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.

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.

The Symposium on Lifelong Learning in Professionalism, hosted on Friday February 20, 2009 by the Centre for the Legal Profession at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has inspired an extensive feature on legal professionalism in the Globe and Mail's "The Law Page" ("It's about so much more than billable hours," February 25, 2009).

The article quotes Dean Mayo Moran and several participants in the Symposium, including Justice Stephen Goudge, who closed the symposium with the annual Goodman Lecture.

Prof. Lorraine Weinrib has written an analysis in The Toronto Star of the various legal issues in the criminal prosecution for polygamy of two men from the community of Bountiful, British Columbia ("Shooting down polygamy law not necessarily a slam dunk," January 13, 2008).

Read the full commentary.