U of T Law ranked in top 15 global law schools: THE World University Rankings 2021 by subject

Friday, October 30, 2020

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is ranked first in Canada and among the top 15 law schools in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2021. U of T Law ranked in the top ten in the THE 2020 subject rankings.

What drives the personal investment decisions of millionaires? New research by Professor Adriana Robertson

Thursday, October 29, 2020

Adriana Robertson is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Rotman School of Management and holds the Honourable Justice Frank Iacobucci Chair in Capital Markets Regulation.

Researchers with GuideWell, UBS, Yale School of Management and U of T's Robertson, questioned almost 2,500 high-net worth investors: what goes through their mind when they think about equity exposure?

Professor Markus Dubber cited in the Boston Review

Thursday, October 29, 2020

The Boston Review, a political and literary forum, cites a paper by Faculty of Law Professor and U of T's Centre for Ethics director, Markus D. Dubber, in the article "How the Criminal Law Lost Its Mind".

Pocketbook edition of University Professor Jutta Brunnée's 2019 Hague Academy course

Saturday, October 24, 2020

Since 1923, courses given at The Hague Academy of International Law are published in English or French in the Collected Courses of the Academy.

Since 2008, select courses published in the series have also been published as pocketbooks, with the aim of making them accessible to a wider public, especially students.

How can researching normativity help us align AI with human values?: Professor Gillian K. Hadfield

Thursday, October 1, 2020

Fears about the conflict between humans and artificial intelligence have been front and centre in the popular imagination for decades, from 2001: A Space Odyssey’s HAL in 1968 to contemporary imaginings of killer robots. And our fears aren’t entirely unfounded.

What did Amy Coney Barrett say? Professor David Dyzenhaus for the Verfassungsblog on Matters Constitutional

Wednesday, September 30, 2020

"Very soon Trump’s new pick for the US Supreme Court will be grilled by Democratic senators about her conservative views on abortion and the Affordable Care Act. They are rightly worried that her appointment will put in place a 6-3 majority of rightwing judges on the Court, especially in the wake of Trump’s explicit disappointment at the fact that even his picks have on a couple of occasions voted against positions he favoured. What assurance does he think he has that this pick will be more compliant, a ‘loyal’ ‘Trump judge’? 

Op-Ed co-authored by Trinity College Provost Mayo Moran: Strengthening Canada's disability community in a post-pandemic world

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

In an op-ed published in the Toronto Star, September 15, David Onley, former Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, former Faculty of Law Dean Mayo Moran, currently provost and vice chancellor of Trinity College and a law professor at U of T, and Charles Beer, former Minister of Community and Social Services, address the need to strengthen Canada's support for the disability community in a post-pandemic world.

As the authors of three successive government-appointed independent reviews, they write: