Thesis Defence: April 2024
Supervisors: Professors Jutta Brunnée and Arthur Ripstein
Awards: Wedderburn Prize (Modern Law Review) (2022); Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship (2021); Connaught International Scholarship (2020)
Area of Study: Family law and welfare law.
Yukiko Kobayashi Lui grew up in Hong Kong and earned her law degree at the University of Cambridge, but when she decided to pursue an SJD, she chose to study at the U of T Faculty of Law in order to work with Professor Brenda Cossman.
Anticipated Graduation Date: 2024.
Area of Study: State formation -- how Canada's state security apparatus was created and evolved.
SJD candidate Tyler Wentzell is a lawyer, historian and an army reservist serving with the 48th Highlanders of Canada, so it’s only natural that his doctoral thesis focuses on law and the military. His research has been supported by a George P. Vanier Doctoral Fellowship, a R. Roy McMurtry Fellowship in Legal History, and a Nathan Strauss Q.C. Graduate Fellowship in Canadian Constitutional Law.
As we mark the 40th anniversary of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, many commentators will surely recount familiar anecdotes about the negotiations and controversies that surrounded its enactment, express concern about recent political controversies concerning the Charter, or simply reflect on the practical force the Charter has had in protecting and expanding the rights of the LGBTQ community, criminal defendants, and others over the last four decades.
Law school… For students pursuing a legal education at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, these two words likely bring to mind images of excessive amounts of caffeine, and ever-proliferating emails from administration.
Hannah Cinel can sing. In fact, she has a degree in music from Wilfrid Laurier University.
But she didn’t really know about the tremendous challenges facing the performing community until she started studying at U of T Law.
