Incoming: meet more of the new students in the Class of 2022

Friday, August 30, 2019

The Faculty of Law is excited to welcome, and welcome back, all our law students--JD, graduate and transfer students--most especially the incoming 1Ls. We’d like to introduce some of the Class of 2022 to you. In our annual series of new first-year profiles, meet: Manula, Jackson, Elsie and Alina.  (You can also meet four other incoming Class of 2022 students here).

Stories by Karen Gross

A week in the life of a U of T Law Student

Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Three U of T Law students share insights into their daily lives.

Christina Roussakis, 3L, on exchange in Lyon.

Christina Roussakis

During 1L, what did your week look like?

JD student Teodora Pasca writes "The Ontario government is destroying university legal clinics" in Canadian Lawyer magazine

Wednesday, August 21, 2019

In a commentary in Canadian Lawyer magazine, JD student Teodora Pasca argues that the Ontario government's legal aid cuts and the Student Choice Initiative threaten the future of the legal profession ("The Ontario government is destroying university legal clinics," August 19, 2019).

Read the full commentary on the Canadian Lawyer website, or below.

Incoming: meet some of the new students in the Class of 2022

Sunday, August 11, 2019

The Faculty of Law is excited to welcome, and welcome back, all our law students--JD, graduate and transfer students--most especially the incoming 1Ls. We’d like to introduce some of the Class of 2022 to you. In our annual series of new first-year profiles, meet: Hunter Carlson, Ifrah Farah, Aidan Katz and Julia Pimental. (You can also meet four other incoming Class of 2022 students here).

Stories by Karen Gross

2019 Dean’s Graduate Student Leadership Award: Jean-Christophe Bedard Rubin

Thursday, July 18, 2019

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2019 Dean’s Graduate Student Leadership Award is Jean-Christophe Bedard Rubin (Second-year SJD).

The award honours and recognizes the exceptional contributions of one or more graduate students who have demonstrated outstanding co-curricular and extracurricular leadership at the law school, and whose contributions have helped make the law school a vibrant and inclusive scholarly community.  

Real or fake? U of T law students work with Amnesty International to verify conflict zone videos

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

U of T's DVC working group pictured at the Hong Kong summit. (From left) George Ghabrial, Sara Bolourchian, Amitpal Singh, Milica Pavlovic and Aaqib Mahmood (photo by Alice Tse)
U of T's DVC working group pictured at the Hong Kong summit. (From left) George Ghabrial, Sara Bolourchian, Amitpal Singh, Milica Pavlovic and Aaqib Mahmood (photo by Alice Tse)

By Romi Levine

Dean's Leadership Award winners for first and second year law students are announced

Monday, July 8, 2019

The dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof. Ed Iacobucci has announced the recipients of our Dean’s Leadership Awards for first year and second year students (1L and 2L students). They are:

Honorary degree recipient Justice Michael Moldaver urges grads to 'go forward with confidence'

Friday, June 7, 2019

Justice Michael Moldaver

(photo courtesy of Michael Moldaver)

By Rahul Kalvapalle

Each year, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law recognizes outstanding academic achievement by law students – and it’s no coincidence two of those awards are named after Justice Michael Moldaver.