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Prof. Michael Trebilcock and his co-authors, Lindsey Carson (SJD '15) and Joanna V. Noronha, have been awarded the 2015 Outstanding Publication Prize by the Institute for Poverty Alleviation and International Development for their article "Held Back: Explaining the Sluggish Pace of Improvement to Basic Education in Developing Democracies–The Cases of India and Brazil."

Prof. David Schneiderman wrote an oped in the Globe and Mail analyzing why an investment court for a comprehensive economic and trade agreement (CETA) is not the way to proceed, even though there are some advantages to the system. He argues "as long as a broad set of rights are conferred upon foreign investors and their interpretation is left to a cadre of investment-law personnel, the regime will remain flawed. It certainly is not worth saving by way of a new investment court."

In a commentary in the Financial Post, Prof. Anita Anand argues that a federal government bailout of Bombardier Inc. won't address the company's fundamental problems, family control and dual-class shares ("A bailout won’t fix Bombardier’s biggest problems: family control and dual-class shares," February 29, 2016).

Read the full commentary on the Financial Post website, or below.

The latest edition of the University of Toronto Law Journal is a special symposium issue on the theme of "Public Law for the Twenty-First Century," edited by Prof. David Dyzenhaus.