08/2014
…ons of access to justice; law and social change; and poverty law. She welcomes qualitative projects, including those deploying community-based participatory action methodologies. Her current research grants include domestic violence and access to justice at the intersections of various areas of law and legal processes (family, child welfare, criminal, immigration, etc.) and the criminalization of women victims of domestic violence. Professor Moshe…
06/2023
…van goes to these various rural communities, bringing legal help to these areas, makes it an interesting model to potentially address unmet legal needs in some rural areas.” The CFCJ has addressed the rural legal services gap in its previous research. CFCJ Senior Fellow Ab Currie has written extensively on the Law Van project and in 2016 the organization published a Rural and Remote Access to Justice Literature Review. In addition to her work on…
06/2014
…’s focused legal aid organizations, women’s social justice issues or other areas of activism related to women. Applicants must have completed at least one year of study, maintained a minimum GPA of 6.0, demonstrate financial need, and submit a one-page statement summarizing their participation in extra-curricular activities and/ or the community at large and outlining how they hope to continue to contribute to legal aid organizations, women’s soci…
05/2024
…information privacy. Practical and topical issues will be explored in the areas of: elder law (issues in long-term care facilities, retirement homes); the law of medical assistance in dying in Canada; human rights in health care; hospitals and health care facilities (including physician privileges, employment issues and tensions between administrators, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders); pandemic and emergency management; reproducti…
05/2024
Tort law is one of the law’s oldest areas of law, where one still encounters such Latin tags as “sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas” and “volenti non fit injuria,” where some cases printed in the casebooks are a century older than printed books. Can this area of law be of any relevance to the brave new world of large language models in the metaverse? Perhaps. In 2023, Epic Games, the studio that developed the enormously popular video game “Fortn…
05/2014
…. The access to faculty from outside the Law School Newly designed working areas allocated to graduate students. Graduate Law Students’ Association which arranges special academic activities and organizes a conference every year. Outstanding graduate-level courses Study groups on Law in a Global Context, Regulation and Governance, Law and Social Justice, Law and Economic Relations, and Legal Theory Largest law library in Canada that is a leader in…
05/2024
…fect of narrative on judicial attention, understanding, and judging. These areas are not quite silos, but they have not yet coalesced into coherence. This course will familiarize you with these areas of thought, using an excellent recent American text: Linda L. Berger and Kathryn Stanchi, Legal Persuasion: A Rhetorical Approach to the Science (Routledge, 2018). It is an operating manual to the judicial mind and ground-breaking. I would supplement…
04/2018
…the estates, trusts and charities department of Fasken Martineau LLP. His areas of expertise are charity and not-for-profit law, property law, trusts and estates, and income tax. He was awarded the Douglas J. Sherbaniuk Distinguished Writing Award in 2010 from the Canadian Tax Foundation and has also received an SSHRC Insight Grant. He is a Board member of the Pemsel Case Foundation – a charitable foundation established to study and recommend ref…
11/2023
…d domains of international economic and business laws, Dr. Sileshi’s major areas of research interests focus on legal fields concerned with intellectual property, regulation of competition, international trade, international business, digital technologies and sustainable human development. Encompassing diverse areas of intellectual property, family laws, digital technologies, higher education and sustainable human development, his scholarly works…
07/2020
Brooke MacKenzie advises and represents clients in the areas of legal ethics, professional regulation and liability, and civil appeals and judicial reviews. She is currently recognized in Best Lawyers™ in Canada in the areas of administrative and public law. Brooke regularly assists lawyers and health professionals with regulatory complaints, investigations, and disciplinary proceedings, as well as litigation alleging conflicts of interest or pro…