Professor Poonam Puri and graduate student Helen Papagiannis to speak at TedxYorkU

York University will host a TEDxYorkU event at Glendon on Saturday, Nov. 6. Based on the popular TED Conference, TEDxYorkU invites speakers to share their important visions for the future and involves audience participants in sharing ideas, addressing new perspectives and spreading inspiration. York University community members are invited to apply to be an audience participant […]

Professor Edward Waitzer says corporate ‘democracy’ is politicizing corporate structures

Corporate and securities regulation appears to be moving rapidly towards a more shareholder (rather than director) centric governance model, wrote Edward Waitzer, Jarislowsky Dimma Mooney Chair in Corprorate Governance in York’s Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business at York University, in a column about changes in securities rules in the National […]

Report recommends how best to regulate corporate social reporting

York University’s Jay & Barbara Hennick Centre for Business & Law and Jantzi-Sustainalytics have submitted recommendations to the provincial minister of finance on how the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) can begin to improve corporations’ disclosure of their social practices. The report was released at a press conference on Tuesday morning. It is available to the public on […]

Osgoode professor awarded prestigious fellowship

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 […]

Osgoode professor launches book on imbalances in globalized governance

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 […]

20 Questions to ask if you sit on a not-for-profit board

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 […]