Opinion by Professor Audrey Macklin: Why the Safe Third Country Agreement does not live up to its name

Thursday, October 6, 2022

In an op-ed published by the Vancouver Sun on Oct 5, Professor Audrey Macklin, Rebecca Cook Chair in Human Rights Law, and Efrat Arbel, an associate professor at UBC's Peter A. Allard School of Law, write that getting rid of the Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA) will help restore safe, orderly and humane management of our refugee protection system:

Thank you to our U of T Law Reunion Class Ambassadors

Friday, October 21, 2022

The Faculty of Law wishes to thank the following Class Ambassadors who helped make U of T Law Alumni Reunion a success on October 20, 2022. Class Ambassadors play an important role in bringing together alumni we may have lost touch with over the years. In addition to the Downtown Legal Services 50th anniversary panel discussion, honoured classes (ending in 2 or 7) gathered for a four-course dinner at Hart House, Great Hall.

Class of 1962:

For students, it’s a scholarship. For Edward Roberts (LLB 1964), it’s an ode to Newfoundland

Monday, October 10, 2022

Edward Roberts

Ed Roberts loved dogs and installed this bench on a popular dog-walking trail in memory of one beloved rescue, Taffy. Photo courtesy of the Roberts family 

Shuo Xing (JD 2020) receives two Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) Foundation Awards

Friday, October 7, 2022

In a September 30 press release, the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) congratulated the winners of this year's Foundation Awards. 

Patent and Trademark Institute Education Foundation is a registered charity managed by IPIC that awards prizes to the candidates who obtain the highest marks in the patent and trademark agent exams.

The Charter @ 40

 

The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights brings together its past Constitutional Litigators in Residence for a special conversation with Executive Director, Cheryl Milne, reflecting on the Charter of Rights and Freedoms at 40 years.

Speakers:

Valley of the Birdtail: CBC Radio interview with Professor Douglas Sanderson

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Valley of the Birdtail bookcover (HarperCollins)

The Waywayseecappo Indian reserve was created on the West side of the Birdtail river in western Manitoba in 1877. Two years later, on the other side of the river, white settlers established a town named Rossburn.

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