Reunion 2008 - memories and photos

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Lynn Rockman '88 and Harold Feder '88Alumni who graduated in a year that ended in “3” or “8” returned to the law school on October 24 for a grand reception in the Rowell Room at Flavelle House. Click on the links below to see memories, conversations, and photos from the event.

Faculty of Law First: Federal Judicial Review Held at School

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Christmas came early for students in Professor Audrey Macklin's Administrative Law Class as they were treated to a "real judicial review in real time" on-site at the Faculty of Law just before exams in late November.

Justice Douglas Campbell presided over the review on a British Columbian forestry company's attempt to obtain a government permit to export their surplus timber.

One student described the experience as "one of, if not the, coolest academic experiences of my law school years thus far."

Hariri Pontarini Architects chosen to design new Faculty of Law building

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

For Immediate Release: February 28, 2008

The Faculty of Law announced today that world renowned architectural firm Hariri Pontarini has been selected for the renovation and expansion plans for the Faculty of Law.  

Centre for the Legal Profession featured in The Lawyers Weekly

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

The Centre for the Legal Profession, founded at the Faculty of Law in the Spring of 2008, had been featured in an extensive article in The Lawyers Weekly ("Ethics institute links study, practice and implications of law," January 30, 2009).

The article discusses the various initiatives being undertaken by the Centre and quotes its Academic Director, Prof. Lorne Sossin, and Dean Mayo Moran.

Prof. Jacob Ziegel - "Class Actions: the Consumer's Best Friend?"

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

In The Lawyers Weekly, Prof. Jacob Ziegel has provided a concise history of the laws and decisions governing class actions in Canada ("Class Actions: the Consumer's Best Friend?", February 20, 2009).

Read the full commentary.

Prof. Ed Morgan - "Taking a Buy Canadian route would be a legal sell-out"

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Ed Morgan analyzes the legal status of long-standing US "Buy American" legislation, the waivers that affect it, the potential impact of new protectionist measures in the US, and the issue of similar potential measures in Canada ("Taking a Buy Canadian route would be a legal sell-out," February 12, 2009).

Read the full commentary.

Article: Morgan - In Yellowknife, language rights go back on the menu

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

In Yellowknife, language rights go back on the menu

by Ed Morgan

This commentary was first published in the Globe and Mail on April 21, 2009.

In taking on the chef who runs the famed Wildcat Cafe, Yellowknife's city council appears to have concocted a recipe for bringing Quebec-style language politics to the Northwest Territories. In the process, it has given us the basis for a constitutional crise du jour.

JD student Joel Hechter featured in article on new DLS immigration hotline

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

JD student Joel Hechter is featured in an article in local newspaper the Annex Guardian about a new hotline set up by U of T Faculty of Law legal clinic Downtown Legal Services to help people who have been badly served by immigration consultants ("Immigrants refuse to get SCREWED again," November 27, 2008). Hechter describes how a DLS client had been cheated by such a consultant.

Read the full article on the Inside Toronto website.

Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh argues that pegged orders in stock trading are unfair

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

In a commentary in the Financial Post, Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh argues that the phenomenon of pegged orders in stock trading, enabled by new alternative trading systems, is inconsistent with a competitive marketplace ("Pegged orders: an unfair trade," January 13, 2009).

Read the full commentary.