JD student Josh Mandryk has published a commentary in the Toronto Star arguing that the private member's bill C-377 now in front of the House of Commons, which would establish heavy Income Tax disclosure requirements for Trade Unions, is a punitive invasion of privacy ("Bill C-377: An invasion of privacy and attack on dissent," Oct. 18, 2012).

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

Prof. Anver Emon is the co-editor, with Mark Ellis and Benjamin Glahn, of a new collection of essays published by Oxford University Press, Islamic Law and International Human Rights Law (2012).

In a commentary in the Financial Post, Prof. Anita Anand analyzes the history of the merging of dual-share structures in Canada through the lens of the recent decision regarding Telus ("Telus win scores for ­shareholders," Oct. 18, 2012).

Read the full commentary on the Financial Post website, or below.

Law students from across Canada show their sports law passion

The Faculty of Law recently welcomed distinguished visitor,  Zhenmin Wang, the dean of one of China's most prestigious law schools, Tsinghua University School of Law, in Beijing. Dean Wang taught an intensive course to students, for his third consecutive year, and participated in the first joint conference between the two law schools: "Frontiers of Constitutional Jurisprudence in China and Canada." Nexus executive editor, Lucianna Ciccocioppo, sat down with Dean Wang for a chat and learned a lot more about China's unique legal system--and a new lawyer joke.

SJD student and Trudeau Scholar Michael Pal was on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin last night as part of a panel discussion on proposed federal electoral map boundary changes that mean more seats for Ontario.

Watch the discussion on the TVO website.

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law's International Human Rights Program and David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rightsjoined forces to intervene in the appeal of the Omar Khadr case before the Supreme Court of Canada.

(Toronto, Jan. 29, 2010) – In its decision today in the Prime Minister of Canada v. Omar Khadr, the Supreme Court of Canada found a s.7 breach of the Charter.