Eyeglass Drive

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES 

presents 

Daniel Markovits
Yale Law School  

Meritocracy and its Discontents

Respondent:  Bruce Chapman
University of Toronto Faculty of Law

12:30 – 2:00
Friday, October 9, 2015
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park  

Daniel Markovits is Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He works in the philosophical foundations of private law, moral and political philosophy, and behavioral economics. He has written articles on contract, legal ethics, distributive justice, democratic theory, and other-regarding preferences. Professor Markovits concentrates, in each area, on the ways in which legal orderings engage the human instinct in favor of sociality to sustain cooperation even among persons who pursue conflicting interests and endorse competing moral ideals. He finds respectful relations in surprising places, for example in contracts between self-interested buyers and sellers, litigation between adversary disputants, and political competition between partisan parties. In each case, Markovits argues, seemingly competitive interactions contain, in their immanent logic, forms of reciprocal recognition and respect. After earning a B.A. in Mathematics, summa cum laude from Yale University, Markovits received a British Marshall Scholarship to study in England, where he was awarded an M.Sc. in Econometrics and Mathematical Economics from the L.S.E. and a B.Phil. and D.Phil. in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. Markovits then returned to Yale to study law and, after clerking for the Honorable Guido Calabresi, joined the faculty  

A light lunch will be served.

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

Law students and faculty are warmly invited to attend a lecture by Justice Ian Binnie, formerly of the Supreme Court of Canada.  Justice Binnie will discuss judicial activism in NF 113 from 12:30 to 2:00 pm on Monday, 261 October.  Please RSVP to associatedean.law@utoronto.ca. 

The Indigenous Law Journal

Call for Submissions

Volume 15

Deadline: October 9, 2015

The Indigenous Law Journal is dedicated to developing dialogue and scholarship in the field of Indigenous legal issues, both within Canada and internationally. We encourage submissions from all perspectives on these issues. Our central concerns are Indigenous legal systems and the interaction of other legal systems with Indigenous peoples.
We are the only legal periodical in Canada with this focus. We welcome the addition of your voice to the discussion.
Submissions must conform to the Canadian Guide to Uniform Legal Citation, 7th Edition.

For full details on the submissions process, and student awards, please see:
ilj.law.utoronto.ca

or send submissions to
submissions.ilj@utoronto.ca

Please address questions to:
Sinead Charbonneau & Autumn Johnson, Co-Editors in Chief:
indiglaw.journal@utoronto.ca

The IHRP Rights Review Magazine is on the search for talented UofT law students and other UofT students interested in international human rights issues to contribute to the publication.

All article topics must be approved by the Rights Review Editorial Board in the Fall. Please send all article topics to ihrprightsreview@gmail.com for approval by November 11, 2015. Final article submissions are due on January 11, 2016. A list of suggested topics will be available online in mid to late October. 

If you have any questions about Rights Review, please don't hestiate to contact the Editorial Board at ihrprightsreview@gmail.com. For more details on submissions, please visit http://ihrp.law.utoronto.ca/page/rights-review-magazine. 

If you are currently a law student at a Canadian university or graduated from a Canadian law school in 2015 --- then please read on:

A Queen’s University research project is looking for participants to complete a confidential online survey.

To participate, access the survey at SOGI LawStudents or copy and paste this web address into your browser:

http://queensu.fluidsurveys.com/s/SOGI-lawstudentRG/langeng/

Please complete the survey by October 17, 2015.

Please note that this survey will be handled completely separate from the version circulated in the fall of 2014. Those who wish to have their answers counted are asked to please complete the current version.

The overarching goal of this research project is to produce a comprehensive and critical analysis of how lawyers, law students, and former members of the legal profession of differing sexual orientations and gender identities fare in legal education, the legal profession, current employments, or other activities.

This survey seeks responses from all law students of any identity or orientation – all students who identify as heterosexual as well as from those who may identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or transsexual, intersex, questioning, gender fluid, or other sexual minority. Our investigation focuses on the realities of issues of acceptance and support, invisibility, disclosure, bias, and attitudes for all identities/orientations.

More details on the study are available at the start of the survey.

If you have any complaints, concerns, or questions about this research, please feel free to contact Dr. Audrey Kobayashi, Investigator, by email at kobayasi@queensu.ca , or telephone at 613-533-3035. Any ethical concerns about the study may be directed to the Chair of the General Research Ethics Board at chair.GREB@queensu.ca or 613-533-6081 at Queen’s University.

This study has been granted clearance according to the recommended principles of Canadian ethics guidelines and your university’s ethics policies.

Survey web address: http://queensu.fluidsurveys.com/s/SOGI-lawstudentRG/langeng/

The Council of Canadian Law Deans (CCLD) and Magna Carta Canada are pleased to mark the occasion of Magna Carta and the Charter of the Forest coming to Canada by organizing a national writing competition for both common and civil law students.

ELIGIBILITY:

The competition is open to every student currently enrolled in a Canadian Law School.  The essay must be the original work of the student but may also be work or part of work previously submitted by the student within a law school course.  Co-authored essays are ineligible.  Each student may submit only one essay.  Submissions in French are encouraged.

CONTENT GUIDELINES:

The essay must address “the relevance of Magna Carta in Canada in 2015”.  The subject matter may be addressed from a number of perspectives including, the legal, historical, or societal effects of Magna Carta in Canada in 2015.

Submissions must be in Microsoft Word, double-spaced, in a twelve-point font, with one-inch margins; footnotes or endnotes must be single-spaced, and also in a twelve-point font with one-inch margins.  Citations may be embedded in the text or set out in the footnotes or endnotes.  The essay must not exceed 1,500 words exclusive of headers, footnotes, and endnotes.

ENTRY PROCEDURE

Electronically submit the essay with a cover page which includes: the essay title, student name, law school and email address.  If law students, ordinarily resident in the Provinces of either Newfoundland or P.E.I. wish to also be considered for a law society prize to be awarded by that provincial law society, they must indicate that fact on their cover page and provide their address in either Newfoundland or P.E.I.

ENTRIES MUST BE SENT TO magnacartacanadaessay@gmail.com  BY 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time ON FRIDAY October 2, 2015

JUDGING

The essays will be judged anonymously for the best essay from each province with a law school and for the best essay from a law student ordinarily resident in each of Newfoundland and P.E.I.  Each of these winners will then be eligible for the prize for the best essay in Canada. 

Each essay will be judged on its creativity and clarity, organization, quality of analysis and research, grammar and form.

PRIZES AWARDED

1) The student with the best essay from each province with a law school will be awarded a prize of $1,000.00 by the provincial law society. Notwithstanding that Newfoundland and P.E.I. do not have law schools in their province, the Newfoundland and P.E.I. law societies have agreed to recognize ($1000.00) the best essay from a student attending a law school within Canada, whose primary residence is in their province. Determination of primary residence will be at the sole discretion of the Newfoundland and P.E.I. law societies. 

2) All winning essays as identified above will be eligible for recognition ($1,000.00) as the best essay in Canada by Magna Carta Canada.

Note: By submitting an entry in this contest, the entrant affirms that the entry is his or her own work and grants the CCLD, Magna Carta Canada (and any relevant law society) permission to publish the entry.

essay_competition_draft_b_w_image.doc

The Indigenous Bar Association is having a reception in support of the Who Is She campaign on Thursday, October 15.

Please see the attached flyer for full details

invitation_flyer_-_iba_reception_in_support_of_who_is_she_-_october_15th.pdf