Scotiabank donation boosts conference and lecture fund

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Rob Mattacott, district vice president, Scotiabank and Graham Flanagan, branch manager, sales and services, Scotiabank Queen Street West, with Dean Mayo Moran.
Rob Mattacott, district vice president, Scotiabank and Graham Flanagan, branch manager, sales and services, Scotiabank Queen Street West, with Dean Mayo Moran.

First year of OSC Investor Advisory Panel "very successful" says Chair Prof. Anita Anand

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Prof. Anita Anand, Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission's new Investor Advisory Panel, has told Investment Executive that "I think we’ve had a very successful year." In its article "Advisory panel gains traction" (Sept. 23, 2011), the newsletter speaks with Prof. Anand about the panel's accomplishments in its first year.

Read the article on the Investment Executive website.

Check out the latest edition of Rights Review!

Friday, October 21, 2011

Check out the latest edition of Rights Review, the IHRP's magazine, here

Prof. Alan Brudner has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

(Sept. 8, 2011) The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Prof. Alan Brudner has just been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.  

Prof. Kent Roach publishes new book, "The 9/11 Effect"

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Kent Roach - The 9/11 Effect

Prof. Kent Roach has published a new book, The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

Prof. Kent Roach - "The dangers of sharing information"

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Kent Roach identifies the dangers inherent in the sharing of intelligence between nations that became common after the 9/11 terrorist attacks ("The dangers of sharing information," Sept. 6, 2011).

Read the full commentary.

Internationally Trained Lawyers Program receives a 2011 InnovAction Award

Thursday, September 29, 2011

The Internationally Trained Lawyers Program (ITLP) has been awarded a 2011 InnovAction Award, which recognizes outstanding innovation in the delivery of legal services.

Awarded by the College of Law Practice Management, the award demonstrates to the legal community what can happen when passionate professionals, with big ideas and strong convictions, resolve to create effective change.

Prof. Ed Morgan - "'Bonus' zoning and the development approval game"

Thursday, September 29, 2011

In a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly, Prof. Ed Morgan considers whether the practice of bonus zoning (section 37 of Ontario's Planning Act) has constitutional ramifications ("'Bonus' zoning and the development approval game," August 26, 2011).

Read the full commentary on the Faculty Blog.

Reunion 2009 draws enthusiastic crowd of classmates

Thursday, September 22, 2011

 

Reunion 2009
Shelley Timms '84 and Anne Corbett '79

For some alumni, like Sylvia Jacob '84, it was their first time at Reunion. After 25 years, she says it was time to return and share stories with former class mates.

Law Kids for PEACE Holiday Art Show "Draws" Dozens of Submissions

Thursday, September 22, 2011

Using everything from crayons to holiday cookie sprinkles, dozens of children of U of T law students, staff and faculty expressed their creative side in the Faculty's Kids for PEACE Holiday Art Show.

The children -- ranging in age from 18 months to 15 years - submitted drawings and canvases that focused on the theme of peace, using variations on images of doves, the planet Earth and peace signs. Many older children also submitted vibrantly coloured abstracts and integrated the theme of diversity, multiculturalism and friendship into their pictures.