Faculty of Law launches innovative Global Professional LLM

Friday, April 8, 2011

Unique, executive-style master’s degree focusing on global business law addresses the challenges and changes in today’s business environment

(Toronto, Nov. 16, 2010) As the challenges of a modern global economy force law firms to rethink their business models and navigate an increasingly complex network of financial regulations, cross-border rules and highly mobile workforces, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law announces the launch of its innovative Global Professional LL.M. program to address these issues and more for the working practitioner.

Report of the Faculty of Law External Review now online

Friday, April 8, 2011

As part of the University of Toronto's regular cycle of quality assurance, an external review team for the Faculty of Law visited the law school on September 30 and October 1 2010. Its members were:

Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh - "National securities regulation: A saga of political futility"

Friday, April 8, 2011

Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh has published a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly about the ongoing difficulties involved in the attempt to establish a National Securities Regulator ("National securities regulation: A saga of political futility," February 18, 2011).

Read the full commentary.

Prof. Rebecca Cook testifies at B.C. polygamy trial

Friday, April 8, 2011

On January 6, 2011, Prof. Rebecca Cook provided expert testimony at the trial being held in front of the British Columbia Supreme Court on the question of whether the law banning polygamy is constitutional.

Faculty of Law's Access to Civil Justice Colloquium featured in Globe & Mail

Friday, April 8, 2011

Feb. 11, 2011) More than 100 legal luminaries met yesterday at the University of Toronto, and are concluding today, to come up with solutions to the access to civil justice issue for middle-income Canadians, spearheaded by the Faculty of Law. Madam Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin's speech led the Globe and Mail article by Kirk Makin featured today, which is garnering hundreds of online comments.

Read the article here.

Prof. Mohammad Fadel on the Arab demonstrations, the sub-prime mortgage crisis, and "black swans"

Friday, April 8, 2011

On the Foreign Policy magazine website, Prof. Mohammad Fadel has written an analysis comparing two crises, the sub-prime mortgage collapse and the popular demonstrations in Arab states, arguing that they were both in fact predictable and predicted, rather than being unpredictable "black swan" events ("Can Black Swans lead to a sustainable Arab-Israeli peace?", February 2, 2011).

LAWS hosts Third Annual Justice Conference for Aboriginal Youth

Friday, April 8, 2011

Stephen Augustine, Curator of Ethnology, Eastern Maritime at The Museum of Civilization with Amanda Carling, 2L
Stephen Augustine, Curator of Ethnology, Eastern Maritime at The Museum of Civilization with Amanda Carling, 2L, in the Faculty Lounge, holding the replica Wampum belt created by Mr. Augustine following his session on the traditional use of Wampum.

Dean Mayo Moran interviewed on BNN about new GPLLM program

Friday, April 8, 2011

Dean Mayo Moran was interviewed on the Business News Network (BNN) about the new Global Professional LLM (GPLLM), Canada's only executive-style program in global business law ("Business Without Borders," Trading Day, Dec. 1, 2010).

Watch the interview on the BNN website.

Article: Morgan - The Canada-U.S. subsidy divide

Friday, April 8, 2011

By: Ed Morgan

This commentary was first published in the Globe and Mail on Thursday, April 7, 2011.

The issue of public subsidies for political parties resurfaced Friday, with Stephen Harper promising to eliminate funding if he achieves a parliamentary majority. Those with a three-year memory span will recall that the Tories were nearly defeated by the combined opposition when they proposed this move in 2008.