Class of 2017 is ready to celebrate

Friday, June 2, 2017

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

It’s Convocation time at the University of Toronto, and the white tent and blue banners have gone up around King’s College Circle in preparation for the graduation season.  The Class of 2017 is looking forward to celebrating, after three or four long years at the Faculty of Law.

Faculty, students, alumni from Structural Genomics Consortium Clinic author paper in Science Translational Magazine

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Faculty, students and alumni who worked in the Structural Genomics Consortium Clinic last year have authored a paper on trust agreements, now published in Science Translation Magazine. From the abstract:

"The core feature of trusts—holding property for the benefit of others—is well suited to constructing a research community that treats reagents as public goods."

Breese Davies selected Constitutional-Litigator-in-Residence for the Asper Centre

Thursday, May 25, 2017
Breese Davies

The Faculty of Law’s David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is pleased to announce that lawyer Breese Davies, LLB 1998, will be the Asper Centre’s Constitutional-Litigator-in-Residence for the fall of 2017.

A Trip to the Court: a JD student reflects on an Asper Centre Intervention at the SCC

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

By Patrick Enright

JD student Patrick Enright at the SCCPatrick Enright is a second-year JD candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and was a student in the Asper Centre half time clinic in the Winter 2017 term.

Prof. David Schneiderman discusses the rules of trade and investment on TVO's The Agenda

Thursday, May 11, 2017

In an extended one-on-one interview with host Steve Paikin, Prof. David Schneiderman discussed the rules of international trade and investment on TVO's flagship public affairs program, The Agenda with Steve Paikin, on May 8, 2017.

Prof. Kent Roach writes "Is Brad Wall really defending school choice with his use of the notwithstanding clause?"

Thursday, May 4, 2017

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Kent Roach analyzes Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall's use of the notwithstanding clause and the constitutional judicial decision about funding Catholic schools that triggered it ("Is Brad Wall really defending school choice with his use of the notwithstanding clause?", May 2, 2017).

Read the commentary on the Globe and Mail website, or below.

What does the Fox say? Prof. Angela Fernandez makes accessible the original judgment roll in famous property law case Pierson v. Post

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

The judgment roll in the famous case Pierson v. Post was discovered in 2007 at the Division of Old Records in the New York County Clerk’s Office, New York City, by Professor Angela Fernandez, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Department of History.

Watch the keynote speech from the "Artificial Intelligence, Technology and the Future of Law" conference

Thursday, April 27, 2017

Watch Professor Dana Remus of the UNC School of Law give the keynote address at the conference "Artificial Intelligence, Technology and the Future of Law." The conference was hosted by the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law on March 25, 2017.

New book about Prof. Arthur Ripstein's study of Kant, "Force and Freedom"

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Freedom and ForceProf. Arthur Ripstein's seminal book Force and Freedom: Kant's Legal and Political Philosophy is the subject of a new book that collects essays from leading scholars in law and philosophy.

Congratulations to Cressy Student Leadership Award Recipients

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

The Faculty of Law extends warm congratulations to the following graduating students who have been selected as University of Toronto Cressy Student Leadership Award recipients: