Three faculty members have been cited in a decision by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on whether the requirement for new citizens of Canada to swear an oath of allegiance to the Queen. In his decision, Justice Edward Morgan cited articles by Professors Lorraine Weinrib, Ayelet Shachar, and Ran Hirschl. He also cites former faculty member Sujit Choudhry.

See the full decision on CanLII.

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law ranks No. 1 again in the annual Macleans Professional Schools Rankings.

In addition, the Faculty of Law ranks No. 1 in Elite Firm Hiring, Faculty Hiring and Faculty Journal Citations.

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Denise Réaume argues that, in the name of secularism and rejection of Quebec's religiously claustrophobic past, the Parti Québécois' Charer of Values in fact re-enacts that history of insularity ("‘Dead hand of the Church’ evident in Quebec’s debate on values," September 19, 2013).

Two JD/MBA students have started a technology project to make legal referrals easier. Jonathan Bega and Parsa Pezeshki, both Class of 2014, and Hamid Tavakoli, a Dalhousie computer science graduate, have developed a web application to process lawyer-to-lawyer referrals for paying clients and pro bono files.

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo / Photos by Lucianna Ciccocioppo, Brian Nguyen and Ashvin Singh

While most of downtown Toronto was buzzing with Toronto Film Festival crowds last week, “Camelawt” descended at the Faculty of Law to greet about 200 new students, equipped with maps and mobile directions to Victoria University, our transitional space. The Game of Thrones-themed orientation week kicked off their first year of law school.