Print symposium on Prof. Ayelet Shacharís "The Birthright Lottery" in Issues in Legal Scholarship

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Prof. Ayelet Shachar’s influential book, The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality, published by Harvard University Press, is the subject of a special symposium titled "Denaturalizing Citizenship" in the journal Issues in Legal Scholarship (2011: Volume 9, Issue 1).

Watch the webcast: Symposium on the Impact of targeted anti-terrorist sanctions on human rights

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

 UN Security Council Resolution 1267 symposium 

On Friday, November 19, 2010 the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, the International Human Rights Program and the Canadian Civil Liberties Association co-hosted a half-day symposium: UN Security Council Resolution 1267:
Impact of targeted anti-terrorist sanctions on human rights.

Profs. Emon and Macklin interview SJD student Ahmed Saleh about Facebook and the Egyptian revolution

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

In the Boston Review, Profs. Anver Emon and Audrey Macklin, with co-editor Ellen Lust, interview SJD student Ahmed Saleh and his colleague Nadine Wahab, administrators of the “We are all Khaled Said” Facebook campaign, about the role and limitations of Facebook in the Egyptian revolution ("We Are All Khaled Said," Nov. 3, 2011).

Prof. Ran Hirschl receives the 2011 Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory

Thursday, December 1, 2011

The Julius Stone Institute of Jurisprudence in the Faculty of Law at the University of Sydney is honouring Prof. Ran Hirschl with the 2011 Dennis Leslie Mahoney Prize in Legal Theory and have invited Professor Hirschl to deliver the prestigious Julius Stone Address in 2012.

Building Campaign launches the future at a new Faculty of Law

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

New benchmarks set as law firms Osler and Torys give unprecedented gifts of more than $2M each

Law Building Campaign Launch

More than 200 alumni and friends of the Faculty of Law gathered on Nov. 29, 2011 to celebrate the launch of a $53-million building campaign to position Canada’s number one law school for a future of boundless leadership, potential and vision.

Profs. Anita Anand and Andrew Green - "Carrots needed"

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

In a commentary in the Financial Post, Profs. Anita Anand and Andrew Green write about how the federal government could make a national securities regulator a reality if the Supreme Court makes a favourable judgement in the reference on the issue ("Carrots needed," October 26, 2011).

Read the full commentary on the Financial Post website.

Prof. Jeff MacIntosh - "A mini-bubble in bioenergy stocks?"

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

In a commentary in the Financial Post, Prof. Jeff MacIntosh investigates whether a stock-market bubble is developing in bio-energy stocks ("A mini-bubble in bioenergy stocks?", November 2, 2011).

Read the full commentary on the Financial Post website.

Faculty of Law research highlighted in new U of T Social Innovation Catalogue

Friday, November 18, 2011

An ambitious new census of social innovation research at the University of Toronto highlights several different areas in which the Faculty of Law is active.

Profs. Stern and Lemmens call for fraud charges against "guest authors" of ghostwritten articles

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

(Toronto, Aug. 2, 2011) Two University of Toronto Faculty of Law professors argue that academics who ‘lend’ their names, and receive substantial credit as guest authors of medical and scientific articles ghostwritten by industry writers, should be charged with professional and academic misconduct and fraud, even if the articles contain factually correct information.

Prof. Jacob Ziegel - "Unacceptable delays in Supreme Court appointments"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

In a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly, Prof. Jacob Ziegel condemns the delay in appointing replacements for the two Supreme Court of Canada justices who retired this year ("Unacceptable delays in Supreme Court appointments," Sept. 23, 2011).

Read the full commentary on the Faculty Blog.