Dear students

I am very pleased to announce the launch of “Lawyers Doing Cool Things With Their Law Degrees”, a new series of conversations with alumni about their interesting 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 are 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 board rooms. The law school will supply the coffee, tea and cookies (afternoon sessions) and sandwiches (lunch sessions). Alumni speakers will be announced via Headnotes and sign up will be on a first-come-first-served basis.

We are kicking off the program with four amazing alumni who will each host sessions on different dates in November. Check out their bios and register here https://www.law.utoronto.ca/academic-programs/jd-program/lawyers-doing-cool-things. Space is limited to 20 students per session.

Best

Alexis

Alexis Archbold L.L.B
Assistant Dean, J.D. Program

Mayor Brian Bowman will deliver the Goodman Lecture, on Appropriate Responses to the Final Report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Thursday, November 24th at 4:10 PM in Room P120..

Since becoming Mayor, Bowman has passionately worked towards fixing Winnipeg’s racism problem – changing the city’s label by Maclean’s magazine as “most racist city in Canada” to “a leader in fixing Canada’s racism problem” in the span of one year. Mayor Bowman himself is Métis, and is the nation’s first Aboriginal mayor.

Please join us in Jackman Law Building, Rosalie Silberman Abella Moot Court Room on the afternoon of Thursday, November 24th at 4:10 PM.

Join Litigation Association on Tuesday, November 22 for our Bay Street Panel! We have four amazing panelists from McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Torys LLP, Bennett Jones LLP, and Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP, who will be coming in to talk about their careers in litigation and what it was like getting their JD at UofT. Our panelists have a broad range of litigation practice, including commercial, intellectual property, civil, and class actions. You’ll get a chance to ask our panelists your own questions about being a litigator on Bay Street and what worked for them when they were in your shoes.

Lunch will be provided! 

The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights is currently accepting student submissions for our upcoming newsletter!
If you have an interesting piece on a contemporary constitutional law issue and would like to share your views on it, feel free to submit it to david.mba@mail.utoronto.ca for our consideration.
Some of our past articles have dealt with diverse and interesting topics such as Aboriginal rights cases, commentary on recent laws and cases, interviews with visiting professors, and Charter issues.
Feel free to message us for more details and be sure to check out our website for some of our past newsletter issues. http://www.aspercentre.ca/resources/newsletters.htm

The CDO has set aside some blocks of time to notarize student documents pertaining to the 2017/2018 Lawyer Licensing applications (please see the attached document for further details). Kindly diarize the following dates and times:

Monday, November 21^st - Thursday, November 24^th

• 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

 Monday, November 28^th - Wednesday, November 30^th

• 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

 Thursday, December 1^st   

• 12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

 If you would like your application commissioned or notarized by one of our Career Counsellors, please bring the following:

• Your completed lawyer licensing application form
• 1 original proof of legal name document as outlined below by The Law Society of Upper Canada:

• If you are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada, passports, Baptismal Certificates, Registrations of Birth, Drivers Licenses and Certificates of Indian Status cards are NOT proof of your full legal name. If you are a Canadian citizen or permanent resident of Canada, you must submit ONE of the items listed below from a) to e) below as your proof of legal name. You are to ensure the document is duly commissioned or notarized before you submit it to the Law Society.
• Please note you are required to submit notarized/commissioned copies of both sides of your legal name document.

a)      Canadian Birth Certificate

b)      Canadian Citizenship Identification
Wallet-sized Canadian Citizenship ID card or the citizenship certificate issued after February 1, 2012. Both sides of the ID card are required as your name of common usage on the photo side is not acceptable. Those who obtained Canadian Citizenship prior to February 15, 1977 must submit a certified copy of the document issued at the time by Citizenship Canada.

c)       Canadian Immigration Record
Permanent Resident Card from the government of Canada or an IMM 1000, IMM 5292 or IMM 5688 Form.

d)      Canadian Certificate of Birth Abroad

e)      Statement of Birth or Statement of Live Birth

f)       Official Canadian Name Change Certificate
Applicants must also submit one of a), b), c), d) or f).

g)      Marriage Certificate
Need only be submitted by those applicants adopting a spousal surname. Applicants must also submit one of a), b), c), d) or f).

• 1 photocopy of your proof of legal name document
• 1 original piece of photo I.D. such as a driver's license or passport

For more information about completing the lawyer licensing process application, including deadlines and necessary documents, please go to http://www.lsuc.on.ca/licensingprocess.aspx?id=2147495567&langtype=1033

To expedite the process, kindly complete the address and date portion at the end of the commissioner's form. Our address is

Jackman Law Building

Student Services Hub, 3^rd Floor

78 Queen’s Park

Toronto, ON    M5S 2C5

Please do not sign the commissioner's form (at the end of your application) until you are in front of either Jordana or Kim having your documents notarized.

Finally, please note that your passport photos do NOT need to be the size of the box on the LSUC’s application form unless otherwise indicated.  The box is much smaller than a standard sized passport photo.

Sincerely,

Your CDO Team

lawyer_licensing_applicatinos_for_2017-18_lsuc.pdf

Extended Library Hours: Begin on Monday, November 21 and continue to Sunday, 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

***All Night Law Library Opening on the Eve of the Deadline for Written Work***: The Law Library will remain open all night on Sunday, December 18, so that students have access to library resources, computers and printers ahead of the deadline for written work on Monday, December 19 at 10 am. Librarians will be available on Sunday Dec 18 from 4:00 pm until midnight and from 6:00 am on the Monday 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 Monday, December 19 and Tuesday, December 20. The Library will be closed from December 21 until January 1, 2017 reopening on Monday January 2^nd at 8:45 am..

Library Security: It is important to remember that the law school building, including the Library are 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 librarians are available to advise you on research strategy, databases and citation style. Please feel free to contact Susan Barker, Sooin Kim, or  Alexia Loumankis

Study Rooms: The Law Library has 11 bookable group study rooms. Details are here: http://library.law.utoronto.ca/book-study-room.  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: http://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/

 Registration for this Event is via Eventbrite

The Margaret MacMillan Lecture in International Relations

Prof. Philippe Sands
East West Street:
Personal Stories about Life and Law

Introduction and Q&A Moderated by
Trinity College Chancellor
The Hon. William C. Graham

Tuesday, November 22, 2016 | 5:00 pm
George Ignatieff Theatre (GIT)

Philippe Sands QC is Professor of Law at University College London and a practising barrister at Matrix Chambers. He appears before many international courts and tribunals, including the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice, and sits as an arbitrator in cases on international law and sports law. 

He is the author of numerous academic books on international law, as well as Lawless World (2005) and Torture Team (2008). He contributes to the New York Review of Books, Vanity Fair, the Financial Times and The Guardian.

His new book East West Street: On the Origins of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide (Alfred Knopf/Weidenfeld & Nicolson) has been longlisted for the Cundil Prize and the Baillie Gifford Prize. It is accompanied by a shorter work (City of Lions, Pushkin Press), a BBC Storyville film (My Nazi Legacy), and a performance piece with music (A Song of Good and Evil).

He is a vice president of the Hay Festival and a member of the board of English PEN and of the Tricycle Theatre.