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The Symposium on Lifelong Learning in Professionalism, hosted on Friday February 20, 2009 by the Centre for the Legal Profession at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, has inspired an extensive feature on legal professionalism in the Globe and Mail's "The Law Page" ("It's about so much more than billable hours," February 25, 2009).

The article quotes Dean Mayo Moran and several participants in the Symposium, including Justice Stephen Goudge, who closed the symposium with the annual Goodman Lecture.

Prof. Lorraine Weinrib has written an analysis in The Toronto Star of the various legal issues in the criminal prosecution for polygamy of two men from the community of Bountiful, British Columbia ("Shooting down polygamy law not necessarily a slam dunk," January 13, 2008).

Read the full commentary.

On December 4, 2008, television station Business News Network (BNN) interviewed Prof. Ed Morgan about the federal government's ability to act on economic issues while parliament is suspended as a result of the decision to prorogue parliament. The interview can be viewed over the web.

Click here to watch the interview on BNN (an ad will show first).

In a discussion in the National Post, alumnus David Asper ('07) posed questions about potential constitutional crises in Canada and how they could be resolved to constitutional experts and commentators, including Prof. Lorne Sossin and former U of T Law graduate student Adam Dodek, who was also a fellow at the Centre for the Legal Profession in 2008.  ("Unchartered waters," January 2, 2009).