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Our Top 5 most-read student news stories covered the whole law school cycle, from the great new students arriving at U of T Law, through the achievements of current students, to the impressive graduating class. Two stories highlighted how the youth outreach programs U of T Law has implemented in recent years, to broaden the diversity of applicants to law schools, are getting results.

In a commentary in the Winnipeg Free Press, SJD student and Trudeau Scholar Kyle Kirkup argues that there are better alternatives to the federal government's new prostitution laws ("Stop criminalizing sex work," December 8, 2014).

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Stop criminalizing sex work

By Kyle Kirkup

December 8, 2014

Evan Rankin, 2L, was an International Human Rights Program (IHRP) intern at the UN Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific (Thailand) during the summer of 2014. This report was first published in the IHRP's Rights Review magazine.

Toronto-Tsinghua International Law Conference examined the threats—and possible solutions

By Peter Boisseau

Lawmakers and regulators around the world are grappling with the explosive growth of poorly regulated “shadow banking” sectors in China and the U.S. that provide easy credit and high returns but have become so large they may also pose the threat of a global economic meltdown, a University of Toronto law conference was told.