The Faculty of Law’s Prof. Michael Trebilcock has received a JJ Berry Smith Doctoral Supervision Award today, in recognition of “outstanding performance in the multiple roles associated with doctoral supervision.”

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

JD/MSW student Persia Etemadi

University Professor Michael Trebilcock, Chair in Law and Economics at the Faculty of Law, is the Donner Prize winner for the best public policy book written by a Canadian, Dealing with Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions (Oxford University Press).

Law students from the Class of 2017 hang out during orientation week last fall.

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law was once again ranked the No. 1 law school in Canada, according to the 2015 QS World University Rankings by Subject released today.

The QS rankings are considered among some of the most prominent global rankings, and uses academic and employer reputational data and research citations in its computations.

Prof. Anita Anand is one of four independent experts named to an Ontario panel to review the regulations relating to financial advisers and planners, provincial finance minister Charles Sousa announced April 27^th.

This oped by law scholar Prof. Audrey Macklin commenting on Canadian Omar Khadr's release on bail pending his appeal appeared in the print and online versions of the Globe and Mail today. Read the full commentary online here, or below.

Respect the weight of 800 years of law in Khadr bail

By Audrey Macklin, Professor & Chair in Human Rights Law

Prof. Ran Hirschl's latest book, Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Studies (Oxford University Press), has won the prestigious American Political Science Association C. Herman Pritchett Award for the Best Book on Law & Courts for 2015.