2024

Whose Justice? A Comparative Approach to Canadian Civil Lay Justice (Thesis)

Graduate supervisors: University Professor David Dyzenhaus, Albert Abel Chair and University Professor Emeritus Michael J. Trebilcock

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.”

In collaboration with the Future of Law Lab at the Faculty of Law, Dessislav Dobrev (LLM 2002) led two webinars on AI and the Law in 2023.

In case you missed it, this timely series attracted over 700 registrations across 36 different countries and was our best attended online webinar last year. 

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