Aboriginal Law

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.

The Aboriginal Youth Summer Program, and joint program of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School held at the U of T law school this summer, was featured in the Toronto Star ("Native teens from across Canada urged to take up law as a career," July 15, 2012).

Read the article on the Toronto Star website.

On the occasion of National Aboriginal Day (June 21), incoming LLM student and June Callwood Fellow in Aboriginal Law Glenn Wheeler has written a commentary in the Toronto Star about reconciliation between aboriginal peoples and other Canadians, in the context of the increasing role of cities in aboriginal life ("Reconciliation must occur between aboriginal people and all other Canadians," June 21, 2012).

JD student Andrew Stobo Sniderman received a Canadian Association of Journalists' award, winning in the print-feature category for his May 7, 2011 story in the Montreal Gazette, "Residential schools survivors share the pain."

Read about the award.

Read the original story on the Montreal Gazette website.