Osgoode Hall Law School’s impressive record of scholarship will be showcased at the 2014 Osgoode Research Celebration on Wednesday, Oct. 1. Lunch will be provided. RSVP by noon on Tuesday, Sept. 30, at bit.ly/osresearch. Use the event code: CELEBRATION. The event, which is part of the Osgoode@125 celebrations marking the 125th anniversary this year of the law […]
Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Lorne Sossin (LLB '92), grads David Brown (LLM '05), Norie Campbell (LLB '95, LLM '03), Michael Geist (LLB '92), Brian Greenspan (LLB '71) and Honorary Degree recipient Rosalie Abella (LLD [Hon.] '91) are on Canadian Lawyer magazine's 2013 list of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada. The list was […]
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Emeritus Jean-Gabriel Castel has added another prestigious decoration to the long list of awards he has received for service to France, Canada and the French community, and for contributions to legal education and the legal profession. Jean-Gabriel Castel On Bastille Day (July 14), French President François Hollande promoted Castel to […]
In celebration of the many areas of common ground between law and engineering, Osgoode Hall Law School, the Lassonde School of Engineering and the Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation have joined together to host a Research Celebration to discuss the intersection of law and engineering research. Osgoode and Lassonde will celebrate the research […]
A Community Leadership in Justice Fellowship awarded by the Law Foundation of Ontario (LFO) will explore the potential to reduce homelessness using the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and other legal tools. Tracy Heffernan, a program director at the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO), will spend her fellowship at Osgoode Hall Law School at […]
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Paul Emond wears many hats, but it’s his publishing business that has grabbed the limelight recently. On May 1, it was announced that Democratizing the Constitution: Reforming Responsible Government by Peter Aucoin, Mark Jarvis and Lori Turnbull, and published by Emond Montgomery Publications, had won the $50,000 Donner Prize for […]
Great judges change the way we see the law, says Allan Hutchinson, associate vice-president graduate and dean of York’s Faculty of Graduate Studies. In his new book, Laughing at the Gods; Great Judges and How They Made the Common Law, Hutchinson highlights the work of eight judges he calls “game changers”. Laughing at the Gods […]
Breadth, creativity, technical and analytical prowess are just some of the attributes needed by engineers of the future. That was the consensus of leading thinkers, academics, engineers and students who gathered at York's Keele campus on April 21 for "Envisioning the Renaissance Engineer", a day-long workshop to outline the academic promise for the University's expanded School of Engineering. “This shall […]
Hatsumi: One Grandmother's Journey through the Japanese Canadian Internment premiered at the Japanese Canadian Cultural Centre on Sunday, April 1. It was part of a larger conference hosted by the centre to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Japanese Canadian Internment. The film by Osgoode grad Chris Hope (JD ’04) offers a moving account of Japanese […]
The many facets of community engagement will be examined using the law as a lens during a panel presentation at the Osgoode Research Celebration Wednesday, April 4. Robert Haché, vice-president research & innovation, and Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School, are co-hosting the event, which takes place from 12 to 2pm in Room […]
How has feminist thinking shaped what we know? Osgoode Hall Law Professor Mary Jane Mossman and York women’s studies Professor Meg Luxton examine that question in their new co-edited book, Reconsidering Knowledge, launching Friday. The launch will take place March 23, from 2 to 3:30pm, Founders Senior Common Room, 305 Founders College, Keele campus. Reconsidering […]
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Allan Hutchinson has been appointed the new associate vice-president graduate and dean of the Faculty of Graduate Studies, effective March 1. The announcement was made yesterday by York President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri. The appointment of Hutchinson for the five-year term was made after extensive consultation and was approved by […]
Students from York’s Osgoode Hall Law School will make their case in increments of 140 characters or less, in what’s billed as the world’s first Twitter moot court (@twtmoot). On Tuesday, Feb. 21, five teams from law schools across Canada will argue a moot court case entirely on the popular social media platform. The event, […]
York University has ranked first among Canadian universities in a global campus sustainability survey and 14th in the world. This is the second year in a row that York has ranked No. 1 in Canada. The 2011 UI GreenMetric Ranking of World Universities rated participating universities in 42 countries based on criteria such as energy consumption, […]
Two more lectures are coming up in the series "Whose (De)Fault is it Anyway? The EU Crisis in Historical and Comparative Perspective". Organized by York’s European Union Centre of Excellence in cooperation with the Critical Research Laboratory in Law & Society at Osgoode Hall Law School, the series explores the current European financial crisis from the […]
Prof. Poonam Puri, Prof. Aaron Dhir and student Chanakya Sethi at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School have each received prestigious awards honouring their leadership skills, legal talent and commitment. Puri, who is Osgoode’s associate dean, research, graduate studies & institutional relations and co-director of the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode and Schulich School […]
Administrative studies Professor Richard Leblanc was named one of Ontario’s most outstanding university teachers by the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations (OCUFA) on Saturday. Leblanc teaches governance, law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies in York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and is an adjunct faculty member at York’s Osgoode […]
Do workers’ rights still matter? That is one of the hot and timely questions the new Conversations on Work and Labour Speakers’ Series will be addressing throughout the year. The first conversation, “The Future of Public Sector Collective Bargaining,” will take place Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 12:30 to 2pm, 2003 Osgoode Hall Law School, Ignat […]
Over the last 40 years, tax expenditure analysis has reshaped the way policy makers and practitioners around the world think about the design of tax systems. On Monday, Oct. 17, Jeffrey Simpson (right), The Globe and Mail's award-winning national affairs columnist, will be the keynote speaker at the official launch of Tax Expenditures: State of […]
Leading investigative journalists, media lawyers and academics from Canada, the US and the UK will gather at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University on Friday, Oct. 14, for a day-long, original program dealing with such hot topics as freedom of the press, defamation law, media accountability, confidentiality of sources and access to information. The conference, […]