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.

Navigating Conflict in the Workplace

Thursday January 12th
12:30 – 2:00
Presenter: Delee Fromm

Difficult conversations and other forms of conflict in the workplace can make most of us feel uncomfortable. But no matter how hard we try to avoid it, differences of opinion will come up in every work environment. By attending this 90 minute workshop, you will have a better understanding of the different ways people deal with conflict, a plan for how you will navigate conflict in a professional and constructive manner, and a clear understanding of why effective conflict management is a key leadership skill.

To register, click here.

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   . 

“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.

Five new alumni speakers are scheduled to host lunches in January and February (at least eight more speakers will be announced soon):

Jeremy Millard - Uber Canada

Khalid Janmohamed - HIV/AIDS Legal Clinic Ontario 

Moira Gracey - Carranza Law LLP 

Bindu Cudjoe - BMO 

Sana Halwani - Gilbert's LLP 

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

Join us for the fourth session of the LGBTQ+ Workshop. In this workshop, JD Candidate Elliot Fonarev will present his paper "Perspectives on the Gender Marker Debate: Reforming Sex Designation Policy in Canada".

The training session for the 2017 BLG Client Consultation Competition will be taking place on Monday January 9, 2017 from 12:45-2pm. Room TBA. If you are registered or on the wait list, please keep an eye out for an email confirming the room number. 

Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

Author Meets Critics

The Death and Life of the Urban Commonwealth

Margaret (Peggy) Kohn
Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto

Introduction:
Mayo Moran
Professor of Law, University of Toronto &
Provost and Vice-Chancellor of Trinity College, University of Toronto

Panel:
Theresa Enright, Political Science, University of Toronto
Roger Keil, Environmental Studies, York University
Mark Kingwell, Philosophy, University of Toronto
Mariana Valverde, Criminology, University of Toronto

Tuesday, January 17, 2017
4:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

The city is a paradoxical space, in theory belonging to everyone, in practice inaccessible to people who cannot afford the high price of urban real estate. Within these urban spaces are public and social goods including roads, policing, transit, public education, and culture, all of which have been created through multiple hands and generations, but that are effectively only for the use of those able to acquire private property. Why should this be the case?

In the wake of the recent US election, Rachel Barney, a professor of classics and philosophy at the University of Toronto, turned her mind to the question of how a teacher and scholar could operate with a clear conscience under an authoritarian regime. The result was a professional ethics checklist that has attracted widespread attention, ranging from “I will not aid in the registering, rounding up or internment of students and colleagues on the basis of their religious beliefs” (at No. 1) to “I will be fair and unbiased in the classroom, in grading and in all my dealings with all my students, including those who disagree with me politically” (at No. 10).

Join an interdisciplinary panel at the Centre for Ethics to discuss Professor Barney’s checklist in the context of questions such as:

• What ethical norms should guide the behaviour of teachers not only at universities but also elsewhere in the face of an authoritarian, but democratically elected, government? What might give rise to these norms?
• What conception of the teacher’s role do they reflect? Does it relate to the idea of teaching as a profession? As a calling? As a societal, or social, function or role? Do similar ethical norms apply to other professions (law, medicine, “science”)?
• Do the same, or different, ethical norms apply to teachers, on one hand, and scholars (researchers, scientists), on the other? Do these norms differ from those governing the behaviour of “ordinary” people, citizens, employers, parents? What role does the claim to scientific expertise, objectivity, or neutrality, play in the notion of “professional ethics” or “scientific ethics”?
• What distinguishes these “ethical” norms from “political” (or religious) beliefs?
• How might a broader historical and comparative perspective illuminate consideration of professional ethics in the Era of Trump?

Panelists

• Rachel Barney, Canada Research Chair in Ancient Philosophy, Departments of Classics & Philosophy, University of Toronto
• Lauren Bialystok, Assistant Professor, Department of Social Justice Education, University of Toronto
• Simon Stern, Associate Professor of Law and English & Co-Director, Centre for Innovation Law & Policy, University of Toronto

Free and Open to the Public!
 

Tue, Jan 10, 2017
04:15 PM - 06:00 PM
Room 200, Larkin Building
15 Devonshire Place

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