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By Sheldon Gordon

In August 2013, a White House emissary approached Geoffrey Stone to serve on a presidential panel following Edward Snowden's revelations about electronic intelligence gathering by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA).

Evan Rankin, 2L, was an International Human Rights Program (IHRP) intern at the UN Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific (Thailand) during the summer of 2014. This report was first published in the IHRP's Rights Review magazine.

Class of 1989 turned out in full force to celebrate its reunion.

About 370 alumni from class years ending in ‘4’ and ‘9’ attended Reunion on Oct. 24-26, 2014, a spectacular weekend of reminiscing over brunches at the law school, dinners in downtown restaurants, kids’ activities and, for the second year, construction tours of the Jackman Law Building site.

Toronto-Tsinghua International Law Conference examined the threats—and possible solutions

By Peter Boisseau

Lawmakers and regulators around the world are grappling with the explosive growth of poorly regulated “shadow banking” sectors in China and the U.S. that provide easy credit and high returns but have become so large they may also pose the threat of a global economic meltdown, a University of Toronto law conference was told.