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This Blog has now moved 15 Feb 2013 | 02:01 am
The University of Toronto Faculty Blog has now moved to our new website. It can be seen at http://www.law.utoronto.ca/blog/faculty . The new blog includes an RSS feed. The complete archives of this bl...
The GSU Copyright Case: Some Canadian Perspectives 16 May 2012 | 09:09 am
This post was originally published on Prof. Katz's blog. In April 2008, three publishers, Cambridge University Press, SAGE Publications, and Oxford University Press, filed a copyright infringement la...
Prof. Ed Morgan - "The difference between lunchtime prayer and a Jesus T-shirt" 10 May 2012 | 07:35 am
This commentary was first published by Prof. Ed Morgan in The Globe and Mail on May 9, 2012. A public school in Toronto thinks a clergyman can be invited to conduct Islamic prayers at lunchtime on sc...
Prof. Anita Anand: "Telus funds ignore governance" 1 May 2012 | 02:31 am
This commentary was first published in the Financial Post on April 28, 2012. The collapse of Magna’s dual-class share structure in 2011 via an insider bid for Frank Stronach’s holdings raised eyebrow...
Prof. Ed Morgan - "Foreign affairs: a delicate balancing act" 19 Apr 2012 | 07:29 am
This article by Prof. Ed Morgan was originally published in The Lawyers Weekly, April 13, 2012. When it comes to conducting foreign affairs, it is well established that the constitution puts the weig...
The Best Possible Outcome for Universities, Really? 18 Apr 2012 | 10:23 am
This post was posted originally on Prof. Katz's blog. Access Copyright and the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) announced yesterday that they had negotiated a Model Licence t...
Prof. Audrey Macklin with Lorne Waldman: Ottawa’s bogus refugee bill 25 Feb 2012 | 07:20 am
This commentary by Prof. Audrey Macklin and Lorne Waldman was first published on the Toronto Star website on Feb. 22, 2012. Jason Kenney, the minister of Citizenship and Immigration, knows who the re...
Prof. Audrey Macklin: Minister Kenney’s Ban on Face Coverings is Ultra Vires 18 Feb 2012 | 07:24 am
Not only is Minister Kenney’s ban on face coverings a gratuitous insult to Muslim women, it’s ultra vires. In the wake of all the publicity about the Minister of Immigration’s decree that no one shal...
Don’t throw in the towel: Systemic Risk in Securities Markets Must be Federally Regulated 18 Feb 2012 | 06:25 am
Anita Anand and Grant Bishop In its recent decision, the Supreme Court nixed the federal proposal for a national securities regulator, finding that its proposed scheme was unconstitutional. Admitted...
Governance Issues: The UofT-Access Copyright Agreement 16 Feb 2012 | 12:44 am
First posted on Prof. Katz's blog. In addition to serious copyright, privacy, and academic freedom problems arising from the Agreement signed last week between UofT and Access Copyright, the way it h...
