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.

JD student Andrew Stobo Sniderman received a Canadian Association of Journalists' award, winning in the print-feature category for his May 7, 2011 story in the Montreal Gazette, "Residential schools survivors share the pain."

Read about the award.

Read the original story on the Montreal Gazette website.

Under a sunny blue sky, Convocation 2012 drew a packed audience of family and friends on June 8, as the JD grads cheered their classmates on one by one. At times, the mystical beat of a native drum congratulated some of our Aboriginal graduates as they stepped up to the dais, a new tradition started by Prof. Douglas Sanderson, a member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation.

From left: Courtney Lerman, Matthew Mundy, Tatiana Lazdins with Prof. Mota Prado and Steven Vasilevski