"Features" post category.
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:
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:
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."
What does the next 40 years hold for the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms?
Over 50 years ago, students from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law received summer project funding from a federal program then-named, Opportunities for Youth.
Six years on from her law school graduation, Faria Soutter (JD 2016) feels like she has never really left the Downtown Legal Services (DLS) family division.
The family lawyer, who practises with Toronto firm Beaton Burke Young LLP, is transported back to the Fasken Building at 655 Spadina Ave. every time she starts a family case in court on behalf of a client.
Theirs is a dream to live in Canada. Their reality today was made possible with the support of students and staff lawyers at Downtown Legal Services (DLS).
Luisa, sought humanitarian and compassionate grounds for her father, Armando, and Madinah, a applicant under the category of protected person.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights recognizes the importance of housing as a fundamental human right under international law. Cities in Europe have advocated for a housing first policy, providing long-term housing of homeless individuals, as a necessary first step in eradicating homelessness.
When Sukhmani Virdi (JD 2020) was a student in the Employment Law program at the Faculty of Law’s Downtown Legal Services (DLS), she learned a lot. But there was one lesson that really struck home.
A DLS client disclosed to Virdi that she was a survivor of sexual violence. She had filed charges and participated in the legal proceedings against the accused. When he was found not guilty, the woman told Virdi she had felt the legal system had not supported her. She felt extremely let down.
