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IHRP Announces New Strategic Direction

Thursday, July 14, 2011

The IHRP is pleased to announce its new strategic direction, which is reflected in its Strategic Plan 2011. This document is the culmination of a year-long process that has allowed us to reflect on our past, and situate our mission within the broader goals of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and our civil society partners.

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Canada needs to step up: Foreign Corrupt Practices Legislation panel

Thursday, July 14, 2011

By Cherrine Chow, LLM candidate 2011

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Samer Muscati (J.D. 2002) and HRW Researcher is featured in UofT Magazine

Saturday, July 9, 2011

Read about Samer and his work in Iraq here.

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Prof. Colleen Flood - "How Do We Compare? Lifting Our Game on Healthcare Performance"

Friday, July 8, 2011

Prof. Colleen Flood, Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, has written "How Do We Compare? Lifting Our Game on Healthcare Performance" in the weekly Longwoods eLetter (May 17, 2011).

Read the essay on the Longwoods website.

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Prof. Ayelet Shachar's "Picking Winners" published in Yale Law Journal

Friday, July 8, 2011

Prof. Ayelet Shachar explores the use of citizenship as an Olympic recruiting tool in her new article "Picking Winners: Olympic Winners and the Global Race for Talent," currently published in the prestigious Yale Law Journal.

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Prof. Jacob Ziegel - "The law is too important to leave to politicians"

Friday, July 8, 2011

In a commentary in the National Post, Prof. Emeritus Jacob Ziegel calls for the statutory implementation of a better system for selecting Supreme Court justices ("The law is too important to leave to politicians," May 26, 2011).

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Prof. Ed Iacobucci publishes report on IP protection for pharmaceutical companies

Friday, July 8, 2011

(May 30, 2011) Prof. Edward Iacobucci, Osler Chair in Business Law, has prepared a report that argues that Intellectual Property (IP) protection for pharmaceutical companies in Canada is already stronger than that in any other industrial sector in Canada, and is in many ways stronger than pharmaceutical IP in the European Union and United States.

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Oped by Andrea Russell - "International justice has arrived"

Friday, July 8, 2011

Andrea Russell, executive director of the Dean's Office, has written a commentary in the Ottawa Citizen about the rise of international criminal law in recent years ("International justice has arrived," May 28, 2011). Russell teaches a course in International Criminal Law at the Faculty of Law.

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Watch the "Symposium on Funding the Charter Challenge" and Morris Gross lecture (webcast)

Saturday, June 25, 2011

On Friday April 1, 2011, the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights hosted a half-day symposium on "Funding the Charter Challenge."

During the symposium, legal experts in practice and the academy provided information and commentary on the availability of funding for some of the most significant litigation in the country. How can you obtain advanced costs? Are class actions feasible in Charter claims? What are the reasonable and ethical limits of pro bono? Does the legal aid system adequately fund complex cases?