News

Prof. Emeritus Jacob Ziegel, in a commentary in the Financial Post, has analyzed the issues that are holding back the passage of important amendments to the federal Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act and the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act ("Take bankruptcy bill out of limbo," May 30, 2007).

Read the full commentary.

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. 

Nikki Gershbain, Executive Director, Office of the Dean at the Faculty of Law, has penned a commentary in the Toronto Star with Justice Harvey Brownstone of the Ontario Court of Justice, in which they argue that the failure of the sexual revolution to usher in true domestic equality is the biggest hurdle currently facing women in the professions ("In search of work-life balance," April 23, 2007).

A related commentary by the same authors was published in Law Times on April 30 ("Struggling With The Work Life Balance," April 30, 2007).

Adjunct Professor and Acting Director of the International Human Rights Clinic Darryl Robinson was interviewed on City TV about a new project by Google Earth offering enhanced imagery of the situation in Darfur, Sudan (April 12, 2007).

Watch the interview on the City TV website.
(Click the play arrow under the image of the earth. You will have to endure a brief ad featuring one of those phone company beavers first).