The Aboriginal Youth Summer Program, and joint program of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School held at the U of T law school this summer, was featured in the Toronto Star ("Native teens from across Canada urged to take up law as a career," July 15, 2012).

Read the article on the Toronto Star website.

In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Audrey Macklin takes the federal government to task for its lack of action in bringing the Omar Khadr case to its promised resolution ("The government has not kept its word in the Omar Khadr case," July 17, 2012).

Read the article on the Toronto Star website, or below.

As the 2012 London Olympics approach, Nexus magazine takes a look at the touchy issue of citizenship as a recruitment tool, and its increasing use and abuse in the worldwide hunt for triumph ("Picking Winners," Spring/Summer 2012).

Prof. Ayelet Shachar has looked at this issue in depth, arguing that passports are becoming a powerful form of international currency. Elite athletes who have no real ties or connections to the countries that covet them are being wooed and enticed—offered the precious prize of citizenship in exchange for a whiff of gold. 

The new issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal (Volume 62, Number 3, 2012) features an article based on the 2011 Katherine Baker Memorial Lecture given by Ian Shapiro, Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University, on the subject of "On non-domination". Shapiro's article is followed by a response by Prof. David Dyzenhaus.

JD student Josh Mandryk has published a commentary in the Toronto Star in response to the federal government repealing the Fair Wages and Hours of Labour Act, pointing out the benefits of such acts for training and workplace safety ("Repealing the Fair Wages Act goes against evidence and workers’ interests," July 3, 2012).

Read the full commentary on the Toronto Star website, or below.

Prof. Ed Morgan has been appointed a judge of the Superior Court of Justice in Toronto, effective immediately. Rob Nicholson, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, made the announcement today

Mr. Justice Morgan has been a professor at the Faculty of Law since 1986 (full professor since 2008). He practised with Davies Ward & Beck from 1989 to 1997 and thereafter maintained a litigation practice. His main areas of practice were commercial litigation, constitutional litigation, private international law and human rights law.

The law school's new free LSAT preparation course for low-income students, the first in Canada, has been featured in The Varsity, the University of Toronto student newspaper.

The story quotes Arisa Babiuk, a University of Toronto undergraduate who successfully completed the Academic Bridging Program and is now taking the course. “We don’t all have support coming from home or other places. So you feel like if someone’s invested interest and time into you [through programs like this one], then you must be able to succeed and pass on your success to other people.”

Prof. Audren Macklin was interviewed by host Matt Galloway on CBC Radio's Metro Morning about the federal government's controversial new immigration and refugee Bill C-31 (June 20, 2012).

Listen to the interview on the CBC website (7:26 minutes)

On the occasion of National Aboriginal Day (June 21), incoming LLM student and June Callwood Fellow in Aboriginal Law Glenn Wheeler has written a commentary in the Toronto Star about reconciliation between aboriginal peoples and other Canadians, in the context of the increasing role of cities in aboriginal life ("Reconciliation must occur between aboriginal people and all other Canadians," June 21, 2012).

And the legacy of representing the unrepresented continues

By Lucianna Ciccocioppo

In a celebration of 40 years of representing those who couldn’t afford a lawyer, Downtown Legal Services at the Faculty of Law opened up its doors on June 13 to alumni, students and friends for an afternoon of reminiscing.

More than 130 guests gathered in the characteristic Fasken Martineau building on Spadina Ave. to reconnect with fellow DLSers and view the spacious location that students now have to volunteer their services.