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RCMP can't continue front-line policing without protecting communities: Op-Ed by Professor Kent Roach

Thursday, June 18, 2020

In an op-ed for the Globe and Mail, published June 17, Professor Kent Roach, Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy and and co-author Ian Scott, the former director of Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit and author of Issues in Civilian Oversight of Policing in Canada, write on why there must be standards for the oversight of force and reforms to its governance and complaints process.

Professor Douglas Sanderson for the GB Geo-Blog: The Indigenous Perspective on our Global Ecosystem

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

For the Geo-Blog with Global Brief, an international affairs magazine, Faculty of Law Professor Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii) writes:

Lawyer for the strongman: University Professor David Dyzenhaus for Aeon magazine

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Demagogues do not rise on popular feeling alone but on the constitutional ideas of Weimar and Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt

University Professor of Law and Philosophy David Dyzenhaus and the Albert Abel Chair of Law, writes for digital magazine Aeon.

He writes:

Professor Sophia Moreau's "Faces of Inequality" book forum published in the Centre for Ethics (C4E) online journal

Monday, June 15, 2020
 
In November 2019, Professor of Law and Philosophy, Sophia Moreau, participated in an international and interdisciplinary book forum (Author Meets Critics) organized by the University of Toronto's Centre for Ethics, in response to Moreau's book, Faces of Inequality: A Theory of Wrongful Discrimination (

Head of Cataloguing, Humayun Rashid, retires from Bora Laskin Law Library after 40 years of dedicated service

Friday, June 12, 2020

Humayun Rashid

(photo courtesy of Humayun Rashid)

Humayun Rashid is known as one of the experts and main proponents of the KF Modified classification system used by libraries across the country

By Gian Medves, Chief Law Librarian, Bora Laskin Law Library

#UofTGrad20: U of T Student Leadership Award recipient, Jessie Stirling

Friday, June 5, 2020

Jessie Stirling

Jessie Stirling (Wa’ya T’so-la) is a Kwakwaka’wakw woman and a member of the Wei Wai Kum First Nation located on the east coast of Vancouver Island. She was brought up on the traditional lands of her people in Campbell River, B.C. and lived on reserve until the age of eighteen.

#UofTGrad20: John Willis & Gina Caldarelli Memorial Prize for School Spirit recipient, Leslie Anne St. Amour

Friday, June 5, 2020

Leslie Anne

During her time at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, Leslie Anne St. Amour (BA, Political Science, McGill) made substantial and meaningful contributions to the law school, and demonstrated interest in the well-being of her JD classmates. For this, she was recognized with the John Willis & Gina Caldarelli Memorial Prize for School Spirit. 

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