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.

Understanding and managing your debt and financial future – a financial literacy workshop for law students

When:  Tuesday January 23rd at 12:30 – 2:00

Where: Room J130. Pizza will be available.

This workshop will give you a better understanding of debt management techniques and money management tools that you can use while you are a law student and after graduation. The content will build on Understanding Debt and Managing Your Money, a document prepared by the law school’s financial aid office with input from current students and alumni.

Facilitated by David Baskin (UT LL.B 1976), founder of Baskin Wealth Management, this workshop answer the following questions: 

• What are some best practices in financial management and debt payment?
• How does debt get amortized?
• Can I afford to pay my debt if my salary upon graduating is $100,000/$75,000/$50,000/$0?
• Can I save while paying debt? What are the best ways of using RSPs, TFSAs and other available tools?
• What tools exist to help me calculate interest rates and debt repayment?
• What are the tax implications of educational debt?
• What is the impact of changing interest rates? 

David Baskin, LL.B

David founded Baskin Financial Services Inc. in 1992. The firm, now operating as Baskin Wealth Management, has grown from assets under management of $25 million in 2000 to well over $1 billion today, with about 500 client families in eight provinces. David appears frequently on national television and radio as a commentator on the markets and is frequently quoted in the press. An enthusiastic sailor and traveller, David and his wife Joan Garson (UT LLB 1978) have two adult children. All are actively involved in community and charitable activities.

Lawyers Doing Cool Things - Insiya Essajee, J.D. 2011

Legal Counsel, Ontario Human Rights Commission

Career profile:  Insiya  has been a lawyer with the Ontario Human Rights Commission since 2012. Her work focuses on addressing systemic discrimination issues through litigation, government consultation, and supporting policy development and outreach. 

Wednesday January 24, 12:30 - 2:00

Room J230. Sandwiches and water will be provided. 

To register, click here.

Creative Problem Solving Laboratory – Crafting a Career That Matters

Thursday January 22^nd, 12:30 – 2:00

Presenters: Robert Wakulat and Tim Hurson

Creative Problem Solving offers a great way to ask better questions, unpack problems more effectively and generate solutions efficiently. Structured creativity gets you asking better, bolder, more unusual questions. You will start to see your emerging practice in a more creative light and be offered a set of productive thinking tools that you can begin to apply and benefit from starting tomorrow (and use right away).

To register, please click here. 

U of T Law Ice Skating Party!

Date: Thursday January 18th, 2018.
Time: 12-2pm

Location: Varsity Arena 
(enter from Bloor Street at Bloor and Bedford, only a 2 minute walk from the law school)

Event is FREE to students, staff and faculty in the Faculty of Law. Rental skates are available free of charge at the arena. Students must bring their t-card.

Stop by the Rowell Room between 11-12pm for a hot chocolate in a to-go cup and a brownie.

OSGOODE SOCIETY LEGAL HISTORY WORKSHOP

The Osgoode Society Legal History Workshop is an informal evening seminar that meets on alternate Wednesdays between September and April to discuss a wide variety of topics in legal history, Canadian and international.  Participants are graduate students and faculty in law and history from U of T, York, McMaster and other institutions, as well as law students and members of the profession.  Anybody interested in legal history is welcome to attend. If you would like to be put on the e-mail list and to receive the papers and other announcements by e-mail, please e-mail j.phillips@utoronto.ca. The schedule for this term follows.   

All sessions at 6.30. All sessions except March 14 in Flavelle House, Room 223, Betty Ho classroom. March 14 session in Jackman Room 225.

Wednesday January 17: Robyn Schwarz, Western University: “Protecting the Nuclear Family: A Gendered Analysis of the 1968 Divorce Act”.  

Wednesday January 31 – Elizabeth Koester, University of Toronto: ‘Litigating Eugenics:  The 1936 Eastview Birth Control Trial’.

Wednesday February 14: Tom Telfer, Western University: ‘The New Bankruptcy “Detective Agency”? The Origins of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy in Great Depression Canada.’

Wednesday February 28 - Donald Fyson, Laval University: TBA

Wednesday March 14: Jeff McNairn, Queen’s University: ‘ “Where covert guile and artifice abound:” Making Legal Knowledge of Insolvency and Fraud in Upper Canada, 1794-1843.’

Wednesday March 28: Michael Boudreau, St Thomas University: ‘Capital Punishment in New Brunswick, 1869-1957’.

Wednesday April 4 - Shelley Gavigan, Osgoode Hall Law School: ‘Historicizing Criminalization of Canada’s First Nations: A Project for Legal Historians?’

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW WORKSHOP

presents 

Torrey Shanks
University of Toronto
Political Science Department 

The Rhetoric of Self-Ownership 

Tuesday, January 16, 2018
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park 

This essay considers self-ownership as a rhetorical and political practice. Political and legal theorists who address self-ownership as a rhetoric often urge its removal from the political lexicon, noting its lack of safeguards in preventing others from using one’s words in unintended ways. In hopes of managing such risks, they also obscure how rhetoric transforms the meaning and uses of self-ownership and may offer unexpected resources. With a broader notion of rhetoric as creative and effective speech, the paper traces the debate over self-ownership from contemporary criticism, back to Macphersonian possessive individualism and to the political writings of John Locke and the Levellers. Exemplary historical cases offer new insights into the political promises and risks of the rhetoric of self-ownership. The ambiguity and plurality too often rendered as a liability for self-ownership instead offers opportunity for novel claims and appeals to emerging audiences. 

Torrey Shanks is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Authority Figures: Rhetoric and Experience in John Locke’s Political Thought and articles on early modern political thought, feminist theory, and rhetoric and politics in Political Theory and Theory & Event. She is currently working on questions of the political rhetoric of property.

A light lunch will be provided.

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

Faculty of Law Health Law, Ethics & Policy Seminar Series
and
WHO Collaborating Centre for Governance, Transparency
& Accountability in the Pharmaceutical Sector 

present 

Aaron Kesselheim MD JD MPH
Associate Professor
Harvard University Medical School 

Expedited Regulatory Review of Prescription Drugs:
The Impact of the FDA’s New Breakthrough Therapy Designation 

Commentator: Megan Bettle
Director, Regulatory Review of Drugs and Devices, Biologics and
Genetic Therapies Directorate, Health Canada 

Thursday, January 18, 2018
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall - 84 Queen’s Park 

In 2012, Congress created the Breakthrough Therapy designation to expedite the testing and approval by the FDA of important new drugs. It was the fifth expedited review program for new drugs in the last 30 years. We will review the performance of all of these programs with a focus on the outcomes from the Breakthrough Therapy designation in the past 5 years. 

Aaron Kesselheim MD JD MPH is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a faculty member in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics in the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Within the Division, Aaron created and leads the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL, www.PORTALresearch.org), an interdisciplinary research core focusing on intersections among prescription drugs and medical devices, patient health outcomes, and regulatory practices and the law. Author of over 300 publications in the peer-reviewed medical and health policy literatures, Aaron has testified before Congress on pharmaceutical policy, medical device regulation, generic drugs, and modernizing clinical trials, is a member of the FDA Peripheral and Central Nervous System Advisory Committee, and served on a National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine consensus committee on addressing the opioid epidemic. His work has been funded by the Greenwall Faculty Scholar in Bioethics Program, the Commonwealth Fund, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Engelberg Foundation, the FDA, and AHRQ. Aaron is a core faculty member at the HMS Center for Bioethics, where he co-teaches a course on health policy, law, and bioethics and organizes a monthly policy and ethics seminar series. Aaron also serves as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Yale Law School, where he teaches a yearly course on Food and Drug Administration Law. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics.

A light lunch will be served.

We will start promptly at 12.30 so in order to take your lunch, please come on time.

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

Hello everyone! 

The Promise Auction is happening on Thursday, January 18! The Promise Auction is a nifty event at the law school that involves staff and students auctioning off their extraordinary/delicious/bizarre (and mostly legal) talents and/or services to the student body! On the day of the auction, a silent auction will run from 9AM to 5PM in the Rowell Room and a live auction will take place in the Moot Court Room at 12:30PM. Lunch will be provided.

This year's auctions include a homemade dinner at Dean Iacobucci’s home for 4, a bike tour of Toronto with Professor Phillips, a music video about YOU by the Law Follies Team and a resume workshop with a Bay Street recruiter!

If you or your group of friends want to make a promise, but haven't yet, please do so! We are still accepting promises until January 13th at 5 PM! Any skill you can teach, any service you can render, or any other act capable of being phrased in promise-form are all welcome. Once you have come up with an idea, please email your promise to us directly at: law.promiseauction@gmail.com. Please include a title & brief description of your promise, along with the # of winners and the minimum starting bid.

Proceeds from this year’s Auction will go to Native Women's Resource Center of Toronto (http://www.nwrct.ca/) and the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada (http://www.fncaringsociety.com/main).

We look forward to seeing your promises and bids!

Law Follies 2018 is on February 8, at 7PM, at the Opera House! We have the best sketches, amazing videos, and tremendous talents to showcase! Written by a group of stable geniuses and performed by people who went to the best colleges, the best law school. It'll be the most hilarious show, filled with fake news about your favourite law-lebrities. Ticket prices and purchase dates will be announced soon. See you there losers!

The U of T Technology and Intellectual Property Group (TIP), together with IPOsgoode, is excited to offer a tour of Torys LLP Intellectual Property and Technology groups.

Date: Thursday, January 25th 

Time: 12:30 pm - 2 pm

Location: 79 Wellington Street West, Suite 3000, Toronto, Ontario M5K 1N2

Torys LLP holds one of the highest recommended intellectual property and technology law practices in the country. They represent hundreds of companies and specialize in copyright, advertising, industrial design and cybersecurity. 

The afternoon will included a tour of their offices and an opportunity to speak with lawyers from the both the IP and technology divisions. Lunch will be provided. 

If you would like to participate, please send an email to Ben.mayergoodman@mail.utoronto.ca with your name and dietary restrictions. 

* The tour is open to ALL current law students, not only U of T law students*

For more information visit the TIP event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/179257822809225/

NOTE: Please note that due to a scheduling conflict, the previously announced lecture by Marie Henein on January 16 will be rescheduled. Stay tuned for further details.

SAVE THE DATE

The Runnymede Society is pleased to host a lecture by Marie Henein, prominent defence lawyer and senior partner with Henein Hutchison LLP, on the evening of January 16, 2018.

Date: January 16, 2018
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: TBD

This event is open to current law students and members of the law school community. Details to follow; times and locations may be subject to change.

PBSC will be hosting a lunch and learn session with the Honourable Justice Alison Harvison Young on January 18^th from 12:30-1:45 PM. She is currently a Judge in House at the University of Toronto and sits on the bench of the Superior Court of Ontario. Prior to her appointment, she acted as Dean and Professor of the Faculty of Law, Queen's University, Kingston Ontario. She was the recipient of the John W. Durnford Teaching Excellence Award and also of a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada research grant to support her research in the areas of family law and new reproductive technologies. She will discuss her pro bono work, provide some stories about working with self-represented litigants and answer any questions you have about the legal profession and pro bono work.

Students interested should RSVP by emailing probonostudents.utoronto@gmail.com. Hope to hear from you! 

People ordinarily distinguish between ways of behaving that are “normal” and those that are “abnormal.” But how exactly is this distinction to be understood? This talk will discuss a series of experimental studies designed to explore people’s ordinary notion of normality. The key result is that people’s ordinary notion of normality is not a purely statistical one (e.g., the type of behavior that is most frequent) or a purely prescriptive one (e.g., the type of behavior that is ideal) but rather one that mixes together statistical and prescriptive considerations. I discuss implications of these findings for ethics and for research in cognitive science.

Joshua Knobe
Yale University
Program in Cognitive Science &
Department of Philosophy

04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place 

How does the project of making refugees into citizens remake the citizenship of those who undertake it? That question animates an empirical research project focused on private refugee  sponsors. I will introduce the conceptual framework that structures the inquiry, and consider (provisionally) cosmopolitanism as motive for sponsorship, privatization as mode, and citizenship as effect.

Audrey Macklin
Director, Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies
Professor of Law and Chair in Human Rights
University of Toronto

Wed, Jan 17, 2018
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building

Frank Rudzicz, The Future of Automated Healthcare

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

2^nd Annual Canadian Women in Management Conference

Innov-Action: Designing for Equality and Change

January 31, 2018

Join WIMA on January 31, 2018 as it hosts the 2^nd Annual Canadian Women in Management Conference at Rotman! This year’s concept: InnovAction: Designing for Equality and Change seeks to encourage participants to move from conversation to action on the issue of gender equality. Using Business Design principals, we will work together to create innovative solutions to gender equality issues that exist in the workplace. You can find more, here.

Registration Deadline: January 24, 2018

Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/innovaction-designing-for-equality-and-change-tickets-40001458439

The Faculty of Music is right next door to the law school and has an extensive program of events - see the attached program.

Most events are free and even ticketed concerts are now free for all UofT students with a valid tcard (space permitting).

The full listing of events is always available and up-to-date on the website: music.utoronto.ca and anyone can sign up for the monthly e-newsletter at http://bit.ly/UofTMusic-enews.

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Faculty of Music winter concert season

The value of the prize for the best essay is $10,000. The paper will be published in the Canadian Class Action Review.

More information, including submission details, is available by visiting the Harvey T. Strosberg Essay Prize link at https://www.irwinlaw.com/harvey-t-strosberg-essay-prize or by contacting lsteeve@irwinlaw.com.

Prize information

TCBN, York University Osgoode Hall School and the DUKE Heights BIA have teamed up on March 23rd and 24th to bring you this year's Creating Opportunities Summit (COS 2018), exclusively focused on CBAs.

Do you have research you could contribute? We would love to highlight your research in the format of a poster presentation.

The Summit seeks to highlight and celebrate the best examples we have across Canada and North America for furthering social and economic development and prosperity. CBAs are emerging as a leading innovation in this area of practice.

To learn more about CBAs, the process to submit your poster and the benefits of your participation, download guidelines HERE.

Then, send us a focused summary of your research as it relates to community benefits, and we will prepare a poster for you that will inspire our audience to explore and create ways to dismantle economic barriers for historically disadvantaged communities and equity seeking groups.

Submit your poster proposal to Natasha Allen at nallen@communitybenefits.ca by Monday, February 12, 2018 at 11:59 pm.