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The new Dean of the Faculty of Law, Professor Jutta Brunnée, is resuming the process to fill the position of Director of the International Human Rights Program (IHRP).  

Former U of T graduate students Ido Katri (Faculty of Law), Kieran Quinn (Institute of Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation), and Mingyang Wei (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering) have been awarded the prestigious Governor General’s Gold Medal for academic excellence. The medal, awarded each year to three students determined to have the highest academic standing, is one of the highest honours reserved for graduate students in Canada.

Elder Constance Simmonds is the Elder-in-Residence at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, pictured during a drum making workshop at the Faculty in 2018 (photo Katie Tissington-Turner)

This year the University of Toronto Faculty of Law welcomed Elder Constance Simmonds as Elder-in-Residence.

University of Toronto Professor Rinaldo Walcott is the director of U of T's Women and Gender Studies Institute and an associate professor at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). His research is in the area of Black Diaspora Cultural Studies, gender and sexuality.

Walcott examines the relationship between policing and property in his book, On Property. He argues the history of being bought and sold shapes Black people's relationship to the idea of property.