Alumnus Kristen Courtney ('08) has written about her cycling experiences as a law student, and about cycling policy in Toronto, in the "All about alumni" section of the Autumn 2009 issue of UofT Magazine ("Breaking the Cycle").

Read the article on the UofT Magazine website.

Edge, the magazine about research at the University of Toronto, has profiled the work of Prof. Ayelet Shachar, who recently published her second book, The Birthright Lottery, in the Spring of 2009.

Read the Edge profile (PDF).

Prof. Shachar and The Birthright Lottery are also profiled in the Summer 2009 issue of Nexus.

You can't say that: muzzled lawyers

by Jacob Ziegel

This commentary was first published in the National Post on December 12, 2009.

It was bound to happen, and now it has. From the earliest days of Confederation, many practicing lawyers, bar associations, presidents of the Canadian Bar Association and academics (both legal and non-legal) have complained about abuses by successive federal governments in exercising their judicial appointment powers — all to little avail.

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is pleased to welcome Richard Elliott, Executive Director, Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, who has been selected as a Law Foundation of Ontario Community Leadership in Justice Fellow for the 2009/2010 academic term. His project will focus on legal research and policy analysis to support proposed legislative reforms to Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR).