A story in the Canadian Press about law schools seeking diversity in their student body highlights the Faculty of Law's new free LSAT prep course for low-income students ("Law School Diversity: Canadian Universities Want Range Of Students," Aug. 21, 2012).

The story features quotes from two students who are currently taking the course, and also from Assistant Dean, Students, Alexis Archbold.

JD student Andrew Stobo Sniderman has written an article in Maclean's magazine looking at the way many important issues facing the country are being tackled not by Parliament, but by the courts ("Harper v. The Judges," August 21, 2012).

Read the full article on the Maclean's website.

Prof. Anver Emon has published a new book, Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law (Oxford University Press, 2012).

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JD student Andrew Stobo Sniderman has written an article in Macleans's magazine looking at the under-funding of aboriginal education by the federal government and recent attempts to resolve this problem ("Aboriginal students: An education underclass," August 8, 2012).

Read the full article on the Maclean's website.

JD student Josh Mandryk has written another commentary in the Toronto Star, "Ontario College of Trades a win for skilled tradespeople and consumers" (August 7, 2012). Mandryk is a summer law student with the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 793.

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website.

JD student Louis Century, a summer law student with the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights, has written a commentary in the "Speaker's Corner" section of the Law Times, "Forcing judges to judge old law erodes democracy," (July 30, 2012).

Read the full commentary on the Law Times website.

In the "Room for Debate" section of the New York Times, Prof. Ayelet Shachar has contributed to the discussion "Which Country Did You Say You Were Playing For?" about Olympic citizenship requirements. Her contribution, "Serious Moral Quandaries," (July 27, 2012) picks up on her article "Picking Winners" in the Yale Law Journal. (See also the Nexus magazine article, "Picking Winners", about Shachar's work).