Dean Moran's travels in Asia

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

This past spring, Dean Mayo Moran and Assistant Dean of Career Services Lianne Krakauer travelled to China and other Asian countries to touch base with alumni and make contact with Asian law schools and faculty.

Below are their daily updates about their travels. Click on the links to view photos (you can also view a complete gallery).

Students Lauren Lackie and Stephanie Chipeur write on "single mothers by choice"

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

JD students Lauren Lackie and Stephanie Chipeur, along with constitutional lawyer Gerald Chipeur, have written a commentary in the National Post discussing the recent case in Alberta regarding the attempt by a single mother and her live-in male partner to avoid having him legally designated as the child's father ("Single moms don't always need our pity," May 31, 2007).

Read the full commentary.

Profs. MacIntosh and Anand publish two views of "passport" securities regulation

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

In a pair of commentaries in the Financial Post, Professors Jeffrey MacIntosh and Anita Anand have published two contrasting views of the idea of a "passport" system for national securities regulation ("Passport to chaos" by Anita Anand and "Who needs a monopoly?" by Jeffrey MacIntosh, July 25, 2007).

Read Anita Anand's commentary.

Prof. Jacob Ziegel - "Canada's Top Court Has Sold Out Consumers"

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Prof. Emeritus Jacob Ziegel takes the Supreme Court to task for their recent judgements regarding class-action suits ("Supreme sellout: Canada's Top Court Has Sold Out Consumers By Handing Businesses An Easy Way To Avoid Class Action Suits," August 9, 2007).

Read the full commentary.

Prof. Brenda Cossman - "Don't pit adoptive moms against biological moms"

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Prof. Brenda Cossman has written a commentary in the Globe and Mail discussing a recent Federal Court of Appeal decision that adoptive mothers do not have a right to the same amount of paid leave as biological mothers ("Don't pit adoptive moms against biological moms," August 20, 2007).

Read the full commentary.

Article: Green - Where there's smoke, there's strife

Friday, October 12, 2007

Where there's smoke, there's strife

Constitutional row brewing over emission rules

by Andrew Green

This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on October 10, 2007.

Climate change is all over the news these days. It is blamed for ice disappearing up north, pine beetles attacking large tracts of Canada's forest and droughts and floods around the world. Various governments in Canada are trying to decide how they will respond to public concern over the issue.

Prof. Lorraine Weinrib - "Israel debates Canadaís notwithstanding clause"

Thursday, October 11, 2007

In her monthly column in Law Times, Prof. Lorraine Weinrib discusses the way in which the current debate in Israel over the role of the Israeli Supreme Court makes use of the Canadian experience with the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Read the full column on the Law Times website.

Prof. Ernest Weinrib - "A betrayal of the teaching profession"

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Prof. Ernest Weinrib has published a commentary in the National Post condemning the proposal by British university teachers to boycott Israeli academic institutions ("'A betrayal of the teaching profession'," June 8, 2007).

Read the full commentary.

Prof. Ernest Weinrib receives teaching award

Thursday, October 11, 2007

In May 2007, University of Toronto law professor Ernest Weinrib was named one of Ontario's most outstanding university teachers in a province-wide competition adjudicated by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Awards Committee. He received a 2006 OCUFA teaching award at a ceremony in Toronto on June 8, 2007.

Read the award citation.

Read the OCUFA press release.

Prof. Jacob Ziegel - "Repeal loan law"

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Prof. Emeritus Jacob Ziegel has written a commentary in the Financial Post analyzing the problems with the criminal usury provisions in section 347 of the Criminal Code, adopted in 1981 ("Repeal loan law," July 4, 2007).

Read the full commentary.