GRAD PHOTOS

Attention all upcoming Graduates!!! If you are a 3L then that means you!!    

Grad Photos will be taken in the SLS Office - January 19—23, 2015

YOU MUST HAVE YOUR PHOTO TAKEN TO APPEAR IN THE GRADUATING CLASS COMPOSITE

Included in your photo session are a minimum of 10 unique online proofs and a copy of the class composite.  Optional hard copy proofs may be purchased for an additional $5.00

If you did not have photos taken in October please sign up online to book your appointment—they fill up quickly so please don’t delay! 

To do so follow these 3 easy steps:

1. visit http://lassmanstudios.com/dcs_sched/
2. enter tlw15 in the school ID to access the schedules.
3. click on January and find a time that work and BOOK IT.

Ladies, please wear a white shirt or blouse. Gentlemen, please wear a white shirt and tie.

Keep in mind that the hood colour for the Faculty of Law is an icy baby pink.

Professor Timothy Endicott, Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Oxford and a U of T alumnus, is visiting on sabbatical, and would like to talk to any interested U of T students about graduate studies in Law in Oxford, and about how a graduate degree could enhance your career prospects. 

Timothy Endicott is a Fellow in Law at Balliol College, and has been a Professor of Legal Philosophy since 2006. Professor Endicott writes on Jurisprudence and Constitutional and Administrative Law, with special interests in law and language and interpretation.  He is the author of Vagueness in Law (OUP 2000), Administrative Law (OUP 2009), "Arbitrariness,"  Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence (2014), and "Interpretation and Indeterminacy," Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies (2014)

Please join him in FA1 at 4:10 on Tuesday, 20 January.

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.

CONSTITUTIONAL ROUNDTABLE

presents 

Hugo Cyr
Université du Québec à Montréal

Autonomy, Subsidiarity and Solidarity:
The Foundations of Cooperative Federalism 

12:30 – 2:00
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Solarium (room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

What does the constitutional principle of federalism entail? Instead of a detailed set of specific rules, the principle of federalism relies on a series of principles that distinguish federations from other political forms. I propose that three such principles stand out from within our constitutional instruments and jurisprudence: autonomy, subsidiarity and federal solidarity. The combination of these three interrelated constitutional principles forms the normative structure that gives Canadian federalism its internal logic. And it is my contention that this internal logic is one of cooperative federalism. It is these principles that must guide the judiciary when it fulfills its special duty as “guardian of the Constitution”, and as such, as guardian of the principle of federalism. 

Hugo Cyr, LL.B., B.C.L. (McGill), LL.M. (Yale), LL.D. (Université de Montréal). Full Professor, Director of Graduate Studies in Law, Faculty of Political Science and Law, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), is a member of the Quebec Bar and the Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la diversité au Québec (CRIDAQ). Hugo Cyr has been a law clerk to the Honorable Justice Ian Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada, a Visiting Researcher at the European Academy of Legal Theory, a Boulton Fellow at McGill University and a Schell Fellow at the Yale Law School. Professor Cyr teaches and conducts research in constitutional law and legal theory. 

A light lunch will be provided. 

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

cyr-headnotes_08jan15.pdf

LEGAL THEORY WORKSHOP SERIES

presents 

Steven Ratner
University of Michigan Law School 

The Thin Justice of International Law:  A Moral Reckoning of the Law of Nations 

12:30 – 2:00
Friday, January 16, 2015
Solarium (room FA2) – Falconer Hall
84 Queen’s Park 

Steven R. Ratner, the Bruno Simma Collegiate Professor of Law, came to the University of Michigan Law School in 2004 from the University of Texas School of Law. His teaching and research focus on public international law and on a range of challenges facing governments and international institutions since the Cold War, including ethnic conflict, border disputes, counter-terrorism strategies, corporate and state duties regarding foreign investment, and accountability for human rights violations. Prof. Ratner has written and lectured extensively on the law of war, and is also interested in the intersection of international law and moral philosophy and other theoretical issues. A member of the board of editors of the American Journal of International Law from 1998-2008, he began his legal career as an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. State Department. In 1998-1999, he was appointed by the UN Secretary-General to a three-person group of experts to consider options for bringing the Khmer Rouge to justice, and he has since advised governments, NGOs, and international organizations on a range of international law issues. In 2008-2009, he served in the legal division of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva. Since 2009, he has served on the State Department's Advisory Committee on International Law. In 2010-2011, he was a member of the UN's three-person Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka, which advised Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on human rights violations related to the end of the Sri Lankan civil war. He established and directs the Law School's externship program in Geneva. Prof. Ratner holds a JD from Yale, an MA (diplôme) from the Institut Universitaire de Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva), and an AB from Princeton. 
 

A light lunch will be served. 

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

ratner-headnotes_08jan15.pdf

If you are interested in opportunities to try out your oral advocacy skills in 1L, this is the information session for you! The Moot Court Committee will be providing an overview of both the 1L trial advocacy program and the Cassels Brock Cup, the 1L competitive moot. This will include an outline of the timelines for both events, a description of the tryout process for the Cassels Brock Cup and a realistic assessment of how much time you'd need to devote to these activities. The MCC will also any questions you have about the process. Information sheets will be provided.

The information session will be held on Tuesday, January 13 from 12:30pm to 2pm in VC 101. If you have any questions, please email Kat Owens at kaitlin.owens@mail.utoronto.ca. 

Women & the Law's

13th Annual Evening of Professional Networking and Mentorship

Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

5:30 - 8:30

East Common Room, Hart House

One of the largest and longest running student events, this event will bring together over 100 faculty, students, alumni and firm guests for an evening of networking and mentorship in a fun, women-centric environment. Please RSVP by Tuesday, January 13th, to women.utlaw@gmail.com. Dress is business casual. 

Professor Trudo Lemmens is looking for research assistants for research on pharmaceutical governance and related policy work. Interested applicants should send a short note of interest, a copy of their transcripts, and a short writing sample to Roseanne.Richards@utoronto.ca with cc to Trudo.lemmens@utoronto.ca. A background in science, familiarity with reading health sciences literature, knowledge of IP law and having taken relevant courses can be mentioned as specific assets.

Call for Papers

Unity and Resistance
3^rd Annual University of Toronto Centre for Ethics Graduate Conference
March 6^th-7^th 2015

Keynote Speaker: Saba Mahmood (UC Berkeley)

This conference explores unity and resistance in ethics and politics. Visions and enactments of unity as well as oppositions to or rejections of unity continue to animate politics, philosophy and ethics today. What can we say about the problem (as well as the promise) of unity in the 21^st century? How is unity enacted through resistance? How do political activists, ethicists, philosophers, and citizens understand the one and the many, monism and pluralism, unity and disunity? 

The graduate associates of the University of Toronto Centre for Ethics invite paper submissions on the theme of unity and resistance that touch on one or more of our three pillars: foundations of ethics, ethics in action, and ethics in translation. We welcome submissions from all related disciplines, including philosophy, political theory, political science, law, anthropology, sociology, religious studies, psychology, education, and literature.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

· secularism and religion in the public sphere

· ethics of rebellion and resistance

· value of unity

· separatist movements

· consensus vs. agonism or dissensus

· analytic vs. holistic thought

· non-western approaches to unity and resistance

· pluralism vs. monism

· globalization and new media

· post-colonial and indigenous resistance

Deadline for submissions: January 30^th, 2015

Interested participants should send an abstract of their paper, not exceeding 500 words, to graduateassociates@gmail.com. Submissions must be in PDF format and prepared for blind review. In your email, please include your name, abstract title, and institutional affiliation. Only one submission per author.

Panels will have faculty discussants from a variety of disciplines at the University of Toronto. Keynote presentation and reception to take place March 6^th.