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Prof. Colleen Flood - "Privatized medical care no cure for waiting lists"

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Prof. Colleen Flood, scientific director of the Institute of Health Services and Policy Research (IHSPR), has written a commentary in the Toronto Star with Meghan McMahon, senior projects officer at the IHSPR, in response to a constitutional challenge to Ontario legislation that prohibits the purchase of private health insurance for medically necessary health-care services ("Privatized medical care no cure for waiting lists," September 18, 2007).

Prof. Kent Roach authors study of Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act review process

Saturday, December 15, 2007

On September 10, 2007, the Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) released a study by Prof. Kent Roach on the parliamentary review of the Canadian government's Anti-Terrorism Act, entitled "Better Late Than Never? The Canadian Parliamentary Review of the Anti-terrorism Act."

Prof. Lemmens publishes new book on ethical issues of predictive genetic testing

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Prof. Trudo Lemmens, with co-authors Mireille Lacroix, Senior Policy Analyst, Public Health Law and Ethics Program, Public Health Agency of Canada, and Prof. Roxanne Mykitiuk of York University's Osgoode Hall law school, has published a new book, Reading the future?: Legal and Ethical Challenges of Predictive Genetic Testing (Cowansville: Les Éditions Thémis, 2007). The book also includes contributions from Prof. Lisa Austin of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and from Prof.

Darryl Robinson comments on Jim Carrey's YouTube video for human rights in Burma

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Acting Director of the International Human Rights Clinic and adjunct professor Darryl Robinson was interviewed on City TV News International about celebrity activism.  The interview concerned a YouTube video by Jim Carrey drawing attention to the plight of Nobel prize winner Aung Sun Suu Kyi of Burma.

Watch the interview on City TV's website.

Noah Novogrodsky - "Cambodian justice, a long time coming"

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Noah Novogrodsky, Director of the International Human Rights Program, has written a commentary in the National Post discussing the special court formed in Cambodia to try the crimes of the Pol Pot regime ("Cambodian justice, a long time coming," October 1, 2007).

Read the full commentary.

Profs. MacIntosh and Anand publish two views of "passport" securities regulation

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

In a pair of commentaries in the Financial Post, Professors Jeffrey MacIntosh and Anita Anand have published two contrasting views of the idea of a "passport" system for national securities regulation ("Passport to chaos" by Anita Anand and "Who needs a monopoly?" by Jeffrey MacIntosh, July 25, 2007).

Read Anita Anand's commentary.

Prof. Jacob Ziegel - "Canada's Top Court Has Sold Out Consumers"

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Prof. Emeritus Jacob Ziegel takes the Supreme Court to task for their recent judgements regarding class-action suits ("Supreme sellout: Canada's Top Court Has Sold Out Consumers By Handing Businesses An Easy Way To Avoid Class Action Suits," August 9, 2007).

Read the full commentary.

Prof. Brenda Cossman - "Don't pit adoptive moms against biological moms"

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Prof. Brenda Cossman has written a commentary in the Globe and Mail discussing a recent Federal Court of Appeal decision that adoptive mothers do not have a right to the same amount of paid leave as biological mothers ("Don't pit adoptive moms against biological moms," August 20, 2007).

Read the full commentary.

Prof. Lemmens launches new "Genetic Information, Privacy and Biobanks" website

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Prof. Trudo Lemmens, of the Faculty of Law's Health Law and Policy Group, with Research Associate Lori Luther, has launched a new website devoted to providing accessible information about issues related to genetic information, privacy, and the recent phenomenon of "biobanks" (databanks of human genetic information).

This new website, hosted by the Faculty of Law, can be found at www.geneticdatabanks.ca.

Please read the invitation from Prof. Lemmens and Lori Luther, below.

Prof. Ernest Weinrib receives teaching award

Thursday, October 11, 2007

In May 2007, University of Toronto law professor Ernest Weinrib was named one of Ontario's most outstanding university teachers in a province-wide competition adjudicated by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) Awards Committee. He received a 2006 OCUFA teaching award at a ceremony in Toronto on June 8, 2007.

Read the award citation.

Read the OCUFA press release.

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