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The Faculty of Law, with the University of Toronto's Department of Public Health Sciences and Joint Centre for Bioethics, has initiated a seminar series on "Public Health Ethics, Law and Policy."

We have now made a webcast available of the inaugural seminar, on the subject of "Differing Perspectives on the Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program in Ontario." Held at the Faculty of Law on March 20, 2008, it featured the following speakers:

A bold initiative in pursuit of equality rights, the Women's Court of Canada (WCC), was launched on March 6, 2008.

The Women's Court of Canada is a group of academics, activists, and litigators who have undertaken to rewrite Supreme Court of Canada equality judgments in order to challenge conventional thinking about equality. They have started with six significant cases that deal with child care, equal pay, pension rights, social assistance, participation in constitutional negotiations, and integration of children with disabilities in public schools.

In a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly, Prof. Anita Anand analyzes how criminal law is used in dealing with securities offences in Canada, and argues that the existing laws need to be better enforced ("Securities law needs more enforcement, not more laws," March 21, 2008).

Read the full commentary on The Lawyers Weekly website.

Prof. Anver Emon was one of the guests on the Feb. 17 episode of CBC radio's Sunday Edition, discussing the recent controversy over the Archbishop of Canterbury's comments about Sharia law in Britain.

Listen to the discussion on the CBC radio podcast (MP3. The discussion involving Prof. Emon begins in the 40th minute).