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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?

Prof. Mohammad Fadel discusses "Middle East Expectations" on TVO's The Agenda

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Prof. Mohammad Fadel was a member of a panel discussing "Middle East Expectations" on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin (March 31, 2011).

Watch the webcast on the TVO website.

Asper Centre report calls for written guidelines for Canada's parliamentary conventions

Saturday, June 25, 2011

(Toronto, April 12, 2011) A report recently released by the Faculty of Law's David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights (www.aspercentre.ca) calls for an authoritative set of guidelines on Canada's important but unwritten parliamentary conventions.

New issue of UT Law Journal honours Prof. Ernest Weinrib

Saturday, June 25, 2011

The latest issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal (62:2) is a special issue that honours Prof. Ernest Weinrib on the occasion of his being awarded the Killam Prize in recognition of his outstanding contributions to legal scholarship.

Michael Ignatieff to teach at Faculty of Law

Saturday, June 25, 2011

(May 5, 2011) The former leader of the Liberal Party of Canada has a new home base in academia, and it’s at the University of Toronto.  

Massey College, the interdisciplinary graduate college at the University of Toronto, announced it has appointed Michael Ignatieff as senior resident.

Ignatieff will be teaching in various areas, including the Faculty of Law, the Munk School of Global Affairs, the School of Public Policy and Governance, and the Department of Political Science.

Article: Russell - International justice has arrived

Friday, June 24, 2011

War criminals can no longer count on a private jet waiting to whisk them off to a golden life in exile

By: Andrea Russell

Andrea Russell is executive director of the Office of the Dean at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and teaches International Criminal Law at the Faculty.

This commentary was first published in the Ottawa Citizen on May 28, 2011. It was also published in the Montreal Gazette and the Regina Leader-Post.

IHRP and ASF call on Ugandan government to end excessive pre-trial detention

Friday, June 17, 2011

Imprisoning people for long periods of time without trial is a violation of the Uganda Constitution and international human rights law, finds Avocats Sans Frontières (ASF) and the IHRP in a joint report released today.

IHRP and PEN Canada release report "Corruption, Impunity Silence"

Saturday, June 11, 2011

Human rights groups expose Mexican government’s complicity in violence against journalists

Article: Flood - Wrestling with Big Pharma

Friday, June 3, 2011

By: Colleen Flood

This commentary was first published in the Toronto Star on June 2, 2011.

Canadians spend a lot of money (public and private) on health care and much of that is spent on drugs — some $23.4 billion in 2008. Provincial insurance plans are desperately trying to cope, looking to initiatives like the recently passed Ontario law that caps prices of generic drugs at 25 per cent of the brand name equivalent.

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