The Faculty of Law’s Prof. Anita Anand has received one of eight Law Foundation of Ontario grants, through its national Access to Justice Fund (ATJF), to fund an investor rights projects—the first of its kind in Canada focusing “on the need for additional or alternative regulation in the area of investor remedies.”

Prof. Anita Anand has initiated a new blog, the Canadian Business Law Blog, with the support of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Daniel Del Gobbo, a student in the SJD. program, is the winner of the 2016 Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Viscount Bennett Fellowship. His study area “falls at the intersections of alternative dispute resolution and feminist legal theory.”

First international conference hosted in the new Jackman Law Building: attendees of the joint International Journal of Clinical Legal Education (IJCLE) and Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education (ACCLE) conference in the Osler Hoskin and Harcourt LLP Atrium.

By Geneviève Ryan, Summer Research Assistant at the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights / Photos by Ejona Xega

In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Prof. Anita Anand analyzes a takeover bid case being heard simultaneously by the Ontario Securities Commission and British Columbia Securities Commission ("One case, two commissions, several novel securities issues," July 22, 2016).

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

The Faculty of Law is saddened to hear of the passing of alumnus Martin Teplitsky, LLB 1964, on July 14, 2016. A native of Toronto, he was a law professor, a senior and founding partner of boutique litigation firm Teplitsky, Colson LLP and one of Canada’s most respected mediators-arbitrators. He was also a prolific writer and authored numerous journal articles on access to justice, tort law, arbitration and mediation.

Photos by Salathiel Wesser

It was a small event to say a big and heartfelt ‘Thank you!’ to the distinguished alumnus who helped to make the new law building a reality: the Hon. Henry (Hal) N. R. Jackman, Class of 1956.