Campus status information due to inclement weather

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

For up-to-date information on university closures and campus status due to inclement weather conditions, please view the University of Toronto Weather Information page.

Prof. Audrey Macklin - "How Canada keeps some immigrant women in their place"

Monday, March 10, 2014

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Audrey Macklin and immigration  lawyer Lorne Waldman analyze the ways in which Canada's immigration laws exacerbate the vulnerability of immigrant women ("How Canada keeps some immigrant women in their place," March 7, 2014).

Read the commentary on the Toronto Star website, or below.

Grafstein Lecture: Crowdsourcing industries spawn global pool of digital workers with no labour rights

Monday, March 10, 2014
black and white image of turn of the century mother working at home menial labour

By David Kumagai, 2L

“Crowdsourcing industries are wiping away over 100 years of labour struggles overnight,” Professor Trebor Scholz told his audience during the 2014 Grafstein Lecture in Communications.

Public Forum: Democracy At Stake? Debating the Fair Elections Act

How would the proposed Fair Elections Act affect your right to vote? What are the benefits of the Act? What are its drawbacks? How would the Act change elections? How would it affect the state of Canadian democracy in the future? Come and hear a panel of six experts debate these important issues.

Women on boards increase profitability: diversity panel makes business case

Wednesday, March 5, 2014
silhouettes of diverse headshots

By David Kumagai, 2L

What should Canada do about the lack of women serving on corporate boards?

A panel of experts gathered at Victoria College on March 3 to debate this question. “Diversity on Canadian Corporate Boards” was the topic for the first event of a five-part speaker series called All Aboard, presented by the University of Toronto Faculty of Law’s Global Professional LLM program.

Gatsby on trial draws laughs and law community to support educational charity

Monday, March 3, 2014

By David Kumagai, 2L

mock trial set up with Professor Niblett on the standThe 12-person jury stood huddled together in the lobby of Innis College. Jay Gatsby’s fate was in their hands.

Was he or wasn’t he behind the wheel of the car that killed Myrtle Wilson? One of the many things the jury needed to consider was the explosive testimony they had just heard from Gatsby himself.

SJD student in Globe & Mail video on changing legal system for transgender people

Monday, March 3, 2014

"What can Canada's legal system do to respect transgender people?"

Trudeau scholar, lawyer and SJD student Kyle Kirkup answers this question in a two-minute video for the Globe and Mail. Kirkup is researching policing in the LGBTQ communities, and comments on the recent case of the transgender comedian who was detained at Pearson International Airport, sent to a jail for men and kept in solitary confinement, despite her self-identification as female.

First crane comes and goes

Monday, March 3, 2014
Crane removing the rooftop heating unit from library rooftop.

Weekend activity included the arrival of a crane to remove the rooftop heating unit on Saturday from the Bora Laskin library building to facilitate the new roofing system and exterior demolition. It will be relocated, and rest assured, Flavelle House offices will remain warm during this Winter. That. Never. Ends.

Exterior demolition set to begin

Friday, February 28, 2014

Exterior demolition is set to begin. After the removal of select trees, deemed unhealthy or non-native by the arborist, the project will ramp up for significant tear-down.

Eastern Construction’s project manager Dean Walker says roadways into the site will be constructed, and the rooftop unit on the Bora Laskin library building will be relocated with the help of a crane from Queen’s Park.

By mid-March, full-scale demolition will commence with the exterior tear down of the Moot Court, and a clearing from east to west of the building. Shears on a large excavator will speed up the work.

New landscape plan

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