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Professor Anver Emon helps Canada Post create Eid stamp to mark Muslim holidays

Tuesday, May 12, 2020
Eid stamp 2020
A total of 1.3 million stamps began circulating on April 24 to commemorate the start of Ramadan (photo courtesy of Canada Post)

Anver Emon, a professor a

JD/MBA graduate Davina Shivratan, co-founder of legal volunteer non-profit, LawLinks

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Law Links

LawLinks is a new non-profit initiative that helps create legal opportunities by connecting law students with flexible volunteer work.

Law Links co-founders

Ontario Tribunal finds policy against refugee drivers discriminatory: IHRP

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Provincial government should allow experienced drivers from war-torn countries to skip driving-test waiting period similar to other newcomers, Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario Finds

“This is the very essence of arbitrariness”
— Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Shyesh Al-Turki v. Ontario (Transportation) 2020 HRTO 392

Digital immunity passports – Morally and legally problematic?: Op-Ed by Professor Sophia Moreau

Tuesday, May 12, 2020

In an op-ed for the Toronto Star, published May 12 ("The Big Debate: Should those with immunity get a COVID-19 digital passport?") U of T Law Professor Sophia Moreau and Queen's Law Professor Sabine Tsuruda, say digital immunity passports for COVID-19 raise troubling moral and legal issues.

In Memoriam: Arthur Scace (1938-2020)

Thursday, May 7, 2020

Arthur Scace

Arthur Scace (BA 1960, Hon DSL 2003, Hon LLD 2003) was a champion of education, health care and the arts, who spent his life working to build a better community.

The University of Toronto community is deeply saddened by the passing of Arthur Scace, a lifelong supporter of his alma mater and a greatly valued University citizen. He passed away peacefully this week with his wife, alumna Susan Scace, by his side.

Adjunct Professor Mitch Frazer named Ontario Tech University’s Chancellor

Thursday, May 7, 2020

The Board of Governors of Ontario Tech University has appointed Mitch Frazer, an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, as the university's fourth Chancellor. He assumes the role of Chancellor immediately and will be formally installed at a ceremony to be announced.

In Memoriam: Justice Romain Pitt, a pioneer in the Canadian legal world

Thursday, May 7, 2020

The Faculty of Law, friends, family and colleagues are mourning the loss of Justice Romain Pitt, a trailblazing lawyer and judge who died last week at the age of 84. 

Born in Grenada and arriving in Toronto at the age of 19 to study at the University of Toronto, Pitt went on to co-found the first partnership of black lawyers in Canada and serve as a founding director of Caribana, now known as the Toronto Caribbean Carnival.

Jean Teillet's Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture to be broadcast on CBC Ideas

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

Justice is supposed to be blind — and that is precisely the problem, argues Indigenous rights lawyer and U of T law alumna, Jean Teillet. She says symbols such as Blind Justice may capture our ideals of justice, but not the reality.

Our drug discovery system seems broken: Op-Ed by Richard C. Owens

Wednesday, May 6, 2020

In an op-ed published in the Financial Post, May 5, lawyer and adjunct professor Richard C. Owens, writes on why Canada’s drug discovery system seems broken. 

"Firms are supposed to maximize shareholder value. Nothing more. It is difficult to see how these firms’ decisions do that, at least in the short term. The cause for their apparently paradoxical behaviour may be rooted in the politics of defending the intellectual property system we rely on for drug discovery in societies that are increasingly hostile to private enterprise."

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