Prof. Lorne Sossin earns teaching award from Ontario university faculty

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Prof. Lorne Sossin is one of six Ontario educators who have received a 2009 Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award from the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA).

Asper Centre calls for inquiry into background checks of potential jurors

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

In a brief to the Ontario Privacy Commissioner as part of the investigation into the alleged practice of conducting background checks on potential jurors, the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights calls for a public inquiry or wide-ranging independent probe of the issue. The brief was prepared by Prof. Lisa Austin, Research Assistant Kerri Lui (a JD student at the Faculty of Law), and Executive Director Cheryl Milne.

Faculty of Law #1 in Canada for Environmental and Social Practices

Tuesday, December 15, 2009
The Faculty of Law works closely with students, faculty and staff to make our law school a greener place to work and study.   We are pleased to announce that our leadership in this area has been recognized by Corporate Knights: The Canadian Magazine for Responsible Business, which has named the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law the best law school in Canada for incorporating environmental and social practices.

Prof. Ayelet Shachar's research profiled in Edge magazine

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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.

Prof. Michael Trebilcock - "Windmills: Bigger waste than eHealth"

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

In the Financial Post, Prof. Michael Trebilcock has published a commentary about a new Danish study of wind power that questions its economic value ("Windmills: Bigger waste than eHealth," September 30, 2009).

Read the full commentary.

Article: Ziegel - "You can't say that: muzzled lawyers"

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

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.

Prof. Anita Anand - "Why macro is prudent"

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Prof. Anita Anand has written a commentary in the Financial Post looking at proposals for "macroprudential regulation" of the financial sector ("Why macro is prudent: Canada should heed the call for macroprudential rules," September 23, 2009).

Read the full commentary

Article: Ziegel - Federal judicial appointments: nothing has changed

Friday, December 4, 2009

Federal judicial appointments: nothing has changed

by Prof. Jacob Ziegel

This article was first published in The Lawyers' Weekly, November 20, 2009.

Prof. Mohammad Fadel comments on Obama's speech in Cairo

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Prof. Mohammad Fadel has written a commentary on patheos.com about US President Barak Obama's June 4, 2009 speech in Cairo to the Muslim world ("President Obama Passes the Muslim Test"). Prof. Fadel writes that that Obama’s speech could genuinely represent an important break from U.S. policy towards the Islamic world in general and the Arab world in particular, adding that while one speech cannot change the world, if Obama follows through with the ideas that he announced in yesterday’s speech, there may be renewed cause for optimism.

Prof. Michael Code appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Justice for Ontario

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announced on May 20, 2009 that Prof. Michael Code has been appointed Judge of the Superior Court of Justice in and for the Province of Ontario.

Prof. Code has been Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law since 2006. He was elected by students to give the Hail and Farewell speech at Convocation in 2009, 2008 and 2007, and received the Mewett Teaching Award from students in 2007.

Read more about Prof. Code.