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Celebrating 75 years of modern legal education at U of T

Wednesday, January 1, 2025

University of Toronto Faculty of Law logo 75

The modern law school at the University of Toronto was founded in 1949.

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Peter Benson named U of T's inaugural Donald R. Crawshaw Chair in Private Law

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

A pivotal gift from University of Toronto alumnus Donald R. Crawshaw (LLB 1982) will deepen private law scholarship at the Faculty of Law.

“We are deeply grateful to Donald Crawshaw for his vision in establishing this endowed chair in private law,” said University Professor and Dean Jutta Brunnée, James Marshall Tory Dean’s Chair. “His generous gift solidifies our position as a global leader in this foundational area of law.”

To recognize his generous benefaction, the chair will be named the Donald R. Crawshaw Chair in Private Law.

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Ran Hirschl on Comparative Constitutional Inquiry: The North American Angle

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

The International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL) and the Comparative Constitutions Project (CCP) have launched a new journal: Constitutional Studies (CS).

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U of T Law welcomes Assistant Professor Nathalie A. Smuha

Monday, July 28, 2025

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is pleased to welcome legal scholar Nathalie A. Smuha, who joins our law school at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective August 1, 2025.

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Canada needs a coherent immigration policy – not another piecemeal fix: Michael J. Trebilcock

Monday, July 28, 2025

In an opinion in The Globe and Mail, published July 25, University Professor Emeritus Michael J. Trebilcock and Ninette Kelley, former senior UNHCR official and a former member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, write how Canada needs a coherent immigration policy. They are the co-authors, along with Jeffrey Reitz, of Reshaping the Mosaic: Canadian Immigration Policy in the Twenty-First Century (U of T Press, 2025). They write:

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Anscombe Bioethics Centre Memorial Lecture: Trudo Lemmens

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Professor Trudo Lemmens, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy, delivered Anscombe Bioethics Centre's 2025 Memorial Lecture:

Death as Therapy: Unravelling Canada’s Assisted Dying Regime

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Business development in law for beginners: Graduate Law Student Association (GLSA)

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Business law event

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by Claudio Klaus (GPLLM 2025)

On July 10, the Graduate Law Student Association hosted a summer panel on business development, drawing a strong group of LLM, GPLLM and SJD students despite the seasonal break.