Dean Iacobucci will be holding monthly drop in sessions for students to speak one-on-one with him about any questions/concerns/issues/compliments students have about the law school. No appointment is necessary. Just drop by the Martin J. Friedland Dean’s Suite, Rm. J406 in the Jackman Law Building within the allotted drop in time.

We are happy to offer a new date for the SafeTALK suicide alert training workshop for this term.

Friday, March 22nd from 1:00pm to 4:30pm

Location: TBD

Registration through eventbrite (Password: uoftlaw): https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/safetalk-at-uoft-law-tickets-51948558537

For more information about SafeTALK please see Headnotes, https://www.livingworks.net/programs/safetalk/, or contact Yukimi Henry at yukimi.henry@utoronto.ca.

Please note: If you were registered for the cancelled March 15th workshop your registration will NOT automatically be transferred to the March 22nd date. Please re-register through the above link.

Join the ILS for a panel discussion on the World Trade Organization during the Trump administration, with academics and international trade lawyers in Toronto. The discussion will address the US-China trade war, the Trump administration's attempt to reform the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, and the risks posed to Canada and the world.

Tuesday, February 12

J130, 12:30-2:00 PM

Lunch will be served.

Lawrence L. Herman (Herman & Associates) served in the Canadian Foreign Service in a variety of posts, representing Canada in numerous international conferences and meetings, including the GATT and OECD. In private law practice, Mr. Herman appeared on behalf of Canada in the International Court of Justice in the Gulf of Maine boundary case in 1984. He has concentrated his legal practice on international trade and business transactions, representing private sector clients, governments and international agencies, dealing particularly with the GATT/WTO, FTA and NAFTA. He regularly represents clients at the Canadian International Trade Tribunal. Mr. Herman is Chair of the CITT’s National Advisory Committee and a member of the Trade Expert Advisory Council of the Canadian Department of International Trade. He had been a member of the Market Access Advisory Group of the International Trade Department providing advice on business issues in the WTO Doha Round negotiations. His most recent book is Export and Import Controls, Sanctions and Other Trade Restrictions.

Matthew Kronby (Borden Ladner Gervais LLP) practice encompasses trade and investment treaty negotiations and dispute settlement, including the current NAFTA negotiations and the Canada-US softwood lumber dispute, and trade and regulatory compliance, where he has represented government and corporate clients from Canada and around the world in trade remedy investigations. He was the Director General of the Government of Canada’s Trade Law Bureau and Canada's chief counsel in the negotiation of CETA and free trade agreements with Colombia, Peru and Singapore. Mr. Kronby is also an Adjunct Professor of International Arbitration at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Vice-Chair of the International Bar Association's International Trade and Customs Law Committee and Chair of the Legal Committee of Transparency International Canada. He has been appointed to Canada’s roster of NAFTA Chapter 19 panelists and serves on the Minister of the Environment’s NAFTA Advisory Council.

Brenda Swick (Cassels Brock) offers extensive expertise in representing clients in anti dumping and countervailing duty investigations before the Canada Border Services Agency, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal and the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal. For over 20 years, Ms. Swick has successfully litigated high-profile cases and has advised governments and private sector clients in more than 15 WTO dispute resolution proceedings. She represented a provincial government in the WTO Feed-In-Tariff case and for many years represented the Quebec Softwood Lumber industry in the anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases against imports of softwood lumber from Canada, the most commercially significant trade case ever filed under the US trade laws. Ms. Swick was formerly counsel to the Canadian International Trade Tribunal. She has counselled on customs matters and appeared before the CBSA, CITT and Federal Court. She is an expert arbitrator under Chapter 19 of the NAFTA.

Michael Trebilcock joined the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 1972, where he specializes in international trade law and law and economics, among others. He was a Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School in 1976, a Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School in 1985 and 2005, a Global Law Professor at New York University Law School in 1997 and 1999, and a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School in 2011-2012. In 1987 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In 1999, Professor Trebilcock was awarded the Canada Council Molson Prize in the Humanities and Social Sciences and was elected an Honorary Foreign Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2002 he was elected President of the American Law and Economics Association, and in 2007, he was the recipient of the Ontario Attorney General's Mundell Medal for contributions to Law and Letters. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Ontario Premier's Discovery Award for the Social Sciences. Professor Trebilcock has won awards for his work, the Owen Prize by the Foundation for Legal Research for his book, The Common Law of Restraint of Trade.

CHILD PROTECTION LAW NEEDS YOU!

Find out how you can make a difference fighting for families.

Students with an interest in family law, child protection, criminal defence, or public interest advocacy
are invited to attend a session about going into child protection law. For anyone looking for a career in
public interest law and litigation, child protection law is an often over-looked area where lawyers can
advance the interests of vulnerable clients and make meaningful differences in the lives of children and
families.

Our speakers have worked as parents’ counsel and counsel for children, as well as counsel for children’s
aid societies.  They will be discussing the kinds of cases they have dealt with, what you can expect as
counsel, how to look for opportunities in the field, and the practical aspects of establishing a practice. 
We anticipate that this will be an inspiring and informative session, with the perspective of practitioners
and the Bench. If you have any interest at all in this field of law, this will be a very valuable session to
attend!

Speakers:

Justice Sheilah O’Connell was appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice (Halton) in November of 2010,
primarily as a family court judge. She graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1989 and was a
student caseworker at both Parkdale Community Legal Services and CLASP while at law school. Justice
O’Connell articled at the Official Guardian’s Office (now known as Office of the Children’s Lawyer) and
practised family and child protection law from 1991 to 2010, first as a sole practitioner and then as a
staff lawyer at the Toronto Family Law Office of Legal Aid Ontario. She also served as Toronto Director of
Family Law Services for Legal Aid Ontario. Justice O’Connell is now presiding at 311 Jarvis Street in
family, child protection and youth criminal justice courts.

Tammy Law is a family lawyer with extensive experience in child protection.  She has argued at all levels
of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. She has worked as parents’ counsel, counsel for
children, and society counsel.  She is the interim president of the Ontario Association of Child Protection
Lawyers (Toronto Chapter).

Beth Purdon-McLellan is an associate of Clarke Child and Family Law. She practices in family law and
child protection. Beth is a member of the Office of the Children’s Lawyer personal rights panel and she
regularly represents children in family law and child protection matters. Beth went to Osgoode Hall Law
School and articled at the Office of the Children’s Lawyer. She was called to the bar in June 2017
Arthika Srivarapathy is a recent graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School who is currently completing her
articling placement at Glass and Associates, counsel for the Jewish Family and Child Services of Greater
Toronto (JF&CS). In her role, she assists in the case management of protection files at the Agency, works
collaboratively with parents’ counsel and counsel for children, and has appeared before the Ontario
Court of Justice as legal representative for the JF&CS.

******This event is co-sponsored by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity."  

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP

Presents:

Peter Niesen
University of Hamburg

Common ownership of the earth and migrants‘ entitlements: Two sources of cosmopolitan right

Tuesday February 12, 2019
4:00 pm  - 6:00 pm
Room FA2(Solarium)
84 Queen's Park

I discuss the implications of a famous natural law category for questions of border-crossing migration, the category of original common ownership of the earth, as used by Hugo Grotius and Immanuel Kant. Kant derives a cosmopolitan right of hospitality from it. Yet the debate on cosmopolitan right is still to adress the yawning abyss (Benhabib) between claims to temporary sojourn and any claims to take up permanent residency. We need some explanation of how this abyss came about. I argue that the dual character of cosmopolitan right results from the fact that Kant is drawing on two different sources from the Grotian tradition, two arguments which yield widely diverging entitlements. Both Grotian sources can be systematically developed, and transformed from natural law into public cosmopolitan law. But they cannot be merged in a satisfactory way. I will not claim that the abyss can be bridged.

Peter Niesen is Professor of Political Theory at Hamburg University and a former member of the Frankfurt-based Cluster of Excellence ‘Formation of Normative Orders‘. His research interests lie in International Political Theory, Kant, Bentham, and Animal Politics. Among his recent publications are “Reframing civil disobedience: Constituent power as a language of transnational protest“. Journal of International Political Theory 15, 2019; "Kant and Rawls on Free Speech in Autocracies", Kantian Review 23, 2018;. "The Cautionary Use of Fakes", Behemoth 11, 2018; "What is Animal Politics?" (with Svenja Ahlhaus), Historical Social Research 40, 2015.

 For additional workshop information, please contact events.law@utoronto.ca

Please join us for lunch and conversation with Paul, Weiss associates Kate Amato and Nick Charleton, both JD/MBA ’15. Kate and Nick will discuss their careers as transactional attorneys and will provide insight on practicing in New York.

The event will be held in room P120 from 12:30-2:00pm. 
We look forward to seeing you there!

What does a legal career in food trade look like? How will the Canadian food landscape change after the USMCA comes into force? Join the U of T Food Law and Policy Society for a lunchtime discussion on these issues and more!

Featuring the Following Speakers: 

• Jacob Mantle, JD (Borden Ladner Gervais LLP)

• Scott Kirkpatrick, JD (Coca-Cola (Canada))

• Marsha Cadogan, LLM, PhD (Centre for International Governance Innovation)

food-trade-panel-poster.pdf

CARLOS A. BALL

The QUEERING of the AMERICAN CORPORATION

February 14© 2019

1230-2PM

IKB 2027

Lunch Served | RSVP Please: https://webform.osgoode.yorku.ca/view.php?id=373359

Carlos A. Ball is Distinguished Professor of Law and Judge Frederick Lacey Research Scholar at Rutgers University. He has published several book on LGBT rights, including The First Amendment and LGBT Equality (Harvard University Press, 2017), After Marriage Equality (NYU Press, 2016), and Same-Sex Marriage and Children (Oxford University Press, 2014). He is currently serving as Senior Editor of Oxford University Press's LGBT Politics and Policy Research Encyclopedia. He teaches courses on Constitutional Law, the First Amendment, and Sexuality, Gender Identity, and the Law.

In this Hennick/IFLS co sponsored talk, Professor Ball will outline his arguments, to be published as "The Queering of Corporate America: How Big Business Went from LGBT Adversary to Ally" (Beacon Press, forthcoming 2019), and answer questions about his arguments and their implications. He will explore the largely untold story of how the U.S. LGBT rights movement, in the decades following Stonewall, helped to turn large American companies from pervasive discriminators against sexual minorities and transgender individuals to defenders of LGBT equality.  Big businesses are essentially conservative institutions that do not usually weigh in on controversial “culture war” issues. His talk will argue that corporate support for LGBT equality—as manifested, for example, recently in corporate America’s vehement opposition to so-called transgender bathroom laws—is an exception to that general rule. At a time when the LGBT rights movement in the U.S. is facing considerable political backlash following crucial victories such as the attainment of marriage equality across the country, corporate America has become a crucial ally of LGBT people.

Link for sharing: https://ifls.osgoode.yorku.ca/qthecorpcarlosball/

Questions? LGonsalves@osgoode.yorku.ca

Join us on February 23 for the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers’ 12th Annual Conference and Gala! Chief Justice Richard Wagner will deliver the keynote address. The theme is “Practicing Law and Humanity”.

The event will be held at the Toronto Region Board of Trade in First Canadian Place. View the full program and purchase your tickets online at https://on.facl.ca/tc-events/2019-conference-gala/. Current U of T Law students can email Sara-Marni at sara.hubbard@utoronto.ca to get your ticket costs reimbursed.

Time:

Saturday, February 23, 2019

8:00am – 9:00pm

Location:

Toronto Region Board of Trade

First Canadian Place

77 Adelaide Street West

Toronto, ON M5X 1C1

CDG Research Fellowship: Call for Applications
The Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ) is inviting faculty and graduate students at Canadian universities to apply for the 2019 edition of the Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship. This fellowship is up to a maximum of $7,500 and is awarded annually to support research in relation to the topic of CIAJ’s annual conference.

2019 Topic: “The Impact of Artificial Intelligence and Social Media on Legal Institutions”

Candidates must submit their application no later than March 31, 2019.

Details:
https://ciaj-icaj.ca/en/research/charles-d-gonthier-research-fellowship/

Social Media Posts to be shared:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/CIAJ_ICAJ/status/1092473906294861825

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ciaj.icaj/photos/a.299290416782042/2350288065015590/?type=3&theater