False attributions of authorship, unauthorized printings, competing editions and complaints about quality were hardly unusual in early-modern printing. But these problems were virtually unheard of in relation to English legal printing after the grant of the monopoly patent in the 1550s. Nevertheless, they all appear in English legal printing from around 1630, despite the continued existence of the patent. In this paper I shall present the evidence that something changed in common-law printing around 1630 and that legal printing came to look much more like other parts of the printing trade. In doing so I hope to cast some light on changes in the nature of the law patent and in the relationship between the legal profession and legal printers.

What does winning Jeopardy! have to do with legal research? Will a computer program created at UofT replace junior associates as claimed in the Globe and Mail?  Come listen to the creators of new prototype legal research tools and a panel of experts discuss what it means to train an IBM supercomputer to answer legal questions, and what automating research means for lawyers, legal researchers, and others. Lunch will be provided.

March 31, 2015

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Falconer Hall, Room 1.

The event is planned as a 20-30 minute presentation, followed by Q&A.

Sponsored by the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy

For more information, please contact centre.ilp@utoronto.ca.

Thursday, March 5, 2015

Solarium, Falconer Hall (84 Queen's Park, Room FA2)

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy is excited to co-sponsor a special, joint Health Law and Innovation Law Workshop on Causation and Class Certification.  Please join Professor Trudo Lemmens, Professor Richard Goldberg of Durham University Law School, Angus McKinnon of Lerners, and Caroline Zayid of McCarthy Tetrault as they discuss the impact of recent case law on class action litigation.

In Charlton v. Abbott Laboratories, the British Columbia Court of Appeal required a class action plainitff to demonstrate causation (i.e. that a particular drug had caused injury to a class of plaintiffs) before the Court would certify the class and let the litigation proceed.  Our panel of experts will discuss the impacts of the certification requirement on the Charlton case and on class actions involving medicine and pharmaceuticals more generally, followed by a question and answer session.

Lunch will be provided.

For more information, please email centre.ilp@utoronto.ca.

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES

presents 

Bernadette Atuahene
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

We Want What’s Ours
Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program 

12:30 – 2:00
Friday, March 6, 2015
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

J.D. 2002, Yale Law School; M.P.A. 2002, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government; B.A. 1997 (magna cum laude), University of California, Los Angeles. 

Professor Atuahene has varied experiences in the field of law and international development. During law school, she worked as a legal consultant for the World Bank and as a human rights investigator for the Center for Economic and Social Rights, where she received Amnesty International's Patrick Stewart Human Rights Award for her work with human rights organizations throughout South America.  After law school, Professor Atuahene was in South Africa as a Fulbright Scholar. She served as a judicial clerk at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, working for Justices Madala and Ngcobo. She then practiced as an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in New York, where she focused on sovereign debt and real estate transactions.  Professor Atuahene joined the IIT Chicago-Kent faculty in 2005. She teaches Law, Policy and International Development; Property; and International Business Transactions. In 2007 she was selected to become a Faculty Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, which is a socio-legal think tank based in Chicago.  Broadly, Professor Atuahene's research deals with the confiscation and restitution of property. In 2008 she won the Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship and worked with the South African Director General of Land Affairs and his staff. She is presently writing a book about the Land Restitution Program, which is based on 150 interviews she conducted of program beneficiaries. She is also directing and producing a documentary film about one family's struggle to reclaim their land. Professor Atuahene won the Law and Public Affairs Fellowship and was a visiting assistant professor at Princeton University for the 2011-12 academic year.

A light lunch will be served. 

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

atuahene-headnotes_24feb15.pdf

The Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada ("HACC") (organized by the Sports & Entertainment Law Society) is looking for 1L & 2L's (and 3L joint degree students) interested in helping to organize the 2015 competition. The competition is an event for sports-law enthusiasts that simulates the salary arbitration process that takes place in the National Hockey League off-season. 32 teams of law students from North America are accepted into the competition and compete over two days in front of guest lawyers, player agents and NHL executives (who act as arbitrators). The HACC is a unique take on a moot competition where students are able to sharpen their oral and written advocacy skills within the specialized context of hockey arbitration. Take a look at the final hearing from the 2014 competition to gain a better understanding of what takes place:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g450_y9NNTQ

*2015 Competition Director* - (1 position available with possibility of a co-director arrangement).
--- Responsibilities of the Director include contacting law schools and registering teams for the competition, booking venue/catering, recruiting volunteers for the event, managing committee members, contacting guest lawyers, agents and NHL executives to serve as arbitrators, organizing the game-day schedule, promote the competition, acting as the public face and host
of the competition, participating in monthly meetings with the Steering Committee during the planning months, etc.
--- The director should be an extremely organized and personable individual who is comfortable with dealing with the pressures of student recruitment and/or school work & the competition.
--- Director must have a high level of professionalism given that they will be the point of contact with the various lawyers, NHL executives and agents who volunteer their time for the event.
--- Previous attendance at or involvement with the competition is considered an asset but is not a requirement.
--- An interest in sports law/labour arbitration is encouraged.

Interested candidates should email steering@thehacc.ca with a statement of interest/cover letter by March 21 2015 at 11:59 PM (Please note, the deadline has been extended from its previous date of March 1st).
This is a volunteer student leadership position. Note that the 2015 competition is designed so as to not conflict with the student recruitment process and serves as a great talking point during interviews.

If you have any specific questions regarding any of these roles, feel free to contact amir.torabi@mail.utoronto.ca.

The Aboriginal Law Program Speaker Series and Women in Law invite you to celebrate International Women's Month with Delia Opekokew, the very first Indigenous woman to become a lawyer in Ontario. An incredibly inspired and successful sole practioner, Delia will discuss her experience as the first Indigenous woman to be called to the bar in Ontario and Saskatchewan; and will share with students practical information to develop and maintian a successful practice as a sole practioner. Monday, March 16, 2015 from 12:30-2pm. 

Lunch provided. Please RSVP to Promise Holmes Skinner at promise.holmesskinner@utoronto.ca 

Career Options Beyond Private Practice - Networking Session

When:            Thursday, March 5, 12:30 – 1:30 pm

Where:           FA3

Are you thinking about alternatives to practicing law?  Come and meet lawyers who no longer practice, but use their law skills in non-practice careers. This is your chance to meet lawyers working in various sectors, to talk to them in a very informal setting about their experiences and career paths, and to expand your professional network!

Please feel free to bring your own lunch.

 Please sign up on utlawcareers.ca to confirm your participation. If you need more information, please contact ivana.kadic@utoronto.ca.
 

Applications for Volume 74 of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review are Now Open!

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review is currently accepting applications for 2015-2016 editorial and management positions. To apply for one or more of the positions listed below, please email a cover letter, résumé, and representative writing sample to utflr74@gmail.com by Thursday, March 12^th, 2014 at 5pm (preferably as a single .PDF attachment). We value your experience and encourage you to apply!

In your cover letter, please outline the position(s) for which you are applying and any relevant experience. In addition to a writing sample, current Assistant/Associate Editors are encouraged to submit a carriage form completed for Volume 73.

Please visit www.utflr.org under “Join Us” for a detailed description of each of the following positions:

We are accepting applications from students entering 3L for the following positions:

• Executive Editor
• Senior Editors
• Advertising Manager
• Business Manager
• Development Managers
• Editorial Managers
• IT and Media Manager
• Production Manager

We are accepting applications from students entering 2L for the following positions: 

• Articles Editors
• Advertising Manager
• Business Manager
• Development Managers
• Editorial Managers
• IT and Media Manager
• Production Manager

Interviews will take place from Monday, March 16^th to Wednesday, March 18^th. Those candidates selected for an interview will be emailed on Friday, March 13^th to set up interviews. 

If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best regards,

Zach Mammon and Nabila Pirani
Editors-in-Chief, Volume 74
University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review
Email: utflr74@gmail.com | Web: www.utflr.org
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You are invited to hear the experiences of a team of University of Toronto students who came first in the Toronto round of the IBM Watson Challenge in December.

Since then, the U of T team are building their product into a Canadian startup called ROSS Intelligence -- known as a digital legal research assistant -- and turning it into a commercial product with support from IBM. 

Find out more.