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Today, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR-IHSPR) awarded its first CIHR Barer-Flood Prize, named in honour of the outstanding work of alumna (LLM '94, SJD '98) Prof. Colleen Flood, Faculty of Law, and Dr. Morris Barer, the Institute’s first two scientific directors.

Three faculty members have been cited in a decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on whether the requirement for new citizens of Canada to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen. In his decision, Justice Edward Morgan cited articles by Professors Lorraine Weinrib, Ayelet Shachar, and Ran Hirschl. He also cites former faculty member Sujit Choudhry.

See the full decision on CanLII.

On Tuesday, Sept, 3, the Supreme Court of Israel issued an important decision regarding the interface between copyright and competition law and the oversight of collective rights management organizations. The decision includes three citations of two articles by Prof. Ariel Katz.

The decision was written by Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, previously a law professor at Tel Aviv University, who was a Distinguished Visitor at the Faculty of Law several times recently before her appointment to the Supreme Court last year.

The Centre for the Legal Profession is delighted to announce that its Distinguished Visiting Jurist for 2013/2014 will be The Honourable Robert P. Armstrong.  He was appointed directly from the Bar to the Court of Appeal for Ontario on January 25, 2002. He served on that court until March 6, 2013.  He is presently at Arbitration Place in Toronto where he serves as an arbitrator and provides related ADR services.