News

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Audrey Macklin and Lorne Waldman, president of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, identify important concerns with the Canadian government's proposed changes to citizenship legislation ("Citizenship reforms a serious threat to rights of all Canadians," February 12, 2014).

In a commentary in the Ottawa Citizen, Prof. Kent Roach argues that current oversight of the Communications Security Establishment Canada agency is inadequate ("Surveillance and Canada’s lagging law," February 6, 2014).

Read the commentary on the Ottawa Citizen website, or below.

Surveillance and Canada’s lagging law

By Kent Roach

Prof. Mohammad Fadel led an online forum in the Boston Review with reaction from his essay “What Killed Egyptian Democracy?”

Leading up to the three-year anniversary of the revolution, Fadel opened the debate looking at why the transition to democracy has failed. He argued that “the January 25 Revolution was also a striking failure of political theory.”

Six academics, authors and journalists posted their views in response to his essay.

Read the forum here.

Professor Stephen J. Toope, a noted international law scholar, university leader and collaborator/colleague of the Faculty of Law, has been named the new director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs. 

“The Munk School has built a reputation around the world for its thoughtful and insightful examination of international issues,” said Toope.  “I look forward to joining its outstanding researchers and students in working to understand and tackle global problems.”