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JD student Andrew Stobo Sniderman has written an article in Macleans's magazine looking at the under-funding of aboriginal education by the federal government and recent attempts to resolve this problem ("Aboriginal students: An education underclass," August 8, 2012).

Read the full article on the Maclean's website.

JD student Louis Century, a summer law student with the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, has written a commentary in the "Speaker's Corner" section of the Law Times, "Forcing judges to judge old law erodes democracy," (July 30, 2012).

Read the full commentary on the Law Times website.

The law school's new free LSAT preparation course for low-income students, the first in Canada, has been featured in The Varsity, the University of Toronto student newspaper.

The story quotes Arisa Babiuk, a University of Toronto undergraduate who successfully completed the Academic Bridging Program and is now taking the course. “We don’t all have support coming from home or other places. So you feel like if someone’s invested interest and time into you [through programs like this one], then you must be able to succeed and pass on your success to other people.”

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.