In a commentary in the National Post, Prof. Lisa Austin and other specialists in privacy and technology law write that Canadians need international agreements to protect the privacy of their data stored on servers in the United States ("Our data, our laws," December 12, 2013).

Read the full commentary on the National Post website, or below.

The Jackman Law Building and Faculty Renewal design by Hariri Pontarini Architects (HPA) and B + H Architects has landed a Canadian Architect Award of Excellence for 2013, one of six announced today in Canadian Architect magazine.

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Nikki Gershbain, National Director of Pro Bono Students Canada (PBSC), argues that law students can make a significant contribution to improving access to justice in Canada ("Law students can help solve Canada’s access-to-justice crisis," December 9, 2014).

By Carol Liao, SJD candidate

How do we integrate environmental concerns into the decision-making of companies? This question brought together a league of world-class scholars from across the globe, culminating into a final conference of the Sustainable Companies Project on December 5-6 in Oslo, Norway.

On set: Jeopardy host Alex Trebek, left, with Faculty of Law Professor Anthony Niblett.

UPDATED Jan. 6, 2014: Prof. Niblett won $19,601 on Christmas Day and finished in second place on Boxing Day, with a $2,000 win. Questions that stumped him? "Too many to list, I'm afraid," he said.

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

“I’ll take really cool academics for $500.”

Fundraising campaign will boost access to the Ontario family courts and make up a $400,000 shortfall

In a commentary in the Financial Post, Prof. Jeffrey MacIntosh argues that much-maligned high-frequency traders in fact benefit the market ("In praise of high frequency traders," November 20, 2013).

Prof. MacIntosh is also the author of a recently released report by the C.D. Howe institute, "High Frequency Traders: Angels or Devils?" on the subject.

Updated April 2, 2014

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

Seven students* who participated in the Faculty of Law’s first free Law School Admission Test (LSAT) preparatory program for qualified, low-income students—the first one in Canada—have been accepted to law schools, two of them at the University of Toronto in September. [To date, 14 students in total have received admissions to law schools across Canada.]