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By Lucas Collecchia, LLM 2013

Joshua Gans stands at the front of the lecture room chatting with a colleague. The word “Shared” from the title of his talk appears behind him on the screen, stylized as a clickable button. On first impression, you might assume that Professor Gans’ interests lay in the field of communications or computer science. But the author of “Information Wants to be Shared” is an economist by training.

The first mooting contest of the academic year occurred in late January.  Our Labour Arbitration Team, Allyson Lee and Leora Jackson argued whether more than one administrative channel can be used to resolve a matter, and if so the what justification was required by the second channel.  They made it to the finals of the competition but were narrowly defeated there.  The student coaches, Akosua Mathews and Andrew Max, were central to the success of the team.  Their Faculty Mooting Advisor

By Noel Semple, JD 2007, SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Legal Profession

In a guest editorial in the magazine Xtra!, Prof. Brenda Cossman comments on Canada's child pornography law, an issue recently brought to the fore by the controversy around comments by Tom Flanagan ("Canada's child pornography law has rightly been criticized for years," March 5, 2013).

Read the commentary on the Xtra! website or below.