Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture: Alumnus Ontario Chief Justice Strathy calls on justices to embrace 'Gladue Spirit' in sentencing as part of reconciliation

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Humility and humanity are important virtues for judges to have in an evolving world

By Peter Boisseau / Photography by Oliver Salathiel

Judges should demonstrate “humility and humanity” when dealing with court cases involving Indigenous peoples, Ontario Chief Justice George Strathy, told a Faculty of Law audience at the Morris A. Gross Memorial Lecture.

Mentorship Reception 16-17 - Mentee RSVP

 Alumni-Student Mentorship Reception

Please join us on Tuesday, February 28 for the opportunity to connect with your mentor as well as the other alumni and students participating in the program. Brief remarks from Dean Iacobucci will be followed by hors d’oeuvres and beverages.

Mentorship Reception 16-17

 Alumni-Student Mentorship Reception

Please join us on Tuesday, February 28 for the opportunity to connect with your mentee as well as the other alumni and students participating in the program. Brief remarks from Dean Edward Iacobucci will be followed by hors d’oeuvres and beverages.

Headnotes - Jan 23 2017

Announcements

Headnotes and Web Site

Law alumni e.newsletter, January 2016

Deans' Offices

Dean’s Drop In Session

Thursday, January 26, 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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Student Office

New Leadership Skills Program Session - Networking

The Faculty of Law’s new Leadership Skills Program offers a series of innovative workshops to help you develop the key leadership skills required for professional success. Facilitated by industry experts, and developed in consultation with students, alumni and numerous members of the legal profession, the Leadership Skills Program will prepare you to transition from a stellar law student to a highly-regarded and successful summer student, articling student and lawyer.

Building Your Professional Network

Tuesday January 31, 2017
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Presenter: Christine Felgueiras, speaker, trainer and coach in professional development, leadership and executive presence, image management and personal branding

In today’s increasingly competitive marketplace, networking and the ability to effectively build personal rapport  is no longer optional but a vital and integral part of conducting business, as well as accelerating both individual and organizational success.  Networking has become one of the most powerful tools to increase your professional visibility, expand your career opportunities and enrich your professional interactions inside and outside of the office.  In this session, you will learn the importance of establishing a powerful network, and learn the tools you need to quickly and effectively build personal rapport, a key component to being a successful networker.

To register, click here. 

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New Leadership Skills Program Session - Social Media

The Faculty of Law’s new Leadership Skills Program offers a series of innovative workshops to help you develop the key leadership skills required for professional success. Facilitated by industry experts, and developed in consultation with students, alumni and numerous members of the legal profession, the Leadership Skills Program will prepare you to transition from a stellar law student to a highly-regarded and successful summer student, articling student and lawyer.

Managing your social media presence

Tuesday February 14, 2017
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Presenter: Lina Duque

Having a sophisticated and thoughtful presence on multiple social media platforms is now a requirement for professional leaders. This 90-minute seminar will lead you through how to engage social media tools to significantly enhance your professional reputation and network.

To register, click here   . 

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New Leadership Skills Program Session - Social Intelligence

The Faculty of Law’s new Leadership Skills Program offers a series of innovative workshops to help you develop the key leadership skills required for professional success. Facilitated by industry experts, and developed in consultation with students, alumni and numerous members of the legal profession, the Leadership Skills Program will prepare you to transition from a stellar law student to a highly-regarded and successful summer student, articling student and lawyer.

Using Social Intelligence to Succeed

Tuesday February 28, 2017
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Presenter: Delee Fromm

Technical skills and subject expertise work very well in the early years of any career. However succeeding and advancing over the long term in any organization requires an additional set of skills – those connected to social intelligence (SI).  Important SI skills include: knowing what is valued and rewarded by the organization, being authentic and persuasive, reading situations and people quickly, and knowing how to predict, prevent and protect others from losing face.

To register, click here. 

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Lawyers Doing Cool Things Sessions

“Lawyers Doing Cool Things With Their Law Degrees” is a new series of conversations with alumni about their cool jobs, the important issues they are tackling, and how their law degrees got them there. We are intentionally focusing on alumni who are earlier in their careers and moving the dial on important issues.

The format is casual and intimate—each “Cool Things” alumni speaker will host up to 20 students in one of the law school’s gorgeous new spaces. The law school will supply the refreshments. Alumni speakers will be announced via Headnotes and sign up is by registration on a first-come-first-served basis.

For more information, and to register for a "Cool Things" lunch, click here. 

 

 

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Draft Mental Health and Wellness Strategic Action Plan - Invitation to provide feedback

Dear students:

 

On behalf of our colleagues on the law school’s Mental Health Committee, we are very pleased to invite your feedback on a new draft Mental Health and Wellness Strategic Action Plan 2016-17 at the Faculty of Law.

 

Building on the initiatives of the past several years, including revisions to the Academic Accommodations policy, changes to the 1L curriculum, and the introduction of the role of Manager, Academic/Personal Counselling and Wellness, we have developed a new Mental Health Strategic Action Plan. Informed by recent student consultations, as well as research and best practices in the post-secondary sector, the document sets out the law school’s priorities and activities regarding our J.D. students’ mental health and well-being.
 

The Mental Health Committee is eager to hear your feedback about the draft strategic action plan. You can share your thoughts with us in several ways:

 

 

The Mental Health Committee’s goal is to provide a final draft of the action plan to Faculty Council at its meeting in March 2017.

 

Thank you very much for your engagement on this important issue. Please provide your feedback by January 30th 2017.

 

Alexis Archbold and Anver Emon

Co-Chairs, Mental Health Committee

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Invitation to participate as a judge in The U of T Cup undergrad moot

Dear JD students,

 

The University of Toronto Pre-Law Society (student club) in conjunction with the Faculty of Law will be hosting its inaugural undergraduate mooting competition, The U of T Cup, on Saturday, February 11 and Sunday, February 12, 2017.

 

Be a volunteer judge

We are seeking 40-50 law students from any year of study to judge the preliminary rounds at the Jackman Law Building. Approximately 17 pairs of Canadian university undergraduate students will provide oral submissions on a selected social justice case. Judges will listen to the submissions, assign scores and determine the winner of each round on the basis of a number of factors. Additionally judges will provide feedback to students on their arguments and presentation.

 

Eligibility       
Student judges should have some experience with mooting or trial advocacy.

 

Time Commitment

  • Saturday February 11 - mandatory
    9:00 am to 6:00 pm
    Includes a complimentary light breakfast and a lunch
    Judging of four rounds of qualification (winning teams move on to compete in elimination-style final rounds on Sunday).
  • Sunday February 12 - optional
    3:00 – 5:00 pm
    Observation of final round at Old City Hall Courthouse, 60 Queen St W

    6:30 – 9:30 pm
    All judges and mooters: a complimentary dinner at the closing banquet and awards ceremony at the Great Hall, Hart House, UofT.  Lawyers, law students, and competing undergraduate students will have an opportunity to network with a number of sponsoring firms, including Weirfoulds, Blakes and Stikeman Elliot. The banquet will feature a full catered dinner as well as keynote address from our very own Professor Ben Alarie, Osler Chair in Business Law and CEO, Blue J Legal, who will speak about technology and the future of the legal profession.

 

Sign up and online case details

By January 31, please sign up to be a volunteer judge online to the Judges menu at the event website: www.uoftmoot.com.  Additional event details such the case materials are on the event website.

For more information

Jerome Poon-Ting
Senior Recruitment, Admissions & Diversity Outreach Officer
U of T Faculty of Law
jerome.poon.ting@utoronto.ca

Tel: 416-978-6630

 

Many thanks

Alexis

 

 

Alexis Archbold L.L.B

Assistant Dean, J.D. Program

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Peer 2 Peer Student Mental Health Support Program

The Student Mental Health Committee is very excited to announce the launch of the pilot phase of the Peer to Peer Mental Health Support Program at the Faculty of Law (the P2P Program).
 
The P2P Program is organized and run by law students for law students with experiences of mental health challenges. Trained and supervised law students with lived experience of mental health from all years are offering peer support to other law students through this program. Support services are provided in an informal, flexible manner to meet the needs of the student involved. P2P Mentors can assist in navigating other supports, systems and services, or they can provide a knowledgeable, empathetic ear from the perspective of someone who "has been there". All peer support services are confidential.
 
Students interested in being matched with a P2P mentor will have a brief intake meeting with the Manager, Academic/Personal Counselling and Wellness, who provides clinical support to the Peer Mentors. You will then be paired with a mentor who is best positioned to meet your needs.
 
For more information or to request to be matched with a P2P mentor, please send a confidential email to P2PMentorshipProgram@gmail.com.

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Academic Events

Art? Or Theft? A Closer Look at Appropriation Art & the Law

Art? Or Theft?  A Closer Look at Appropriation Art & the Law

A discussion between

Professor Amy Adler, NYU School of Law

and

Artist Raymond Waters, Raymond Waters Studio

Moderated by

Professor Craig Scott, Osgoode Hall Law School

 

Friday, March 3, 2017

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. 

Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law

84 Queen's Park

Register today! https://appropriationart.eventbrite.ca  

Join us as Professor Amy Adler, an expert in art law and freedom of expression, and artist Raymond Waters http://www.raymondwaters.com/ explore the uneasy relationship between intellectual property law and appropriation art - art that recontextualizes, copies and alters the pre-existing works of other artists without their permission. Appropriation art can run afoul of many of the hallowed doctrines of copyright law, such as originality, moral rights, and the derivative work right. But do these foundational legal concepts burden creativity, and empower the law to decide what is, and is not, ‘art'?

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Critical Analysis of Law Workshop: Brian Connolly

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW WORKSHOP
presents 

Brian Connolly
University of South Florida 

Law and the Archive of Sovereignty 

Tuesday, January 24, 2017
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

In the nineteenth-century United States, sovereignty seems to have been caught in a tense struggle between two poles.  On the one hand, it has become something of a truism that under the regime of popular sovereignty, sovereign power was coincident with the law.  As Thomas Paine put it, “in America the law is king.”  Or, as the legal scholar Paul Kahn puts it, “in a system of political belief that takes popular sovereignty as its first principle, the rule of law must appear to represent the people: law is authoritative because it is representative.”  Both evince a desire for locating sovereignty in the law.  Yet, on the other hand, democratic rule is marked by the absence of a locatable site of sovereign power.  As the political theorist Claude Lefort puts it in a well-known passage, “Democracy is instituted and sustained by the dissolution of markers of certainty. It inaugurates a history in which people experience a fundamental indeterminacy as to the basis of power, law, and knowledge…at every level of social life.” 

In this paper, I argue, through a reading of Polydore v. Prince (1838) and its attendant archive, that sovereign power operates not in spite of but rather precisely through this tension. In particular, I pay close attention to the figuration of marriage and family in international law treatises in the early nineteenth century.  As sovereignty was figured as secured by territorial borders, the recognition of “foreign marriages” undercut both the inviolability of borders and the sovereign power of the law.  In reasserting such sovereign power, the legal apparatus relied on the proliferation of sovereignty’s attachments in print public culture, and thus, required extra-legal justification its sovereign prerogative .  In the end, I argue that attention to an overlooked archive of sovereignty reorients our understanding of both sovereign power and its legal operations in the nineteenth-century United States. 

Brian Connolly is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Florida and was a Member in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (2015-2016).  He is the author of Domestic Intimacies: Incest and the Liberal Subject in Nineteenth-Century America (Pennsylvania, 2014).  He is also editor of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical History.  His current book project is tentatively entitled Sovereignty’s Archive: Law, Kinship, and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century United States.

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

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James Hausman Tax Law & Policy Workshop: Miranda Stewart

THE JAMES HAUSMAN TAX LAW & POLICY WORKSHOP 

presents 

Miranda Stewart
Australian National University and the University of Melbourne 

Transnational Tax Law and the Future of the Tax State 

Wednesday, January 25, 2017
12:30 - 1:45
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park 

There is a growing contemporary literature about transnational law. Until recently this has not been a concept adopted in the tax law context, although there is a substantial literature on international tax law, including in bilateral and multilateral treaties and even suggested as international customary law (Avi-Yonah 2006). Tax law has been a bastion and expression of national sovereignty, funding public goods in the nation state, which developed through the 20th century in many countries as a "tax state". Recently, Genschel and Rixen (2015) proposed and analysed the strengths and limitations of a “transnational legal order” of international tax. This paper asks whether transnational tax law really exists and if so, what does it mean for the tax state? What is the authority and legitimacy of transnational tax law? Who are its legislators, subjects, agents, interpreters and enforcers in national or international spheres? The paper explores these questions through examining some case studies that range from the seemingly small scale - affecting backpackers, or students - to the recent attempts to construct a transnational legal order for multinational enterprises and global capital in the base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) project of the OECD. 

Miranda Stewart has been Professor and Director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute, Crawford School of Public Policy, the Australian National University since 2014 and is also a Professor at the University of Melbourne Law School, which she joined in 2000 after studying and teaching at New York University School of Law. Miranda teaches and researches on a wide range of topics in taxation and budget law and policy and previously worked in government and major law firms. She has taught as a visitor at Osgoode Hall Law School and University of Florida. Miranda has published on international taxation and anti-abuse and sham in an era of globalization; income taxation of individuals and gender in tax/transfer systems; transnational tax networks and tax reform. Recent contributions include an edited special issue on a century of income tax in Australia (Australian Tax Forum, December 2015);edited books Not for Profits Law (Cambridge University Press, 2014); Sham Transactions (Oxford University Press, 2013); Tax, Law and Development (Edward Elgar, 2013). Miranda engages widely in public and government debates about tax policy and reform in Australia and internationally.

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

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Digital Media at the Crossroads

CILP and the Faculty of Music are pleased to present DM@X, the third annual conference on the future of content in digital media. 

HEAR ALL ABOUT:
– Strengthening Canadian Content Creation, Discovery and Export
– How to Find and Measure Digital Content, Consumption and Dollars
– Technological Disruption in the Digital Media Sector


SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
– Mélanie Joly, Minister of Canadian Heritage (invited)
– Valerie Creighton, President and CEO, Canada Media Fund
– Jim Lidestri, CEO, BuzzAngle Music, NYC

See all the details, download the program, and register for the conference: http://www.digitalmediaatthecrossroads.ca

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2017 Grafstein Lecture in Communications

2017 Grafstein Lecture in Communications 

The Attention Merchants

Professor Tim Wu

Columbia Law School

Moot Court Room, Jackman Law Building

Thursday, March 23, 2017

4:15 pm - 6:00 pm

 

Join us as Professor Tim Wu of Columbia Law School speaks about his latest book, 'The Attention Merchants', which chronicles the long rise of industries that 'feed on human attention'.

Some press coverage of the book: The Atlantic; New York Times; National Post.

Reception to follow. Book will be available for purchase onsite.

Register today! https://grafstein2017.eventbrite.ca

 

The Grafstein Annual Lecture in Communications was established by Senator Jerry S. Grafstein, Q.C., Class of 1958, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his graduation from the Faculty of Law and the 10th anniversary of the graduation of his son, Laurence Grafstein and daughter-in-law, Rebecca Grafstein (nee Weatherhead), both from the Class of 1988.

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LGBTQ+ Workshop - MPP Cheri DiNovo on the All Families Are Equal Act

Join us for a discussion with MPP DiNovo about how Ontario has redefined the way in which families are recognized under the law. Specifically, the All Families Are Equal Act enables same-sex couples, who used assisted reproduction, to register as parents without applying for a court order or having to adopt their children. Furthermore, the Act allows for up to four parents to register as a child's parents, thus allowing recognition of multiple parents. What were the motivating factors behind this Act? And how does this Act changes what we think about families? These and other questions will be addressed in the workshop.

Attendance is free and open to public. However, registration is required as seating is limited.

Please register through https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/lgbtq-workshop-mpp-cheri-dinovo-on-the-all-families-are-equal-act-tickets-31069031309

When? Wednesday, Feb. 15th, 5.10-6.30PM

Where: University of Toronto, Faculty of Law (room to be announced)

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Critical Analysis of Law Workshop: Martti Koskenniemi

CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF LAW WORKSHOP
presents 

Martii Koskenniemi
University of Helsinki 

Sovereignty, Property and Empire
Early Modern English Contexts 

Friday, February 3, 2017
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

This text is based on a set of notes from a larger work that seeks to map the uses of different legal vocabularies by ambitious European legal and political thinkers in the period of c. 1300-1800 in order to defend, explain and organize the exercise of power outside the domestic commonwealth. One chapter in that work will concern the ways the English legal languages (civil law, common law, natural law, jus gentium)  were used to think about, propagate and defend English transatlantic expansion. For most of that time, the relations of public and private power remained closely interwoven. The pluralism of English law also contributed to arguments from property and sovereignty appearing in different configurations so that it is often hard to figure out which precise connotation is being made. The uses also varied significantly from continental practices.  I am above all interested in the imperial or colonial significance of these arguments. The point that emerges here is that by 1800, a conception of  British empire had arisen where the exercise of sovereign power was clearly derivative from and supplementary to claims about private property.  This piece has been submitted to the Journal Theoretical Inquiries in Law. 

Martti Koskenniemi is Academy Professor of International Law at the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights. He was a member of the Finnish diplomatic service 1978-1994, Judge with the Administrative Tribunal of the Asian Development Bank (1997- 2002) member of the International Law Commission (UN) in 2002-2006. He has worked with several UN agencies and bodies and pleaded with the International Court of Justice. He has held lengthier visiting professorships in, among other places, NYU, Columbia University, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics, and Universities of Brussels, Melbourne, Paris, Sao Paulo and Utrecht. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has a doctorate h.c. from the Universities of Uppsala, Frankfurt and McGill. His main publications include From Apology to Utopia; The Structure of International Legal Argument (1989/2005), The Gentle Civilizer of Nations: The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960 (2001) and The Politics of International Law (2011).  He is currently working on a history of international legal thought from the late medieval period to the 19th century.
 

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

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Student Activities

CANCELLED: Runnymede Society presents Justice Marc Nadon on Judging and the Rule of Law

Justice Nadon has had a family emergency and will not be able to appear on Wednesday.

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U of T Law First Generation Panel - Featuring Supreme Court Justice Andromache Karakatsanis

Join us for an informative panel designed to explore and discuss the unique challenged faced by first generation law students. With emphasis on academic, financial, and career-oriented adversities, our panelists will share their experiences and offer some helpful how-to's about navigating the legal world as a first generation student. 

Don't miss the keynote speech given by Justice Andromache Karakatsanis of the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as the opportunity to network with first generation students and professionals in a Toronto firm environment, hosted by Stikeman Elliot LLP at their downtown offices. 

Please RSVP to utlfgn@gmail.com

Date:
January 25, 2017
5:30pm - 7:30pm

Location
Stikeman Elliott LLP
5300 Commerce Court W
199 Bay Street
Toronto, ON
M5L 1B9

U of T Law First Generation Panel - Featuring Supreme Court Justice Andromache Karakatsanis
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Law Needs Feminism Because I UofT Law Student Photo Shoot

The Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto is one of the law schools from across Canada that has joined the #LawNeedsFeminismBecause campaign. This event is organized by the UofT Feminist Law Students' Association as part of the #LawNeedsFeminismBecause national campaign. 

To participate in the photoshoot, we'll be taking over P238 of the Bora Laskin Law Library on Jan 24th. There will be time slots to have your portrait taken. We ask that you sign up for a slot and then come back to have your photo taken at that time and to give organizers a handwritten copy of your caption. We'll also ask that you sign a release (by participating in the campaign your face may appear on Twitter, Facebook, or in other social media forums). 

All photos from the UofT Law #lawneedsfeminismbecause photo shoot will contribute to the national social media campaign and be circulated via Twitter/Facebook etc to spark discussion about feminism and the law. 

This event is not about censoring ideas of feminism(s) or defining feminism(s) in one particular way. We do expect people to be respectful when sharing their perspectives about why the law needs feminism(s).

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U of T Law iTrek Information Session

Law trip to Israel! 

Come to the iTrek Law info session taking place on Wednesday, January 25th at 12:30 (room TBA) 

What is iTrek Law? A highly subsidized 7-day trip to Israel. The trip is led by U of T Law students, and will explore Israel’s legal structure, geopolitics, technological innovations and unique culture. 

When is the trip? April 29 - May 6. 

Who can come? The trip is open to all students at U of T Faculty of Law. 

See you there!

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Centres, Legal Clinics, and Special Programs

History and Legacy of Residential Schools: Lunch with Phil Fontaine

Lunch with Phil Fontaine, Former Nation Chief of the Assembly of First Nations and founder of Ishkonigan Strategic Solutions

NEW DATE

Tuesday, February 7, 2017

12:30pm – 2 pm

 

Solarium, Falconer Hall

84 Queens Park

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law

 

Lunch will be served. Please RSVP: amanda.carling@utoronto.ca

Biography

Mr. Phil Fontaine was born at the Sagkeeng First Nation (formerly known as Fort Alexander) in Manitoba, about 150 kilometers north of Winnipeg. His first language is Ojibway.

In his youth he attended a residential school operated by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate at Sagkeeng. He also attended the Assiniboia Residential School in Winnipeg and he graduated from Powerview Collegiate in 1961.

In 1973, Mr. Fontaine was elected Chief of the Sagkeeng First Nation for two consecutive terms. Upon completion of his mandate, he and his family moved to the Yukon, where he was a Regional Director General with the Federal government.

In 1981 Mr. Fontaine graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science. After graduation, he worked for the Southeast Resource Development Council as a Special Advisor, which was followed by his election to the position of Manitoba’s Vice-Chief for the Assembly of First Nations. Mr. Fontaine was one of the Manitoba First Nation leaders instrumental in the defeat of the Meech Lake Accord.

In 1991, he was elected Grand Chief of the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and served for an unprecedented three consecutive terms. In 1997, he was elected National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations. After one term as National Chief, he was appointed Chief Commissioner of the Indian Claims Commission. Mr. Fontaine returned to the Assembly of the First Nations as National Chief, for two more terms, in 2003 and held the post until 2009. Among his many accomplishments as the longest serving National Chief, he will be most remembered for successfully negotiating the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement, which included financial settlements for survivors and the establishment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Since September 1, 2009, Mr. Fontaine serves as a Special Advisor to the Royal Bank of Canada. His mandate is to "provide advice and counsel to RBC's Canadian businesses to help the company deepen its relationships with Aboriginal governments, communities and businesses in Canada".

Mr. Fontaine is owner and President of Ishkonigan Inc., a successful consulting company he founded in 2009 specializing in Aboriginal relations, negotiations, government relations, mediation and advisory services. The national company has offices from Saskatchewan to New Brunswick, and employs over 20 specialized Aboriginal professionals with a diverse and growing client base.

He is a Member of Order of Manitoba and has received a National Aboriginal Achievement Award, the Equitas Human Rights Education Award, the Distinguished Leadership Award from the University of Ottawa, the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, and most recently was appointed to the Order of Canada. Mr. Fontaine also holds sixteen Honorary Doctorates from Canada and the United States.

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The Métis: Past, Present and Future - with Métis Nation of Ontario President Margaret Froh

 

Tuesday, January 31, 2017

12:30pm – 2 pm 

Jackman Law Building J130

University of Toronto, Faculty of Law

In this seminar, President Margaret Froh will provide an overview of:

  • The Métis identity and the Métis Nation of Ontario
  • Daniels v. Canada (Indian Affairs and Northern Development) 2016 SCC 12
  • Reconciliation with the Métis and her vision for the future of the MNO

Lunch will be served. All are welcome. Please RSVP: amanda.carling@utoronto.ca

 

MNO President Margaret Froh - Biography

Elected in May 2016, Margaret Froh is the first woman to serve as President of the Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO). She lives in Barrie, Ontario, which is within the traditional territory of the Georgian Bay Métis Community. Margaret is one of eight children born to Frank and Marie (Marchand) Froh. Growing up, Margaret spent her youth fishing and canoeing and was active in air cadets and sports. Her parents instilled strong values in their children, including the importance of volunteerism and education.

Originally from the Qu’Appelle Valley in Saskatchewan (near Fort Qu’Appelle), Margaret has lived in Ontario for over 20 years. She moved to Ontario in 1993 to attend law school at the University of Toronto and has made Ontario her home. She decided to pursue a law degree after volunteering on a legal defence committee for Mary Pitawanakwat, an Ontario Ojibway-Potawatomi woman who was fighting discrimination within the federal public service. Margaret wanted to gain a legal education and skills in order to advocate on behalf of her own people and other Indigenous peoples. She has spent her career working on behalf of Métis, First Nations and Inuit peoples. This work has included: 

  • Acting as Aboriginal Issues Coordinator for the Law Society of Upper Canada, where she established a formal partnership between the MNO and the Law Society, which included the first Louis Riel Day event. This partnership and annual event continues to this day. In recent years, Margaret has also chaired many of these Louis Riel Day events.
  • Acting as part of the in-house legal counsel group for the Chippewas of Rama First Nation where her work focused on strengthening the First Nation’s governance, law and policy.
  • Since 2013, Margaret has worked for the MNO as its first in-house legal counsel and Director of Strategic Policy, Law and Compliance. Until her election as President, she served as the MNO’s Associate Chief Operating Officer (ACOO). In these roles, Margaret has become familiar with the management and oversight of all aspects of the MNO’s province-wide operations, including working with all of the MNO Branches, Community Councils and the Provisional Council of the MNO (PCMNO).

In addition to her work for the MNO and her other community volunteer activity, Margaret sits on various committees and advisory groups focusing on access to justice for Indigenous peoples in Ontario. She brings a Métis voice to these critical discussions of justice and child welfare, including:

  • The Debwewin First Nation Jury Review Implementation Committee; the committee tasked with overseeing Ontario’s implementation of the 2013 report issued by former Supreme Court of Canada Justice Frank Iacobucci regarding the lack of First Nation representation on Ontario Juries; and
  • the Aboriginal Justice Advisory Group that advises the Attorney General on Indigenous justice issues.

Over the last 20 years, Margaret has also served in elected and executive positions— including the role of President—of various boards of Indigenous community organizations, associations and businesses operating at the local, provincial and national levels in Canada. Notably, Margaret is the former President of the Indigenous Bar Association in Canada (IBA), a national professional association of Métis, First Nation and Inuit lawyers, judges, law professors and law students. She is the current Chair of the IBA’s Law Student Scholarship Foundation. She has chaired numerous committees of the IBA, including the IBA Ethics Committee, and served as Chair of the Steering Committee for the Accessing Justice & Reconciliation national community-based research project working with Indigenous communities to revitalize Indigenous law in Canada.

 

 

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Career Development Office and Employment Opportunities

Summer research assistance: Prof. Waddams

Professor Stephen Waddams and Justice Robert Sharpe are looking for assistance in updating their books on Injunctions and Specific Performance, and Damages.  Please apply by February 28, by letter, including details of academic record, to Professor Waddams (paper copy, please, to the law school) and simultaneously to The Hon. Justice R. J. Sharpe, e-mail: robert.sharpe@oca-cao.ca.  

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Job Postings This Week on UTLawcareers

Please find attached a list of the 1L, 2L and 3L/4L employment opportunities which are currently available on www.utlawcareers.ca.

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Upcoming Events on UTLawcareers

Events the Week of January 23rd, 2017

1. CDO Event: Clerkship Experience and Interview Preparation

Please find attached a comprehensive list of the upcoming events and programs for 1L, 2L, 3L/4L and Graduate students.  To register or to see event descriptions, please go to the 'events' tab of www.utlawcareers.ca.

For more information on these programs, please contact sab.rahman@utoronto.ca

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Max Planck Summer Research Fellows: Call for Applications

The Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity (MPI-MMG) in collaboration with the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, are offering a unique research opportunity for UofT law students to spend 4 to 6 weeks in Germany conducting supervised research assistance during the summer months, under the guidance of Prof. Ayelet Shachar and Prof. Ran Hirschl. The research projects will focus on topics of citizenship and immigration; law and religion; and comparative constitutionalism. In exceptional cases, the research fellowship may be extended to 8 weeks in total.

The Max Planck Summer Research Fellowship will cover a return (economy) flight ticket from Toronto to Frankfurt, accommodation for the duration of the fellowship, and compensation for 25 hours of research assistance per week. The research fellow will receive an office and library privileges at the Max Planck Institute, located in the scenic university town of Göttingen, which holds the world’s highest ratio of Nobel Prize laureates to residents, and served as home to renowned figures such as Carl Friedrich Gauss, the Grimm Brothers, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Robert Oppenheimer, Max Weber, and Jürgen Habermas, among others.  

Excellent research, writing, and communication skills are required. Previous editorial experience in student run journals or other professional domains is a plus. Communication will be in English; no mastery of German is required. The fellowship may be combined with a German language training course (costs not covered by the fellowship), and/or with time spent on students’ own research projects or intellectual endeavors. The research fellowship may be held anytime between May 15, 2017 and July 31, 2017.

Please send your CV, cover letter, a copy of your transcripts, and a brief academic writing sample (not a case note) to nancy.bueler@utoronto.ca by Feb. 15, 2017.

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Journals, Research, and Scholarship

Journal of Law and Equality - Call for Submissions

The Journal of Law and Equality is currently accepting submissions for publication. 

The Journal of Law & Equality (JLE) is a peer reviewed, student-run journal at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Our mandate is to promote critical and informed debate on issues of equality, with a special emphasis on the Canadian context. The JLE publishes research articles, case comments, notes, and book reviews by a diverse group of commentators from across Canada and internationally, including professors, practitioners, and students. 

We are currently assembling articles for the upcoming issue. The journal accepts submissions on an ongoing basis, but please be advised that the deadline for expedited review is January 30, 2017. If you have a paper on a topic related to equality rights, human rights, or social justice, please consider submitting it to the JLE at editors.jle@gmail.com. 

Thank you,

Michelle Hayman & Fernando Monge-Loria
Co-Editors in Chief, Journal of Law and Equality

editors.jle@gmail.com 

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Bookstore

Bookstore

Hours for the week of January 23rd, 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

headnoteswinter2017-4.pdf
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External Announcements: Events

Faculty of Music student opera - Prima Zombie: the Diva that just wouldn't stay dead

Opera Student Composer Collective

Our student composers take a comic turn this season with Prima Zombie, the Diva that just wouldn’t stay dead. Sandra Horst conducts this outside-the-box operatic event based on an original libretto by Michael Patrick Albano. A cabal of disgruntled music critics, disenchanted with the current state of opera, unearth and electrify the corpse of the celebrated 19th century diva Nellie Melba. Prima Zombie parodies operatic obsession, diva worship and the fickle fame of performance art.

MacMillan Theatre

Free

https://music.utoronto.ca/concerts-events.php?eid=1007&cDate=2017-02-05

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Creating Opportunities Summit

On January 26 and 27, 2017, Osgoode Hall Law School, the Citizen Empowerment Project, and the Osgoode Hall Law Journal will host the Creating Opportunities Summit at York University in Toronto. The purpose of the Summit is to explore local, regional and national economic development issues in Canada.

The focus of the Summit will be strategies, initiatives and policies that can create opportunities for economic prosperity and remove barriers to inclusion for disadvantaged and underserved communities, and particularly for youth seeking educational and employment opportunities.

As peers, we would like to formally invite you and your student body to attend the Summit. All of those interested can register here. Please direct any questions about the event to COS2017@osgoode.yorku.ca.

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Feb. 9: "Leonard Cohen: Ethics and the Artist"
Canadian International Law Students' Conference

 

We invite you to attend the 23rd Canadian International Law Students’ Conference: International Rules and Standards: A Meeting of Minds.

The conference is being hosted by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in the Jackman Law Building, and will take place on February 3, 2017 from 8 AM to 5 PM. The conference is free, catered, and open to members of the public.

This year's conference includes three panels, and a keynote by Professor Emeritus Howard Adelman, founder of York University's Centre for Refugee Studies. Other speakers include leading Canadian practitioners, academics, and human-rights activists.

Please note that registrants are not required or expected to attend every panel. You are welcome to attend only those panels of greatest interest to you.

Program:

Registration and Coffee (8:00-9:00 AM)

Panel: International Voluntary Standards in Corporate Compliance (9:00-10:30 AM)

Keynote: International Refugee Law (10:30-12:00 PM)

Lunch

Panel: International Criminal Justice (1:00-2:30 PM)

Panel: Practising International Law: a Conversation (2:30-4:00 PM)

Links: 

Register on the CILSC EventBrite Page.

Check out the Facebook event page (Canadian International Law Students' Conference 2017). 

Questions? Contact the U of T International Law Society at toronto.ils@gmail.com. 

About the Canadian International Law Students' Conference (CILSC)

For twenty-three years, the CILSC has provided a forum for law students, academics, practitioners, and leaders in the field to exchange ideas about Canada's international and domestic performance in public and private international law. The conference has a history of attracting prominent speakers involved in the practice and study of international law.

About the Organizers:

The Canadian International Law Students’ Conference that is co-hosted by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law's International Law Society (ILS), the Osgood International Law Society (OILS), and Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR).

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Feb. 7: "The Ethics of Ethics and Literature"
Feb. 7: "The Ethics of Ethics and Literature"

When: February 7, 2017, 4:15-6PM
Where: Centre for Ethics, 200 Larkin (@ Trinity College), 15 Devonshire Place, University of Toronto

 

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Centre for Ethics: Ethics at Noon, Wednesday, January 25: Liberal egalitarianism and egalitarian organizations

Ethics at Noon with Thomas Ferretti

 

Liberal egalitarianism and egalitarian organizations

Should public institutions promote egalitarian organizations or tolerate inegalitarian ones?

 

Thomas Ferretti

Department of Philosophy and Centre for Ethics

University of Toronto

 

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

12:00 PM - 2:00 PM


Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

 

Thomas Ferretti is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Philosophy, and resident at the Centre for Ethics. He obtained his PhD in Philosophy from Louvain (2016). He specializes in political philosophy, distributive justice and economic ethics. His current research focuses on inequalities and the regulation of economic organizations.

 

Abstract:

Liberal egalitarianism and egalitarian organizations
Should public institutions promote egalitarian organizations or tolerate inegalitarian ones?

Public institutions aiming at achieving distributive justice could promote more egalitarian economic organizations in order to avoid the creation of unjust inequalities from the start. But Welfare State Capitalism adopts a different strategy: our system tolerates inegalitarian organizations and implements redistributive mechanisms in order to help the least well-off. Proposing liberal arguments in favor of the first strategy turns out to be difficult and there are good arguments in favor of Welfare State Capitalism. I will nevertheless propose two ways to justify the promotion of egalitarian organizations such as workers cooperatives.

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The Trump-Russia Nexis - Roundtable Discussion

Roundtable Discussion

Thursday January 26th
12:30pm to 2:00pm

"The Trump-Russia Nexus: the Evidence, the Significance, and the Consequences”

A panel discussion with Prof. Peter Solomon, Prof. Leon Kosals & Prof. Matthew Light


Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto
Ericson Seminar Room
2nd Floor, Canadiana Gallery Building
14 Queen’s Park Crescent West

A light lunch & cold beverages will be provided at 12:00pm in the Centre lounge

ALL ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND

(event poster & building map attached)

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

St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award: All expenses paid conference May 2017
St Gallen Symposium

AWARD FOR ALL EXPENSES PAID CONFERENCE IN SWITZERLAND - MAY 2017

Open to JD, LLM and SJD students

Award Applications due Feb 1, 2017

Would you like to present your disruptive ideas to world leaders such as Christine Lagarde, International Monetary Fund, Dominic Barton, McKinsey & Co., Professor Niall Ferguson, Harvard University, Jack Ma, Alibaba.com, and Dr. Tony Tan Keng Yam, President Republic of Singapore?

Discuss your ideas with the global elite, create an impact, win CHF 20,000.– and enjoy an all-expenses-covered trip to Switzerland. Seize the opportunity and qualify as one of 200 “Leaders of Tomorrow” for the 47th St. Gallen Symposium (www.symposium.org) by competing for the St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award. Including the following highlights:

  • Participation as “Leader of Tomorrow” in a global forum
  • Meet 600 top managers, entrepreneurs, politicians and scientists from more than 50 nations
  • 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 from around the world and become a member of a global community
  • All expenses paid (travel, board and lodging)
  • Broad media coverage

The 47th St. Gallen Symposiumwill be held from 3–5 May 2017 at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, under the topic “The dilemma of disruption”. The St. Gallen Wings of Excellence Award is the world’s most prestigious essay competition of its kind giving you the extraordinary opportunity to share your voice and opinion with some of the world’s most influential leaders and decision makers.

Have a look at the 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 1 February 2017.

To get more insights check out our YouTube Video on:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZs20tCu5zw

We look forward to hopefully welcoming you in May 2017 in Switzerland!

With best regards,
Kaspar Koechli

Responsible for Leaders of Tomorrow
kaspar.koechli@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

www.symposium.org

LinkedIn|Facebook |Twitter | #disruptiondilemma

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2017 Student Engagement in the Arts Awards nominations/applications are now open

The University of Toronto Student Engagement in the Arts Awards (SEAA) provides a special opportunity to recognize the incredible contributions made by U of T students to our creative and performing arts communities on all three campuses.

 

The SEAAs were introduced in 2010 to celebrate the outstanding co-curricular leadership roles and volunteer activities undertaken by students in all ranges of creative endeavours. If you know a student who has developed a community arts program; curated an art show, film festival or open mic night; someone who’s edited a magazine or book of poetry; produced a musical, play, dance program, speaker series – you get the idea! - we hope you will consider nominating them for a U of T Student Engagement in the Arts Award. 

 

Nominations are open until February 10, 2017

Learn more and access the new online nomination form at http://www.arts.utoronto.ca/engagementawards.htm.

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Green Ribbon Award Nominations 2017

Nominations are now open for the Green Ribbon Awards – nominations deadline is Sunday January 29th

 

Do you know of any eco heroes on campus - individuals or groups – who are committed to environmental progress at U of T’s St. George campus?  What better way to recognize their efforts than by nominating them for a Green Ribbon Award!

 

Now in its 9th year, the Green Ribbon Awards have been recognizing the outstanding contributions and achievements of students, staff, faculty and external partners who have made our campus ‘greener’! As individuals, groups, departments or business partners, these green leaders have contributed to a sustainable culture on campus, and inspired others to adopt environmentally-conscious behaviours.

 

For more information on the Green Ribbon Awards, including past winners and the nominations page, please visit www.uoft.me/gra . If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask the Sustainability Office (sustainability@utoronto.ca)!

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2017 U of T Women in House Program

The U of T Women in House is a new program aimed at promoting a greater female representation in the government by inviting female U of T students to shadow the lives of female Canadian politicians for a full day on the Hill in Ottawa.

 

It involves a subsidized, two-day trip to Ottawa to directly witness the political procedures, learn about gender equity, and engage in mentorship and networking with Canadian political leaders. Since its first inception in 2013, over 120 female undergraduate students from the University of Toronto have participated in this program. It is a non-partisan and bilingual program, co-founded by Tina Park and the Honourable Carolyn Bennett, Minister for Northern & Indigenous Affairs and M.P. for St. Paul’s.

 

The 2017 U of T Women in House will take place from March 22 to 23, 2017 in Ottawa. The participants will have a chance to mix & mingle with participating parliamentarians at the welcoming reception in Ottawa on the evening of March 22nd and spend the day with their host on March 23rd. Our program provides excellent opportunities for meaningful, long-term relationships between participants and parliamentarians from all political spectrum.

 

This year’s program is open to any qualified female students enrolled in the following programs at the University of Toronto: Trinity One Program; Victoria College; Munk One Program; Peace, Conflict, Justice Program at the Munk School of Global Affairs; Department of Political Science; University College; Massey College; Faculty of Law and the School of Public Policy and Governance. The participants are selected on a merit-based application procedure administrated by each participating program.

[TO APPLY] Students interested in participating at the 2017 U of T Women in House should submit a full CV, a 1-page statement of interest, unofficial transcript and full contact information (email, phone, college, language skills and program) as a combined pdf to executive.director@ccr2p.org by midnight on Jan 31, 2017. Please indicate [Your program –Year-Name – 2017 U of T Women in House] in the subject line.

 

Successful candidates will be notified before the Reading week in February and there will be a mandatory briefing session prior to the trip to Ottawa in late February.

 

For U of T Media Relations Department’s coverage on the U of T Women in House, check out:

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/women-house-parliament-hill

http://news.utoronto.ca/women-house-female-students-shadow-senators-mps-parliament-hill

 http://uoftwomeninhouse.wordpress.com/ 

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The Legal Leaders for Diversity Trust Fund: 2017 Scholarship Program
Grand Challenges Canada 2017 Summer Student Program

External Announcements: Calls for Papers

Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues Accepting Submissions for 10th Annual Canadian Law Student Conference

Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues Accepting Submissions for 10th Annual Canadian Law Student Conference

 

The Windsor Review of Legal and Social Issues (WRLSI) is now accepting submissions for its 10th Annual Canadian Law Student Conference. Law students from across Canada are invited to submit original, academic work to be considered for presentation at the conference. The conference will be held March 14, 15 & 16 2017, in Windsor, Ontario.

 

This event is a unique opportunity for students from across the country to share their academic work and receive feedback from peers and faculty in an open and engaging environment. 

In addition, top presenters have the opportunity to be published in the Digital Companion. Exclusively reserved for student work, the Digital Companion features the top papers presented by law students at the conference.


To be considered, manuscripts must be received by January 31, 2017. Details on submission guidelines can be found at http://wrlsi.ca/canadian-law-student-conference/submissions/

 

 

Please send manuscripts to WRLSIsolicitations@uwindsor.ca with the subject line “Conference Submission”. Questions may be directed to that same address.

 

Jacqueline Palef

WRLSI Solicitations Editor 2016 - 2017 

wrlsisolicitations@uwindsor.ca

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Call for Abstracts – International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (IDERD) Conference

Abstract Deadline: February 17, 2017

 

The Anti-Racism & Cultural Diversity Office (ARCDO) in partnership with the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI) and the Department of Sociology, UTM will convene an anti-racism conference as part of the 2017 U of T IDERD Campaign which will be held over two days (March 20-21, 2017). The theme for this year’s IDERD Campaign is “What’s Anti-Racism Good for Now?”.

 

The two days will consist of a one day thought provoking Conference that will convene on March 20th followed by the Recognition Award Ceremony on March 21st. Both events will be held at the University of Toronto St. George campus.

 

We invite abstracts for papers, workshops, video and poetry performances, and other artistic forms of activism, which will be selected for presentation at a workshop or poster session which will convene during the annual U of T IDERD Campaign.

 

Abstract Deadline: February 17, 2017.

IDERD Conference: March 20, 2017.

 

Further information on the Call for Abstracts, can be found on the ARCDO website at the following URL:  http://www.antiracism.utoronto.ca/iderd/callforabstracts.html.

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IADC 2017 Legal Writing Contest

All J.D. candidates currently enrolled in accredited law schools are eligible to participate in the IADC Legal Writing Contest. Entrants must write on subjects in the fields of tort law, insurance law, civil procedure, evidence or other areas of the law of practical concern to lawyers engaged in the defense, or management of the defense of civil litigation. The contest is judged by a committee of the IADC.

Prizes

1st Place: US $2,000 and plaque
2nd Place: US $1,000 and plaque
3rd Place: US $500 and plaque
Honourable mention: Plaque

For full details and contest rules & guidelines, please visit the IADC website through the following link:

http://www.iadclaw.org/publications-news/publications/Legal-Writing-Cont...

 

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Late announcements

Call for Submissions - Mental Health Awareness Showcase

Raising awareness of mental health issues is one of the first steps towards reducing the stigma that can be so unfairly associated with mental health.

The goal of this project is to show our community what dealing with mental health really looks and feels like. There is no universal way that someone is effected by mental health. Whether you are dealing with these issues personally, or you have been affected by a loved one who has dealt with mental health, your experience is unique and could help the community understand mental health a little bit better.

We are asking students, staff, and faculty to share a snap shot of what dealing with mental health was like for them. This can be a sketch, a painting, an anecdote about an interaction, a poem, an essay, a line of prose, a photograph, or any other type of media that you wish to use. Submissions can be authored or anonymous.

Help us bring mental health issues out of the shadows, and become part of the conversation promoting a more understanding and knowledgeable community.

When: February 15th - March 1st

Where: Jackman Law Building, Atrium

Submission Deadline: February 9th

              If you would like to contribute a submission but cannot meet the deadline, please contact us.

 

Submission Details:

Contributors who are submitting a physical piece of art, whether you would like to be anonymous or authored, can submit it to Yukimi Henry (Flavelle 210).

If you are contributing a piece of written work it can be submitted via an anonymous google form (the link for which is posted below), or to Robin via email (posted below).

All submissions will be presented in the showcase as anonymous works unless you specify that you would like your name to appear.

Questions and concerns:
Feel free to post any questions on this page, or to email Robin, Karishma, Mel, or Simran (emails posted below). Questions can also be submitted anonymously through the google form. Answers to anonymous questions will be posted to the event page for you to find them.

 

Contact Information:

Robin: rspillette@gmail.com

Mel: melodie.adamson@mail.utoronto.ca

Simran:  simran.dosanjh@mail.utoronto.ca

Karishma: karishma.prasanna@mail.utoronto.ca

Yukimi Henry: yukimi.henry@utoronto.ca ; Flavelle 210

 

Anonymous Google question/submission form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf2JJgQ_gw0F8IFrMOnR0z24fW0wqq4oEcq1EPB02YmwK7ftg/viewform?c=0&w=1

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The Reconciliation Resolution Challenge

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

First year law students and members of the Indigenous Law Students' Association Zachary Biech and Natalie Marsh prepare to commit to their Reconciliation Resolutions.
First year law students and members of the Indigenous Law Students' Association Zachary Biech and Natalie Marsh prepare to commit to their Reconciliation Resolutions.

Prof. David Schneiderman writes "Trump won’t dump investor rights – and here’s why"

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. David Schneiderman argues that, despite incoming US President Donald Trump's anti-free-trade rhetoric, his administration is likely to protect the investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) system ("Trump won’t dump investor rights – and here’s why," January 18, 2017).

Read the full commentary on the Globe and Mail website, or below.

 

Registration - LDCT workshop: Marianne Salih, J.D. 2014

Use the form below to register for the following Lawyers Doing Cool Things event:

Marianne Salih, J.D. 2014
Monday November 12, 2018, 12:30 – 2:00
Room Flv 2223 (Betty Ho Classroom)

Sandwiches and water will be provided.

Registration - LDCT workshop: Sabrina Bandali, J.D. 2011

Use the form below to register for the following Lawyers Doing Cool Things event:

Sabrina Bandali, J.D. 2011
Monday November 19, 2018, 12:30 – 2:00
Room J225 
Sandwiches and water will be provided.

Registration - LDCT workshop: Dan Holden, J.D. 2012

Use the form below to register for the following Lawyers Doing Cool Things event:

Dan Holden, J.D. 2012
Tuesday October 30, 2018, 12:30 – 1:30
Room Flv 219 (John Willis classroom)

Sandwiches and water will be provided.

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