Seminar and reception celebrating former Dean and University Professor Emeritus Martin L. Friedland

Seminar and reception celebrating Martin L Friedland

Former Dean and University Professor Emeritus Martin L. Friedland’s illustrious career has been – and continues to be – driven by the pursuit of wide-ranging scholarly interests and celebrated through countless prestigious honours and awards.

The Grand Moot Livestream

The Grand Moot

Thursday, September 29, 2022

5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Sponsored by McCarthy Tétrault

U of T Law alumni named to Canadian Lawyer's Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers 2022

Monday, September 19, 2022

U of T Law alumni are known to distinguish themselves every day in their professional and community achievements, here locally in Toronto, across Canada, and around the world.

Canadian Lawyer's Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers list "reflects how the work of these members of the legal system has had an impact, whether in the courtroom, law school, law firm or business, or at a policy level." 

U of T Law event celebrating Rosalie Abella to bring together current, former international high-court justices

Friday, September 16, 2022
Retired Supreme Court Justice Rosalie S. Abella photo by Dave Chan
Retired Supreme Court of Canada Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella, a U of T alumna, will participate in a conversation with Germany's Susanne Baer, the U.K.'s Lord John Anthony Dyson and the U.S.

Call for volunteers: Black Future Lawyers Mentorship Program

Friday, September 2, 2022

BFL Mentorship Program

The Black Future Lawyers mentoring program fosters supportive connections between undergraduate Black students and Black lawyers. Participating students benefit from the mentors’ knowledge, wisdom, support, and experience.

Yukiko Kobayashi Lui

Yukiko, wearing a grey sweater, smiles in a photograph taken in the Jackman Law Building
SJD Candidate
Thesis title:
Relationship/Redistribution
Office in Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, M5S 2C5
Email: y.kobayashilui@mail.utoronto.ca

I am a doctoral candidate in the Faculty of Law with a collaborative specialization in sexual diversity studies at the Mark S. Bonham Centre. I teach part of the Faculty's LLM seminar, and I am also a Course Instructor at the Women and Gender Studies Institute.

My research interests are in family law, poverty law and critical legal theories. My doctoral project is about the law and politics of relationship recognition in the context of Ontario's welfare state. I am interested in how law and social assistance constitute and reproduce the borders of 'the family', paying attention to how material conditions affect the choices people have about their family lives and how they do socially reproductive work for themselves and others.

Prior to commencing my doctoral studies, I worked in the non-profit sector and in publishing. 

Education
LLM (Distinction), The University of Hong Kong
BA (Hons) in Law, University of Cambridge
Awards and Distinctions
Mary H. Beatty Fellowship (2024-2025)
Centre for Ethics Doctoral Fellowship (Returning) (2024-2025)
David Rayside Graduate Students Award (2024)
Centre for Ethics Doctoral Fellowship (2023-2024)
Mary H. Beatty Fellowship (2023-2024)
Graduate Fellowship in Women's Rights (2022-2025)
Hong Kong Scholarship for Excellence (2015-2018)
Other information

Co-organizer, Feminist Legal Theory and the Family conference (May 2024 at the Institute for Feminist Legal Studies, Osgoode Hall Law School; May 2025 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law)

Member, Organizing committee, Sex Salon speaker series, Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies (2023-2024)

Co-organizer, Toronto Law and Political Economy Reading Group (Spring 2023)

Organizer, SJD works-in-progress group (Fall 2022-Fall 2024)

Selected Publications

Yukiko Kobayashi Lui, “Anti-Carceral Feminism and the Exceptionalism of Intimate Partner Violence: A Comment on Ahluwalia v Ahluwalia”, (2024) 2:1 TMU Law Review 146.

Research Interests
Administrative Law
Comparative Law
Critical Legal Theory
Family Law
Feminist Analysis of Law
Labour Law
Political Philosophy and Theory
Sexuality and the Law
Supervisor
Brenda Cossman
Committee Members
Kerry Rittich
Linda White (Department of Political Science)

President Meric Gertler welcomes students, faculty, staff and librarians to U of T's biggest back-to-school ever

Thursday, September 1, 2022

As the University of Toronto prepares for its biggest-ever back-to-school season, President Meric Gertler welcomed students, faculty, staff and librarians to the university’s three campuses.

“Many of you will be here in person for the first time,” the president said in a video message. “It’s a perfect opportunity to experience the diversity, energy and creativity on our three campuses, and to enjoy life in this amazing metropolitan region.”

Meet the JD Class of 2025

Thursday, September 1, 2022

U of T Law welcomes 210 first-year JD students back to campus! 

U of T Law Class of 2015 Profile

Since 2015, U of T Law has conducted a self-reporting diversity survey. It has helped the Faculty inform its services and programs, including the launch of the Black Future Lawyers in early 2020.

Basema Al-Alami

SJD Candidate
Thesis title:
Suspicion, Motive, and the Making of Terror in R v Nuttall
Office in Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Toronto, M5S 2C5
Email: basema.al.alami@mail.utoronto.ca

Basema Al-Alami is a doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, specializing in counterterrorism, entrapment law, and anti-Muslim bias in Canada’s legal system. She studies how Canadian terrorism law enables the criminalization of Muslim identity through doctrines of motive, suspicion, and intelligence policing. Drawing on extensive archival research, she interrogates the motive clause in section 83.01 of the Criminal Code, the reasonable suspicion prong of entrapment law, and the discretionary tactics used in police sting operations. Her work blends doctrinal, archival, and critical legal methods to expose how law contributes to the over-policing and imagined criminality of Muslim communities in post-9/11 Canada.

Basema has presented her research at national and international conferences and teaches Constitutional Law and Arabs, Muslims and the Law at Windsor Law. She holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, a Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School with a specialization in International, Comparative, and Transnational Law, and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto, where she graduated with the highest distinction.

Education
Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) Candidate, University of Toronto Faculty of Law (Present)
Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Toronto Faculty of Law (2022)
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Osgoode Hall Law School (2020)
Honours Bachelor of Arts (HBA), University of Toronto (2017)
Awards and Distinctions
University Of Toronto Fellowship - Law (2022-2025)
Nathan Strauss Q.C. Graduate Fellowship in International Law (2022-2023)
Nathan Strauss Q.C. Graduate Fellowship in International Law (2021-2022)
Benjamin Laufer Prize in International Law (2019-2020)
The Honourable N.W. Rowell Prize (2019-2020)
The Honourable N.W. Rowell Prize (2018-2019)
Dean's Graduation Award, University of Toronto (2017)
Joseph Alfred Whealy In-Course Scholarship (2016-2017)
University Of Toronto Scholar - Beatty (2015-2016)
The Erindale Admission Scholarships (2013-2014)
University Of Toronto Scholar (2013-2014)
Professional Affiliations
Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto
Canadian Association for Forced Migration and Refugee Studies
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Conferences, Workshops, and Presentations (Selected)

CrimSL Research Cluster for the Study of Racism and Inequality, hosted by the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto (February 2025).

Today’s Totalitarianism: Mobilizing Knowledge against Totalitarian Trends (SSHRC grant), hosted by the University of British Columbia (July 2024). 

Legal Contradictions: Identifying Iterations of Us versus Them, hosted by the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto (September 2023).

Interrogating Islamophobia in the ‘war on terror’ after two decades, hosted by the 12th National Conference of Critical Perspectives / Criminology & Social Justice in Ottawa (May 2023). 

United Nations Counter Terrorism Committee delegation visit to Canada, hosted by the Committee (February 2023). 

9/11 and the Canadian Settler Colony Conference, hosted by Windsor Law (October 2022). 

University of Toronto - Humboldt University Workshop, hosted by the Institute of Islamic Studies (September 2022).

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Taskforce, hosted by Humber College (July 2022).

 

 

Selected Publications

Basema Al-Alami, “Entrapped: John Nuttall, Amanda Korody, and Canada’s Counterterrorism Crisis“ (October 2024) Today’s Totalitarianism, online: <https://www.todaystotalitarianism.com/entrapped-canadas-counterterrorism-crisis>. 

Basema Al-Alami, "Is Canada finally taking far-right extremism seriously? Latest arrests are a positive sign" (6 June 2024), online: The Conversation <https://theconversation.com/is-canada-finally-taking-far-right-extremism....

Basema Al-Alami, "Israel isn’t complying with the International Court of Justice ruling — what happens next?" (6 February 2024), online: The Conversation <https://theconversation.com/israel-isnt-complying-with-the-international....

Basema Al-Alami, "The global call for accountability in Germany, Namibia, and Canada" (25 January 2024), online: The Hill Times <https://www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/01/25/the-global-call-for-accountab....

Basema Al-Alami, "The humanitarian crisis in Gaza: a cry for humanity" (18 October 2023), online: Toronto Star <https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/the-humanitarian-crisis-in-....

Basema Al-Alami. “Canadian law enforcement agencies continue to target Muslims” (12 July 2023), online: The Conversation <https://theconversation.com/canadian-law-enforcement-agencies-continue-t....

Lisa Forman, Basema Al-Alami & Kaitlin Fajber, “An Inquiry into State Agreement and Practice on the International Law Status of the Human Right to Medicines” (2022) 24:2 Health Hum. Rights 125.

Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Titilayo Adebola & Basema Al-Alami, “Viewing the International Labour Organization’s Social Justice Praxis  through a  Third World Approaches to International Law Lens: Some Preliminary Insights”, in George Politakis, et al. eds, ILO 100: Law for Social Justice (Geneva: International Labour Organization, 2019), online: <https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---jur/documents/p....

Nathan Innocente, Basema Al-Alami, Amanda Borthwick, Alfred Pepushaj, & Harmehr Sekhon. 2018. “The Teaching Opportunity Program: Integrating Undergraduate Students in Course Design, Assessment, and Teaching.” Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education annual conference, Sherbrooke, QC, June 19-22.

Research Interests
Canadian Constitutional Law
Charter of Rights
Criminal Law 
Equality and Anti-Discrimination Law
International Law
Law and Religion
Legal History
National Security Law and Anti-Terrorism Law
Supervisor
Anver Emon
Committee Members
Kent Roach
Vincent Chiao
External links
LinkedIn
Twitter

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