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Adopting a legal response to embryo donation

Friday, May 17, 2013
Lab technician at work

What are the promises and perils of applying adoption laws and practices to embryo donation?

By Mark Witten

Profs. Flood and Lemmens edit special issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics on "Global Health and the Law"

Friday, May 17, 2013

Profs. Colleen Flood and Trudo Lemmens are the co-editors of a special issue of The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics devoted to "Global Health and the Law" (Volume 41, Issue 1: Spring 2013). The issue comprises the paper from the National Health Law Conference held in Toronto in May 2012.

JD student Joshua Stark (with Jessica Prince) writes "Be it resolved: The Munk Debates should include women" in The Globe and Mail

Thursday, May 16, 2013

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, JD student Joshua Stark, with litigator Jessica Prince, looks at the prestigious Munk Debates and wonders why they have not featured any women debaters since 2009 ("Be it resolved: The Munk Debates should include women," May 15, 2013). Both Stark and Prince are former debating champions.

Read the commentary on The Globe and Mail website, or below.

Faculty of Law Renewal Includes Revitalization of Green Space

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

The Faculty of Law’s building project includes exciting plans for the green space at the south end of the site.  In addition to creating wonderful new space for the Faculty of Law, we are also committed to enhancing the beauty of the natural environment in Philosopher’s Walk and the other areas around the new Jackman Law Building.

The architects conceptualized the landscape plan to address four primary challenges:

Internationally Trained Lawyers Program celebrates its third commencement ceremony

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

ITLP commencement ceremony, 2013

The Faculty of Law’s innovative Internationally Trained Lawyers Program celebrated its third commencement ceremony April 29, 2013, with 37 graduates from 19 countries. And for the first time this cohort had lawyers from Albania, Guyana, Ireland, Malaysia, Moldova, Nepal, Sudan, and Venezuela.

JD student Laura McGee writes "How to encourage corporate social responsibility" in Policy Options

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

In the magazine Policy Options, JD student Laura McGee has written an opinion piece proposing income tax incentives to encourage corporations to include “social responsibility” provisions in their articles of incorporation (""How to encourage corporate social responsibility," May 2013).

Read the article on the Policy Options website (PDF)

Five students landed 2013 Gordon Cressy Awards

Friday, May 3, 2013

The Faculty of Law congratulates its 2013 Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award winners: Clifford Anderson, Anna Cooper, Danielle Glatt, Promise Homes Skinner and Albert Lin. The students, now alumni, were recognized in a ceremony on April 29, 2013. A total of 187 university students received the prestigious award. The awards were created to recognize students in their final year for their enthusiastic dedication to the university through extra-curricular involvement.

Dean Mayo Moran interviewed on CBC Radio's "Metro Morning" after being honoured as "Woman of Distinction"

Thursday, May 2, 2013

On the CBC radio program Metro Morning, host Matt Galloway interviewed Dean Mayo Moran on the occasion of her being honoured as one of seven women named as a 2013 "Woman of Distinction" by YWCA Toronto. They discuss Dean Moran's career path to becoming the first woman dean of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and the issues women face when practicing law.

Committee of inquiry led by Prof. Trudo Lemmens calls for stricter standards regarding seizure of research records

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

A committee of inquiry chaired by Prof. Trudo Lemmens has released its report regarding an incident in which Ottawa institutions seized the records of a pair of academic researchers, concluding that the seizure was unjustified. “The seizure of research records is a serious measure that can be justified in extreme circumstances only, where no other reasonable options are available,” the Committee states in its report. The report also calls for greater clarity about the issue of informed consent in research.

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