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Prof. Kent Roach co-authors "Our national security needs a global perspective" in Globe and Mail

Thursday, October 27, 2016

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Kent Roach and co-authors Stephen Toope and Carmen Cheung look at the lessons to be learned from other nations' experiences with with strategies to “prevent radicalization to violence” ("Our national security needs a global perspective," October 27, 2016).

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

Prof. Ariel Katz writes "CETA could put Canada between a rock and constitutional hard places"

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Ariel Katz analyzes the constitutional implications of a decision by the German Federal Constitutional Court about CETA, the Canada-European Union free trade agreement ("CETA could put Canada between a rock and constitutional hard places," October 25, 2016).

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

 

Prof. Anita Anand writes "Why the court got it right on the Alberta Oilsands, Marquee merger"

Friday, October 21, 2016

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Anita Anand analyzes an Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench decision that required a shareholder vote to approve a proposed merger via a plan of arrangement ("Why the court got it right on the Alberta Oilsands, Marquee merger," October 20, 2016).

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

 

Prof. Trudo Lemmens co-authors "The dangers of euthanasia-on-demand" in Chicago Tribune

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

In a commentary in the Chicago Tribune, Prof. Trudo Lemmens and co-authors Willem Lemmens (chair of the department of philosophy at the University of Antwerp) and Arthur Caplan (professor of bioethics at New York University) warn of the dangers of a Dutch proposal to allow euthanasia for a "completed life" ("The dangers of euthanasia-on-demand," October 17, 2016).

Prof. Kent Roach co-authors "Renewed Bill C-51 questions: Balancing national security with civil liberty"

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Kent Roach and the University of Ottawa's Prof. Craig Forcese analyze the current use of the federal government's anti-terrorism act, Bill C-51, and the proposals in the government's recent National Security Green Paper ("Renewed Bill C-51 questions: Balancing national security with civil liberty," October 17, 2016).

Prof. Stephen Toope appointed as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge

Tuesday, October 11, 2016

Stephen ToopeProfessor Stephen Toope, Director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and cross-appointed to the Faculty of Law, has been appointed as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge. The Vice-Chancellor is the full-time, resident head of the University and its most senior academic officer.

IHRP writes joint submission to the UN CEDAW Committee with Human Rights Watch

Friday, October 7, 2016

CEDAW logoThis week, Human Rights Watch and the International Human Rights Program (IHRP) provided the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women ("the CEDAW Committee") with a joint submission highlighting two areas of concern.

LLM student Catherine Dunmore is the first recipient of the Newton Rowell Fellowship

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

In Strasbourg, France: Catherine Dunmore, LLM student at the Faculty of Law, is the first recipient of the Newton Rowell Fellowship

 

By Karen Gross

IHRP co-signs "A Statement Against the Immigration Detention of Children"

Tuesday, October 4, 2016

The International Human Rights Program (IHRP) is a co-signatory of "A Statement Against the Immigration Detention of Children" (released October 4, 2016).

A Grand Moot like no other (Video now available)

Friday, September 30, 2016

By Peter Boisseau / Photography by Holly Sherlock

The 2016 Grand Moot delivered a rare unanimous verdict. Three Supreme Court of Canada justices, and a packed room of faculty, students and dignitaries, agreed they’d never witnessed an event quite like it at the University of Toronto’s storied law school.

Start with the fact that it was held in the newly refurbished Rosalie Silberman Abella Moot Court Room, with U of T alumni and SCC Justice Rosalie Abella presiding, along with fellow alumni and SCC Justices Michael Moldaver and Russell Brown.

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