Emerging Issues Workshop - Panel discussion on the Trinity Western University case

On November 30th and December 1st 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear two appeals involving Trinity Western University (TWU), a private Christian university in British Columbia wishing to open a new law school.  The appeals involve legal challenges to decisions by the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario and the impact of a policy that requires TWU students to sign a code of conduct forbidding sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage.

Watch the 2017 Grand Moot online

Thursday, October 5, 2017

Sketches of the 2017 Grand Moot by artist Tanya Murdoch
Sketches of the 2017 Grand Moot by artist Tanya Murdoch

Did you miss the 2017 Grand Moot? Watch the video online!

The 2017 University of Toronto Faculty of Law Grand Moot took place on Thursday, September 28. The problem dealt with "Assisted Human Reproduction and the Charter". The panel consisted of:

SJD student Daniel Del Gobbo writes "In cases of sexual violence, justice can come from outside the courts"

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, SJD student and Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar Daniel Del Gobbo writes about rethinking the way that the law handles sexual violence and introducing the option of a restorative justice process ("In cases of sexual violence, justice can come from outside the courts," July 25, 2017).

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website, or below.

Obscene intentions and corrupting effects

Simon Stern
Monday, July 17, 2017

[Cross-posted from the OUP Blog)   The 1868 decision in R. v Hicklin created a formula for evaluating obscene works that British and American courts would use for nearly a century. Chief Justice Alexander Cockburn, in a succinct phrase that numerous courts would quote, explained that “the test of obscenity is … whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences, and into whose hands a publication of this sort may fall.” Hicklin is often taken as inaugurating a new era in obscenity law, shifting attention away from the author’s intentions, and towards a vague and subjective evaluation of the work’s effects.

SJD candidates Daniel Del Gobbo and Sarah Mason-Case awarded prominent 2017 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarships

Thursday, July 6, 2017
Daniel Del Gobbo and Sarah Mason-Case

Two SJD candidates at the Faculty of Law are among the 15 awardees of the prominent 2017 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarships, considered among the most prestigious graduate prizes in the country for social sciences and humanities research, and given to exceptional doctoral students in Canada.

Prof. Brenda Cossman and SJD student Ido Katri write "Today, trans Canadians celebrate Bill C-16. Tomorrow, the work begins for us all"

Saturday, June 17, 2017

Prof. Brenda Cossman and SJD student, Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholar and Vanier Canada Scholar Ido Katri, have written a commentary in the Globe and Mail hailing the passage of Bill C-16, which adds protection of gender identity and expression to the Canadian Human Rights Code and the Criminal Code, but noting the amount of work still to do ("Today, trans Canadians celebrate Bill C-16. Tomorrow, the work begins for us all," June 15, 2017).

All Families Are (Now) Equal: MPP Cheri DiNovo speaks at the LGBTQ+ Workshop

Friday, February 24, 2017

MPP Cheri DiNovo (2nd from left) at the LGBTQ+ Workshop

By Haim Abraham 

On December 5, 2016, Ontario’s Bill 28, termed the All Families Are Equal Act (Parentage and Related Registrations Statute Law Amendment), 2016, received royal assent. The LGBTQ+ Workshop held a session with MPP Cheri DiNovo, who tabled the Bill, and Kirsti and Jennifer Mathers McHenry, whose story prompted its legislation.

Prof. Brenda Cossman writes "We must do better for sexual assault survivors. The answer isn’t rocket science"

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Brenda Cossman discusses ways to address the issue of the large number of sexual assault complaints being dismissed by police forces as "unfounded" ("We must do better for sexual assault survivors. The answer isn’t rocket science," February 6, 2017).

Read the commentary on the Globe and Mail website, or below.

 

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