Professor Brenda Cossman has been awarded the Ludwik and Estelle Jus Memorial Human Rights Prize by the University of Toronto for her work as Professor of Law and as Director of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies. 

This prize is awarded to an individual who has made a positive and lasting contribution in one or more of the areas of education and action against discrimination; supporting the University’s mission to realize an exemplary degree of equity and diversity; and extending our knowledge as a consequence of our diversity.   

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

After a long flight from Libya that landed in in a major Toronto snowstorm, Alaa Murabit, the 23-year-old co-founder of the grassroots Voice of Libyan Women movement, gave the keynote address at the Sexual  Violence in Libya and Syria Conference held on February 8, 2013 at the Faculty of Law.

Prof. Anver Emon recently landed a prestigious grant from the University of Toronto’s Connaught Fund.

The grant will fund the Connaught Summer Institute on Islamic Studies, August 12-22, 2013. The institute is a partnership between the Faculty of Law and Emmanuel College, and Emon is designing the program with Mark Toulouse, principal of Emmanuel College.

Prof. Anita Anand was quoted in the Globe & Mail on February 13, 2013 in “A Business Case for a Better Boardroom.” The article considered academic research on the link between better corporate governance practices and financial and shareholder results.  The article refers to Anand’s important findings: “research has found connections between board composition, ownership structure and the presence of institutional investors and ‘valuation outcomes’ for a company.

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo / Illustration by Justin Renteria

Leading constitutional and human rights players gathered at the Faculty of Law on January 29, 2013, for a stimulating discussion to mark the momentous Supreme Court of Canada decision that struck down the country’s restrictive abortion law a quarter century ago.

The full webcast of the conference Assessing the Indian Residential Schools Litigation & Settlement Processes is now available on this website. Each individual session has its own webcast. The conference features Chief Phil Fontaine, former National Chief of the Assembly of First Nations;  The Honourable Frank Iacobucci, former Supreme Court of Canada justice who led the settlement process; The Honourable Justice Murray Sinclair, Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and many others involved in this historic agreement.