News

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.

(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. Mohammade Fadel has written a commentary in Foreign Policy magazine's The Middle East Channel arguing that Egypt's reformers should focus on economic issues first ("Why Egyptian progressives should be chanting 'economy first'", July 18, 2011).

Read the full article on the Foreign Policy website.

The journal New Criminal Law Review (14:3, 2011) has published a print symposium on Alan Brudner's Punishment and Freedom: A Liberal Theory of Penal Law (Oxford 2009). The symposium features comments by prominent international scholars Thom Brooks, Shai Lavi, Alan Norrie, Alice Ristroph, and Mariana Valverde, plus a reply by the author.

See the issue on JSTOR.