The new issue (64:4) of the University of Toronto Law Journal (UTLJ) is a special issue devoted to the residential school litigation and settlement, co-edited by Profs. Mayo Moran and Kent Roach. As well as their introduction, each of them contributes an article, along with articles by other distinguished scholars including frequent visitor to the U of T law school, Prof. John Borrows.

See the issue web page on the University of Toronto Press website.

Prof. Ayelet Shachar, professor of law and political science, and Canada Research Chair in Citizenship and Multiculturalism, and Prof. Ran Hirschl, professor of political science and law, and Canada Research Chair in Constitutionalism, Democracy and Development, have been elected Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada.

Prof. Anita Anand has been appointed a Fellow-in-Residence by the C. D. Howe Institute, an independent, not-for-profit research centre for Canadian economic and public policy.

William Robson, president and CEO of the C. D. Howe Institute, made the announcement today.

Law students are back and have hit the books but this year about 200 1Ls have already completed their first credit, thanks to the new Legal Methods Intensive course that took place the last two weeks of August.

“Legal Methods was an excellent introduction to academic expectations, and to legal thinking and concepts, and gave me some insight into the time management skills law school will require,” says Judith Manger.

The Faculty of Law’s Downtown Legal Services clinic will be able to expand its family law assistance for low-income Ontarians, thanks to a funding increase from Legal Aid Ontario (LAO).

LAO is providing more than $2 million over three years to six university-operated legal clinics.

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

Alissa Saieva, Class of 2017, brought a trifecta of firsts to the Faculty of Law when she started here on August 18th: She’s the first in her family to attend law school, the first Law in Action Within Schools (LAWS) graduate to attend U of T Law, and indeed the first LAWS grad be accepted into any law school.