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Prof. Mohammad Fadel - "Why Egyptian progressives should be chanting 'economy first'"

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Prof. Mohammade Fadel has written a commentary in Foreign Policy magazine's The Middle East Channel arguing that Egypt's reformers should focus on economic issues first ("Why Egyptian progressives should be chanting 'economy first'", July 18, 2011).

Read the full article on the Foreign Policy website.

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Two new faculty will join the law school: Larissa Katz and Malcolm Thorburn

Saturday, November 12, 2011

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the hiring of two new Associate Professors, who will join us as faculty members in July 2013. Professors Larissa Katz and Malcolm Thorburn are currently Associate Professors at Queen’s University Faculty of Law, and both have been praised in the highest terms by the top scholars in their respective fields for the strength of their scholarship.

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Print symposium on Prof. Alan Brudner's book "Punishment and Freedom" in New Criminal Law Review

Saturday, November 12, 2011

The journal New Criminal Law Review (14:3, 2011) has published a print symposium on Alan Brudner's Punishment and Freedom: A Liberal Theory of Penal Law (Oxford 2009). The symposium features comments by prominent international scholars Thom Brooks, Shai Lavi, Alan Norrie, Alice Ristroph, and Mariana Valverde, plus a reply by the author.

See the issue on JSTOR.

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Scotiabank donation boosts conference and lecture fund

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Rob Mattacott, district vice president, Scotiabank and Graham Flanagan, branch manager, sales and services, Scotiabank Queen Street West, with Dean Mayo Moran.

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First year of OSC Investor Advisory Panel "very successful" says Chair Prof. Anita Anand

Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Prof. Anita Anand, Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission's new Investor Advisory Panel, has told Investment Executive that "I think we’ve had a very successful year." In its article "Advisory panel gains traction" (Sept. 23, 2011), the newsletter speaks with Prof. Anand about the panel's accomplishments in its first year.

Read the article on the Investment Executive website.

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Prof. Alan Brudner has been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

(Sept. 8, 2011) The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Prof. Alan Brudner has just been appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

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Prof. Kent Roach publishes new book, "The 9/11 Effect"

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

Kent Roach - The 9/11 Effect

Prof. Kent Roach has published a new book, The 9/11 Effect: Comparative Counter-Terrorism (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

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Prof. Kent Roach - "The dangers of sharing information"

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Kent Roach identifies the dangers inherent in the sharing of intelligence between nations that became common after the 9/11 terrorist attacks ("The dangers of sharing information," Sept. 6, 2011).

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Prof. Ed Morgan - "'Bonus' zoning and the development approval game"

Thursday, September 29, 2011

In a commentary in The Lawyers Weekly, Prof. Ed Morgan considers whether the practice of bonus zoning (section 37 of Ontario's Planning Act) has constitutional ramifications ("'Bonus' zoning and the development approval game," August 26, 2011).

Read the full commentary on the Faculty Blog.