News

Prof. Anita Anand has published a commentary in the Financial Post analyzing the factors that have enabled Canadian financial institutions to weather the current economic storm ("Canada's banks: conservative by nature," Financial Post, March 31, 2009).

Read the full commentary.

Prof. Ayelet Shachar's new book, The Birthright Lottery, has been published by Harvard University Press (April 2009).

From the publisher:

Christmas came early for students in Professor Audrey Macklin's Administrative Law Class as they were treated to a "real judicial review in real time" on-site at the Faculty of Law just before exams in late November.

Justice Douglas Campbell presided over the review on a British Columbian forestry company's attempt to obtain a government permit to export their surplus timber.

One student described the experience as "one of, if not the, coolest academic experiences of my law school years thus far."

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Ed Morgan analyzes the legal status of long-standing US "Buy American" legislation, the waivers that affect it, the potential impact of new protectionist measures in the US, and the issue of similar potential measures in Canada ("Taking a Buy Canadian route would be a legal sell-out," February 12, 2009).

Read the full commentary.