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By Anny Vexler

On March 21, 2011, Professor Margaret Jane Radin gave the 2011 Grafstein Annual Lecture in Communications to law students and faculty and other members of the University of Toronto community. Radin discussed the problems associated with boilerplate contracts and offered solutions.

Prof. Mohammad Fadel appeared on TVO's "The Agenda with Steve Paikin" on May 9, 2011 as part of a panel discussion on the topic of "Arab Spring: No Thaw for Israel."

Watch the webcast on the TVO website.

By: Colleen Flood

This commentary was first published in the Toronto Star on June 2, 2011.

Canadians spend a lot of money (public and private) on health care and much of that is spent on drugs — some $23.4 billion in 2008. Provincial insurance plans are desperately trying to cope, looking to initiatives like the recently passed Ontario law that caps prices of generic drugs at 25 per cent of the brand name equivalent.

Some University of Toronto law students headed west to Vancouver recently to participate in Canada's only national law school moot that focuses exclusively on Aboriginal people. Unique to the Kawaskimhon ("speaking with knowledge") Moot is its focus on negotiation, collaboration and open dialogue.