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If you missed the first annual conference of the Program on Ethics in Law and Business, on the subject of "Ethical Issues in the Law Firm Setting," or if you want to remind yourself of some of the insights of the conference speakers, you can now watch the entire conference, or any part of it, on YouTube.

Watch the conference on YouTube (2 hours 45 minutes).

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Audrey Macklin and immigration  lawyer Lorne Waldman analyze the ways in which Canada's immigration laws exacerbate the vulnerability of immigrant women ("How Canada keeps some immigrant women in their place," March 7, 2014).

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

By David Kumagai, 2L

What should Canada do about the lack of women serving on corporate boards?

A panel of experts gathered at Victoria College on March 3 to debate this question. “Diversity on Canadian Corporate Boards” was the topic for the first event of a five-part speaker series called All Aboard, presented by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law’s Global Professional LLM program.

"What can Canada's legal system do to respect transgender people?"

Trudeau scholar, lawyer and SJD student Kyle Kirkup answers this question in a two-minute video for the Globe and Mail. Kirkup is researching policing in the LGBTQ communities, and comments on the recent case of the transgender comedian who was detained at Pearson International Airport, sent to a jail for men and kept in solitary confinement, despite her self-identification as female.