The Ann Wilson and Robert Prichard for Community and Professional Service Award honours a recent graduate of the Faculty of Law (5-15 years since graduation) who demonstrates the highest standards of professional integrity, excellence and leadership, and who has made a significant contribution to the legal profession and/or community through their public interest work, pro bono activities and/or community service.  The recipient will be selected by the Law Alumni Association Council Nominations Sub-Committee and the award will be presented bi-annually at the Distinguished Alumni Award ceremony.

The 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award ceremony will be held in Spring 2019. It is expected that the Wilson Prichard Award recipient is available to accept their award in person; the date for the ceremony will be announced in late Fall 2018.

Nominate Here

U of T MIndfulness Program welcomes back expert facilitator Elli Weisbaum to lead another mindfulness session. Learn about the neuroscience and engage in guided mindfulness practices on the topic of "Letting Go of Perfectionism".

Everyone from the law school community is welcome - students, staff & faculty!

Monday, October 29th
12:30-1:50pm

John Willis Classroom, FL219

A light lunch will be provided. Space is limited so please register in advance. Registration through this link: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/uoft-law-mindfulness-program-letting-go-of-p...

For questions please contact Yukimi Henry at yukimi.henry@utoronto.ca.

 IIO Speakers series presents

Brenda Gunn on United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People

October 22, 12:30 Jackman Law Building P120

A discussion on challenges and opportunities to Implement the UN Declaration in Canada, with some specific discussion of women’s rights and Bill 262.

The Faculty of Law will be holding its 2018 Fall Roundtable on Mergers and Acquisitions on Friday, November 2, 2018 at 8:30 am in the Moot Court Room.
 
Over the past year, Canadian capital markets have witnessed a surge in M&A activity. This activity is particularly conspicuous in the energy and power sectors as well as the burgeoning cannabis industry. Legal changes have developed that impact all public issuers in the capital markets, and particularly their approach to M&A from both the bidder’s and target’s perspectives.
 
This roundtable will explore these issues and focus on the following questions: what are boards’ views on defensive tactics? How involved is private equity in M&A? Has the regulatory presence decreased as a result of National Instrument 62-104? What has been the role of both activist shareholders and proxy advisory firms in change of control transactions? What lessons does the Aecon transaction provide in terms of Industry Canada’s review process? What should we expect to see in 2019 including in terms of cross-border transactions?
 
Speakers:
 
Anita Anand – Stephen Griggs – Edward Iacobucci – Naizam Kanji
 Jeffrey Lloyd – Stan Magidson – Patricia Olasker
Karrin Powys-Lybbe – Walied Soliman – Robert Yalden
 
General Conference Fee – $100 | Full-Time Academic and Judiciary Rate – $50 |
Free for Full-time Students and Articling Students
 
Tickets Available at: https://bit.ly/2Lr4Zdy
(Registration is free for students)
Please contact Nadia Gulezko (by telephone: 416.978.6767
or by email at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca)

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW WORKSHOP

Presents

Amy Bell
Huron University College 

Bodies in the Bed: English Crime Scene Photographs as Documentary Images

Tuesday October 23, 2018
12:30pm – 2pm
Falconer Hall, 84 Queens Park, Solarium FA2 

This paper will argue that crime scene photographs from London in the 1930s were documentary images, combining new ideals of forensic objectivity with the emotions evoked by visual signs of violence and disrupted domestic interiors.  In the 1930s, documentary press photographers popularized the use of an unobtrusive 35mm camera to record scenes of street life and urban poverty for the Daily Mirror, the Picture Post, and Mass Observation. At the same time crime scene photography was developing in England as an objective tool used by the police to record crime scenes for the judge and jury. Through the comparison of a set of crime scene photographs from a 1933 murder and attempted suicide held in the National Archives (DPP 2/136) to a set of interior photographs of a flat in Stepney taken by photographer Humphrey Spender as mitigating evidence in a case of juvenile delinquency in 1934, we can see how both sets of images used emotive photographic techniques such as juxtaposition, oblique lighting, and tight framing. Crime scene photography, like documentary photography, sought to use the camera to reveal hidden emotional and forensic clues, and to emphasize the contrast between the visible traces of criminality and the ordinariness of their setting. 

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

The U of T Criminal Law Students' Association (CLSA) invites you to its first event of the year: the Annual Criminal Law Networking Event! If you're even remotely interested in a career in criminal law, we encourage you to drop by to talk to one of the amazing lawyers and students who have much wisdom to share. This year, our guests include:

-Emily Lam (2008 call, Osgoode grad, Partner at Kastner Law - http://www.kastnerlaw.ca/emily-lam/). Emily is a distinguished criminal defence lawyer, who has worked on dozens of high-profile cases. She was a former partner at Rosen Naster, and a former founding partner at Greenwood Lam. She is currently co-counsel for the appellants on R v Le, scheduled to be heard at the Supreme Court of Canada this week.

-Promise Holmes Skinner (2014 call, U of T grad, articled at Greenspan Humphrey Weinstein (then Greenspan Humphrey Lavine), Sole practitioner). After articling, Promise joined the Aboriginal Legal Services of Toronto as a Senior Manager, all the while practicing criminal defence part-time. She was also the former Manager of Indigenous Initiatives at U of T (then "Aboriginal Law Program Coordinator"), and an Adjunct Professor co-teaching the course, "Aboriginal People and Canadian Criminal Justice".

-Sydney Hopkins (2017 call, U of T grad, articled at Henein Hutchison, now First-Year Associate). While Sydney was a student, she was a Division Leader and Caseworker at Downtown Legal Services in both the Family and Criminal Division.

-Josh Freedman (Articled at Crown Law Office Criminal, current LLM student at U of T and provincial prosecutor at Old City Hall). While Josh was a student, he volunteered at Innocence Canada and summered at Derstine Penman. He also completed a joint MA in Criminology.

-Meghan Zannese (2018 call, U of T grad, articling student at Lockyer Campbell Posner). Meghan also holds a MA in Criminology.

-Daniel Mapa (2018 call, U of T grad, articled at North York Crown Attorney's Office, now Assistant Crown Attorney).

If you plan to attend, please RSVP on CLSA's Facebook page or by sending us an e-mail confirmation at uoftlawclsa@gmail.com.

Thursday, October 25th, 6:30pm - 9:00pm

The Firkin on Bloor (81 Bloor St E)

Date: October 25, 2018
Time: 12:30-2:00pm
Location: J140

Please attend this information session to learn more about IHRP and Asper Centre Summer Fellowship opportunities.

Need Legal Research and Writing Help?

Some books to consider:

Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing by Neil Guthrie $55

The Comprehensive Guide to Legal Research, Writing & Analysis by McCarney, Kuras & Demers, $101

And the ever essential

McGill Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 9^th Edition, $76.

Please note:

• The Law Bookstore will be CLOSED during reading week, Nov 5-9, 2018.
• Textbooks for fall courses remaining in stock will be returned during the month of November. Please make sure to purchase what you need before then.

Tuesday, October 23, 2018 | 5-7PM | Junior Common Room, Massey College

Please join Massey College's Public Policy program for a talk and reception celebrating the launch of True North Rising by Whit Fraser, former chairman of the Canadian Polar Commission, former executive director of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, and former CBC journalist. His work took him to every community in Canada’s three northern Territories and much of the circumpolar world. He covered some of the most important stories to the today's Arctic region, including the McKenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry, Constitutional negotiations that enshrined aboriginal rights in the Canadian Constitution of Canada; Aboriginal Land Claims from initial concept and demands through to the final Agreements.

True North Rising recounts Whit Fraser's involvement with and coverage of these remarkable events and more. His book highlights the extraordinary people who spoke up across Canada’s Northern Territories to challenge the colonial attitudes and policies of the past, bringing lasting change and the prospect of greater justice and equality to come. The book is published by Burnstown Publishing House.

Reception will be held on Tuesday, October 23, 2018 in the Junior Common Room at Massey College. Light refreshments will be served.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/book-launch-true-north-rising-with-whit-fraser-tickets-50874153964 

If you have any questions about this event, please contact Emily Tsui at emily.tsui@mail.utoronto.ca

☛ please register here

06:00 PM - 08:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building 

Du Bois’s Defense of Democracy

I will reconstruct W. E. B. Du Bois’s argument for democracy in Darkwater and draw a lesson about how to address America’s democratic crisis.

☛ please register here

Derrick Darby
University of Michigan
Department of Philosophy

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

The Award: The Canadian Maritime Law Association ("CMLA") has established a literary prize, to be called "Professor William Tetley Award" (the "Award").

Purpose: The Honorable William Tetley, CM, QC, President of the Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, for some thirty-five years, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to development of maritime law and maritime law education, both in Canada and around the world.

Nature: The Award will take the form of a monetary prize of between $ 500.00 and $ 1,000.00, to be awarded by Canadian authors of high-quality articles, papers or publications.

Topics: Submissions need not be confined to topics of maritime law, but may be devoted to any subject of an educational nature relevant to the marine industry.

Publication: Winning submissions will be published in the Canadian Maritime Law Association Journal (or republished there with the consent of the copyright holder if already published elsewhere).

Frequency: The Award will not necessarily be issued every year, but only to be awarded by the selection committee of the United States.

Submissions: Submissions (in English or French) may be made by the authors themselves or by anyone acting on their behalf. Submissions should be printed on 8-1 / 2 "x 11" paper, accompanied by an electronic copy on a CD-ROM in pdf format, and sent to:

Mr. P. Jeremy Bolger, 
Chair of the Selection Committee 
Professor William Tetley Award 
c / o Borden Ladner Gervais LLP 
1000 De La Gauchetière West Street, Suite 900 
Montreal, Quebec H3B 5H4.

Submissions must include the name, postal and email addresses and phone number (s) of the author and the submitter (if other than the author). 

Submissions can be made at any time and will be evaluated by the selection committee. The committee will notify the author and submitter of its decision within a reasonable time following receipt of submissions.

For more information, please visit: http://www.cmla.org/tetleyaward.php