Prof. Sujit Choudhry interviewed in SSHRC magazine "Dialogue"

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Prof. Sujit Choudhry was interviewed in the Spring 2008 issue of the SSHRC magazine Dialogue. Prof. Choudhry, winner in 1997 of the SSHRC’s William E. Taylor Fellowship for most outstanding doctoral award recipient, spoke about his studies overseas and how Canada benefits from students with international experience.

Read the interview on the Dialogue website.

Webcast discussing the Ontario Gardasil/HPV-Vaccination Program

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

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:

Report published on "The Future of Administrative Justice" symposium

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

A symposium on "The Future of Administrative Justice" was hosted by the Faculty of Law in January 2008. It explored the future of administrative justice by bringing together academics, participants in the tribunal sector and government policy makers to dialogue about improvements to administrative tribunals in Ontario and other jurisdictions.

A 28-page report on the symposium has now been released (May 2008), which summarizes the presentations and the roundtable discussion that wrapped up the day.

New faculty appointment: Yasmin Dawood

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Yasmin Dawood will be joining the Faculty in July of 2009, after completing her two year SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University's Centre for Ethics.

"Can Legal Ethics be Taught?" symposium featured in The Lawyers Weekly

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The symposium "Can Legal Ethics be Taught?", held at the Faculty of Law on April 4, 2008, is featured in an article in The Lawyers Weekly ("Law society should still teach ethics, say critics," April 18, 2008). The article describes and quotes from the comments of many of the symposium participants, both academics and practitioners.

Read the full article on The Lawyers Weekly website.

New faculty appointment: Markus Dubber

Tuesday, July 15, 2008
The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the appointment of Markus Dubber to our faculty.  He will be joining us as a Full Professor in July of 2009.  Prof. Dubber is already familiar to some members of the law school community as he is currently spending his sabbatical year at the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics. 
 

"Can Legal Ethics Be Taught?" symposium webcast now available

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

On April 4, 2008, the new Centre for Professionalism, Ethics and Public Service hosted a major symposium, "Can Legal Ethics be Taught?", that brought together leading experts to discuss the teaching of legal ethics.

All sessions from this symposium were recorded on video and can now be viewed over the web.

Prof. Colleen Flood co-editor of new book on health care finance

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Prof. Colleen Flood is the co-editor of a new book, Exploring Social Insurance: Can a Dose of Europe Cure Canadian Health Care Finance?, along with Mark Stabile and Carolyn Hughes Tuohy of the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy & Governance.

New faculty appointment: Betty Ho

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that Professor Betty Ho will be joining the Faculty on August 1, 2008 as a Full Professor of Law. 

Prof. Ho is one of China's preeminent legal scholars, with expertise in corporate, commercial and financial law. She is also an arbitrator at the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission. Her current research interests include corporate and commercial law as well as legal process, particularly the role of law in the administrative state.

Women's Court of Canada launched at "Rewriting Equality" symposium

Friday, May 16, 2008

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.