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2021

• Professor Constance Backhouse delves into R.D.S., the Supreme Court’s first judicial race bias case

  Posted on Thursday, June 17, 2021

  

  The R.D.S. case is one of Canada's most significant race cases. It marked the first time in the 122-year history of the Supreme Court that Canada’s top judges had been asked to adjudicate a complaint of racial bias against a judge. Professor Constance Backhouse has earned an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) to undertake a full-scale assessment of the R.D.S. case and its significance for the Canadian legal system.

• The AJEFO will Award the Order of Merit to Part-time Professor Caroline Thibault, LLB ‘97

  Posted on Wednesday, June 16, 2021

  

  The Association of French Speaking Jurists of Ontario (L’Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario) will bestow the Order of Merit on Common Law Part-Time Professor Caroline Thibault. during its 41^st annual conference, to be held virtually from June 22 to June 24, 2021. 

• 2021 Canadian Lawyer magazine Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers

  Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2021

  On May 31, 2021, Canadian Lawyer magazine announced the list of nominees for its twelfth annual Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers awards.

• The personal 36-year journey of Angel Larkman, 2L, to get Indian status

  Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2021

  

  Angel Larkman, 2L, and her editor scrambled to get the story out and published in the Huffington Post Canada the day before it was closed. They were able to share Larkman’s personal story titled “It Took The Government 36 Years To Tell Me What I Already Knew: I Am A Status Indian”.

• Erin Cowling, LLB ’04, accepted in Ontario's first women-led businesses accelerator

  Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2021

  The ELLA's Accelerator program, Ascend 2021, has selected Erin Cowling, LL.B ’04, based on the success of her recently-founded freelance law firm, Flex Legal, and the leadership she demonstrated as the  Common Law Section’s Regional Alumni Advisor in Toronto.

• David C. Nahwegahbow, LLB ’80, is the 2021 winner of The Advocates’ Society Award of Justice

  Posted on Tuesday, June 15, 2021

  

  David C. Nahwegahbow, IPC, LSM, LLB ’80, of Nahwegahbow, Corbiere Genoodmagejig, is the 2021 recipient of The Advocates’ Society Award of Justice. Nahwegahbow, a member of the Common Law Honour Society, received his award during the virtual End of Term, on June 17, 2021.

• “One of the most dangerous men in Canada”: Professor Ravi Malhotra and Benjamin Isitt launch new book on the life of E.T. Kingsley – June 15, 7:00 p.m. EDT

  Posted on Monday, June 14, 2021

  

  Common Law’s Dr. Ravi Malhotra and Dr. Benjamin Isitt, a historian and legal scholar based in Victoria, will host a launch event for their ground-breaking new book Able to Lead: Disability, Radicalism, and the Political Life of E.T. Kingsley (UBC Press) on June 15, 2021 at 7:00 p.m. EDT.

• Canada’s Leaders Sound the Alarm on the Childcare Crisis

  Posted on Friday, June 11, 2021

  

  Penny Collenette, LLB ’91, co-chaired the Advisory Committee of the Prosperity Project which recently called for a nation-wide childcare system. The Project penned  an open letter to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, six other federal ministers and Opposition Leaders, signed by public policy and business leaders from across the country.  

• The Common Law Section Condemns the Racist Attack in London, Ontario and Stands with Members of the Muslim Community

  Posted on Thursday, June 10, 2021

  

  The Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law grieves with Muslim communities from coast to coast following the devastating and targeted attack against a family doing the most human of things – taking a walk through their neighbourhood after dinner. We cannot imagine the pain and the fear felt at this moment by Muslim members of our Common Law community. To our Muslim colleagues, students, alumni, and friends: we stand together with you.

• Remarkable leadership in health law: Professor Jennifer Chandler renewed as Bertram Loeb Chair in Organ and Tissue Donation

  Posted on Wednesday, June 9, 2021

  

  Professor Jennifer Chandler’s term as the Bertram Loeb Chair in Organ and Tissue Donation has been renewed for a second five-year term, beginning on July 1, 2021. An expert in the study of the law and ethics of emerging biomedical technology, Professor Chandler is known nationally and internationally for her ground-breaking work in the areas of organ and tissue donation law, ethics and policy, the legal and ethical implications of the brain sciences, and mental health law.