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Does patent law help or hinder medical innovation?

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Does patent law help or hinder medical innovation?

By Mark Witten / Illustration By Peter Ryan

Patent law is necessary for the invention of new medicines. But in order for patients and the health-care system to benefit appropriately from these inventions, the courts have a duty to ensure broad societal benefits are realized in exchange for granting pharmaceutical companies the exclusivity of monopoly patent protection. 

Faculty of Law to launch the Program on Ethics in Law and Business

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

By Kim Snell

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is pleased to announce its Centre for the Legal Profession will launch a unique initiative called The Program on Ethics in Law and Business in 2013. 

Law’s Amanda Carling lands 2012 President’s Award for Outstanding Aboriginal Student

Monday, December 3, 2012

By Lisa Del Col

 

Amanda Carling, JD 2012, was honoured Nov. 20, 2012 as one of two U of T students awarded the President’s Award for Outstanding Aboriginal Student.  Jessica Keeshig Martin, a recent graduate from the Arts & Science program, was the other recipient. (This award is announced early in the year, and feted in the fall.)

Town Hall + Book Launch Nov. 21 for Middle Income Access to Justice

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Moderated by Ellen Roseman,Toronto Star

(Toronto) The Faculty of Law is pleased to celebrate the book launch of Middle Income Access to Justice (Michael Trebilcock, Anthony Duggan and Lorne Sossin, eds.) with a Town Hall on November 21, 2012, moderated by consumer advocate, reporter and blogger Ellen Roseman, of the Toronto Star.

Unique degree, impressive first class: GPLLM graduates convocate today

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

Convocation Day is always exciting, but particularly so for graduates of an inaugural class of an innovative new degree program, such as the Global Professional LLM at the Faculty of Law. There’s an extra-special feeling of “We made it,” coupled with “And we were the first!”

A unique, executive-style LLM in international business law, the GPLLM launched last year in September. And on November 13, 2012, 25 graduates will be picking up their hard-earned degrees and celebrating. But they are already proudly adding GPLLM to their credentials.

Reconnecting at Reunion 2012

Wednesday, October 24, 2012

In the Age of Social Media, are reunions still necessary? Read--and listen to our audio file--for alumni comments

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

On a spectacular fall evening in downtown Toronto, an energy was reverberating from the Faculty of Law on October 19, where more than 300 alumni gathered to catch up with classmates for Reunion 2012. Celebrating years ending in ‘2’ and ‘7’, a stand-up reception kicked off the class year dinners on October 19-20, 2012, which were spread across the city’s fine dining venues.

Faculty of Law lands top spot on Maclean's law school rankings list

Friday, September 7, 2012

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law has once again landed the top spot on Maclean’s magazine annual Law School Rankings, posted online today. The rankings look at graduate quality, hiring rates to elite law firms, national scope of law alumni, number of Supreme Court of Canada clerkships, and faculty hiring, quality and number of journals citations.

The Faculty of Law was first in elite firm hiring rates, faculty hiring/quality and number of journal citations. The law school ranked second in number of SCC clerkships.

Downtown Legal Services turns 40

Friday, June 15, 2012

And the legacy of representing the unrepresented continues

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

In a celebration of 40 years of representing those who couldn’t afford a lawyer, Downtown Legal Services at the Faculty of Law opened up its doors on June 13 to alumni, students and friends for an afternoon of reminiscing.

More than 130 guests gathered in the characteristic Fasken Martineau building on Spadina Ave. to reconnect with fellow DLSers and view the spacious location that students now have to volunteer their services.

The Class of 2012 is on its way

Monday, June 11, 2012

Under a sunny blue sky, Convocation 2012 drew a packed audience of family and friends on June 8, as the JD grads cheered their classmates on one by one. At times, the mystical beat of a native drum congratulated some of our Aboriginal graduates as they stepped up to the dais, a new tradition started by Prof. Douglas Sanderson, a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.

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