Dear Students,

I am writing to encourage you to join the Health and Wellness Student Advisory Committee. The committee is chaired by Yukimi Henry, Manager, Academic/Personal Counselling and Wellness and Sara-Marni Hubbard, Student Programs Coordinator.  

The committee is designed to ensure that the law school’s ongoing work in this area is deeply informed by student views and values.

Student committee members develop valuable skills, learn about important issues facing the law school, and engage with other students, staff and faculty to help shape the law school’s priorities. The time commitment is approximately two hours per month.

First Meeting: Monday Sept 26^th, 12:30-1:30 in J225. Lunch will be provided. If you have any dietary restrictions, please email sara.hubbard@utoronto.ca

The committee’s mandate is to provide feedback to the administration about student wellness issues, and develop a range of strategies to promote wellness at the law school.  

Please RSVP for the first meeting here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/health-and-wellness-student-advisory-committee-first-meeting-tickets-27712969237

Cheers,
Sara-Marni

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES 

presents 

David Luban
Georgetown University Law Center

Arendt at Jerusalem

Commentator:
Professor Vincent Chiao
Faculty of Law University of Toronto

Friday, September 30, 2016
12:30 – 2:00
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park

This is the first chapter of a book in progress, titled Arendt After Jerusalem: The Moral and Legal Philosophy. In the decade before the Eichmann trial, Hannah Arendt showed little interest in moral philosophy or legal theory; in the decade after, the nature of moral judgment became her central preoccupation. The trial confronted her with the unsettling phenomenon of an ordinary man who seemed incapable of telling right from wrong - the phenomenon she called "banality of evil". Her diagnosis of Eichmann was always controversial, and recent historians think she got him thoroughly wrong. This chapter sets out the phenomena that led Arendt to her diagnosis, and the questions about judgment it raises; it also responds to the historians' critique. My book as a whole will focus on the nature of moral judgment, the problems cases like Eichmann's pose for law, and Arendt's ideas about international criminal law.

A light lunch will be served.

To be added to the paper distribution list, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.  For further information, please contact Professor Larissa Katz (larissa.katz@utoronto.ca) and Professor Sophia Moreau (sr.moreau@utoronto.ca).

We are looking for students from all years to join our executive. If you are interested in getting involved as an executive member, please fill out the following Google Form by Friday, September 23 (https://goo.gl/forms/oq8sPZ1tCrTEIJNw2). Executive members play an important role in organizing the events mentioned above, but the commitment is very flexible and manageable.

The Faculty of Law's annual sketch comedy show is starting up again! We need the school's funniest to pitch their ideas for sketches/songs/videos, and to help us decide what ideas to develop. If you are at all talented, or if judging other people makes you feel good, be sure to attend. 1L's welcome! No experience required.

Time: Wednesday September 28, 12:30-2

Location: J140

Dear Faculty,


The Journal of Law and Equality is currently accepting submissions for it's Spring 2017 publication. It would be appreciated if you would consider forwarding the following Call for Submissions to any academic listservs in line with the journal's mandate to which you belong. Please feel free to email us if you have any questions or if you have any suggestions about other useful people to contact. We greatly appreciate your assistance. 

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 the Fall 2016 for publication in Spring 2017 is September 30, 2016. 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 
     

The Indigenous Law Journal ~
Volume 16 ~
Associate Editor Recruitment

The ILJ covers issues of social justice, international law, restorative justice, Aboriginal sovereignty & self-governance, reconciliation, ground-breaking Canadian law, legal issues in Australia & New Zealand and more!!!

 As an Associate Editor, you will:

• Read ~4 papers in first semester, and review one paper more closely.
• Meet in an engaging and collaborative Cell Group to discuss the papers, and come to a consensus on which papers will be passed up to the Senior Editorial Board (cell groups meet between October 15 and October 23).
• Write a rejection letter summarizing the strengths and areas for improvement for one paper.
• Work with your Cell Group in second semester to provide in-depth feedback to select authors.

Prior knowledge of Indigenous legal issues is NOT required - all you need is an interest in learning more about the subject! 

Hear more about the ILJ at the clubs fair on Tuesday, September 13^th. 

To join, attend the Associate Editor Training Session:
1 FREE LUNCH - week of September 26^th - (room/date TBA).

Please also sign up here (link) for more information. If you are unable to attend training, let us know.

More info available on our website: http://ilj.law.utoronto.ca
or email Jesse Waslowski (j.waslowski@mail.utoronto.ca) or Sinead Charbonneau (sinead.dearman@mail.utoronto.ca)

Recruitment Poster

The Journal of Law and Equality is now recruiting Associate Editors! If you would like to be an Associate Editor please send a brief (250 word max) statement of interest to editors.jle@gmail.com before September 30.

The JLE aims to promote critical and informed debate on issues of equality and social justice, with a special emphasis on the Canadian context.The role of the Associate Editor is to read papers and come together in a cell group to discuss these papers.

Who should regulate transnational corruption? Between Impunity and Imperialism

Wednesday, September 28, 2016, 5:00-7:00 PM

Board Room, 315 Bloor Street West

Munk School of Global Affairs

Registration: http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/21311/

Speaker: Kevin E. Davis, Vice Dean and Beller Family Professor of Business Law at New York University School of Law

Description:

Regulation of foreign corrupt practices, including both bribery and money laundering, has emerged as one of the most prominent forms of regulation for multinational enterprises, rivaling competition law. Recent enforcement actions have stretched the limits of traditional legal principles, which allocate regulatory authority based primarily on territoriality and nationality. The new approach amounts to a form of quasi-universal jurisdiction. This approach is typically defended as a way to end impunity for corrupt officials and their accomplices, as well as to protect the human rights of inhabitants of countries burdened with corrupt governments. This lecture will critically examine the new approach, in terms of both effectiveness and legitimacy, and show that the range of situations in which expansive assertions of regulatory authority can be justified is more limited than is commonly understood.

Kevin E. Davis is Vice Dean and Beller Family Professor of Business Law at New York University School of Law. He holds a B.A. in Economics from McGill University, an LL.B. from the University of Toronto, and an LL.M. from Columbia University.  Before entering academia he served as Law Clerk to Justice John Sopinka of the Supreme Court of Canada and was an associate in the Toronto office of Torys, a Canadian law firm. From 1996-2004 he was an assistant and then an associate professor at the University of Toronto. He also has held visiting positions at the University of Southern California, Cambridge University’s Clare Hall, the University of the West Indies (Cave Hill), and the University of Toronto.  His research focuses on contract law, quantitative measures of the performance of legal institutions and anti-corruption law.

Posted on behalf of the RebLaw 2017 Directors at Yale Law School:

Interested in social change? Community-based lawyering? Progressive causes?

Submit a session proposal for the Rebellious Lawyering Conference (RebLaw), the largest student-run public interest law conference in the U.S.! The conference, grounded in the spirit of Gerald Lopez's Rebellious Lawyering, seeks to build a community of law students, practitioners, and activists committed to making progressive social change through the law and building a more just, equitable, and democratic society.

RebLaw 2017 is being held at Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut on February 17-18. We're looking for law students to organize panels, workshops, trainings, film screenings, discussions, and other sessions that will inform, inspire, and build community.

This year, we are adding an international focus to the conference, having invited Prof. Pamela Palmater from Canada as a keynote speaker. We are therefore excited to receive panel proposals from University of Toronto students!

If you've got a session idea, please fill out the short RebLaw 2017 Session Proposal Form (http://tinyurl.com/gwtqeuo) by midnight ET on October 11. The form is simple - all we want is a sense of what kind of session you're interested in doing, and then we'll work with you to develop your idea.

Check out our website (http://reblaw.yale.edu) for information and video from last year's conference, as well as our Facebook and Twitter (@RebLawCon) pages. You can also reach us by email at reblaw@yale.edu with any question.

Please forward widely.

Sincerely,

RebLaw 2017 Directors
Arash Ghiassi
D’Laney Gielow
Wally Hilke
Noah Kolbi-Molinas
Steve Lance
Joanne Lee
Nancy Yun Tang

McCarthy Tétrault would like to get the word out about the launch of a new blog Vestra Vox, a blog for law students, written by law students.

The blog is intended to be a national platform for law students across Canada to write articles on a variety of legal topics. Currently, there are limited opportunities, beyond faculty newspapers and law journals, for Canadian law students to share their perspectives, insights and analyses on legal matters such as recent cases, legal principles, and contemporary legal issues. Vestra Vox aims to fill that gap and provide a space for law students to publish their views to a wider audience. While the blog originates from our Firm, it will be an arms-length online publication that will provide access and opportunities to students that may not be affiliated with the Firm.

We are looking for students who would like to contribute their written work to the blog. The article-submission guideline is simple – no more than 750 words and submitted as a Word document. As mentioned previously, we are looking for legal-centric articles.

Examples of posts may include:

• updates about legal news;
• condensed versions of university term papers;
• synopses or explanations of legal principles;
• analyses of recent cases;
• discussions of contemporary legal issues; and
• insight and commentary from the law student perspective.

Submitted articles will be reviewed and selected by the blog’s editorial board, which consists of lawyers currently at McCarthy Tétrault. They will review for accuracy, grammar and brevity.

Interested students can submit articles (750-word maximum and saved as a Word document (.doc or .docx) and any inquiries regarding the blog to vestravox@mccarthy.ca. Our goal is to post selected student submissions in a timely manner. As a result, we will only be able to respond to students whose work we have selected for posting.