Associate Dean Mariana Mota Prado receives Connaught Global Challenge Award for “Scalable Architecture for Smart Villages”

Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Associate Dean Mariana Mota PradoIdeas for “smart cities” usually involve the design and deployment of mega infrastructure.  But about the half of the world’s population who live in villages – what would “smart villages” emphasize?  Associate Dean Mariana Mota Prado, an expert on law and development, along with Joseph Wong (Political Sciences/Munk School), will serve as co-investigators in a project led by V.

Headnotes - Nov 20 2017

Announcements

Headnotes and Web Site

Website features: News categories
U of T Faculty of Law

Want to find out more about what's been happening at U of T law related to a particular program or area of law?

A feature of the website is the ability to search news items according to specific categories: a particular program, a focus area, a legal specialization, or a particular faculty member.

On the News page (www.law.utoronto.ca/news), drop-down menus on the left allow you to choose which category you want to look at (you can even combine categories for very targeted searches). You can quickly access the news page at any time by clicking on "More News" at the bottom of the recent news items on the home page. News items have been categorized back to June 2011.

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Deans' Offices

Dean’s monthly drop-in session, Weds, Nov 22, 1.00 p.m. – 2.00 p.m.

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.

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Emerging Issues Workshop Series: Panel Discussion on the Trinity Western University Case

Emerging Issues Workshop Series: Panel Discussion on the Trinity Western University Case

Thursday, November 23, 2017
12:30 to 1:45pm
Jackman Law Building, J140 
 
On November 30th and December 1st 2017, the Supreme Court of Canada will hear two appeals involving Trinity Western University (TWU), a private Christian university in British Columbia wishing to open a new law school.  The appeals involve legal challenges to decisions by the law societies of British Columbia and Ontario and the impact of a policy that requires TWU students to sign a code of conduct forbidding sexual intimacy outside heterosexual marriage. Ontario decided to deny the accreditation of TWU law graduates in the future, while BC approved accreditation. The cases are expected to "break new constitutional ground" around how administrative decision-makers are to balance the competing Charter rights of equality and freedom of religion.

The Emerging Issue's Workshop Series, in conjunction with the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, Out in Law, and The Journal of Law and Equality, are delighted to jointly present a panel discussion to consider and analyze some of the main issues that will be covered in these cases, including the administrative law matters, the balancing of competing rights and the unique circumstances involving the involvement of public interest interveners at the Supreme Court.

We are delighted to have the participation of the following panelists: Professor Richard Stacey (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto), Professor Denise Reaume (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto), Professor Richard Moon (Faculty of Law, University of Windsor) and Cheryl Milne (Executive Director of the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto). The panel will be moderated by Maryam Shahid (Faculty of Law, University of Toronto JD Candidate and Co-Editor of the Journal of Law and Equality).

A pizza lunch will be provided.  Registration is not required.  

 

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Student Office

Exam Preparation Workshop

Exam Preparation Workshop

All 1L students are invited to attend a workshop on exam preparation information offered by Assistant Dean Sara Faherty, Manager Academic/Personal Counselling & Wellness, and Professor Anna Su. The workshop will cover: Understanding the grading process at the law school, Managing exam stress, and How to answer law school exam questions.

Location: P120 Bennett Lecture Hall

Time: Wednesday, Nov. 22nd 12:30-2:00pm

 Registration is not required. For more information contact Yukimi Henry at yukimi.henry@utoronto.ca

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Graduation Photos

Students graduating in June 2018,

In order to have your photo on the class composite, you need to sit for a portrait photo session taken by New Paramount Studios. Photos taken by other studios will not appear on the composite. Sittings at the law school will take place in late November and March (November dates listed below,) or you can visit one of the New Paramount Studios. Please follow the instructions below to book an appointment. Sittings cost $20.00 and are paid by you directly to New Paramount Studios.

Sittings at the Jackman Law Building in J305 and J306 will take place on the following dates: November 29th, November 30th, November 31st, and December 1st, 2017. March dates will be announced in the new year.

In addition to the class composite photo, you can pose for a variety of photos in addition to the traditional graduate pose, including posing with friends. The background size limits the number of people photographed in a group to 4.  

Green Screen Technology - You will be photographed against a green screen which allows you to insert unique background scenes from your College when ordering your photos.

What is included in your $20.00 sit fee.

Green Screen, variety of unique backgrounds

On line proofs

On line bookings

On line ordering

Graduate Composite

Professional Photographer

Variety of Poses

Digitally Captured Photographs

  

Instructions on booking an appointment for a portrait session at the Faculty of Law.

1. www.appointment.com/newparamount

2. Register as a new user (you will be sent an email with a temporary passcode to login)

3. Re-enter appointment.com/newparamount and enter your username, passcode and enter

4. Enter "GO" on All Schedules

5. Find the date that we are at your school and click on a date that works best for you

6. Book an available time

Graduates must book an appointment at least 12 hours before the requested time.

If you have any questions please email nps@look.ca or call 416-653-5103

 

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Brain Break: Introduction to Mindfulness Launch Events at Faculty of Law

Feeling stressed? Want to improve your mood and concentration? Take a Brain Break!

Join us for the launch of the Faculty of Law Mindfulness Program. Learn about the neuroscience of mindfulness practice as a tool for stress reduction and enhancing cognitive efficacy. An introductory lecture and guided mindfulness practice will be lead by expert facilitator Elli Weisbaum, Phd candidate at the UofT Institute of Medical Science and Instructor in the Applied Mindfulness and Meditation Program at UofT. All members of the law school community are welcome to attend.

Launch events will be held on Tuesday, November 21st from 12:30-2:00pm and Thursday, November 30th from 12:30-2:00pm. Location J125. The presentation will be the same on both dates. Registration for the November 21st event is now closed.

A healthy lunch will be provided for all registered participants.  Registration is limited to 50 people.


This program is brought to you by the Student Health & Wellness Committee and through the generous support of Osler, Hoskin, Harcourt LLP.

For more information or to register for the program please contact Yukimi Henry at yukimi.henry@utoronto.ca.

 

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Academic Events

LGBTQ+ Workshop - Religious Faith vs. Gay Wedding Cakes: The Masterpiece Cakeshop Case

Join the LGBTQ+ Workshop for a fascinating discussion led by Prof. Anna Su about the US Supreme Court case of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission.

The main issue in the case is whether applying Colorado's public accommodations law to compel the petitioner to create expression that violates his sincerely held religious beliefs about marriage violates the free speech or free exercise clauses of the First Amendment.

The event is open to the public, no registration is required.

When: November 29, 4pm.

Where: Falconer Hall, room FA1.

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Nov 29, 2017: Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable: Alistair Price

  Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable

presents

ALISTAIR PRICE
Associate Professor in Law, University of Cape Town

“The Relationship between Constitutional and Tort Damages for State Failures to Protect in Canada, England, and South Africa”

 Moderated by:
Assistant Professor Richard Stacey
University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Wednesday, November 29, 2017
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

A light lunch will be provided.

 

For more information, please see below or contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.

 

Canada, England, and South Africa face a similar challenge arising from their shared Diceyan heritage in public law. On the one hand, public bodies and officials in these jurisdictions are bound by the ordinary law of the land applied by ordinary courts, including the private law of tort. On the other hand, the state also owes positive obligations to provide a range of services and protections to members of the public that individuals do not bear, arising from constitutional and administrative law. Where the state breaches its distinctive responsibilities by failing to protect an individual, who as a result is harmed and seeks recompense, a question arises as to the proper law to apply. What then is the relationship between the state’s duties and liabilities in tort and constitutional law? The three legal systems under consideration have answered this question in subtly different ways. The English courts have been unwilling to adjust private law to take account of the state’s special duties. In tort law, public defendants are held to the same standards as private individuals, who are liable for omissions only exceptionally. State liability for breach of positive duties to protect human rights arises instead under the Human Rights Act 1998, where courts have a discretion to award compensation alongside declarations and other public-law remedies. South Africa, by contrast, has to a large extent fused private law and constitutional law in this context. Novel private law duties and liabilities may be grounded on the need to hold the state accountable for breaching positive constitutional duties. As a result, the standalone remedy of constitutional damages is comparatively underdeveloped. Canada, it appears to me, has avoided both extremes: the courts have developed a narrow range of uniquely public duties of care in tort while also recognising that constitutional damages may be just and appropriate to compensate loss, vindicate rights, or deter Charter violations where tort (and other) remedies are insufficient. These varying responses to a shared challenge bring the following issue into sharp focus: to what extent can and should tort law be instrumentalised to serve the social goals of constitutional law?

 

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LEAF's Kim Stanton on “Violence Against Women: It’s a Human Rights Issue AND an Economic Issue", Dec. 5

The Faculty of Law is co-hosting this event:

"Violence Against Women: It's a Human Rights Issue AND an Economic Issue - A Conversation During the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence"

DATE: Tuesday, December 5, 2017

TIME: 4:15-4:59pm check-in; 5:00pm sharp to 6:00pm discussion

PLACE: Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 105 St. George Street, Toronto (Fleck Atrium, Ground Floor, North Building)

SPEAKER: Kim Stanton, Legal Director, Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF)

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Sarah Kaplan, Professor of Strategic Management, University of Toronto Distinguished Professor of Gender & the Economy and Director - Institute for Gender & the Economy, Rotman

TO REGISTER: Please visit the below link and sign up for noon on December 5.

SERIES HOST: Institute for Gender and the Economy at Rotman

SESSION CO-HOST: University of Toronto Faculty of Law

Click here for additional information

Click here to register

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Play a Witness in Trial Advocacy Exercise!

The Trial Advocacy course concludes with a final trial before a jury and a judge of the Superior Court of Justice on Tuesday,  November 28th, 2017.  The students in the trial advocacy course are in trial teams of two and they are trying a case called Dixon v. Providential Life Insurance Company.  The time for the trial is as follows: 5:30 pm (check in at the courthouse- 361 University) – 6:10 pm trial begin – 8:15 pm trials end.  The presiding judge will charge the jury, and then the jury will deliberate, and, following the verdict, the judge will provide comments and critique, along with the jury. 

The final trials are an opportunity to watch a trial unfold in a compressed time, and to see outstanding advocacy, and as well, to hear from judges about advocacy in general.

If you would like to play the role of a witness at the trial, please email Elizabeth Mountford at emountford@jkhannaford.com.

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Health Law, Policy and Ethics Seminar: Vardit Ravitsky

Faculty of Law Health Law, Ethics & Policy Seminar Series

presents 

Vardit Ravitsky
Associate Professor, Bioethics Program
School of Public Health, University of Montreal 

The Shifting Landscape of Prenatal Testing: 
Ethical and Social Implications of Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing 

Commentators:
Neil Harrel, LLM, PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
Angel Petropanagos PhD, Quality Improvement Ethicist, William Osler Health System 

Thursday, November 23, 2017
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall - 84 Queen’s Park 

The introduction of cell-free fetal DNA testing, or Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT), is gradually changing the landscape of prenatal testing. By providing results that are more reliable than serum screening, earlier in the pregnancy and without increased risk of miscrriage, NIPT represents great benefits, but its probable routinization also raises numerous challenges. This presentation will explore the ethical and social implications of NIPT on the backdrop of two competing and largely irreconcilable rationales for prenatal testing: the reproductive autonomy rationale, which argues that access to prenatal testing supports and promotes women’s informed choices, and the public health rationale, thatapproaches prenatal testing as designed to reduce the incidence of certain conditions in the population.

Vardit Ravitsky is Associate Professor at the Bioethics Program at the School of Public Health, University of Montreal and Director of the Ethics and Health Branch of the Center for Research in Ethics. Ravitsky is an elected Board member and Treasurer of the International Association of Bioethics (IAB) and member of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) Standing Committee on Ethics. Previously, she was faculty at the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on reproductive ethics and genetics. She published over 100 articles, book chapters and commentaries on bioethical issues, and is lead-editor of "The Penn Center Guide to Bioethics".

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

 

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Student Activities

First Generation Network - Keynote address by Fernando Garcia - General Counsel, Nissan Canada

We are very excited to announce First Generation Network's 2017 Fall Event!

Fernando Garcia moved to the Jane and Finch area of Toronto from Uruguay at age nine. He struggled in school, and ultimately dropped out of high school before returning to complete high school, university and then law school. Today, he is General Counsel at Nissan Canada.

First generation law students, undergraduate students and crown wards are invited to hear Fernando's incredible story at Goodmans LLP on November 23rd from 5:30-7:30pm. The keynote address will be followed by a networking reception with Goodmans lawyers.

Registration will be completed on a first come, first served basis using the link below:

https://goo.gl/forms/pgajW66pyULs0bWZ2

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Inaugural UT Law Stem Cell Drive

Did you know over 80 diseases and disorders can be treated with stem cell transplants?
Did you know only 25% of patients in need of a stem cell transplant find a match among their family members?

That means, 75% of stem cell transplant recipients rely on donors! 

Join the University of Toronto Stem Cell Club on November 21st in J303 for UT Law's inaugural Stem Cell Drive!
We'll be answering questions and processing registrations for the OneMatch Stem Cell donor registry throughout the lunch hour. 

*Note* 
Stem cells from younger donors are associated with better patient outcomes, for this reason, we are in need of healthy donors between the ages of 17 and 35. 

More info: https://blood.ca/en/stem-cells

Facebook event: http://bit.ly/2A2xunE

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OBA President Meet n' Greet - CANCELLED

Monday, November 20 from 12:30pm-2pm in J230 has been cancelled

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Women & the Law - Annual Professional Networking and Mentorship Event

Women & the Law is pleased to invite female law students to our 16th Annual Professional Networking and Mentorship Event! This event brings together women of the legal profession, including law students, practising lawyers, and academics, to foster important relationships in the legal community. This is a great opportunity to network with current or future employers – last year we had over 80 legal professionals in attendance! 

The event will take place on Thursday, January 11th, 2018 from 6:00pm to 9:00pm in the Donegan Conference Centre (Room FL223) in the Jackman Law Building at the University of Toronto. There will be a cash bar and complimentary hors d’oeuvres. 

We kindly ask that you RSVP by filling out our Google form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeIQI8nLnHPw41CPl54Ux1uLRmAsFLG...) before December 20th, 2016. Because space is limited, attendance will be confirmed on a first come, first served basis. Once all the spots are filled, we will start a waitlist. 

Feel free to email women.utlaw@gmail.com if you have any questions/concerns! We look forward to having you join us!

 

 

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Criminal Law Students Association Alumni Pub Night

Take a break from exam stress and join the Criminal Law Students Association for their annual alumni pub night on Thursday, November 23rd for the chance to meet other law students and alumni interested in practicing criminal law. 

Event will be held at the Duke of York at Bloor and Bedford, from 7 to 9pm.

 

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Centres, Legal Clinics, and Special Programs

The Asper Centre Blog: Student Submissions

The Asper Centre Blog

The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is recruiting students to write short (500 - 1000 words) posts for our new Asper Centre Blog.

Do you want to:

  • Have your say about Charter rights issues?
  • Comment on the constitutionality of our Laws, Court decisions and Government’s (in)actions?
  • Highlight your Constitutional law research & writing?
  • Reflect and write about your work at the Asper Centre or another relevant experience?

For more information, email: ryan.howes@mail.utoronto.ca

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Career Development Office and Employment Opportunities

Job Postings This Week on UTLC
Upcoming Events on UTLC

Financial Aid, Scholarships, and Awards

Info session: St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award, an all expenses paid conference May 2018

St Gallen Symposium

AWARD FOR ALL EXPENSES PAID CONFERENCE IN SWITZERLAND - MAY 2018

Info session @ Jackman

Monday Nov 27 @ 12:30pm in J125

Open to JD, LLM and SJD students

 RSVP online to attend

Would you like to share your vision of the future with world leaders such as
Dominic Barton, Professor Niall Ferguson, Kersti Kaljulaid, Christine Lagarde, or Jack Ma?

Discuss your ideas with the global elite, create an impact and enjoy an all-expenses-paid trip to Switzerland.

Seize the opportunity to qualify as one of 200 “Leaders of Tomorrow” for the 48th St. Gallen Symposium (www.symposium.org) by competing for the 30th St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award. A special jubilee symposium awaits you with a prize money of CHF 30,000 and various festivities.

Here some more highlights if you make it to St. Gallen:

  • Meet 600 top managers, entrepreneurs, politicians and scientists from around the world
  • Share your ideas with the symposium’s global audience
  • Small and intimate gatherings with world leaders, exclusively for the Leaders of Tomorrow
  • Meet 200 of the world’s brightest young minds and become member of a global community

 

The 48th St. Gallen Symposiumwill be held from 2–4 May 2018 at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and is devoted to the theme “Beyond the end of work”. The St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award is the world’s foremost student essay competition giving you the extraordinary opportunity to share your voice and opinion with some of the world’s most influential luminaries.

Have a look at competition question and requirements at www.symp.sg/competition, register now to receive the latest news and tips, and hand in your essay no later than February 1, 2018.

To get more insights check out www.youtube.com/user/StGallenSymposium and follow us on our Social Media channels.

I look forward to seeing you at our presentation in Jackman on Monday Nov 27 at 12:30pm in J125. RSVP online to attend the presentation.

 

With best regards,

Elena Kessler
Member, Your Leaders of Tomorrow Team

International Students’ Committee (ISC)
award@symposium.org

St. Gallen Symposium

P.O. Box 1045
9001 St. Gallen, Switzerland
Phone +41 71 227 20 20, Fax +41 71 227 20 30

LinkedIn | Facebook |Twitter | #beyondwork

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Bora Laskin Law Library

Important information about the Library and the exam period

 Important information about the Library and the exam period

 

As exams approach, here is a reminder about the increased Library hours and additional services the Law Library is offering.

 

Extended Library Hours: Begin on Monday, November 20 and continue to Monday, December 18. During this time, the Bora Laskin Law Library will close later as follows:

 

·        Monday through Friday: 8:45 am until midnight

·        Saturday and Sunday: 10 am until 10 pm

The Robarts library offers 24 hour access Sunday night to Friday night. Details here:  http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/extended-hours  

Hours for all campus libraries can be found here: http://resource.library.utoronto.ca/hours/?source=icon

 

During the extended hours period Torys Hall and the study areas on the main floor of the Library will be open ONLY to UofT law students.  We will post signs to this effect and we will enforce this policy.  However, we need your help to make sure the Library remains a quiet and serene space throughout exams.  Although we do periodic walk-arounds, we cannot see everything that goes on.  So, if you are being disturbed, please report this to the Circulation Desk!  We will do all we can to resolve the situation in an effective and low-key manner.

 

***All Night Law Library Opening on the Eve of the Deadline for Written Work***: The Law Library will remain open all night on Monday, December 18, so that students have access to library resources, computers and printers ahead of the deadline for written work on Tuesday, December 19 at 10 am. Librarians will be available on Monday December 18 from 6:00 pm until midnight and from 6:00 am on the Tuesday morning to provide last minute research and citation help. We will send out more details closer to the date.

The Library will close at 5 pm on December 19th and 20th and be closed for the Winter Holiday from December 21, 2017 – January 2, 2018 inclusive.

 

Library Security: It is important to remember that the law school building, including the Library, is open to the public. As such, please keep your valuables with you or ask a friend to watch them if you need to leave your study area even for a minute. Thefts have occurred in campus libraries and the weeks leading up to exams sometimes see a spike of activity across campus. Please report any incidents to the Campus Police at 416-978-2222.

 

Research Help:  As deadlines for papers approach, remember that the reference librarians are available to advise you on research strategy, databases and citation style. Please feel free to contact John Bolan, Sooin Kim, or Susan Barker.

 

Study Rooms: The Law Library has 11 bookable group study rooms. Details are here: http://library.law.utoronto.ca/book-study-room.  If you have experienced trouble logging into the online booking system please e-mail your UTORid to gian.medves@utoronto.ca to be added to the database. In addition, the UofT Library has a list of bookable and non-bookable study rooms available at libraries across campus: http://onesearch.library.utoronto.ca/group-study-rooms

 

Exam Preparation - Past Exams: The past five years of exams are available on e.Legal: https://www.law.utoronto.ca/e-legal/library-resources/past-exam-database. You will need to enter your e.Legal password and follow the instructions on screen to access the exam database.

 

Library Services:

 

For details on additional Library services please follow the Bora Laskin Law Library Reference Services Blog: http://bllreference.wordpress.com/

 

 

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Food For Fines

Support the U of T Food and Clothing Bank and have  your library fines waived.

From November 20–24 we will waive $2 of library fines in exchange for a non-perishable food item (maximum $20 waived). Don’t have any fines? You can still donate! 

Most needed items include: baby food, canned fruits, canned fish, plain beans (no sauce), canned vegetables, juice boxes, salad dressings and condiments.

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Bookstore

Bookstore

Hours for the week of November 20th, 2017 

                                  Monday:         9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
                                  Tuesday:                CLOSED
                                  Wednesday:   9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
                                  Thursday:       9:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
                                   Friday:                    CLOSED    

For updated information, please remember to visit the Faculty of Law Bookstore website at:  

http://www.law.utoronto.ca/student-life/bookstore

 

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External Announcements: Events

Nov 21: The White Ribbon (Ethics & Film)
Nov 22: Punishment and the Passage of Time (with Antje du Bois-Pedain, Cambridge)

Punishment and the Passage of Time

Antje du Bois-Pedain
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Law
Cambridge University

Wed, Nov 22, 2017
12:30 PM - 02:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building

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Dec. 7: Ethics & the Arts: Music Amidst Violence

Info and Registration here.

Participants:

  • Michael Beckerman (Musicology, New York University) is an eminent scholar of Central and Eastern European music of the 19C and 20C, Jewish music, music in contexts of war, and music in the concentration camps.
  • Anna Shternshis (Director, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Toronto) is an expert on Jewish culture in the Soviet Union.
  • Joshua Pilzer (Ethnomusicology, University of Toronto) specializes in the relationships between music, survival, memory, and traumatic experience, with a focus on the anthropology of music in modern Korea and Japan.
  • Adi Braun (singer-songwriter, Toronto) and Linda Ippolito (Sheridan, Ippolito & Associates, Toronto) have been researching the music and performers of the politically progressive Weimar-era cabaret for Braun’s new album Moderne Frau (2017).
  • Dobrochna Zubek (cello, Toronto) is an award-winning Polish musician whose multifaceted international career encompasses solo, chamber, orchestral and interdisciplinary performance.

Thu, Dec 7, 2017
11:00 AM - 01:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building

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Nov 20: The Ethics of Food

Food, and food choices, are complex. In what ways have ethical perspectives been brought to bear on various aspects of food production, consumption, and disposal? This panel will articulate social and cultural determinants of food systems, as well as explore and illuminate the origins of various moral questions about food.

Eventbrite - The Ethics of Food

Matthew Feinberg
Rotman School of Management

Stephen Scharper
School of the Environment & Department of Anthropology

Tammara Soma
Food Systems Lab 

Mon, Nov 20, 2017
02:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building

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Dec 5: Ethics of AI in Context: Algorithmic Ethics and Personhood (w/ Molly Sauter)

As "big data"-based predictive algorithms and generative models become commonplace tools of advertising, design, user research, and even political polling, are these modes of constructing machine-readable models of individuals displacing humans from our world? Are we allowing the messy, unpredictable, illegible aspects of being human to be overwritten by demands we remain legible to AI and machine learning systems intended to predict our actions, model our behavior, and sell us something? In this talk, technology scholar Molly Sauter looks at how currently deployed modeling systems constitute an attack on personhood and self determination, particularly in their use in politics and elections. Sauter posits that the use of “big data” in politics strips its targets of subjectivity, turning individuals into ready-to-read “data objects,” and making it easier for those in positions of power to justify aggressive manipulation and invasive inference. They further suggest that when big data methodology is used in the public sphere, it is reasonable for these “data objects” to, in turn, use tactics like obfuscation, up to the point of actively sabotaging the efficacy of the methodology in general, to resist attempts to be read, known, and manipulated.

Molly Sauter
Communication Studies
McGill University

Eventbrite - Ethics of AI: Algorithmic Ethics and Personhood (w/ Molly Sauter)

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Dec 6: Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (w/ James Forman Jr.)

In recent years, America’s criminal justice system has become the subject of an increasingly urgent debate. Critics have assailed the rise of mass incarceration, emphasizing its disproportionate impact on people of color. As James Forman, Jr., points out, however, the war on crime that began in the 1970s was supported by many African American leaders in the nation’s urban centers. In Locking Up Our Own (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017), he seeks to understand why.

New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice/
Washington Post Best-Seller

Eventbrite - James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America

James Forman Jr.
Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Commentator:
Teddy Harrison
Political Science & Centre for Ethics
University of Toronto

Wed, Dec 6, 2017
04:00 PM - 06:00 PM
Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto
Rm 200, Larkin Building

 
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Writing a History of Law in Canada: the Challenge of the Longue Durée - Friday December 1st, 2017 - 3:00-5:00pm

Writing a History of Law in Canada: the Challenge of the Longue Durée

Jim Phillips, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto

Philip Girard, Osgoode Hall Law School and visiting scholar, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

Moderated by Catherine Evans, Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto

Date: Friday December 1st, 2017
Time: 3:00pm to 5:00pm

Informal reception will be held in the Lounge 5:00pm-6:00pm

The talk will begin at 3:00pm in the Ericson Seminar Room (room 265)

All are welcome to attend.

Ericson Seminar Room - 2nd Floor
Canadiana Gallery Building
14 Queen's Park Crescent West
Toronto, ON M5S 3K9

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Dec 6: Master Class with James Forman Jr. (Yale Law School)
On Wednesday, December 6, the Centre for Ethics and the Centre for Criminology are hosting a master class for interested graduate students featuring Professor James Forman, Jr. (Yale Law School) to discuss excerpts from his new book, Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017). The class will meet 12:15-1:30 at the Centre for Ethics (200 Larkin); a light lunch will be served. 
 
If interested, please contact the Centre (ethics@utoronto.ca) by Friday, November 17 to reserve a seat. (NB: Professor Forman's lecture at the Centre for Ethics on Dec 6, 4-6pm, requires separate registration, here.)
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Dec 5: 2001: A Space Odyssey (Ethics of AI Film Series)
Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies , Fall Speaker Series - Gavin Slade - Monday November 20th, 2017 - 12:30-2:00pm

Good Governance? Prison Gangs and Informal Order in the Former Soviet Union

Gavin Slade, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow

 Gavin Slade is a lecturer in legacies of communism at the University of Glasgow. He works on questions of criminal justice reform in the former Soviet Union. His current project involves a qualitative comparative case study of how penal reform impacts prisoner societies and produces violence and contention in Georgia, Moldova, Lithuania and Kyrgyzstan. His first book was published with Oxford University Press in 2013 while he was at the University of Toronto as a Post-Doctoral Fellow, entitled 'Reorganizing Crime: Mafia and Anti-Mafia in Post-Soviet Georgia.'

Date: Monday November 20th, 2017

Time: 12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location: Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies - Ericson Seminar Room - 2nd floor Canadiana Gallery - 14 Queen's Park Crescent West

A light lunch will be served at 12:00 noon in the Lounge

The talk will begin at 12:30pm in the Ericson Seminar Room (room 265)

All are welcome to attend

If you are a person with a disability and require accommodation, please contact Lori Wells at 416-978-3722 x226 or email lori.wells@utoronto.ca and we will do our best to make appropriate arrangements.

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External Announcements: Opportunities

IRANIAN CANADIAN LEGAL PROFESSIONALS (ICLP) 2017-2018 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION
Scholarship Opportunity: Renfrew County Law Assn
Judicial Law Clerk Program 2019-2020 - Supreme Court of BC
G.I. Smith Memorial Trust Bursary

The Honourable G.I. Smith Memorial Trust is pleased to offer a $25,000 bursary for a deserving Nova Scotia Law Student. This bursary is open to full time law students or articled clerks from Nova Scotia who have begun at least their second year of law school, or their clerkship in Nova Scotia or elsewhere. The deadline for applications is December 31, 2017.

Please see the attached notice for full details.

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Student Internship Available - Erudite Law LLP
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External Announcements: Calls for Papers

Call for Papers — 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference

The Cambridge International Law Journal is pleased to announce the call for papers for the 7th Annual Cambridge International Law Conference. The Conference will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, on the 3rd and 4th of April 2018. This year's theme is 'Non-State Actors and International Law'.  We welcome academics, practitioners and research students in presenting papers at the Conference.

 

Prospective speakers are invited to submit abstracts of not more than 500 words in length, in addition to their CVs. The deadline to submit abstracts is Friday, 8 December 2017.

 

Registration for the Conference will open in January 2018. Please save the date and mark your calendars.

 

For further information, please refer to the attached poster or the following link:

 

http://cilj.co.uk/2017/11/01/call-for-papers-7th-annual-cambridge-international-law-conference-2018/

Call for Papers
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The case for 'open science': Do we need intellectual property law?

Thursday, November 16, 2017
illustration of pills, medical devices, chips in a pill box to illustrate concept of paten

Sixth annual Patent Law Colloquium features Aled Edwards, Structural Genomics Consortium co-founder 

By Jaime Weinman, JD 2004 / Illustration by Justin Renteria

Alumni Norman and Gay Loveland donate $1M to support bursaries for U of T Indigenous law students

Thursday, November 16, 2017

Norman (JD 1972) and Gay Loveland, (BA 1965 Trinity, BEd 1972, MEd 1972) at the Faculty of Law's Goodmans LLP Café with alumna Amanda Carling, centre, Manager of Indigenous Initiatives

“There is a misconception in Canada that all First Nation, Métis and Inuit students get a ‘free-ride.’”

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo / Photo by Nick Wong

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin

Jean-Christophe Bédard Rubin
SJD Candidate
Thesis title:
Claiming Constituent Authority in Non-Revolutionary Constitutionalism: State, Sovereignty and Representation in the formation of French-Canadian Constitutional Culture
Office in Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, M5S 2C5
Email: john.bedardrubin@mail.utoronto.ca

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin (LL.B. Laval, LL.M. Toronto) is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto and a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholar. His doctoral dissertation titled Claiming Constituent Authority in Non-Revolutionary Constitutionalism: State, Sovereignty and Representation in the formation of French-Canadian Constitutional Culture provides a genealogical account of the intellectual history of public law thought in the French-Canadian liberal tradition. His research draws on a variety of methodological approaches to explore Canadian constitutional culture from a comparative perspective writ large. His work has appeared or is forthcoming, in English or French, in the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, the Review of Constitutional Studies, the International Journal of Canadian Studies, the Bulletin d’histoire politique, Constitutional Forum, Linguistic Minorities and Society as well as an edited collection by Brill. In 2020-2021, Jean-Christophe was the R. Roy McMurtry Fellow of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. In 2021-2022, he is a visiting assistant in research at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.

Education
Visiting Assistant in Research, Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (2021-2022)
LL.M. University of Toronto (2016)
LL.B. Laval University (2013)
Cert. Philosophy Laval University (2013)
Awards and Distinctions
SSHRC Michael-Smith Foreign Study Supplement
Ontario Graduate Scholarship 2021-2022 (10 000$)
R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Legal History of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History 2020-2021
Dean's Graduate Student Leadership Award 2019
SSHRC Joseph-Armand Bombardier Scholarship 2018-2021 (105 000$)
FRQSC Quebec Government Scholarship 2018-2022 (80 000$) (declined)
Nathan Strauss Q.C. Graduate Fellowship in International Law University of Toronto (2018-2019)
Central European University visiting scholarship (2018)
DAAD (German Academic Exchange Fund) and Goethe University Frankfurt-am-Main scholarship (2018)
W.C.G. Howland Prize for best overall performance in the LL.M. University of Toronto (2016)
Nathan Strauss Q.C. Graduate Fellowship in Canadian Constitutional Law University of Toronto (2015-2016)
Lieutenant-Governor Tribute Laval University (2014)
Dean's Honour List Laval University (2013)
Professional Affiliations
Member of the Quebec Bar
Member of the Canadian Political Science Association
Member of the Quebec Political Science Society
Member of the Quebec Constitutional Law Association
Member of the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History
Selected Publications

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, "L'analyse comportementale du jugement judiciaire dans l'angle mort des études sociojuridiques francophones au Canada", [Judicial Behavior Studies in the Dead Angle of French Canadian Socio-legal Studies] (2022) Revue de droit de l'Université de Sherbrooke (forthcoming).

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin & Tiago Rubin, "The Elusive Quest for French on the Bench: Bilingualism Scores for Canadian Supreme Court Justices, 1985-2013", (2022) Canadian Journal of Law & Society (forthcoming).

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, "Comparing Regimes of Constitutional Historicity: The Case of Precedents in Canada and the United States", in Jason Mazzone, Justin Frosini & Francesco Biagi, eds., The Uses of History in Constitutional Adjudication: Comparative Perspectives, Leiden, Brill, 2022 (forthcoming).

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, "L'émergence inattendue de la dualité institutionnelle à la Cour suprême du Canada depuis Pepin-Robarts" [The Unexpected Emergence of Institutional Duality at the Supreme Court of Canada since Pepin-Robarts], (2021) 29:2 Bulletin d'histoire politique 125, online: https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/bhp/2021-v29-n2-bhp06227/1079767ar/

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, "La Couverture médiatique du bilinguisme à la Cour suprême du Canada: entre légalisme, pragmatisme et polémique", [Media Coverage of Supreme Court Bilingualism: Between Legalism, Pragmatism and Polemics] (2019) 59 International Journal of Canadian Studies 51, online: https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/epdf/10.3138/ijcs.59.x.50

Book review of Samuel V. LaSelva, Canada and the Ethics of Constitutionalism: Identity, Destiny, and Constitutional Faith, Montreal, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018, 324 p., in (2020) 14 Linguistic Minorities and Society 101, online: https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/minling/2020-n14-minling05565/1072314ar/

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, "Senate Reform and the Political Safeguards of Canadian Federalism in Québec", (2019) 28:1 Constitutional Forum constitutionnel 19, online: https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/constitutional_forum/index.php/constitutional_forum/article/view/29375

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin, "Des Causes et des Conséquences du Dialogue Constitutionnel" [Causes and Consequences of Constitutional Dialogue] (2018) 23:2 Review of Constitutional Studies/Revue d'études constitutionnelles 287, online: https://www.constitutionalstudies.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/03_Bedar...

Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin & Tiago Rubin, "Assessing the Impact of Unilingualism at the Supreme Court of Canada: Panel Composition, Assertiveness, Caseload, and Deference", (2018) 55 Osgoode Hall Law Journal 715, online: https://digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku.ca/ohlj/vol55/iss3/3/

Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Administrative Law
Canadian Constitutional Law
Comparative Law
Economic Analysis of Law
International Law
Judicial Decision-Making
Law and Globalization
Legal Ethics
Legal History
Legal Process
Legal Theory
Political Philosophy and Theory
Supervisor
David Schneiderman
Committee Members
David Dyzenhaus
Ron Levi

Global Professional LLM Class of 2017 graduates

Thursday, November 9, 2017

They have backgrounds from across the spectrum—law, technology, finance, risk management, energy, education and more—and were interested in expanding their knowledge, skills and networks. Forty-seven professionals from the Class of 2017, have now graduated with their Global Professional LLM degrees.  After 12-months of weekends and nights, after putting in full days of work and balancing family life, Satyma Mongia, an eligibility adjudicator at the WSIB, and an internationally trained lawyer, says she knows exactly how she feels:

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