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.

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Lawyers Doing Cool Things Lunch - Zimra Yetnikoff J.D. 2006

Wednesday October 17, 2018, 12:30 – 1:30
Room J225 (John Willis classroom)

Sandwiches and water will be provided.

Career profile:  Zimra is Director of Investigations & Hearings at the College of Psychologists of Ontario, where she oversees complaint, discipline, remediation and fitness to practice matters regarding registered psychologists and psychological associates. Prior to becoming Director she was a Case Manager at the College, and was responsible for investigating allegations of professional misconduct.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zimra-yetnikoff-a1587623/

Registration is limited to 20 students. Please click here. 

Take a break and join us for a "Mindful Monday" drop-in guided meditation session.

On October 15th from 1:00pm to 1:30pm, Yukimi Henry will be facilitating a guided mindfulness meditation session in the Quiet Room at the law school (in the basement, near the lockers).

This event is open to all law school community members - students, staff and faculty. A few meditation cushions and yoga mats are available for use, but feel free to bring your own.

No registration is required. We ask that you be arrive just before 1:00pm to avoid disrupting the session once we have begun. For more information email yukimi.henry@utoronto.ca.

The Law, Religion and Democracy Lab welcomes Mr. Derek B.M. Ross, LLB, LLM, who will speak on the state of religious freedom in Canada post-TWU decision. 

Mr. Ross is the Executive Director and General Counsel of the Christian Legal Fellowship of Canada. 

Please note that this event is held at the same time and place as the Law and Religion seminar. 

Date: October 25, Thursday

Venue: Solarium (FA2)

Time: 2:10 - 4:00 pm

 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.

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP
presents

Mark Walters
McGill University Faculty of Law

A.V. Dicey and the Common Law Constitutional Tradition:
A Legal Turn of Mind

Friday, October 26, 2018
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Note from the author:
In the workshop, I would like to discuss parts of a book that I am working on. It is a quasi-biographical account of the constitutional law scholarship of Albert Venn Dicey. I have given you a draft of the entire book, but of course you will not have time to read it all. I will use chapters 8 and 10 as the basis for a discussion about the relationship between law and sovereignty. The book is very much still in progress, and any thoughts you have about it would be very much appreciated. MW

Mark Walters obtained a B.A. (Political Science) from the University of Western Ontario in 1986, a LL.B. from Queen’s University in 1989, and a D.Phil. from Oxford University in 1996. After practicing law briefly, he returned to Oxford to teach for several years and then joined the Faculty of Law at Queen’s in 1999. He became a Full Professor at Queen’s in 2008 and served as Associate Dean (Graduate Studies and Research) between 2008 and 2010.  Professor Walters researches and publishes in the areas of public and constitutional law, legal history, and legal theory, with a special emphasis on the rights of indigenous peoples, institutional structures, and the history of legal ideas. 

He has held a number of fellowships, including the Jules and Gabrielle Léger Fellowship (SSHRC), the Sir Neil MacCormick Fellowship (University of Edinburgh), the Herbert Smith Fellowship (Cambridge University) and the H.L.A. Hart Fellowship (Oxford University).  He was appointed F.R. Scott Professor of Public and Constitutional Law at McGill University on July 1, 2016.

 
To be added to the paper distribution list, please send an email to events.law@utoronto.ca.  For further information, please contact Professor Larissa Katz (larissa.katz@utoronto.ca) and Professor Sophia Moreau (sr.moreau@utoronto.ca).

U of T Law Pumpkin Carving Contest. 

Date: Tuesday, Oct 31st, 12:30pm

Location: Rowell Room 

Pizza will be provided for those participating. Carving in teams is encouraged. Pumpkins and knives will be provided. 

Email: sara.hubbard@utoronto.ca to signup. 

On October 6th, the US Senate voted to confirm Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court. This came after allegations of sexual assault were made against Kavanaugh by three women, including Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Students and faculty are invited to join us next Thursday, October 18th, 6–8 PM in the Rowell Room for an opportunity to discuss the events surrounding Kavanaugh’s appointment, what it means for efforts to combat sexual violence, and whether it has implications for the Canadian scene. This event is intended to be an open and informal conversation rather than a panel or lecture.

Women & the Law is committed to making this event a safe space for all attendees.

The Indigenous Initiatives Office and the Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights are pleased to present this special event for law students, faculty and staff only.

Toronto Police Service Detective Sergeant Aly Virji and Sergeant S. Ali Moosvi will talk about the implicit bias training they deliver to all Toronto Police Service officers and why it is important in a diversity city like Toronto. 

1L students wishing to attend the Police Bias event should connect with Waleska Vernon at waleska.vernon@utoronto.ca regarding how they can access the content from the 1L Career Foundations: Career Introductions session they will be missing. 

October 18th in P120 at 12h30-2:00, Light Lunch Provided.

Biographies

Aly Virji – Detective Sergeant – Toronto Police Service

Detective Sergeant Aly Virji has a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice Administration, and undergraduate degrees in both Kinesiology and Adult Education. He has completed a number of Certificate programs in Police Leadership, Teaching Effectiveness, and Inclusive Leadership.  Aly is also a Canadian Certified Inclusion Professional and is one of the first practitioners to be accredited with the CCIP designation.

Detective Sergeant Aly Virji has 15 years of experience with the Toronto Police Service. He has worked in a number of units including:  Intelligence Services; Human Resources and Strategy Management. He has also been instrumental in designing and delivering presentations and training related to anti-bias with the Fair and Impartial Policing© program and has showcased this work at conferences nationally and internationally. Aly also facilitates training for police officers and health care workers, from across Ontario, on the topic of mental health in the workplace.

Aly represents the Toronto Police Service on the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Committee of the Ontario Association of Chiefs of Police and as a member of the Board of Directors for the Scarborough Walk of Fame. He has been a keynote and motivational speaker at community events across the GTA and is a tireless volunteer with a particular focus on inspiring young people.

Aly is also an Instructor at Wilfrid Laurier University, in the B.A. in the Policing program, and an Adjunct Professor at George Brown College where he teaches Leadership and Communications courses.

S. Ali Moosvi – Sergeant – Toronto Police Service

Sergeant Ali Moosvi is in the thirtieth year of a diverse policing career ranging from front-line emergency response to major case task force investigations and corporate projects. His experience has helped him become a dynamic presenter and he continues to represent the Toronto Police Service at a variety of venues in Canada and the United States.

Ali is currently studying at Wilfrid Laurier University and working towards completing his Masters of Public Safety. Ali is a strong advocate for improving mental health in the workplace and facilitates training for police officers and health care workers, from across Ontario, on this topic.

Ali has presented at; the 2018 Expert Witness Conference, 2017 Law of Policing Conference, the 2015 Conference of the American Psychological Association’s Division 18, Police and Public Safety Psychologists, and the 2015 Conference of the State and Provincial Police Academy Directors (SPADDS) section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).

Ali remains the only Canadian trainer certified to deliver national implicit bias training-of-trainer courses for the Fair and Impartial Policing© program across Canada and the United States and is regularly recognized for his skill at presenting complex concepts by using real-world experience to effectively enhance learning. Ali has facilitated implicit bias training for police agencies from coast to coast across Canada and recently returned from training supervisors at the NYPD.

For more information and if you have questions, please contact Tal Schreier at tal.schreier@utoronto.ca

or the Manager, Indigenous Initiatives at iio.law@utoronto.ca.

Discussion between Human Rights Defender Angélica Choc, her lawyers Murray Klippenstein and Cory Wanless, and Grahame Russell of Rights Action

Monday, October 22, 2018 • 6:15-7:30 pm •

78 Queen’s Park Cres.• Jackman Law Building • Room: J130

Members of the indigenous Mayan Q’eqchi’ population from El Estor, Guatemala are pursuing three related precedent-setting lawsuits in Canadian courts against Canadian mining company HudBay Minerals over se-vere human rights abuses. These cases are the first of their kind in Canada.

Angélica Choc is a Mayan Q’eqchi’ leader and indigenous rights activist from Guatemala. She is the widow of Adolfo Ich Chamán, a respected community leader and school teacher who was brutally murdered by mine company security personnel on September 27, 2009. She will be speaking about her struggle for justice for the murder of her husband both in Canada and in Guatemala.

Cory Wanless and Murray Klippenstein have been Angélica Choc’s lawyers for over nine years. They will be speaking about the current status of the lawsuits against HudBay and the future of litigation in Canada against Canadian companies for human rights abuse abroad. Grahame Russell, Director of Rights Action, will speak about the key role of NGOs in international solidarity work.

Please click here to see event poster.

Come by the bookstore and check out our hoodies!

They're perfect for Fall

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Mark S. Fox
University of Toronto
Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering

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

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

Refugee Law’s Fact-finding Crisis: Truth, Risk, and the Wrong Mistake (Cambridge 2018)

☛ please register here

Hilary Evans Cameron
Postdoctoral Affiliate, Centre for Ethics
University of Toronto

Commentators:
Amar Bhatia (Law, York University)
Catherine Bruce (Refugee Law Office, Toronto)
Graham Hudson (Criminology, Ryerson)

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

Cosmopolitan Pariahs: Exploring the Moral Rationale for Withholding Protection from Criminal Refugees

Article 1F of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees excludes from refugee protection persons guilty of serious international and domestic crimes. Excluded persons are not eligible for refugee status even if they face a well-founded fear of persecution. This paper asks whether a coherent rationale for such exclusion is available, focusing on the influential—and strikingly unexamined—suggestion by UNHCR that Article 1F serves to exclude persons who are “undeserving” of refugee protection. If refugees are persons threatened with violations of their basic human rights, as several philosophical and legal accounts hold, we must ask: What could possibly justify abandoning them to their fate? I will argue that exclusion of refugees for past criminality is best explained as the institutional expression of a form of blame that is appropriate if we accept that all human beings on the Earth exist in a juridical relationship of cosmopolitan right, a Kantian construct that is plausibly seen as the animating idea behind the international refugee regime. The construal of the exclusion clauses as an institutional expression of blame, however, is ultimately inconsistent with a strong human rights reading of the international refugee regime. Instead, the exclusion clauses suggest refugee law represents an institutionalized form of humanitarianism. In other words, the ultimate claim of this paper is that we must choose between exclusion and a strong human rights reading of refugee law. We cannot have both.

Colin Grey
Université du Québec à Montréal
Faculty of Political Science and Law

12:30 PM - 02:00 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