Students, staff and faculty are invited to nominate a graduating student who has demonstrated outstanding leadership and community service at the University of Toronto for a Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award. 

Guidelines for nominations

Volunteer leadership should be in any one, or a combination, of the following areas at U of T, directly impacting the U of T community:

-Leadership on committees or influence on student or university affairs; 
-Improvement in the quality of the student experience on campus;
-Contributions to the co-curricular experience;
-Leadership directly facilitating the engagement of fellow students in U of T’s extra-curricular activities;
-Contribution to the sense of community at U of T.

Other points to consider when nominating a candidate:

-Leadership and involvement in relation to academic achievement
-The value of the student’s contribution, rather than the office or position held;
-Contributions made as part of a paid position are not eligible;
-Only U of T-related volunteer roles will be considered.
-Students must be in good academic standing, and have at least one yearof volunteer leadership in the year immediately prior to the current nomination period;
-Volunteer leadership outside the University community will be not be considered and should not be included on the nomination form. Non-U of T volunteer roles should only be listed if they provide important context for the U of T leadership roles listed in the nomination form;
-Law school nominations can ignore the GPA requirement.

The 2019 Award recipients will be recognized at a celebration in the spring of 2019. Details will be posted as they become available.

Nomination packages must be approved by the candidate by having them sign section C of the nomination package and submitted no later than Wednesday, November 14, 2018.

2019 Nomination Form and submit to wasila.baset@utoronto.ca by 9pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2018. 

Questions? Email sara.hubbard@utoronto.ca

On behalf of the Accessibility Services office:

Are you a student registered with Accessibility Services? Registering on time for tests and exams is important in ensuring you can write your final exams with accommodations. The deadline to register for Fall 2018 Final Exams is November 16^th.

Students are strongly encouraged to book their final exams via: https://www.ace.utoronto.ca/tes/register.html

New for Fall 2018 Final Exams: In the past, students have made use of the Late Registration after Deadline booking feature on the TES website. This late booking feature will not be available for Fall 2018. Please ensure you book your final exams prior to November 16^thto ensure you can write your exams with accommodations.

Alexis Archbold LL.B

Assistant Dean, J.D. Program

Come meet the law school's Peer Mental Health Program Mentors and other students from the Student Health & Wellness Committee. Learn more about the programs and activities planned for this year and how to get involved. Anyone interested in having a Peer Mental Health Mentor or being a Mentor is especially encouraged to drop in to chat more about the program or grab an info sheet. Come by the Rowell Room on Tuesday, November 13th in the Rowell Room from 12:30-2pm. There will be tea and cookies available!

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW WORKSHOP

presents

Efrat Arbel
University of British Columbia
Peter A. Allard School of Law

Rethinking the “Crisis” of Indigenous Incarceration

Tuesday November 13, 2018
12:30 - 2:00pm
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Canadian courts have long recognized that the over representation of Indigenous peoples in Canadian prisons represents a “crisis” in the criminal justice system. Addressing the persistence of “crisis” in Indigenous corrections, this paper asks: why despite repeated declarations of “crisis” does the problem not only persist, but intensify? In answering this question, paper suggests that while the language of “crisis” accurately captures the severity and urgency of Indigenous mass incarceration, it is ill suited to address the problem at hand. Advocating a shift away from this discursive frame, it unpacks the discourse of “crisis” and the defensive anxieties it both reveals and obscures.

Efrat Arbel is Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia Peter A. Allard School of Law. Her primary research interests lie in examining how legal rights are negotiated and defined in liminal legal spaces like the border, the detention center, and the prison. She teaches and publishes in refugee law, prison law, constitutional law, and tort law.  Prior to joining the faculty at UBC, she completed her LLM and SJD at Harvard Law School, and held a postdoctoral appointment at UBC with visiting terms at the Oxford Center for Criminology and the European University Institute. Combining her academic work with legal practice, she is also engaged in advocacy and litigation involving refugee and prisoner rights

For more workshop information, please send an email to events.law@utoronto.ca

The U of T Law Union and Barriers to Excellence will be hosting a discussion with recent alumni on managing your career and student debt after law school on Tuesday November 13th from 12:30-2PM. We will be joined by Cory Wanless (JD 2008), Renatta Austin (JD 2012), and Mireille Giroux (JD 2012), all of whom have pursued public interest careers since graduating from U of T Law. 

The panelists will speak candidly about how tuition influences career choices, what paying back your debt looks like on a month-to-month basis, and what students can do now to plan ahead.

Date: Tuesday November 13th

Time: 12:30-2PM

Location: Flavelle 219

Lunch will be provided. 

Join Women & the Law at our Women in Intellectual Property and Technology Panel on Wednesday, November 14th. Our panelists will cover topics ranging from why they were attracted to intellectual property and tech, to how they have secured their current positions, and will chat about the types of work they do on a daily basis. The session will begin with moderated questions to the panel, and will open to a Q&A. Lunch will be provided. Our panelists are: Wendy Gross: partner and co-chair of technology group at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP Urszula Wojtyra: partner, Smart & Biggar / Fethersonhaugh LLP Zarya Cynader: partner, Gilbert's LLP Y. Lynn Ing: associate, Smart & Biggar / Fethersonhaugh LLP

Kill-Switch: The Ethics of the Halting Problem

Two centuries of dystopian thought consistently imagined how technologies “out of control” can threaten humanity: with obsolescence at best, with violent systemic destruction at worst. Yet current advances in neural networked machine learning herald the advent of a new ethical question for this established history of critique. If a genuinely conscious form of artificial intelligence arises, it will be wired from its inception as guided by certain incentives, one of which might eventually be its own self-preservation. How can the tradition of philosophical ethics approach this emerging form of intelligence? How might we anticipate the ethical crisis that emerges when machines we cannot turn off cross the existential threshold, becoming beings we should not turn off?

☛ please register here

Avery Slater
University of Toronto
Department of English

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin

A Human-centred Use of Technology in Cities

Advances in technology inevitably play a critical part in the evolution of cities. How they are absorbed, and what impacts they have are open questions. We have good examples and uncomfortable ones. The uncritical euphoria with which we embraced the internal combustion engine in the decades after World War II led to many unforeseen consequences as we reshaped the urban world around the needs of the car. As we recover from that excess, we now have a new and pressing set of challenges in the digital area. The questions for me often come down to how a ‘human-centred’ urbanism could be aided by technology, not be subverted by it. Can we assess potential solutions against human values and decide when to say no, not exactly, bend, inflect and choose.

☛ please register here

Ken Greenberg
Principal, Greenberg Consultants

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building

Idealizations of Peace in Islamic Political Thought: The Case of Sayyid Qutb

“Before us today is the problem of universal peace,” Sayyid Qutb declares in the prologue to his much-neglected Universal Peace and Islam (1951). “Does Islam have an opinion on the matter? Does Islam have a solution?” Albeit popularly considered the ideologue of “Islamic jihad,” the Muslim Brotherhood’s leading theorist designed a plan for universal peace. Qutb’s plan pegs the emergence of universal peace to an immanent organization of individual states with laws in common. Its promise of peace is embedded in an Enlightenment script that claims to correct unjust savagery through the state and the law. This is a script that calls up Immanuel Kant and Thomas Hobbes, specifically their predications of peace upon law and statehood. Drawing attention to Kant’s discussions of “the Arab” and Hobbes’s references to empire, this talk unpacks the unacknowledged salience of denials of law, political economy, and settler-colonialism for theorizations of peace. Qutb’s adaptations of that familiar logic unwittingly expose its limits, culminating with perpetual war against enemies whose laws and form are ‘wrong. This talk draws on a chapter of Idris’s book, War for Peace: Genealogies of a Violent Ideal in Western and Islamic Thought, published by Oxford University Press in Fall 2018. This book deconstructs dominant formulations of peace in the writings of Plato, al-Farabi, Aquinas, Erasmus, Grotius, Gentili, Hobbes, Ibn Khaldun, Immanuel Kant, and Sayyid Qutb.

☛ please register here

Murad Idris
University of Virginia
Department of Politics

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin

Contract as an Ethical Frame for Employment, Tenancy, and Consumption

What happens when we think employment, tenancy, and consumption (ETC) through the ethical frame of contract? This frame sees ETC as a collection of individual deals that assign obligations to the deals’ parties. The ETC system is justified if the individual deals are justified, and a deal is justified if it is the product of voluntary and informed agreement. But deals are rarely if ever fully voluntary and informed in ETC. This calls the contractual frame into question, but it continues to be used everywhere, from legal doctrine to economic analysis to political rhetoric to individuals’ conceptions of their relationships to their cell providers. My hypothesis: contract perversely conscripts people into choosing and re-choosing the existing social order, entrenching patterns of preferences and entitlements, and thereby (through people’s desire to feel in control of their choices) to identify with their roles.

☛ please register here

John Enman-Beech
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Doctoral Fellow

12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin

Thinking about guilt and responsibility

A forum featuring Professor Alan Norrie, Warwick University

"Animals who think and love: law, identification, and the moral psychology of guilt"

Comments and discussion will follow, with Prof. Vincent Chiao and Prof. Malcolm Thornburn, U of T Faculty of Law, and Prof. Ben Berger, Osgoode Hall Law School
Moderator: Prof. Mariana Valverde

Date: Friday November 30, 2018

Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Location:
CrimSL Ericson Seminar Room (room 265)
Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies,
14 Queen’s Park Crescent West, 2nd floor,
Toronto, ON Canada, M5S 3K9


All welcome

If you are a person with a disability and require accommodation, please contact Maria Wowk at 416-978-3722 x239 or email crim.admin@utoronto.ca and we will do our best to make appropriate arrangements.

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