Established by the Alnoba Lewis Family Foundation, Christa Big Canoe (LLB 2005) has been named the recipient of the Alnoba Moment of Truth Award.

Watch four of the law school's most skilled mooters (Mackenzie Faulkner and Madeleine Andrew-Gee vs. Militza Boljević and Ema Ibraković) make their submissions to members of the panel of Honourable Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada: Rosalie Silberman Abella (BA UC 1967, LLB 1970), Andromache Karakatsanis (BA VIC 1977) and Mahmud Jamal (BA TRIN 1989). 

Theodore “Ted” Rachlin (JD 1957), Q.C. (Photo by Macdonell Photography)

The Rachlin family establishes a fund for JD students in honour of U of T alumnus Ted Rachlin.

At the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, student fellowships are among the Faculty’s top priorities to attract and recruit the best students to the JD program.

Dear Faculty Community,

I write to provide a brief update on the search for a new director for the International Human Rights Program (IHRP). As many of you will know, we resumed the search for a director in June. In the course of the search process, we extended an offer to the preferred candidate. I can now share the news that the preferred candidate expressed their appreciation for what they described as a good-faith offer, but ultimately decided to decline.

For 15 years, the University of Toronto’s Centre for Ethics has served as a nexus for research and discourse on the ethical aspects of virtually every subject imaginable – from artificial intelligence to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Yet, today’s scholars of ethics aren’t only looking at new problems. They’re also questioning the very foundations of what many think of as received wisdom. 

In an article published in Internet Policy Review, Sept. 13, University of Toronto Faculty of Law doctoral student (SJD), Matthew Marinett, addresses the new frontier of platform policy that imposes sanctions for conduct that occurs outside the online platform.

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University of Toronto alumnus R. Douglas Elliott is a leader in the field of class actions and is well known for his work on landmark constitutional cases including same sex marriage (photo courtesy of Cambridge LLP)