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A team of three Common Law JD candidates for 2022, Ayushi Dave, Ritesh Kotak, and Ryan Mosoff, has won the Harley Finkelstein Entrepreneurship Challenge! The competition, endowed by Harley Finkelstein, joint J.D. & MBA, ‘09 and President of Shopify, was designed to develop the entrepreneurial mindset that is critical to leadership, helping students to become better leaders, lawyers, and entrep...

The Faculty of Law Common Law Section is pleased to welcome Gladys Osien, JD '19, as Black Legal Mentor in Residence for 2021-22. She will be working with the Black Law Students’ Association to support their activities for the upcoming year.

The Common Law Section is pleased to welcome Dr. Kazuki Hagiwara, an expert in the law of treaties, international economic law and international environmental law, who will join the law school as visiting researcher from September 2021 to August 2022.

While summer was in full swing and most of us were basking in the sun, Professor Eva Ottawa was defending her master’s thesis, Awactenamakanicic e opikihakaniwitc — Development of the customary code for child movement among the Atikamekw Nehirowisiwok of Manawan

Professors Mariève Lacroix, Sarah Berger Richardson, Pascale Cornut St-Pierre and Julie Paquin have each received Insight Development Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for projects that explore bold new directions in how law relates to death, food, finance and academic freedo...

Caryma Sa’d, JD ‘15, is a Toronto-based lawyer and entrepreneur whose practice focuses primarily on housing, cannabis, and criminal law. She is also very outspoken about what matters to her, such as issues relating to politics, access to justice, poverty, racism, and the legal profession.

Professors Stefanie Carsley and Samuel Singer have both received Insight Development Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for projects that propose to fill significant gaps in our current understanding of both Canadian surrogacy laws and Canadian taxpayer remedies.  Professor Carsle...

Le 8 septembre 2021, pour la première fois de son histoire, c’est en mode hybride que s’est tenue la traditionnelle rentrée solennelle des cours de la Section de droit civil. Près de 75 personnes étaient présentes dans la salle 147 du Pavillon Fauteux, en plus des 545 internautes qui ont suivis la cérémonie transmise en direct sur les comptes Facebook et YouTube de la Section.

For the first time in the history of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA), a woman president, Charlene D. Theodore, passed the baton to another woman. The responsibility has been given to Karen Perron, LLB ’03, this September. Karen Perron is a partner at BLG and specializes in banking litigation, bankruptcy and insolvency, and directors and of...

Notre économie subit présentement de profonds bouleversements, que l’on pense aux enjeux liés à la pandémie, à la croissance de l’économie collaborative ou encore à la gestion de la décroissance dans un contexte de durabilité environnementale, de discrimination systémique et de réconciliation avec les Autochtones. À l’échelle locale, nationale et internationale, ces changements posent des défis ét...