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Faculty of Law invited to submit clerkship applications to the International Court of Justice

Friday, April 8, 2011

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that it has just been invited by the International Court of Justice in The Hague to join a very small number of elite law schools internationally that may submit applications from graduating students to the Court’s nine-month “University Traineeship Programme.”

Justice for Kenyan rape victims through the lens of Canadian law

Friday, April 8, 2011

International Human Rights Program and Law and Feminism Series take a closer look at "160 Girls" project

By Alice Tsier, 1L

“In Kenya, every 30 minutes a girl is raped.” This is the chilling statistic that Fiona Sampson, the executive director of Equality Effect, uses to explain the urgency of her organization’s work.

Report to UN Security Council refers to IHRP Event

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Kimberly Prost, the Ombudsperson for the UN Taliban and Al Qaida sanctions committee referred to her presentations at the IHRP-sponsored UN 1267 Symposium in her first repor to the UN Security Council.

Reproductive health law program contributes brief to EU court's Irish abortion rights case

Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Faculty of Law's International Reproductive and Sexual Health Law Programme has co-written a friend-of-the-court brief with the Center for Reproductive Rights in the case ABC v. Ireland before the European Court of Human Rights. A decision was given in the case on Dec. 16, 2010.

IHRP Announces its 2011 Summer Interns!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

It is the IHRP’s great pleasure to announce our 2011 Summer Interns

Faculty of Law launches development of Ontarioís first Indigenous Commercial Code and Tribunal

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Workshop and public lecture draw stellar panellists to outline framework of unique project

By Lauren Heuser, 2L

Taking the lead to work in partnership with First Nation communities to develop and ratify an Indigenous Commercial Code, the law school hosted a successful workshop and public lecture event on Nov. 5, 2010 which brought together various stakeholders in the commercial code project.

Student Aaron Levenstadt wins James H. Bocking essay award in competition policy

Saturday, February 19, 2011

(Nov. 17, 2010) JD student Aaron Levenstadt has won the annual James H. Bocking Memorial Award, given by the Canadian Bar Association. The Award, established by the National Competition Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association in conjunction with the Competition Bureau, recognizes the best scholarly paper on the subject of competition law or policy by a full-time student or lawyer within three years of his/her call to the bar.

Prof. Audrey Macklin - "Playing politics with refugees" (with Prof. Sean Rehaag)

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Prof. Audrey Macklin, with Prof. Sean Rehaag of Osgoode Hall Law School, has published a commentary in The Toronto Star arguing that Bill C-49, the federal government’s bill on human smuggling, is deeply flawed ("Playing politics with refugees," December 3, 2010).

Read the full commentary.

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