Professor Sophia Moreau with Western and Queen's Law colleagues launch the Tort Law and Social Equality Project

Led by Professors Sophia Moreau (U of T Law), Zoë Sinel (Western Law) and Jean Thomas (Queen's Law), the Tort Law and Social Equality Project aims to bring together academics, lawyers and judges from across Canada — and beyond — to think about ways in which tort law either perpetuates existing social inequalities or can be used creatively to combat such inequalities.

The project website, which will go live on Feb. 11, contains an online database, fully searchable by any member of the public, of primary law and secondary sources relating to tort law’s unequal impact on certain social groups.

The database will be growing continually, and academics and legal professionals are invited to submit relevant sources in the Your Contributions section. The website also contains an online discussion forum, which will feature monthly discussion panels between academics, lawyers, and judges, with each month focusing on a different issue of interest.

Virtual launch event

Join the Tort Law and Social Equality Project launch event on Friday, February 11, 2022 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. To register, please email vanessaz.zhang@utoronto.ca for Zoom details.

Agenda: 

• 2:00 p.m. — Professors Moreau, Sinel and Thomas will introduce the project, website and discussion forum
• 2:15 p.m. — Brief research notes from:
• Professor Elizabeth Adjin-Tettey (UVic)
• Professor Haim Abraham (UCL)
• Professor Melanie Randall (UWO)
• Professor Rakhi Ruparelia (Ottawa)
• 3 p.m. — Group Discussion of Priorities