Lawyers Doing Cool Things - Laura McGee, J.D. 2014

Management consultant at McKinsey & Company

Career profile: Laura McGee is a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Her focus areas include diversity & inclusion, economic growth, and technology & innovation. Her clients include national governments, cross-border advisory groups and Fortune 500 companies. While not a practicing lawyer, she draws on her legal background when developing growth strategy and helping clients navigate political and regulatory change. 

Monday March 19, 2018, 12:30 – 2:00

Room TBD

Sandwiches and water will be provided.

To register, click here. 

Navigating Conflict in the Workplace

Thursday March 22^nd, 12:30 – 2:00

Presenter: Delee Fromm

Conflict in the workplace can be destructive as it interferes with clear thinking, crushes creativity, reduces productivity and lowers morale. And, due to technology, all of us now face the possibility of online conflict interactions that arise more easily and are more intractable. Research shows that most people tend to avoid conflict with colleagues, which rarely leads to effective resolution. In fact, strong leaders are versatile in the ways they deal with conflict--they know when and how to deal appropriately with differences of opinion.

In this interactive seminar, we will explore five psychological approaches to conflict using examples from day-to-day workplace interactions. We will consider the “brain-under-stress” to enhance your emotional self-awareness and sensitivity to other people’s needs and circumstances. We will also talk about how to deal effectively with negative feedback, and practice a simple communication approach to use in conflict situations.

To register, please click here. 

The Faculty has up-graded our course selection system.  Please come learn about the new system and how it works.  Join us in the Moot Court Room on Thursday, March 15 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm.  We look forward to seeing you there!

Emerging Issues Workshop Series

NATO & International Institutions:

What About International Rule of Law? 

Tuesday March 13th 

12:30-1:45pm

Jackman Law Building #J125 

Speaker: Kerry Buck, Canadian Ambassador and Permanent Representative to NATO

Please join us for the final Emerging Issues Workshop of the 2017/18 academic year.  This series focuses on pressing legal issues affecting Canadian society and the international community.

Topics of discussion will include:

• What is the role and function of NATO?
• What are the current international security challenges? What is NATO's role in responding?
• What is Canada’s role and interest in NATO?

 Pizza lunch will be served.  Registration is not required – but capacity is limited.  

THE JAMES HAUSMAN TAX LAW & POLICY WORKSHOP
presents

Bridget Crawford
Pace University Elisabeth Haub School of Law

Tax Talk and Reproductive Technology 

Wednesday, March 14, 2018
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

What do the busiest fertility clinics in the United States communicate to their clients about the tax consequences of so-called human egg “donation”?  As in Canada, the purchase of human ova is illegal in the United States. Nevertheless, it is an open and common practice for an egg providers, aided by a fertility clinic, to contract with intended parents for substantial remuneration. How do egg providers understand their remuneration vis-a-vis the tax system?  How does that understanding square with existing tax laws in the U.S. and Canada? Through a content analysis of publicly-available websites and internet message boards, this paper examines the tax information that U.S. fertility clinics and doctors make available to patients, as well as the information that compensated egg providers share with each other. The paper demonstrates that correct and reliable tax information is in short supply, and there is a need for clear administrative or judicial guidance. Perez v. Commissioner, a case recently decided by the United States Tax Court, represented an opportunity for the court to clarify important questions about the nature, extent and character of income received from compensation associated with human egg transfers. Including tax considerations in discussions of reproductive technology brings focus to underlying economic issues and invites a more complex consideration of the interests of doctors, clinics, intended parents and donors in this robust market.

Bridget J. Crawford is the James D. Hopkins Professor of Law at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University in White Plains, New York.  She graduated from Yale University (B.A.), the University of Pennsylvania Law School (J.D.), and Griffith University (Ph.D.) in Australia. At Pace Law School, Professor Crawford teaches courses related to taxation, inheritance, corporate law and feminist legal theory.  She is the co-editor, with Kathryn M. Stanchi and Linda L. Berger, of the U.S. Feminist Judgments Project, a collective effort to rewrite from a feminist perspective major decisions of a variety of United States courts. This new form of socio-legal scholarship was first advanced by a group of Canadian lawyers and scholars who call themselves the Women’s Court of Canada. The Canadian project has been or will be replicated in England, Ireland, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, India, the United States, and a pan-European project.  Professor Crawford is a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She is the Editor of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel Law Journal. Professor Crawford is the former chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Women in Legal Education and the American Association of Law Schools Section on Trusts & Estates. She is the editor of the Feminist Law Professors blog, a regular contributor to the Faculty Lounge blog, and one of 26 law professors profiled in the book by Michael Hunter Schwartz et al., What the Best Law Teachers Do, published by Harvard University Press. Her publications include Critical Tax Theory: An Introduction (Cambridge 2009); Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (Cambridge 2016); Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (Cambridge 2017); and “Tampon Taxes, Discrimination and Human Rights,” 2017 Wisc. L. Rev. 491 (with Carla Spivack).

A light lunch will be served.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.

University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Law and Economics Program

presents

Symposium on Competition Policy in the Age of Big Data Net
Neutrality and Multi-sided Platforms

Today’s economy is increasingly dependent on industries that are network oriented and data driven. While this has the potential for tremendous efficiency and innovation it also raises important and complex considerations that competition law and policy will need to confront. Is robust competition policy a viable alternative to net neutrality? Is the existing competition law framework well suited to assess conduct involving multi-sided platforms? Innovative industries are constantly evolving; can competition regulators keep up? 

The Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto invites you to participate in a lively discussion and debate with leading economists, Competition Bureau representatives and practitioners at its Symposium on Competition Policy in the Age of Big Data.

Register online here. Admission for students is free.

Thursday April 26, 2018

1:00 PM to 6:00 PM 
University of Toronto, Faculty of Law
Jackman Law Building

Program Schedule

1:00 – 1:15 Opening Remarks 
Prof. Michael Trebilcock and Brian Facey

1:15 – 2:45 Net Neutrality 
Panelists 
Ken Engelhart (StrategyCorp) 
Ken Jull (Competition Bureau) 
Margaret Sanderson (Charles RiverAssociates) 
Micah Wood (Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP) 
Roundtable Discussion

2:45 – 3:15 Coffee Break

3:15 – 4:45 Multi-sided Platforms 
Panelists 
Amanda Reeves (Latham & Watkins LLP) 
Francesco Ducci (University of Toronto) 
Joshua Gans (University of Toronto) 
Navin Joneja (Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP) 
Paul Johnston (Competition Bureau) 
Roundtable Discussion

4:45 – 5:00 Closing Remarks

5:00 – 6:00 Reception at the Faculty of Law

Competition Policy Symposium - Program

The University of Toronto Technology and Intellectual Property Group is pleased to present a panel on the legal implications of gene editing and CRISPR.  Speakers are:

Jordan Scopa (Goodmans)

Zarya Cynader (Gilberts)

Ben Wallwork (Norton Rose)

Jamie Holtom (McCarthys)

Lunch will be provided.

Date: Tuesday, March 13^th

Time: 12:30 – 2:00 pm

Location: J130

The JLSA invites you to learn ALL THE SECRETS and ask ALL YOUR QUESTIONS about recruitment. Sara Lefton, the former Assistant Director of Professional Development and Student Programs at Dentons, will run through the recruitment process and answer ANY questions about it. 1Ls planning to do the 2L recruit in the fall and 2Ls planning to do the articling recruit in the summer are welcome to come gain helpful insights on the recruitment process from a former recruiter.

Adulting is hard... let's throwback to grade school days! 

Come out Thursday, March 15 from 12:30-4:00pm in the Rowell Room for an afternoon of games, music, and recess snacks from your childhood! RECESS is a unified mental health initiative across all Ontario law schools that BLG has graciously offered to sponsor.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Winners, Wasters, and the Shadow of Envy: Theories of Justice and the Scene of Medieval Literature

Is envy at the root of all claims for justice (so says Freud), or is envy a regrettable but surmountable human tendency that will be minimized in a just society (as Rawls has it)?  Should we, as newer political and feminist theory has suggested, take envy seriously as a “political emotion” and allow it to direct the building of a better democracy?  My talk will trace the recent history of envy’s role in theorizing social justice and then turn to medieval literature as a terrain of close attention to envy, not only as a “deadly sin,” but as an emotion that provokes the social imagination, and the articulation of the move from the individual to the political.  The figures of the winner (upstanding citizen) and waster (profligate spender, “welfare queen”) have a long history, and can help us to understand the passages between the personal and the social, the economic and the affective, and perhaps to disentangle the threads of envy, resentment, and justice.

Jessica Rosenfeld
Washington University in St. Louis
English

co-sponsored by

Mon, Mar 12, 2018
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
200 Larkin

As almost everyone knows by now, we share a lot of highly-revealing and sensitive data with companies. But what those companies do with that data, whether they share it or not with third parties, and just how much of it they collect and retain, is still largely a mystery. Drawing from Citizen Lab reports, in my talk I will review the exploding universe of “big data” collection, the accumulating fine-grained sensors that facilitate it, and the public policy, security, and privacy issues that accompany it.

Ronald Deibert
Director, The Citizen Lab, Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto

Tue, Mar 27, 2018
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building

See the Family Care Office website for more information.

Please join FACL Ontario for our annual student mentorship event on Wednesday, March 14, 2018, at the offices of Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP (Suite 6300, 1 First Canadian Place, 100 King Street West, Toronto). Students will have the opportunity to connect with lawyers from diverse backgrounds through our speed-mentoring session and then mix-and-mingle at the Duke of Westminster. This is a fantastic opportunity to expand your professional network and make valuable connections with prominent members of the legal profession. Space is limited, so register soon!

This event is open to all Canadian-trained law students, including articling students. Stayed tuned for FACL Ontario’s Panel and Cocktail Reception for NCA and internationally trained lawyers in May!

Register here: https://on.facl.ca/tc-events/facl-annual-student-speed-mentor-a-thon/ 

The Algebra of Partiality

Most people agree that we are permitted to do more for those with whom we stand in certain special relationships, subject to several constraints. But most also agree that the presence of partiality does not eliminate our more general moral reasons to others. In some cases, however, these two sets of reasons must be compared; thus, we need to know how these two sets of reasons weigh against each other. But just how much extra weight can partiality justify?

Jeremy Davis
Centre for Ethics & Department of Philosophy
University of Toronto

Wed, Mar 14, 2018
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building

Note: Two of the panellists are UofT Law grads: Mireille Giroux graduated in 2012, and Kate Palumbo graduated in 2017.

Event information

THE MICHAEL MACNAUGHTON STUDENT WRITING AWARD FOR INSOLVENCY LAW