On the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the invasion of Iraq by American and British forces, Bill Graham '64, Canada's foreign minister at the time, and his son Patrick, then working as a reporter in Baghdad, reflect on their experiences of politics and international law in the run-up to the war, in the pages of The Globe and Mail ("The reporter, his foreign-minister father and the war that consumed them," March 16, 2013).

HIgh school students participate in a mock trial as part of the 2013 Justice Conference for Aboriginal Youth

By Lisa Del Col

JD student Adam Shedletzky, a co-founder of Leadnow.ca, has written a commentary in The Globe and Mail addressing objections to the idea of co-operation between the NDP, Liberal and Green parties in the next federal election ("Liberals have every reason to co-operate with NDP and Greens in the next election," March 26, 2013).

By Lucas Collecchia, LLM 2013

Joshua Gans stands at the front of the lecture room chatting with a colleague. The word “Shared” from the title of his talk appears behind him on the screen, stylized as a clickable button. On first impression, you might assume that Professor Gans’ interests lay in the field of communications or computer science. But the author of “Information Wants to be Shared” is an economist by training.

The webcast of the Access to Justice Town Hall on Nov. 21, 2012 is now available.

The town hall discussed the latest developments in Ontario on access to justice, particularly for middle income citizens. The event celebrated the launch of Middle Income Access to Justice from UofT Press, and follow up on the Faculty's international colloquium on this issue. It featured leading figures from the Ontario legal community in a discussion moderated by Ellen Roseman of the Toronto Star.

For the second year running, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is offering a free LSAT and law school prep course for high potential undergrads with limited financial resources. This initiative is one of several the Faculty is undertaking to proactively identify and reduce barriers to applying to law school.

In a guest editorial in the magazine Xtra!, Prof. Brenda Cossman comments on Canada's child pornography law, an issue recently brought to the fore by the controversy around comments by Tom Flanagan ("Canada's child pornography law has rightly been criticized for years," March 5, 2013).

Read the commentary on the Xtra! website or below.

By Noel Semple, JD 2007, SSHRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for the Legal Profession