Cheryl Milne, Executive Director of the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, spoke on CBC radio's The Current this morning (Friday May 22, 2009) to talk about the principle of the best interests of the child in relation to a child protection case in Winnipeg.

Listen to a CBC podcast of the segment (or right-click to download) (MP3 format - the interview with Cheryl Milne begins at around the 11:25 minute mark).

The Faculty of Law's joint JD/MSW (Master of Social Work) program has been featured in a U of T news story. The story includes quotes from alumnus Karima Kanani, student Judith Rae, Prof. Cheryl Regehr, and Dean Mayo Moran ("Social work, law a winning combination at U of T," March 20, 2009).

Read the full story on the News at U of T website.

The International Human Rights Program is pleased to announce that, for the third year in a row, IHRP internship students have been awarded an Arthur C. Helton Fellowship from the American Society of International Law to contribute to the cost of her summer internship.  This year, two students, Amanda Montague (I) and Rebecca Sutton (I), were selected from a pool of over fifty applicants from around the world.

An insidious cultural campaign

by Ed Morgan 

This commentary was first published in the National Post on July 2, 2009.

The Dead Sea Scrolls, which are being exhibited this week at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), have survived time, weather, sand--and now the political storm caused by protests at their being toured by the Israel Museum, which houses the scrolls in Jerusalem.