News

Prof. Emeritus Jacob Ziegel has written a commentary in the Financial Post analyzing the problems with the criminal usury provisions in section 347 of the Criminal Code, adopted in 1981 ("Repeal loan law," July 4, 2007).

Read the full commentary.

In her monthly column in Law Times, Prof. Lorraine Weinrib discusses the way in which the current debate in Israel over the role of the Israeli Supreme Court makes use of the Canadian experience with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Read the full column on the Law Times website.

Prof. Trudo Lemmens, of the Faculty of Law's Health Law and Policy Group, with Research Associate Lori Luther, has launched a new website devoted to providing accessible information about issues related to genetic information, privacy, and the recent phenomenon of "biobanks" (databanks of human genetic information).

This new website, hosted by the Faculty of Law, can be found at www.geneticdatabanks.ca.

Please read the invitation from Prof. Lemmens and Lori Luther, below.

Darryl Robinson, Adjunct Professor and Acting Director of the International Human Rights Clinic, was interviewed on CBC Newsworld on June 3, 2007 about the Charles Taylor trial.  Charles Taylor, former President of Liberia, faces trial at the International Court of Justice in the Hague for directing rebel groups that carried out war crimes and crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone.