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Chief Justice doesn’t hold back in her keynote address at the Faculty of Law’s Access to Civil Justice for Middle Income Canadians Colloquium

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

 
Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin speaks at the
Access to Civil Justice for Middle Income Canadians Colloquium
(See the end of this article for a link to the webcast of her speech)

Returning law students Nadia Marotta, Catherine Marchant and Helen Cox encourage students to sign up for the Peer Mentorship Program on Club Day. 

(Sept. 12, 2011) New JD students have started law school at UofT, after a week-long orientation of getting to know classmates, including the do's and don'ts of law school, the best places to eat and relax on and off campus, and student life beyond law school.

Congratulations to JD student Kai Sheffield, who has won the 2011 Canadian Bar Association (CBA) National Environmental, Energy and Resources Law Section (NEERLS) Law School Essay Contest David Estrin Prize.

His essay, “Of Pulp Mills and Oil Spills: Strict state liability under customary international law when energy and resource projects cause trans-boundary environmental harm,” considers whether state practice supports strict state liability in relation to trans-boundary environmental concerns.

JD student Rebecca Sutton, who is currently on leave of absence to work with War Child Canada in Darfur, has written an article in the Ontario Council for International Cooperation magazine iAM: ideas, actions, movements about some of the work War Child Canada is doing there ("Are we doing things right? Are we doing the right thing? Looking for answers in Darfur," March 2011).