Asper Centre Constitutional Law Career Panel

The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights presents a

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW CAREER PANEL

On February 12, 2020 at 12:30pm-2:00pm

Are you a JD Candidate with a passion for promoting our Constitutional and Charter rights?

IJD & Debwewin Summer Program Information Session

In February 2013, the First Nations Representation on Ontario Juries Report, authored by former Supreme Court Justice Frank Iacobucci, was released. Justice Iacobucci recommended, inter alia, the creation of an intensive summer education program that would see Ontario law students working on justice issues in and with Indigenous communities.

Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture: Jean Teillet

The Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture was established in memory of the late Morris A.

IIO Speaker Series: First Nations Child Welfare Practice Post-Caring Society

NOTE: The Indigenous Initiatives Office (IIO) Speaker Series is open to the public. All are welcome and lunch will be served. Please join us.

The IIO and CDO Welcome Caitlin Tolley: Lawyer, Leader and First Nations Advocate

PLEASE NOTE NEW DATE!!!

Please join the Career Development and Indigenous Initiatives Offices as we welcome lawyer and First Nations advocate Caitlin Tolley. This event is open to the public. Lunch will be served. Please join us!

We are grateful to the Law Foundation of Ontario for their support of the IIO and the IIO Speaker Series. Miigwetch!

IIO Speaker Series: UNDRIP – What the Next Generation of Lawyers Needs to Know

NOTE: The Indigenous Initiatives Office (IIO) Speaker Series is open to the public. All are welcome and lunch will be served. Please join us.

In law and medicine, twins and soon-to-be U of T graduates advocate for Indigenous representation

Friday, May 24, 2019

As U of T's Patrick and Curtis Sobchak learned more about their family history, being Indigenous increasingly became an integral part of their identity (photo by Geoff Vendeville)

By Geoffrey Vendeville

Patrick Sobchak was one of the few Indigenous students in his law classes. So was his identical twin brother Curtis, who studied medicine. 

The importance of self-advocacy: U of T Law student produced medico-legal guide for Indigenous peoples with rare disorders

Wednesday, May 1, 2019

The June Callwood Fellowship in Aboriginal Law funded the partnership with the Canadian Organization for Rare Disorders (CORD): Durhane Wong-Rieger, president and CEO of CORD, Natalie Day and Ian Stedman, fellowship supervisor and former CORD board member

By Natalie Day, JD 2019

PBSC’s new Indigenous human rights clinics receive the 2019 Emil Gumpert award from the American College of Trial Lawyers

Wednesday, March 27, 2019

PBSC students gather together in the atrium as part of the May 2018 training conference

Award comes with a US$100,000 grant to assist with two pilot clinics

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