Building up the walls

Thursday, August 28, 2014
steel frames for walls going up at project site

Exterior and interior work is continuing during these final days of summer. The mechanical and electrical rough-ins are progressing in the former Laskin Library and the construction crew are pouring footings and foundation walls for the Jackman Law Building.

 

base of the construction pit with digger at work

 

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Law students land prestigious Vanier Canada Scholarship awards

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

Two doctoral students at the Faculty of Law have been awarded notable Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships, worth $50,000 each for three years, to further their innovative research in international criminal law and health care policy.

Prof. Larissa Katz - "It’s not ‘Who took my bike,’ but 'Who really controls the sidewalk?'"

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, Prof. Larissa Katz looks at the law behind who controls the sidewalk, after the incident in which Brookfield Properties seized bicycles locked to a pole in the public right-of-way in front of the Hudson's Bay Centre at Bloor and Yonge ("It’s not ‘Who took my bike,’ but 'Who really controls the sidewalk?'", August 19, 2014).

IHRP intern, Evan Rankin, reports from Bangkok

Friday, August 15, 2014

This summer I have had the pleasure of serving with UN Economic and Social Commision for Asia and Pacific (UN ESAP) in Bangkok. As an intern with the Social Development Division, I focus on legal barriers to effective HIV programming in Southeast and Central Asia. I have had the opportunity to engage deeply with these issues. My work has required adaptability: I arrived just in time for the climax of the protests in Bangkok and the subsequent coup and martial rule. This meant avoiding the UN compound for a few weeks and occasionally evacuating my area of the city.

Third Annual University of Toronto Patent Colloquium

The conference will feature four panels.

Keynote lunch speaker is Kathleen M. Sullivan, of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP: “Patent Law Goes to Washington: Balancing Protection and Innovation (Canadian-style) at the US Supreme Court.”

See the Centre for Innovation Law and Policy website for more information and to register.

Conference on Financial System Design: A Comparative Perspective

One of the most pressing issues for countries following the recent financial crisis is the design of their financial system: should countries have in place a macroprudential regulator? How should systemic risk be regulated? What should be the role of the central bank? Is a “twin peaks” approach optimal? This conference will examine institutional design of financial markets and the role of regulators, alone and in coordination with each other, within these markets.  Domestic and international approaches to regulation will be addressed.  Join us for the discussion!

Internationally trained lawyers celebrate their program completion

Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Participants are now one step closer to practicing law in Ontario

Thirty students in the Internationally Trained Lawyers Program celebrated their successful program completion recently with a commencement ceremony and lunch, and many now have success stories to share.

Group shot of 30 internationally trained lawyers celebrating their program completion with lunch and cake

Touring the pit: Part 1

Monday, July 28, 2014
looking eastward to construction site pit

Looking eastward to Queen's Park from the construction pit of the Jackman Law Building.

 

If you've never had a chance to visit a contruction site in full activity, now might be a good time to request a tour of the Jackman Law Building renewal project. Webcams and photos simply can't do justice to the sheer enormity of machine sizes, the sense of efficient activity occurring in each section of the site, nor the range of skill sets on display. 

View the Nexus photo spread of a recent tour as well.

looking at two foundation walls, one from originall library, second from 1980s addition

Here's a close up of the historial foundations found during demoltion, one being the original foundation of the law library (on the left) butting up next to a foundational wall of the first renovation library project in the 1980s. Below is the framing for the new Tory Hall.

looking up to steel framing of what will be Tory Hall

 

looking up to steel framing of what will be Tory Hall

 

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