John Borrows, Professor and Loveland Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law (photo Alice Xue Photography)

John Borrows, one of the world’s leading scholars of Indigenous law, has been awarded the 2023 Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research from the Broadbent Institute.

In a forthcoming article in Washington University Law Review (Vol. 101) doctoral candidate (SJD) Noam Kolt, a Vanier scholar and graduate affiliate at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, offers a roadmap for algorithmic preparedness and a set of forward-looking principles to guide the development of artificial intelligence regulation.

Professor Angela Fernandez, "Environmental Law, Standing, and the History of Sierra Club v. Morton", for JOTWELL (March 2, 2023), a review of  Daniel P. Selmi's Dawn at Mineral King Valley: The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law (2022):

Canadian Lawyer spoke with Professor Benjamin Alarie, Osler Chair in Business Law and co-founder of Blue J Legal, a legal tech company. Since he co-founded the company in 2015 with U of T Law Professors Anthony Niblett and Albert Yoon, Blue J has used artificial intelligence to help answer legal questions. Now, the company plans to incorporate the newest AI technology into its platform: chatbots.

In an op-ed published in the Toronto Star, Feb. 27, Faculty of Law, Audrey Macklin, Rebecca Cook Chair in Human Rights Law, argues that closing the Roxham Road crossing in Quebec would benefit smugglers and security contractors: 

How is climate change affecting the law, and the role of law in society?

On March 2 & 3, the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, aims to broaden legal and policy discussions and explore how climate change is impacting law, and the legal profession at Law in a Changing World: The Climate Crisis.