Rebuilding public trust after COVID-19: U of T experts to review law, ethics, and policymaking

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Professor Trudo Lemmens

Faculty of Law Professor Trudo Lemmens, Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy (photo & story by Nina Haikara)


Disability rights, disability justice and disability advocacy have been an increasing focus of Trudo Lemmens’ research in recent years.

SRI leadership team welcomes Professor Anna Su

Monday, September 11, 2023

The Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) is pleased to announce the appointment of three distinguished University of Toronto faculty members to SRI’s research leadership team in the fall of 2023.

Dean Jutta Brunnée among experts at historic International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea

Monday, September 11, 2023

COSIS committee of legal experts and assistants

The Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (COSIS) is a collective of countries, including Antigua and Barbuda, that are low-emitting, but highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and rising sea levels.

Professor Anver Emon receives SSHRC Partnership Development Grant

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Emon

Several University of Toronto researchers received support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) through Partnership Grants announced on August 29.

U of T Law welcomes new Associate Professor Galit A. Sarfaty

Wednesday, July 26, 2023

U of T Law is pleased to welcome legal scholar Galit A. Sarfaty, who joins the Faculty, effective August 1, 2023. 

Prof Galit A Sarfaty

(supplied photo by Macy Yap)

Deans Emeriti portraits celebrate the history and legacy of U of T Law leadership

Tuesday, July 11, 2023

Deans Emeriti portraits

Deans Emeriti of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law: (1943-1949) W.P.M. Kennedy;  (1984-1990) J. Robert S. Prichard; (1990-1995) Robert Sharpe; (1995-2005) Ronald J. Daniels; (2006-2014) Mayo Moran (SJD 1999); (2014–2020) Ed Iacobucci.

The Hon. Mm. Justice Sharon Nicklas (LLB 1992) appointed Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice

Thursday, May 4, 2023

The Government of Ontario announced on May 1, the Hon. Mm. Justice Sharon M. Nicklas (LLB 1992) as the Chief Justice of the Ontario Court of Justice.  

New book by U of T's Kent Roach addresses the injustice of wrongful convictions in Canada

Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Professor Kent Roach

University of Toronto Faculty of Law Professor Kent Roach has spent decades sounding the alarm on wrongful convictions in Canada.

His new research underlines the dangers of wrongful convictions based on false guilty pleas or imagined crimes that never happened.