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Five students receive Cressy Awards for outstanding extra-curricular contributions

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Cressy Award winners, 2011
Faculty of Law Cressy Award winners (L-R) : Ryan Liss, Padraic Ryan, Brendan Morrison, Kathryn Ionson and Karim Amlani

The University of Toronto has announced the 2011 winners of the Gordon Cressy Awards, and five Faculty of Law students are among the winners.

Prof. Ed Iacobucci appointed Competition Policy Scholar at C.D. Howe Institute

Saturday, November 12, 2011

(July 7, 2011) Prof. Ed Iacobucci has been appointed Competition Policy Scholar at the C.D. Howe Institute.

“Ed will provide advice and guidance to the Institute’s Competition Policy Council, which comprises top-ranked academics and practitioners active in competition policy,” said Finn Poschmann, the Institute’s VP Research and chair of the Council. “The Council provides expert, independent analysis of emerging competition policy issues, including those potentially faced by the Competition Bureau.”

Prof. Jacob Ziegel - "Unacceptable delays in Supreme Court appointments"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

In a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly, Prof. Jacob Ziegel condemns the delay in appointing replacements for the two Supreme Court of Canada justices who retired this year ("Unacceptable delays in Supreme Court appointments," Sept. 23, 2011).

Read the full commentary on the Faculty Blog.

Prof. Colleen Flood - "Wrestling with Big Pharma"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Colleen Flood proposes New Zealand's model for purchasing drugs for its health care system as one that Canada can learn from ("Wrestling with Big Pharma," June 2, 2011).

Read the full commentary.

Two LLM students prepare report on violence against journalists in Mexico for IHRP and PEN Canada

Saturday, November 12, 2011

REVISED June 10, 2011.

(June 3, 2011) In a report, Corruption, Impunity, Silence: The War on Mexico’s Journalists, the Faculty of Law's International Human Rights Program (IHRP) and PEN Canada expose the Mexican government’s repeated failure to protect the human rights of journalists, its complicity in a number of rights violations against them, and the web of Mexican laws that limit freedom of expression and effectively gag journalists who seek to expose government corruption.

Profs. Choudhry and Trebilcock - "Public insurance: a solution to Canada's legal crisis"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Profs. Sujit Choudhry and Michael Trebilcock have written a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly calling for the establishment of public insurance for legal costs in Ontario and other provinces as a solution to the problem of access to justice for the middle classes ("Public insurance: a solution to Canada's legal crisis," June 10, 2011).

Read the commentary on The Lawyers Weekly website.

LAWS program high school student and mentor featured on Metro Morning

Saturday, November 12, 2011

The CBC Radio Toronto program Metro Morning featured the LAWS program (Law in Action Within Schools) on August 31, 2011. Host Matt Galloway spoke with high school student and LAWS participant Ashley Harripersad and her mentor, Jillian Swartz of Blakes.

The LAWS program is expanding this year, with Osgoode Hall Law School joining as a partner and several new high schools coming on board.

Listen to the program on the CBC website.

Print symposium on Prof. Alan Brudner's book "Punishment and Freedom" in New Criminal Law Review

Saturday, November 12, 2011

The journal New Criminal Law Review (14:3, 2011) has published a print symposium on Alan Brudner's Punishment and Freedom: A Liberal Theory of Penal Law (Oxford 2009). The symposium features comments by prominent international scholars Thom Brooks, Shai Lavi, Alan Norrie, Alice Ristroph, and Mariana Valverde, plus a reply by the author.

See the issue on JSTOR.

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