An ‘eye-opening’ experience: Supporting student caseworkers at U of T’s Downtown Legal Services

Monday, August 21, 2023

Downtown Legal Services Fasken Building

Lawyer and clinic director, Prasanna Balasundaram (far left), with staff lawyers Asiya Hirji and Jennifer Fehr, alongside staff and summer caseworkers on the steps of the Fasken Building, home to U of T's community legal clinic and clinical legal education program, Downtown Legal Services. 

Dean's Student Leadership Awards 2023

Wednesday, September 6, 2023

The Dean’s Student Leadership Award recognizes the outstanding co- and extra-curricular leadership of our 1L and 2L students and values both traditional and non-traditional forms of leadership, including:

The Grand Moot

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A U of T Law tradition and highlight of the academic year — four of the law school's most skilled mooters make their submissions to a distinguished panel of Canadian jurists.

Thursday, October 5, 2023 

5:00 - 7:00 p.m. - Doors at 4:30 p.m. 

Rosalie Silberman Abella Moot Court Room / J250 

Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable with Prof Dwight Newman

Asper Centre Constitutional Roundtable with Professor Dwight Newman (College of Law, University of Saskatchewan)
Prof Dwight Newman, KC

IHRP & CLAIHR & IIRESODH Workshop: Using International Human Rights Mechanisms to Support Domestic Advocacy

The International Human Rights Program (IHRP), Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR), and the International Institute for Social Responsibility and Human Rights (IIRESODH) are hosting a workshop on how to use international human rights mechanisms to support domestic advocacy—featuring Professor Victor Rodriguez Rescia (Costa Rica), former secretary of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and former member of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.

The changes at Crown-Indigenous Relations send a cynical message: Opinion by Prof. Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii)

Tuesday, August 1, 2023

In an opinion published in the Globe & Mail (July 31), Professor Douglas Sanderson (Amo Binashii), Prichard Wilson Chair in Law and Public Policy at the Faculty of Law, writes about the impact of Justin Trudeau’s cabinet shuffle on Indigenous relations. 

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