Canadian Council on International Law features papers by U of T students

Eight student papers written for the upper-year seminar “Canadian Approaches to International Law,” co-taught by Profs. Karen Knop and Angela Fernandez in 2005-07, are featured on the Canadian Council on International Law Web site.

The Web page highlights the course and includes papers by Britt Braaten, Rachel Kent, Agape Lim, Sarah McEachern, Cheryl Robinson, Erin Roth, Adam Shevell and Claire Young, now all law school alumni.

Knop and Fernandez were inspired to create the course by the late Ronald St. John Macdonald, an eminent international lawyer, judge on the European Court of Human Rights and former dean of the Faculty of Law, who sought to encourage biographical and historical research on Canadian approaches to international law. 

Each student in the course chose a figure in the history of international law in Canada to research, and wrote a paper describing and assessing that person's contribution to the development of the teaching or practice of international law in Canada.

View the U of T Student Papers on the History of International Law in Canada.

Find out more about International Law at the U of T Faculty of Law.