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The New Immunity: Multinational Corporations, Tort Law, and Human Rights in the Third World (Thesis)

Graduate supervisor: Professor Mohammed Fadel

The Limits of Legality: The Rule of Law Principles Governing the Common Law Public Policy Exception in Private International Law (Thesis)

Graduate supervisors: Professor Karen Knop (1960-2022) and University Professor Arthur Ripstein, Howard Beck, Q.C. Chair

From Treaty Norms to Practices: A State Accountability Analysis of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change (Thesis)

Graduate supervisor: University Professor Jutta Brunnée, Faculty of Law Dean Jutta Brunnée and James Marshall Tory Dean's Chair

International Governance in the World Trade Organization: Judicial Boundaries and Political Capitulation (Thesis)

Graduate supervisor: University Professor Emeritus Michael J. Trebilcock

Government Appointments: On the World Trade Organization’s (WTO’s) indicative list of dispute settlement panellists, the approved list of Israeli arbitrators under the Israel-MERCOSUR Free Trade Agreement and Chapter 10 of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement. Member of Israel’s Advisory Committee on Trade Remedies

Julie McAlpine-Jeffries (LLM 2008), associate general counsel for the University of Toronto, is an “accidental” lawyer who became so fascinated by the law that she pursued her LLM at Faculty of Law simply to enjoy learning more about a variety of aspects of the law.

When Jean Teillet (LLB 1994, LLM 2008) first graduated from the U of T Faculty of Law in 1994 there were few role models working in her fields of interest – reproductive law and Indigenous rights – so she forged her own path and became one of the role models others followed.

“At the time, reproductive rights and Indigenous rights were nascent fields, so you had to get out and practise and learn from doing,” says Teillet from her home in British Columbia. “U of T gave me a good grounding in law and I used that as a springboard.”

On September 22, 2022, the Faculty of Law celebrated Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella (BA 1967 UC, LLB 1970, Hon LLD 1990) and her trailblazing legal career. 

Watch the discussion moderated by Professor Stephen Toope, President & CEO of CIFAR and former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, with international court justices: 

Nexus/Fall 2022

A Faculty of Law panel discussion featuring (in the order of presenters):

Nathalie Des Rosiers, Principal, Massey College: Notwithstanding Unions

Professor Kerry Rittich: Collective Bargaining

Professor Jean-Christophe Bédard-Rubin: Quebec's use of notwithstanding clause

Professor David Schneiderman: Constitutional theory underlying s. 33

The David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights brought 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:

Nexus/Fall 2022

By Paul Fraumeni

Elise Burgert likes to learn by doing.  

While working toward a combined BBA in business and environment at Simon Fraser University, she began to wonder about the legal tools that could be used to promote more sustainable business practices. “I realized I needed to learn how the law worked and what lawyers can actually do."