The Centre for Innovation Law and Policy and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law welcome

Konrad von Finckenstein

Former Chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication Commission and Justice of the Federal Court

to present the

2015 Grafstein Lecture in Communications:

"Thoughts on Redesigning Canada's Regulatory System for Communications"

Tuesday, January 27, 2015
4:00 p.m.
Victoria College, Room 101

Reception to Follow 

Abstract:  Current Canadian legislation and institutions to regulate communications all stem from the early 1990s. Since then we have seen a veritable revolution in communications technology such as cable TV, wireless phones, satellites, digitization, fibre cable, internet, social media etc. In addition we have seen unpatrolled consolidation both vertical and horizontal among communications companies. Yet our legislation and institutions have remained virtually unchanged. A rethink, new legislation, and new institutional set up are clearly required. Key principles, considerations, process and reform of institutions will be discussed.

This event is open to the public.  For more information please contact centre.ilp@utoronto.ca or go to the CILP website.

Bridget McIlveen will discuss her practice. She is an Associate in Osler’s Privacy Group, specializing in the areas of marketing and distribution, privacy and data management, retail and technology. Lunch will be provided.

Date: Tues. Feb. 3, 2015

Time: 12:30 - 2:00 pm

Location: VC 101

Professor Stephen Waddams and Justice Robert Sharpe are looking for assistance in updating their books on Injunctions and Specific Performance, Damages, Contracts, and Introduction to the Study of Law.  Please apply before February 28, by letter, including details of academic record, to Professor Waddams (paper copy, please, to the law school) and simultaneously to The Hon. Justice R. J. Sharpe, e-mail: robert.sharpe@oca-cao.ca. 

Animal Justice Canada is acccepting applications for summer student and articling student positions. For more information, please see http://www.animaljustice.ca/media-releases/animal-justice-accepting-applications-2015-summer-students-articling-students/

The Journal of Law & Equality (JLE) is a peer reviewed, student-run journal at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law. Our mandate is to promote critical and informed debate on issues of equality, with a special emphasis on the Canadian context. The JLE publishes research articles, case comments, notes, and book reviews by a diverse group of commentators from across Canada and internationally, including professors, practitioners, and students.

We a currently soliciting applications for the role of Editor-in-Chief for the 2015-2016 academic year. We usually fill the EIC role with two or three individuals that work as a team. The EICs oversee calls for submissions, senior and junior editor recruitment, paper review, and editing. This position is an incredible opportunity to work closely with academics and lawyers that are passionate about equality and influence the discourse of social justice in Canada.

To apply please submit your resume and a brief statement of interest to jle.editor@utoronto.ca by February 28th, 2015 with "EIC Application" as the subject line. Feel free to contact us with any questions about the position or application process.

The Indigenous Law Journal is now accepting applications for Senior Editorial Board members for the 2015-2016 academic year. Incoming 2L, 3L, and graduate students are welcome to apply, and may choose to get academic credit for participation with the ILJ. To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to indiglaw.journal@gmail.com with the subject line "SEB Application” by February 23, 2015. Feel free to contact us at the same address with any questions about the positions or application process.

The co-Editors-in-Chief will be hired first (see separate Headnotes announcement) and they, in turn, will hire next year's Senior Editors.

General Duties For All SEB Members Include:

• Leading two cell group meetings (one per semester)
• Meeting with the SEB to review papers passed up from the cell group level (once per semester)
• Working with authors to finalize papers 
• Taking charge of an SEB portfolio

SE portfolios may change from year to year based on the needs of the journal, and based on how the new EICs decide to structure the SEB. If you are applying for an SEB position, you may indicate which portfolio(s) you would prefer should you have a preference. You are more than welcome to apply for multiple positions.

Examples of possible SEB portfolios include:

• Associate Editor Recruitment
• Business Manager - Ensures bills are paid on time, facilitates reimbursements, organizes mail, works/communicates with our office assistant on any business-related matters. 
• Web/Communications Coordinator - Ensures the ILJ website is up-to-date, and the email accounts are checked regularly. SEs in this position may also work on updating email lists. 
• Events Coordinator – Plans the retreat and launch party.
• External Review (likely x 2) - Solicits professionals and academics to review all papers that have been passed up to the SEB.
• Rejection letter and Cell Group Coordinator – Assigns the SEs and AEs cell groups, receives submissions from the Submissions Manager, assigns the submissions that the groups will review, collects rejection letters and gives them a quick edit for content and grammar before passing the letters along to the Submissions Manager.
• Community Voices - This section of the Journal is designed to allow Indigenous people and communities to speak for themselves about the issues that touch directly on their lives. An SE who takes on this position may work throughout the year (and possibly summer) with an Indigenous community or individual that is chosen by them and the EICs to draft a submission to the journal.
• Submission and Subscription - Contacts individuals and institutions to promote the journal and increase subscription and submission numbers.
• Submissions Manager – Collects the submissions, scrubs them then sends them to the SEB member with the cell groups and rejection letters portfolio. Afterwards, he or she sends the Rejection Letters to the authors, and provides timeline and process updates to authors whose papers are passed forward, before those authors' identities are revealed to the SEB. Note, the Submissions Manager does not participate in the submission review process.

Last year, the first Ontario Law Student Mental Health Questionnaire was administered. The results of the questionnaire helped inform projects to improve the support available to law students across the province, including the support site JustBalance.ca. 

By answering these questions you can help us assess the current state of law student mental health across the province, as well as give your feedback on the support resources currently available. This two-page survey will take no more than five minutes to complete. 

Please follow the link below to fill out our anonymous questionnaire. The information collected will be aggregated and will remain anonymous. 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CVGKWWZ 

With your help we can improve the well-being of law students in Ontario. 

Sincerely, 
The Ontario Law Student Mental Health Initiative 

For updates and more, join the Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/459429870829291/ 

We are pleased to feature John Borrows (Law, University of Victoria) as our guest speaker for our next event of the 2014-2015 Harney Lecture Series in Ethnicity.

Date and Time: Thursday January 29, 2015 12-2pm

Location: Campbell Conference Facility, Munk School of Global Affairs

           1 Devonshire Place University of Toronto

This event is open to all, and will also serve as the keynote lecture for our 8th Annual Ethnic and Pluralism Studies Graduate Research Conference (January 29-30, 2015 at the Munk School of Global Affairs)

For information on this event and the Graduate Research Conference, please visit our website:

http://munkschool.utoronto.ca/ethnicstudies/

For questions contact Momo Kano Podolsky at:

ethnic.studies@utoronto.ca

ABSTRACT The practice and analysis of Indigenous peoples' law takes many forms. Indigenous law seems to work best when it simultaneously supports and challenges 'taken for granted' customs and rules. 

Indigenous law must be embrace and critique established patterns of community regulation and decision-making to work in present contexts. 

This lecture will examine these themes by focusing on the recognition and development of Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) peoples' laws in the Great Lakes watershed.

John Borrows B.A., M.A., J.D., LL.M. (Toronto), Ph.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School), LL.D. (Hons.)(Dalhousie) F.R.S.C., is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Law School. 

Formerly: Professor and Robina Chair in Law and Society at the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor; Law Foundation Chair of Aboriginal Law and Justice at the University of Victoria Law School; Professor in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto; Associate Professor and First Nations Legal Studies Director, Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia; Associate Professor and Director of the Intensive Programme in Lands, Resources and First Nations Governments at Osgoode Hall Law School. Professor Borrows has served as a Visiting Professor and Acting Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University College of Law in Phoenix, Arizona; Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales, Australia; New Zealand Law Foundation Distinguished Visitor at Waikato University in New Zealand; Visiting Professor at J. Rueben Clark Law School at BYU; Vine Deloria Distinguished Visitor at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers School of Law; LG Pathy Professor in Canadian Studies at Princeton University. He teaches in the area of Constitutional Law, Indigenous Law, and Environmental Law. His publications include, Recovering Canada; The Resurgence of Indigenous Law (Donald Smiley Award for the best book in Canadian Political Science, 2002). Canada's Indigenous Constitution (Canadian Law and Society Best Book Award 2011), Drawing Out Law: A Spirit's Guide, all from the University of Toronto Press. 

Professor Borrows is a recipient an Aboriginal Achievement Award in Law and Justice, a Fellow of the Trudeau Foundation, and a Fellow of the Academy of Arts, Humanities and Sciences of Canada (RSC), Canada's highest academic honor, and a 2012 recipient of the Indigenous Peoples Counsel (I.P.C.) from the Indigenous Bar Association, for honor and integrity in service to Indigenous communities. John is Anishinabe/Ojibway and a member of the Chippewa of the Nawash First Nation in Ontario, Canada.

Established in honour of the late Diana M. Priestly, a distinguished Canadian law librarian, and in recognition of her distinctive contribution to Law Librarianship, the Scholarship is intended to support professional development in the field and is awarded to a Canadian citizen or landed immigrant: 

• who has previous law library experience and will be enrolled in an accredited Canadian Library School during the next academic term/year; or
• who has a degree from or is currently enrolled in an accredited Canadian Library School and will be enrolled in an approved Canadian Law School during the next academic term/year; or
• who has a degree from or is currently enrolled in an approved Canadian Law School and will be enrolled in an accredited Canadian Library School during the next academic term/year; or
• who will be concurrently enrolled in an approved Canadian Law School and an accredited Canadian Library School during the next academic term/year.

One scholarship will normally be awarded each year in the amount of $2,500.00. It is non-renewable except in exceptional circumstances. The award may be withheld or cancelled for lack of suitable candidates or upon termination of schooling. The money will be disbursed to the successful candidate upon supplying proof of enrollment.

Complete applications must be received no later than February 1, 2015.

For more information, and to apply:

http://www.callacbd.ca/en/content/diana-m-priestly-memorial-scholarship

Dear Students,

Last year, the first Ontario Law Student Mental Health Questionnaire was administered. The results of the questionnaire helped inform projects to improve the support available to law students across the province, including the support site JustBalance.ca. 

By answering these questions you can help us assess the current state of law student mental health across the province, as well as give your feedback on the support resources currently available. This two-page survey will take no more than five minutes to complete. The questionnaire will close on January 26th, 2015.

Please follow the link below to fill out our anonymous questionnaire. The information collected will be aggregated and will remain anonymous.  

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CVGKWWZ 

With your help we can improve the well-being of law students in Ontario. 

Sincerely, 
The Ontario Law Student Mental Health Initiative 

For updates and more, join the Facebook group at: https://www.facebook.com/groups/459429870829291/ --

Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) is a non-profit umbrella organization that is looking for passionate volunteers to join our organizing committee. Individuals would have a chance to work among leaders in the GTA non-profit sector to create a Toronto forum targeted towards social service providers. The project is in partnership with CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario). The objective of the forum (project funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario) is to create a successful platform for public legal education around the recent changes to refugee, sponsorship, citizenship and immigration law. Skills include (but not limited to): graphic design, out-reach, people organizational skills. 

Volunteers can participate over the phone/e-mail for convenience. This is a time-sensitive opportunity, so interested individuals should follow-up immediately. 
For further details, please contact - Antu at antu@cassa.on.ca.