2024

A first-of-its-kind gift made by Terry Burgoyne (LLB 1981), a graduate of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, will endow new academic awards recognizing student achievement in U of T’s juris doctor (JD) program.  

The Burgoyne Award of Excellence will be the faculty’s largest recognition program, awarded to JD students across all three years, as nominated by their professors for scholarly excellence. Up to twenty inaugural awardees, each receiving a $1,000 prize, will be named later this academic year.  

Mayo Moran, a leader in advancing justice and equality at local and global levels, has been named the inaugural Irving and Rosalie Abella Chair in Justice and Equality at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. Moran, an expert in private and public law, has chaired committees and legislative reviews of profound national importance and advanced changes to the law.

Empowering the Future: 75 Barrier Breaking Years of Women in Law brought together an extraordinary group of alumnae, including the Hon. Rosalie Silberman Abella (LLB 1970, Hon.