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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.

First Spirit of Barbra Schlifer Award goes to alumna Leilani Farha

Thursday, April 11, 2013
Leilani Farha

Faculty of Law alumna and international human rights lawyer, Leilani Farha, MSW/LLB 1995, is the first recipient of the newly launched Spirit of Barbra Schlifer Award, sponsored by Torys LLP.

What can Asia teach all countries about growth?: Adjunct Professor & SJD grad Michell Wigdor authors book

Friday, April 5, 2013

By Adam Shedletzky, 2L and Bruce McRae, 2L

Adjunct professor and recent SJD graduate Mitchell Wigdor authored No Miracle: What Asia Can Teach All Countries About Growth. He spoke at a recent lunchtime session in the Solarium, Faculty of Law. The so-called Asian miracle identifies the period of dramatic growth that occurred in Asian economies between 1960-2010.

2013 Justice Conference for Aboriginal Youth was the biggest and best ever

Monday, April 1, 2013

HIgh school students participate in a mock trial as part of the 2013 Justice Conference for Aboriginal Youth


By Lisa Del Col

A decade later, Bill Graham '64 reflects on politics and international law in the run-up to the Iraq War

Monday, March 18, 2013

On the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the invasion of Iraq by American and British forces, Bill Graham '64, Canada's foreign minister at the time, and his son Patrick, then working as a reporter in Baghdad, reflect on their experiences of politics and international law in the run-up to the war, in the pages of The Globe and Mail ("The reporter, his foreign-minister father and the war that consumed them," March 16, 2013).

Groundbreaking Program on Ethics in Law and Business launches

Monday, March 11, 2013

Launch of the Program on Ethics in Law and Business

By Noel Semple, JD 2007, SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Legal Profession

Sixth annual See Yourself Here draws a record crowd and waitlist

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

See Yourself Here 2013

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo and Adrienne Ho, 2L

More than 150 high school students, undergraduates and adults from diverse communities across the GTA visited the Faculty of Law March 1, 2013, eager to get a glimpse into the life of a lawyer—and how to become one—at the sixth annual See Yourself Here open house, sponsored by TD Bank.

Newly elected ICC deputy prosecutor and alumnus James Stewart visits law school

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

 

By Andrea Russell, executive director, Dean’s Office

The Faculty of Law welcomed back alumnus James Stewart, LLB 1975, who was  recently elected deputy prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.  The event was organized by the Faculty’s International Human Rights Program.