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In a commentary in the Ottawa Citizen, Prof. Audrey Macklin and International Human Rights Program director Renu Mandhane examine the practice of deporting of people who are not citizens but have been residents of Canada since they were children, if they are convicted of a crime ("Canada’s new exiles," Nov. 26, 2012).

Read the commentary on the Ottawa Citizen website, or below.

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.

For the first time, a Faculty of Law student is on exchange at Tsinghua University School of Law. Jonathan Chow writes how he's learning about much more than Chinese law.

By Jonathan Chow, 3L, Faculty of Law

I've been asked to write a short blurb about my time at Tsinghua University. I’ve been procrastinating—badly. The tricky thing, I think, is knowing what to write.