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On January 17, 2011, the Aboriginal Law Students’ Association, along with assistance from Lisa Del Col, Aboriginal Law Program Coordinator, and Faculty Advisor Douglas Sanderson, organized the New Years’ Feast, an annual event designed to introduce the student body to Aboriginal food, culture and the spirit of thanks-giving.

The "Legal Eagles" team, L-R: John Boland, Jim Phillips, Sooin Kim, Markus Dubber, Mohammad Fadel, Gian Medves, Simon Stern.

On the Foreign Policy magazine website, Prof. Mohammad Fadel has written an analysis comparing two crises, the sub-prime mortgage collapse and the popular demonstrations in Arab states, arguing that they were both in fact predictable and predicted, rather than being unpredictable "black swan" events ("Can Black Swans lead to a sustainable Arab-Israeli peace?", February 2, 2011).

Feb. 11, 2011) More than 100 legal luminaries met yesterday at the University of Toronto, and are concluding today, to come up with solutions to the access to civil justice issue for middle-income Canadians, spearheaded by the Faculty of Law. Madam Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin's speech led the Globe and Mail article by Kirk Makin featured today, which is garnering hundreds of online comments.

Read the article here.