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Abdullah Khan was making plans to work outside Toronto this summer. But like many of his first-year classmates, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law student found his employment prospects dwindle, due to the global pandemic.

“I’m looking for other law-related opportunities, but remote ones are hard to come by,” says Khan.

Born and raised in Alberta, Bill Flanagan joins the University of Alberta from Queen’s University, where he served as the dean of law for 14 years from 2005 to 2019. He holds a BA (English and Philosophy) from Carleton University, a JD from the University of Toronto, a DEA in International Economic Law from Université Paris I-Sorbonne, and an LLM from Columbia University. His scholarly work spans property law, corporate law and international trade law.

University of Toronto Faculty of Law alumna Melissa Kennedy (LLB 1987) has received the leading global honour for general counsel and law departments from the Directors Roundtable. 

U of T law alumnus Solomon McKenzie, an articling student McCarthy Tétrault, spoke to CTV Your Morning host Ben Mulroney about the the importance of the Black Future Lawyers program.