Students, faculty and alumni of the combined JD/Master of Social Work program gathered Jan. 26, 2011 to celebrate 20 years of the program’s success.

The JD/MSW, offered by the University of Toronto’s Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Faculty of Law, provides a coherent and integrative approach to study the intersection of law and social work.