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Prof. Kent Roach - "Missing aboriginal women: More imprisonment is not the solution"

Wednesday, May 28, 2014

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, Prof. Kent Roach argues that increasing the number of people sent to prison will not reduce the number of Aboriginal women who are murdered or go missing ("Missing aboriginal women: More imprisonment is not the solution," May 27, 2014).

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

'The Enigmatic W.P.M. Kennedy': Prof. Friedland writes about the law school's first dean

Friday, May 23, 2014
book cover of W.P.M Kennedy

By Martin Friedland, CC, QC, James M. Tory professor of law emeritus and former dean of law

In the spring of 2013, I was contacted by the University of Oxford Press. Oxford was reissuing W.P. M. Kennedy’s 1922 classic text, The Constitution of Canada. Would I write the introduction? I agreed to do so. It turned out to have been a fascinating project.

Prof. Audrey Macklin - "Citizenship Act will create two classes of Canadians"

Friday, May 23, 2014

In The Globe and Mail, Prof. Audrey Macklin, with co-authors Michael Adams and Ratna Omidvar, argues that the proposed new Citizenship Act will create second-class Canadian citizens who do not enjoy the same rights as others ("Citizenship Act will create two classes of Canadians," May 21, 2014).

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

Our grads get jobs: Nine graduate students land academic positions this year

Friday, May 9, 2014

Faculty of Law master's and doctoral students are celebrating an unprecedented number of successful appointments in one year. Nine graduate students have landed academic positions at top law schools in Canada and around the world.

Report by JD student Josh Mandryk on Ontario’s fair wage policy published by think tank

Friday, May 9, 2014

The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) has published a report by graduating JD student Josh Mandryk, titled "The Case for a Stronger Fair Wage Policy in Ontario."  The research for this project was conducted under the Faculty of Law's directed research program during the Winter 2013 term.

Prof. Lisa Austin - "We can’t let phone companies determine our privacy rights"

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, Prof. Lisa Austin, with Prof. Andrea Slane of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology, reveals the legal loophole that has allowed the Canadian government to access customer information from telecom providers without a warrant ("We can’t let phone companies determine our privacy rights," May 5, 2014).

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

A heartfelt farewell and send-off for Dean Mayo Moran

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Dear Members of the Law School Community,

I cannot let my last moments as dean pass without sending to all of you a short note thanking you for everything this community has done to make these years as dean so wonderful.  From the staff, to the students, to the faculty, administrators and alumni, all of you in your different ways have helped make this place what it is today.

It has been an honour to work with you, to build something together and to serve our law school and university.  I will miss you.

Bookish barristers cross the line from law to fiction

Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Alumni panel featured authors Guy Gavriel Kay, ’78, Andrew Pyper, ’95 and Kate Hilton, ’99

By Sandra Bartlett

Authors Guy Gavriel Kay, Kate Hilton, Andrew Pyper

Guy Gavriel Kay, Kate Hilton, Andrew Pyper

It turns out that a University of Toronto law degree is good training for writing fiction.

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