Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Lorne Sossin (LLB '92), grads David Brown (LLM '05), Norie Campbell (LLB '95, LLM '03), Michael Geist (LLB '92), Brian Greenspan (LLB '71) and Honorary Degree recipient Rosalie Abella (LLD [Hon.] '91) are on Canadian Lawyer magazine's 2013 list of the 25 most influential lawyers in Canada. The list was […]
IP Osgoode has partnered with Ontario Centres of Excellence’s (OCE) Centre for Commercialization of Research (CCR) to create a unique intellectual property (IP) clinical program that will match Osgoode law students with OCE-supported companies to help them secure and protect their IP en route to commercial success. IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School’s Intellectual Property & Technology […]
Yorks's Osgoode Hall Law School and the departments of philosophy at York and McMaster University have recently joined forces to facilitate academic collaborations in the field of legal philosophy. The Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership (OLPP), which celebrates its founding with a launch reception on Friday, May 13 in the Great Hall of McMaster’s University Club, is the […]
Eight faculty members of York’s Osgoode Hall Law School recently visited India, where they continued a conversation with their counterparts that began last year on governance in a rapidly globalizing world and the impact on social justice, human rights, international trade and foreign investment, and environmental law. Right: Professor Sanjeev Purshotam Sahni (left), head of […]
York University is the new home of the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice. The forum is moving to York from the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law and will partner with the York Centre for Public Policy & Law (YCPPL) and Osgoode Hall Law School on various socio-legal research initiatives. “The Canadian Forum on Civil Justice […]
It's always a delicate balance between protecting civil liberties and ensuring public safety, wrote the Toronto Star June 28: This G20 summit weekend, while peaceful protests did turn violent, some believe the police – who with their sheer numbers in full riot gear – went too far, at times, in their actions, proportionately to the […]
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 […]