Canadian JD Forum
Monday, September 22, 2014 - 1:00pm to 8:00pmAdd to CalendariCalendarOutlookGoogleYahooLocation: Hyatt Regency (Hotel) Toronto, 370 King St. West (at John St.)Catch the only Canadian stop on the North...
View ArticleSecond-Best Deliberative Democracy and Election Law
Yasmin Dawood. “Second-Best Deliberative Democracy and Election Law,” 12 Election Law Journal 410-420 (2013).Abstract: This article proposes and develops the concept of “second-best deliberation,” and...
View ArticleCDO and Osgoode EVENT: 2014 Public Interest Day and Career Fair
Friday, February 28, 2014 (All day)Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, North Building, Room 107Please note that the CDO will be closed on this date.Public Interest Day 9:30 a.m. - 12:30...
View ArticleAttack Ads, Copyright, and Collusion: Have Canada's Major Broadcasters...
Originally posted on Prof. Katz's blog. Last week reports emerged that the Government is considering a new copyright exception for political advertising. The reports suggested that the exception would...
View ArticleIHRP director Renu Mandhane - "Access to information now beyond the reach of...
Thursday, November 13, 2014In a commentary in The Globe and Mail, International Human Rights Program director Renu Mandhane calls for limits and waivers on the steep search fees charged for federal...
View ArticleIHRP intern Paloma van Groll reports on South Africa’s new immigration...
Thursday, November 13, 2014Paloma van Groll, 3L, was an International Human Rights Program intern a the UN High Commissioner for Refugees in South Africa during the summer of 2014.Paloma’s internship...
View ArticleIHRP intern Evan Rankin reports on HIV and the law in India
Thursday, November 20, 2014Evan Rankin, 2L, was an International Human Rights Program (IHRP) intern at the UN Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific (Thailand) during the summer of 2014....
View ArticleJD students work with Asper Centre on Supreme Court case
Thursday, November 27, 2014L-R: Frances Mahon, Neil Abraham, Marlys Edwardh, Winston GeeEarlier this month, 2nd year JD students Winston Gee and Neil Abraham went to the Supreme Court of Canada with...
View ArticleProf. Anita Anand co-authors "Diversity on boards means more than gender"
Monday, December 8, 2014In a commentary in the Toronto Star, Prof. Anita Anand, with Prof. Vijay Jog of Carleton University, argues that discussion of diversity on corporate boards should include the...
View ArticleIHRP argues that Amazonian villagers deserve justice before Canada's Supreme...
Friday, December 12, 2014Yesterday, the IHRP, along with its partners MiningWatch Canada and the Canadian Centre for International Justice (the “Joint Interveners”), made submissions before the Supreme...
View ArticleInternationally trained lawyers celebrate their program completion
Tuesday, July 29, 2014Participants are now one step closer to practicing law in OntarioThirty students in the Internationally Trained Lawyers Program celebrated their successful program completion...
View ArticleDirect Access in Ontario: A Call to Re-Examine
Anita Anand. “Direct Access in Ontario: A Call to Re-Examine” (2014) 18 Canadian Lab. & Emp. L.J. 123 (with Gita...
View ArticleAdvanced Introduction To Law And Development
Michael Trebilcock and Mariana Mota Prado. Advanced Introduction To Law And Development (UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Inc.,...
View ArticleSee Yourself Here 2015: another successful open house for aspiring lawyers in...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015By Lucianna CiccocioppoMore than 200 students from 25 high schools across the GTA visited the law school March 6 for the annual See Yourself Here open house, a one-day event to...
View ArticleITLP Careers Program adds new features to help internationally-trained lawyers
Thursday, March 26, 2015The Internationally Trained Lawyers Program (ITLP) has added several new features to its Career Program. This one-year, part-time program helps internationally trained lawyers...
View ArticleMinnesota Legislature Must Hold Hearings on Psychiatric Research Misconduct
By Trudo Lemmens, Raymond DeVries, Lois Shepherd and Susan M. Reverby (this op-ed was originally published on April 28, 2015 in the Minnesota Post)(The following commentary was also signed by 159...
View ArticlePermanent Accountability Gaps and Remedies
Kent Roach. “Permanent Accountability Gaps and Remedies” in Michael Geist Law, Privacy and Surveillance in the Post-Snowden Era (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, May...
View ArticleQ&A with SJD student Kyle Kirkup - "Why the U.S. Supreme Court was bound to...
Monday, June 29, 2015Cross-posted from U of T News.By Michael KennedyIn an historic victory for equal rights, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in favour of legalizing same-sex marriage in all 50...
View ArticleIHRP director Renu Mandhane presents to UN Human Rights Committee (video)
Monday, July 6, 2015On Monday July 6, 2015, the IHRP's executive director, Renu Mandhane, presented to the UN Human Rights Committee on human rights violations associated with Canada's detention of...
View ArticleThe inside story of the first female South Asian bencher: Alumna Isfahan...
Monday, September 21, 2015By Isfahan Merali, LLB 1995On May 1, 2015, I woke up early, my heart racing. Ontario lawyers had just spent more than two weeks voting in the bencher election and the results...
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