Standing “O” for Dean’s Scribes
Today’s newsletter begins with a Standing Ovation for this year’s Dean’s Scribes, 28 generous and supportive students who volunteered to take class lecture notes for fellow students with disabilities. Our scribes provided an invaluable service and we sincerely thank them for their efforts, which embody the best of the Osgoode spirit.
On another note, I also want to take this opportunity to invite members of the community to the Dean’s Annual Alumni Reception on May 18, 2011 from 6 to 7.30 p.m. at Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West. The highlight of this enjoyable event will be the presentation of the 2011 Alumni Gold Key Awards. Click here to RSVP.
Today’s newsletter begins with a Standing Ovation for this year’s Dean’s Scribes, 28 generous and supportive students who volunteered to take class lecture notes for fellow students with disabilities. Our scribes provided an invaluable service and we sincerely thank them for their efforts, which embody the best of the Osgoode spirit.
On another note, I also want to take this opportunity to invite members of the community to the Dean’s Annual Alumni Reception on May 18, 2011 from 6 to 7.30 p.m. at Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West. The highlight of this enjoyable event will be the presentation of the 2011 Alumni Gold Key Awards. Click here to RSVP.
Today’s newsletter begins with a Standing Ovation for this year’s Dean’s Scribes, 28 generous and supportive students who volunteered to take class lecture notes for fellow students with disabilities. Our scribes provided an invaluable service and we sincerely thank them for their efforts, which embody the best of the Osgoode spirit.
On another note, I also want to take this opportunity to invite members of the community to the Dean’s Annual Alumni Reception on May 18, 2011 from 6 to 7.30 p.m. at Osgoode Hall, 130 Queen Street West. The highlight of this enjoyable event will be the presentation of the 2011 Alumni Gold Key Awards. Click here to RSVP.
Professor Obiora Okafor to Advise UN Human Rights Council
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Congratulations to Professor Obiora Okafor on his election to the UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee for a three-year term. This is a truly prestigious appointment, one that reflects Professor Okafor’s deep understanding of issues of human rights across the globe. It is also a huge honour for the Law School to have one of our own on this committee.
The UN Human Rights Council Advisory Committee is composed of 18 experts drawn from the 192 member states of the UN. The committee is the think-tank for the UN Human Rights Council and works to ensure that the council receives the best possible expert opinion on human rights matters.
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 Professor Obiora Okafor |
Four New Faculty Appointments
 Professor Poonam Puri |
In case you missed my earlier announcement, I am pleased to inform you of the following faculty appointments:
Professor Poonam Puri has been appointed Associate Dean, Research, Graduate Studies and Institutional Relations for a three-year term, effective July 1, 2011. She succeeds Professor Lisa Philipps who has provided outstanding leadership and service to the Law School during her term in this office.
Pending approval by York University’s administration, Benjamin Berger, Faisal Bhabha and Dan Priel will be appointed to our full-time faculty. Professor Berger comes to us from the University of Victoria Faculty of Law where he holds a cross-appointment in the Department of Philosophy, with his work there focused in Religious Studies. Faisal Bhabha has been a full-time Vice-Chair of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario and an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode. Dan Priel is currently a Visiting Professor at Osgoode and an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick in the UK. Please join me in congratulating Professors Puri, Berger, Bhabha and Priel on their new positions.
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First-Ever Student-Run Osgoode Cup is Big Success
For the first time since its inception in 2005, the Osgoode Cup Undergraduate Mooting Competition was entirely student-run this year. Presented by the Osgoode Mooting Society and the Osgoode Debate Society, this year’s competition saw 52 teams of undergraduate students from 15 schools in five provinces compete on March 12 and 13. That’s double the number of teams that competed in the 2010 Osgoode Cup.Megan Bridges and Omar Madhany of the University of Western Ontario’s Richard Ivey School of Business ultimately won the Cup. The case mooted this year was R. v. Cornell, an appeal concerning the reasonableness of hard or dynamic entries by police when executing search warrants, under s. 8 of the Charter.
Hats off to Osgoode Cup Co-Chairs, Andrew Monkhouse ’12, President of ODS, and Jessica Mathewson '12, Vice-President of OMS; Chief Bailiff Brent Kettles ‘11 (a former Osgoode Cup winner) and everyone else who was involved in the organization including more than 60 law students and practitioners who served as judges for the competition.
The 2011 Osgoode Cup was generously sponsored by Lenczner Slaght LLP, Osgoode’s Legal and Literary Society, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP and the Office of the Vice-President Academic and Provost for York University.
Click here for the Osgoode Cup results and a slide show.
Osgoode Women’s Network Gives Back
 L to R: Jenna Pettinato (Development Worker, Nellie's), Anna Harris (President, OWN), Margarita Mendez (Executive Director, Nellie's), Christine Johnson (Vice-President, OWN), Wendy Sung-Add (Development Manager, Nellie's) |
On March 31, Christine Johnson ’11 and Anna Harris ’11 of the Osgoode Women’s Network (OWN) delivered a donation for $2367.74 to Nellie's, the downtown Toronto emergency shelter serving women and children in our community. The donation represented the proceeds from the OWN fashion show, "Come into your OWN", held on March 11. (A donation was also made to Nellie’s by Jason Sacha ’12 from funds raised from the recording of the Mock Trial DVD he produced.)
OWN was established in 2009 for the purpose of advancing the aims of the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Justicia project. Christine and Anna are graduating from Osgoode this year, but they are leaving OWN in good hands with the appointment of a new eight-member executive led by Faye Ling (President) and Jenn Biggar (Vice-President). Kudos all around!
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