The Global Professional LLM Program would like to congratulate Sheila Murray and Dorothy Quann who were recently recognized with a 2013 Zenith Award. 

The Zenith Awards honour women lawyers who have led their clients, firms, companies, departments, faculties, profession, colleagues and/or communities; and have been a role model for other women in the profession.  

Ready to tour: Eastern Construction's project leaders, right, and Sean Ingram, development officer, lead the first group of alumni through the former Bora Laskin Law Library demolition site.

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

From left: ADRIAN BATTISTON, Co-Chair, Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada, ANTON THUN, Co-Managing Director, MFIVE Sports Management, ALLAIN ROY, President and CEO, CMG Sports, CLIFFORD HART, Partner, Miller Thomson LLP, DAVID GOLDSTEIN, Associate, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP, G. JOSEPH FALCONERI, Partner, Falconeri Munro Tucci LLP, CHRIS TRAVASCIO, Co-Chair, Hockey Arbitration Competition of Canada

Criminal Law Sciences Club and Critical Analysis of Law Lab hosted a packed screening and panel session

“My freedom depends on the violation of another’s freedom,” Israeli filmmaker Ra’anan Alexandrowicz explains in his documentary The Law In These Parts.

The Faculty of Law is saddened to hear about the passing of Prof. Richard Simeon, 70, on October 11, 2013, one of Canada's most notable political scientists. He was cross-appointed to the Faculty for many year from the Department of Political Science. A memorial is set for later this fall.

By David Kumagai, 2L

“Where is the iPhone of law?”

That was the question Professor Gillian Hadfield asked an audience of more than 50 students and professors at this year’s David B. Goodman Lecture in Emmanuel College, Oct. 10.

Professor Kent Roach, Wilson-Prichard Chair in Law and Public Policy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, was awarded an esteemed Trudeau Foundation Fellowship today, worth $225,000, in recognition of his outstanding scholarly and pro bono contributions in constitutional, human rights and anti-terrorism issues.