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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.

The International Human Rights Program has published the latest issue of its magazine Rights Review. This issue follows the experiences of IHRP summer interns in countries across the globe.  Throughout these internships, IHRP interns engaged in diverse human rights issues ranging from rights to health to international justice mechanisms.

In the Age of Social Media, are reunions still necessary? Read--and listen to our audio file--for alumni comments

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

On a spectacular fall evening in downtown Toronto, an energy was reverberating from the Faculty of Law on October 19, where more than 300 alumni gathered to catch up with classmates for Reunion 2012. Celebrating years ending in ‘2’ and ‘7’, a stand-up reception kicked off the class year dinners on October 19-20, 2012, which were spread across the city’s fine dining venues.

JD student Josh Mandryk has published a commentary in the Toronto Star arguing that the private member's bill C-377 now in front of the House of Commons, which would establish heavy Income Tax disclosure requirements for Trade Unions, is a punitive invasion of privacy ("Bill C-377: An invasion of privacy and attack on dissent," Oct. 18, 2012).

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