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The Faculty of Law’s The Faculty of Law’s Arthur Ripstein, professor of law and philosophy, and a 2016 Killam Research Fellow, has been designated a University Professor. This designation recognizes remarkable scholarly achievement and pre-eminence, and is the University of Toronto’s most prestigious professorship. It is highly competitive in nature, since no more than two per cent of the professoriate may hold this distinguished designation at a time. 

In an commentary in the Ottawa Citizen, Nikki Gershbain, National Director of Pro Bono Students Canada, and Dean Edward Iacobucci write about the valuable role students can play in ensuring access to justice and the need to support these efforts ("How students can help more people afford access to our justice system," May 29, 2016).

Read the full commentary on the Ottawa Citizen website, or below.

Prof. Anita Anand was interviewed on the Business News Network (BNN) about a controversy around the dual-share structure of Quebec company Alimentation Couche-Tard.

“A sunset clause is acceptable for a limited period of time in order for the founders to grow the company but we are well past that date in the Couche-Tard context,” said Prof. Anand.

Watch the video on the BNN website (5:31 minutes).

Prof. Jennifer Nedelsky has been awarded a Jackman Humanities Institute Research Fellowship from the U of T’s Jackman Humanities Institute. The Fellowship and the Institute are named after former university chancellor and law alumnus Hal Jackman, LLB 1954.