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).

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.