At 77 years of age, Elizabeth Pitt is heading back to school and she couldn't be happier. A grandmother of a York University fine arts student, Pitt is a member of the York Circle, a legacy initiative of York University’s 50th anniversary. The York Circle is an ongoing program that offers curious people like Pitt […]
In a profile about Darren Wershler, professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, the Waterloo Region Record touched on a forthcoming collaboration between Wershler and York Professor Rosemary Coombe, Canada Research Chair in Law, Communication & Culture on May 7: Through his research, Wershler is working to bring about policy change. He is a principal investigator for […]
Today, more than halfway around the world, York University Distinguished Research Professor of Communications, Culture and Political Science Stephen Gill is watching his vision become reality. Gill is at the University of Helsinki in Finland as the institution’s inaugural Jane & Aatos Erkko Visiting Professor in Studies on Contemporary Society. As part of his role with […]
Professor to complete book addressing global financial and acid-backed commerical paper crises Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Poonam Puri has received a Walter L. Gordon Research Fellowship for 2010-2011. The prestigious award, periodically presented by York to recognized scholars at the University to complete ongoing outstanding and innovative research, will allow her to devote the coming […]
York University has received $5.7 million to renew six of its Canada Research Chairs (CRC). Professors Caitlin Fisher, David Hood, Joel Katz, Steve Mason, Wendy Taylor and Peer Zumbansen will continue their respective research in digital culture, cell physiology, health psychology, Greco-Roman cultural interaction, experimental particle physics, and transnational economic governance and legal theory. With […]
Have you ever wanted to have dinner with a scientist? Ask questions about Canada’s laser radar on NASA's 2007 Phoenix mission to Mars, the role of human genomes in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, the consequences of dwindling fossil fuels or perhaps how biochemical pathways affect obesity? The Royal Canadian Institute (RCI) for the […]
The Osgoode-York Working Paper Series in Policy Research publishes research that has been presented as part of the Osgoode-York Seminar Series in Policy Research, although authors who have not presented their work in the seminar series may still submit papers for consideration, provided that they relate to public policy themes, more broadly. With the assistance […]
A Perilous Imbalance: The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance, a new book co-authored by Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Stepan Wood, shines an urgent light on the dangerous imbalances in contemporary forms of globalized governance. The book will launch Wednesday, April 7, from 12:30 to 2pm in the Private Dining Room of the Executive […]
York Professor Emeritus Victor S. MacKinnon, who retired from active teaching in the Department of Administrative Studies in Atkinson College in 1994, has died. Left: Victor S. MacKinnon in 1969 Professor MacKinnon died in the early morning hours of March 9 in Augusta, Maine. An accomplished academic and administrator, Prof. MacKinnon's successful tenure at Atkinson included […]
Patrick Monahan, Vice-President Academic & Provost of York University and one of Canada’s foremost constitutional law experts, spoke to CBC's The Current on March 22 about opposition MPs who are trying to limit the Prime Minister's powers on a range of issues. They passed a motion that limits the Prime Minister's ability to prorogue Parliament. […]
It’s been a year of research-intensive events and activities in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies and one of the most notable initiatives has been the Research Matters series. It attempts to answer the question: “Why does research matter?” In particular, it focuses on the ways in which LA&PS researchers – both faculty […]
DNA evidence is popularized in cop and legal dramas as proof of irrefutable guilt, but it's only as solid as the conditions under which it is collected. Alan Young, professor of criminal law in York's Osgoode Hall Law School, was featured in a Globe & Mail article on the dark side of DNA evidence on […]
Professor Richard Leblanc says not-for-profit boards as good as their guidelines A not-for-profit organization should choose its board members with as much care as a well-run company, says the lead author of a new guide that offers advice on finding, training and evaluating directors. “Not-for-profit organizations must be trusted by their stakeholders both in the […]
York's Hennick Centre for Business & Law has given its inaugural Collaborative Research Grants Program award to an interdisciplinary team of professors studying transnational business grievance. The $5,000 research grant was awarded to Professors Burkard Eberlein and Alan Richardson of the Schulich School of Business and Professor Stepan Wood of Osgoode Hall Law School for their proposal, […]
York University has appointed Professor Lorne Sossin as dean of its Osgoode Hall Law School. Sossin, who most recently taught at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, will begin a five-year term on July 1. Right: Lorne Sossin Prior to joining the University of Toronto, where he served as associate dean in the Faculty […]
Over the last decade, the concept of human rights has taken on increasing complexity in nations around the world, in large part because of the way it is viewed. There are times when to acknowledge the rights of one individual or group directly affects the access to human rights of another. Such competing human rights […]
The Osgoode-York Working Paper Series in Policy Research publishes research that has been presented as part of the Osgoode-York Seminar Series in Policy Research, although authors who have not presented their work in the seminar series may still submit papers for consideration, provided that they relate to public policy themes, more broadly. With the assistance […]
“It is the honest, but mistaken, eyewitness who creates the real challenge for the [justice] system,” said James Stribopoulos of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, in The Globe and Mail Feb. 17 in a story about the case of Joe Webber who was wrongfully convicted of robbery and forcible confinement in 2008. Stribopoulos said […]