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…
08/2014
…ocial justice and political activism. She has published extensively in the areas of Charter rights, constitutional law, human rights and labour law. She is the co-author and co-editor of a book on equality rights under the Charter: Making Equality Rights Real: Securing Substantive Equality Under the Charter (Irwin Law, 2006), the co-author of a book on equality rights under Ontario’s Human Rights Code: Enforcing Human Rights in Ontario (Canada Law…
08/2014
…er University. His current academic interests span a wide range of subject areas — but notably, criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional and public law, emergency law, AI and the law, and public international law — viewed mostly through the lens of analytical legal theory. He is editor of Rethinking Criminal Law Theory: New Canadian Perspectives in the Philosophy of Domestic, Transnational, and International Criminal Law (with James Stribo…
08/2014
…cal Approaches to Law series. Professor Buchanan has taught courses in the areas of: Globalization and Law, Law and Social Change, Trade, Human Rights and Development, Law and Film. In the Osgoode Graduate Program, she has taught the Legal Research seminar and convened the Study Group on Law in a Global Context. Professor Buchanan has supervised many LLM and doctoral students in the areas of law and development, legal theory, legal sociology, or v…
08/2014
…Osgoode Hall Law School, where she engages in research and teaching in the areas of Disability Law, Health Law, Bioethics and Family Law. She is the founder and Director of the Disability Law Intensive clinical program and the Director of Osgoode’s part-time LLM program specializing in Health Law. She is a member of the core faculty in the graduate program in Critical Disability Studies at York University. From 2018-2021 Professor Mykitiuk was the…
07/2014
We provide free legal services to low income individuals in three areas: Administrative Law (ODSP, CICB, Human Rights, Tenant Rights) Criminal Law Immigration Law Effective July 2020, CLASP no longer provides family law services. If you require family law services, you can contact the following: Legal Aid Ontario at 1-800-668-8258 (toll-free) for up to 20 minutes of advice over the phone The Law Society of Ontario at 1‑800‑268‑7568 (toll‑free),…
07/2014
…d deal with the general public. At CLASP, we provide services on four main areas: Housing Rights Residential Landlord and Tenant disputes are largely governed by the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, and decided at the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB). We assist tenants in rental housing with a range of legal issues including: Eviction Illegal lockouts Repair and maintenance issues Human Rights Harassment Illegal charges We do not provide services t…
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…
06/2014
…raduates whose skill and talent in the practice of law, business, or other areas have made significant contributions to their field. Gold Key (One-to-Watch) This award is given to an individual who has graduated from the JD program within the last 10 years, whose endeavours in the practice of law, government service, business, legal academe, or other areas demonstrate exceptional promise. Gold Key (Public Sector) This award recognizes the achievem…
06/2018
…ulty of Law, for which he received a SSHRC ‘CGS’ Doctoral Scholarship. His areas of interest broadly relate to law, political economy and development. He researches the regulation of labour in colonial and settler colonial contexts, including temporary labour migration in Canada. He also has interests in popular legal education in social movements, anti-imperialism, anti-racism, and visual legal studies — among other areas. His research projects h…