The Symposium on Lifelong Learning in Professionalism, hosted on Friday February 20, 2009 by the Centre for the Legal Profession at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has inspired an extensive feature on legal professionalism in the Globe and Mail's "The Law Page" ("It's about so much more than billable hours," February 25, 2009).

The article quotes Dean Mayo Moran and several participants in the Symposium, including Justice Stephen Goudge, who closed the symposium with the annual Goodman Lecture.

Prof. Lorraine Weinrib has written an analysis in The Toronto Star of the various legal issues in the criminal prosecution for polygamy of two men from the community of Bountiful, British Columbia ("Shooting down polygamy law not necessarily a slam dunk," January 13, 2008).

Read the full commentary.

International and humanitarian law scholar Professor Nehal Bhuta has been awarded the prestigious Toscana Giorgio La Pira Prize for his paper, questioning the fairness of Saddam Hussein's trial in Baghdad three years ago, published in the Journal of International Criminal Justice (JICJ) in March 2008.

Creation of federal regulator will unleash constitutional showdown

By Jeff MacIntosh

This commentary was first published in The Lawyers Weekly on February 20, 2009.

The suggestion that Canada needs a federal securities regulator is about as fresh as the sinking of the Titanic. Nonetheless, the report of the federally commissioned "Expert Panel on Securities Regulation" (the Hockin Report) contains a material innovation on the concept.