News

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.

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.

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.

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.