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Proxy Contests: Pros and cons of special compensation arrangements

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Leading academics, senior members of the bar and the vice-chair of the Ontario securities regulator held a roundtable Nov. 21 on proxy contests.

Professors Anita Anand and Edward Iacobucci of the Faculty of Law presented their views on whether special compensation arrangements for director nominees in a proxy contest should be regulated or left to shareholder voting. They also explored the need for disclosure of these types of arrangements.

Patent Colloquium hears how IP law is evolving Down Under, and it's called 'hot-tubbing'

Monday, November 25, 2013

By David Kumagai, 2L

 

From sperm researcher to Federal Court judge, Justice Annabelle Bennett presides over a court where science and the law must learn to co-exist.

The Australian judge spoke to a sold-out crowd of intellectual property lawyers and academics at the second annual University of Toronto Faculty of Law Patent Colloquium, hosted by the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy at the Hart House Great Hall on Nov. 22.

Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh - "In praise of high frequency traders"

Friday, November 22, 2013

In a commentary in the Financial Post, Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh argues that much-maligned high-frequency traders in fact benefit the market ("In praise of high frequency traders," November 20, 2013).

Prof. MacIntosh is also the author of a recently released report by the C.D. Howe institute, "High Frequency Traders: Angels or Devils?" on the subject.

Prof. Kent Roach - “How to hold our spies accountable”

Thursday, November 21, 2013

In a commentary in the Ottawa Citizen, Prof. Kent Roach looks at various mechanisms for legislative oversight of intelligence agencies and proposes "a single body to review the collection and sharing of intelligence throughout government" ("How to hold our spies accountable," November 19, 2013).

Read the commentary on the Ottawa Citizen website, or below.

Prof. Martin Friedland interviewed on TVO's "The Agenda" about the history of U of T

Thursday, November 21, 2013

On the occasion of the publication of the second edition of Prof. Martin Friedland's The University of Toronto: A History, TVO's Steve Paikin interviewed Prof. Friedland on his show "The Agenda" about the project and U of T's storied history.

BrainTrack.com ranks U of T Faculty of Law among Top 5 in the world

Thursday, November 21, 2013

View from Queen's Park of the future Jackman Law Building. (Courtesy B + H Architects/Hariri Pontarini)

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law has been selected one of the Top 5 law schools in the world by online post-secondary resource site BrainTrack.com.

These “five ‘best of the best’ law schools,” have an exceptional mix of “schooling, cachet, connections, and career potential.”

Asper Centre symposium examines its impact and charts its future

Thursday, November 14, 2013

By Vito Cupoli

“Constitutional rights seem like an obscure subject for most Canadians, until their own rights are adversely affected,” said alumnus David Asper, LLM 2007. Five years later, a clear picture emerged on Nov. 8, 2013 of the influence of the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights on the definition of rights in Canada. 

Prof. David Schneiderman and 2L Matthew Burns: “A recipe for deadlock”

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Prof. David Schneiderman and second-year JD student Matthew Burns have written a commentary in the National Post looking at the potential impact of the Supreme Court of Canada's upcoming decision on the constitutional requirements to reform the Senate ("A recipe for deadlock," November 13, 2013).

Read the full commentary on the National Post website, or below.

Prof. Flood awarded honorary membership by the College of Family Physicians

Friday, November 8, 2013
Headshot Professor Colleen Flood

Professor Colleen Flood, LLM 1994 and SJD 1998, has been awarded an honorary membership by the College of Family Physicians. Honorary membership may be awarded to individuals who are not family physicians in Canada, in recognition of outstanding contributions to the CFPC, the discipline of family medicine, the medical profession, or the health and well-being of the population in Canada and globally.

JD student Josh Mandryk co-authors "Ontario must take urgent action on unpaid internships"

Thursday, November 7, 2013

JD student Josh Mandryk has co-authored, with labour lawyer Andrew Langille, a commentary in the Toronto Star arguing that Ontario needs to address the problem of unpaid internships ("Ontario must take urgent action on unpaid internships," November 4, 2013).

University of Toronto law students are also involved in a related initiative, the website www.payyourinterns.ca.

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