Congratulations to SJD student Sagi Peari, recipient of the 2012 American Society of International Law Prize in Private International Law for his article: "Choice-Based Perspective of Choice-of-Law."

Third-year student Grant Bishop is the winner of the 2012 Canadian Bar Association James H. Bocking Memorial Award for his paper, “Issues for Two-Sided Platforms in Canadian Competition Law.” The CBA award is presented annually for the best scholarly paper submitted to its CBA’s National Competition Law Section on a subject directly related to Canadian competition law or policy.

The Faculty of Law has adopted a modified honours-pass-fail grading system for new JD students starting September 2012. Students already in the JD program will continue to be graded according to the former grading system.

The Faculty of Law, after extensive consultation with faculty and students, revised the system to offer  more informative feedback to students, to enhance the information value of  transcripts for employers, courts and graduate schools, and to promote greater consistency in grades distribution.

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law has once again landed the top spot on Maclean’s magazine annual Law School Rankings, posted online today. The rankings look at graduate quality, hiring rates to elite law firms, national scope of law alumni, number of Supreme Court of Canada clerkships, and faculty hiring, quality and number of journals citations.

The Faculty of Law was first in elite firm hiring rates, faculty hiring/quality and number of journal citations. The law school ranked second in number of SCC clerkships.

The Faculty of Law congratulates Prof. Brenda Cossman on her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in recognition for outstanding scholarly work. Cossman is one of 71 new Fellows to the RSC, who span a wide range of disciplines and academic backgrounds.