The Faculty of Law congratulates the following SJD and LLM students on their successful grant applications this year:

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, Prof. Kent Roach and Carmen Cheung, former acting Director of the International Human Rights Program, analyze the dangers inherent in the United Nations Security Council's recent anti-terrorism resolution ("UN wants to battle Islamic State, but is it fighting freedom?," October 2, 2014).

Read the commentary on The Globe and Mail website, or below.

An article written by alumnus Eric Monkman, JD/MA 2013, in the last issue of the Law Review was recently cited by the Quebec Superior Court.

A New Approach to the Consideration of Collateral Consequences in Criminal Sentencing, (2014) 72 U.T. Fac. L. Rev. 38) was published in Vol. 72:2. Alumna Adrienne Ho, JD 2014, and 3L Ljiljana Stanić were the editors-in-chief. Prof. Simon Stern was the faculty advisor.

Profs. Michael Trebilcock and Edward Iacobucci, with lawyer Lawson Hunter, have written a commentary in the Financial Post arguing against the CRTC's proposal to require TV providers to provide "pick and pay" channel selection options for consumers ("CRTC’s mandatory pick-and-pay proposal deeply misguided," September 25, 2014). The article is based on a report prepared by the authors for the C.D.

By Peter Boisseau

The wave of protests called the “Arab Spring” were as much about bread as freedom, says Melbourne Law School Professor Anne Orford, and brought into sharp focus a “dark side” of free trade principles lawyers helped create two centuries ago and now could help solve.

Prof. Markus Dubber is the recipient of the prominent 2014 Konrad Adenauer Research Award from the Royal Society of Canada in recognition of his efforts to promote academic collaboration between Canada and Germany. The award is given annually to a Canadian scholar in the humanities or social sciences, and is named by a jury of his peers, Royal Society of Canada Fellows, and representatives from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.

Alumna and former dean of the Faculty of Law, Mayo Moran, SJD 1999, was installed as the 15^th provost and vice-chancellor of Trinity College, in the University of Toronto, at its 2014 Matriculation Convocation ceremony September 3^rd.

The annual event welcomes new students to Trinity College and this year included Dr. Moran’s formal installation.

Faculty of Law alumnus and gold medal graduate Bill Graham, LLB 1964, is the current Trinity College chancellor and also participated in the ceremony.

By Promise Holmes Skinner, AYSP Coordinator and Aboriginal Law Program Coordinator

They came from all over Canada, some from the far North and some from remote communities, to learn about the law. This year, the Aboriginal Youth Summer Program drew 23 First Nations, Inuit and Métis high school students eager to meet one another in a big city and immerse themselves in law and legal issues affecting their communities.