Ever
since he was a child, Mohamed Khimji wanted to be an actor. “Acting is
actually experiencing trying to be another person,” he says. “It’s
challenging empathizing with someone who’s not you.” But Khimji left
dreams of the stage behind. Instead, he went into law and now teaches
in the Faculty of Law at Western [read more]
Professor Jeffrey Goldsworthy of Monash University delivered the third annual Coxford
Lecture on November 26 at Western Law. President Amit Chakma welcomed
the audience which included judges, lawyers, students and faculty and
thanked Stephen Coxford '77, Vice-Chair of Western’s Board
of Governors, for establishing the prestigious lecture series. [read more - view video]
Professor Stephen Clarkson of the University of Toronto delivered
the Fourth Annual Canada-U.S. Law Institute Distinguished Lecture on
Monday, Nov. 22, on the theme ‘Narcos versus NAFTA: North American
Governance Post 9/11’.
[read more - view video]
More than 50 London lawyers, judges and legal academics gathered at
the Old Courthouse on November 25 to celebrate the publication of the
third edition of The Law of Torts in Canada. The event was sponsored and organized by Cohen Highley LLP to honour Western Law’s Emeritus Professor Gerald H.L. Fridman
[read more] Western Law professor Adam Parachin has been awarded the Canadian Tax Foundation's 2010 Douglas J. Sherbaniuk writing prize. Prof. Parachin received the award for his article
"Reforming the Meaning of 'Charitable Gift': The Case for an Alternative to Split Receipting”
[read more] Alan Schwartz (left), Sterling Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, and Bernard Black, the Nicholas D. Chabraja Professor at Northwestern University Law School and the Kellogg School of Management, visited Western Law in November as part of the Torys LLP Business and Law Pre-eminent Scholars Series.
[read more] When Kyle Smith became a Law student at Western, the last thing he figured to be taught was humility. But as a volunteer with the faculty’s Community Legal Services (CLS), he has gained not only the practical legal experience he sought, but helped right injustices for some of the more vulnerable people in London
[read more] Law students interested in gaining practical legal experience have always been drawn to the Community Legal Services Clinic (CLS) at Western, but this year that interest has doubled. CLS provides free legal assistance to people in London and area
[read more] Third-year Western law student David Solomon (pictured left) was the victor in this year's Cherniak Cup held at the law school on November 16. The Cherniak Cup, sponsored by Lerners LLP, is the Faculty’s internal trial advocacy competition.
[read more] Justice Thomas Cromwell of the Supreme Court of Canada took part in an informal 'fireside chat' at Western Law on October 22. These discussions are organized by Western Law’s Distinguished Speakers Committee to provide law students with the opportunity to get to know respected jurists and celebrated legal professionals in an intimate setting.
[read more] The annual Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG) LLP Client Counselling Competition was held at the law school on November 15, 2010. The competition encourages and assists with the development of interviewing and counselling skills
[read more]
Addresses career opportunities in sports law On Thursday November 4, Western Law Professor McLaren moderated a Sports Law Panel discussion, featuring Gord Kirke and Ian Pulver that was staged by Western Law’s Entertainment and Sports Law Association (ESLA). [read more] On Wednesday November 3, 2010, the Tort Law Research Group hosted its first public lecture. The talk, entitled "Motive and Intention in Tort Law," was delivered by Arthur Ripstein, a recent inductee into the Royal Society of Canada and world-renowned expert on Kantian legal philosophy. [read more] The eleventh annual Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG) LLP Labour and Employment Law Oral Advocacy Competition was held at Western Law on Wednesday, October 27. Second year Western Law students Alanda McLean and Julie Menten were the winning team with Menten also being named Top Oralist.
[read more] During the week of November 8, 2010, Western Law will offer its first intensive course in private law. The course will expose students to unjust enrichment and restitution, important parts of the law of obligations and the law of remedies.
[read more] Western Law alumna Jennifer Butkus ‘10 (left) has been named a finalist in this year’s national Institute for Research in Public Policy (IRPP) Constitutional Affairs Essay Competition.
[read more] Professors Grant Huscroft and Bradley Miller hosted a two-day colloquium on October 22-23. Participants from around the world discussed and debated the concept of proportionality in human rights law. Visiting scholars from the UK, Europe, New Zealand, USA, Mexico, and Canada brought a diversity of opinion on normative and institutional questions related to the use of a principle of proportionality in judicial review. [read more] Robert Glasgow was this year’s top oralist in the Lerners Cup, Western Law’s upper year appellate advocacy competition. The Lerners LLP Cup drew more than 60 students to moot questions related to a child’s refusal to consent to a blood transfusion for religious reasons.
[read more] On Friday, October 15, Western Law hosted the inaugural Western-Windsor International Humanitarian Law Forum. Jointly organized by Prof. Valerie Oosterveld (Western) and Prof. Chris Waters (Windsor), the Forum brought together 20 Windsor law students with 23 Western law students to learn about the current issue of “Direct Participation in Hostilities”.
[read more] Timed to complement the Parliamentary discussion of Bill C-32 on copyright, Irwin Law has published a new collection of 20 chapters by leading Canadian academics.
[read more] A new Coat of Arms now gracing Western Law's Moot Court Room is a tribute to the the legacy of the founding Dean of Law, the Hon Ivan Cleveland Rand.
[read more] Hal S. Scott, the Nomura Professor of International Financial Systems at the Harvard Law School, and Director of Harvard’s Program on International Financial Systems, visited Western Law on Friday October 1, to speak on “U.S. Financial Regulatory Reform in an International Context”.
[read more] Community Legal Services won a case (R. v. Swinkels) in the Court of Appeal. Credit goes to Jason Voss for this win along with Nicole Stoner who drafted the factum. The eleventh annual Borden Ladner Gervais (BLG) LLP Labour and Employment Law Oral Advocacy Competition was held at Western Law on Wednesday, October 27. Second year Western Law students Alanda McLean and Julie Menten were the winning team with Menten also being named Top Oralist.
[read more] During the week of November 8, 2010, Western Law will offer its first intensive course in private law. The course will expose students to unjust enrichment and restitution, important parts of the law of obligations and the law of remedies.
[read more] Western Law alumna Jennifer Butkus ‘10 (left) has been named a finalist in this year’s national Institute for Research in Public Policy (IRPP) Constitutional Affairs Essay Competition.
[read more] Some of the world's top public law scholars and legal philosophers will be participating in Western Law's Preeminent Public Law Scholars Series, now in its second year. The Series begins on October 8 with Professor Frederick Schauer, of the University of Virginia. A leading expert on the First Amendment, constitutional law, and legal philosophy, Schauer is the David and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.
A new legal research group launched at Western Law will provide a forum to stimulate further research and greater collaboration in the field of tort law. Tort law is a primary part of private law and the law of obligations that provides compensation not only for personal injuries and property damage but also for pure economic losses, environmental harm and psychiatric illness.
Margaret Capes, Senior Counsel with Western’s Community Legal Services Clinic and coordinator of Western Law’s Public Legal Education Program, is the recipient of a 2010 Zenith Award. [read more] Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Professor of Intellectual Property and Innovation at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, will be teaching "Select Issues in Copyright Law: Past, Present and Future" at Western Law in the Fall 2010 term.
[read more] On Tuesday, September 7 Dean Ian Holloway welcomed the Class of 2013 to law school. In his remarks Dean Holloway commented on how the class of 177 students represented a significant cross-section of Canada. Western Law's newest students come from forty-two different universities – including five in the United States and represent no less than 43 academic disciplines and a wide variety of backgrounds.
[read more] Western Law is pleased to announce that Professors Randal Graham and Stephen Pitel have been jointly appointed the inaugural Goodmans LLP Faculty Fellows in Legal Ethics for 2010-11 and Professor Michael Coyle will hold the Cassels Brock LLP Fellowship in Contract Law for 2010-11. [read more] Western Law's exchange program is one of the most active among law schools in North America with 22 partner schools in 14 countries around the world. This year, Western Law welcomed its largest group of visiting students to date - 18 students for the fall term, eight students for the full year and 6-10 more students will be joining Western Law in January.
[read more] After presenting papers at the Fifth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, held at the University of Oxford this past month, Western Law professors Erika Chamberlain and Jason Neyers, along with professor Stephen Pitel, will start preparing for Western to host the event in 2012.
[Read more] David Johnston, former University of Western Ontario Law Dean (1974-79), has been selected as Canada's next Governor General. Johnston, 69, is currently president of the University of Waterloo and is set to become the Queen's next representative in Canada Oct. 1, replacing Michaelle Jean, who will begin a four-year post as special envoy to Haiti for the United Nations.
[read more] It was a perfect day for a celebration. Family, friends and faculty gathered at the Western Law Awards ceremony on June 18 to congratulate the class of 2010. Western Law professor Bradley Miller appeared before the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs in Ottawa to discuss the constitutional conventions surrounding the prorogation of Parliament. A transcript of his June 15, 2010 evidence has been posted to the House of Commons website and can be viewed
here.
Professor Miller previously addressed prorogation and the role of the Governor General in a
public forum hosted by the Public Law and Legal Philosophy Research Group at Western Law and his commentary was published in the
Public Law Review. Western Law Professor Solomon is the recipient of The Kaiser Foundation’s 2010 National Award for Excellence in Public Policy. Solomon was selected by a National Advisory Board based on his record of outstanding achievement in reducing alcohol and other drug harm through effective public policy.
[read more] More than 400 people gathered to celebrate Western Law's golden anniversary at the largest event in the school's history at the Fairmont Royal York on April 29.
[view more photos and read story] Western Law is proud to announce the introduction of a Master of Legal Studies (MLS) program. This research-based program is for students who wish to gain an understanding of law in general and the Canadian legal system in particular. The program is geared towards students with a degree in another discipline, or foreign students with a non-Canadian law degree.
[read more] Western Law alumnus James Peterson has been appointed co-chair of the Canada - United States Law Institute (CUSLI) along with former Michigan governor James Blanchard.
University of Western Law Dean Ian Holloway, together with students, alumni and friends, rang the morning bell on April 29 to open the Toronto Stock Exchange in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the school's founding.
Margaret Banks, former Law Librarian and a Professor Emerita at The University of Western Ontario has died. Banks, 82, passed away peacefully at Parkwood Hospital on Thursday, April 29. "For the first two thirds of the law school's life, Margaret was one of the most important people in the school," said Ian Holloway, Dean of Western Law.
[read more] Western Law Professor Valerie Oosterveld (pictured left) has been awarded two Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grants for international law research. Oosterveld received an individual one year standard SSHRC grant for $31,664 for a project focusing on gender in international criminal justice.
[read more] Six Western Law students have been selected for judicial clerkships with courts and judges at the federal and provincial levels. Several courts in Canada, both at the trial and appeal levels, offer clerking opportunities.
[read more] Western Law hosted a new advocacy competition in Legal Ethics and Professionalism on April 6, 2010. The competition, sponsored by Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP, featured twenty first-year students appealing the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Strother v. 3464920 Canada Inc., a case involving conflict of interest and a lawyer’s duty of loyalty. Lenczner Slaght is based in Toronto and has been consistently recognized as one of Canada’s premier litigation practices.
[read more] On Thursday, April 1, 2010, the Canada-U.S. Law Institute (CUSLI) Student Committee hosted a panel discussion on the recently signed Canada-United States Agreement on Government Procurement (Canada-U.S. AGP). The panel featured Jayson Myers, President and CEO of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (CME) and Stuart Trew, Trade Policy Analyst with the Council of Canadians.
[read more] George Akerlof delivered the 2010 Beattie Family Lecture in Business Law to a full house at Western Law on March 22. Akerlof spoke on the topic "Identity Economics".
Eleven Western Law students will be spending their summer expanding their knowledge of international law and issues thanks to the school's International Law Internship Program (ILIP). "The International Internship Program provides our students with excellent opportunities to directly experience how international law is made, applied and interpreted around the world," says Prof. Valerie Oosterveld, Director of ILIP.
[read more] Some of Canada’s greatest legal minds gathered at UWO on March 4 to settle a loan dispute. The creditor was summarily convicted of attempted murder in a trial without due process, then forced to give up most of his wealth and even his religion. This wasn’t a case from modern day Canada, though; the creditor was Shylock, and Shakespeare imagined his predicament more than 400 years ago. [read more] Philippe Sands delivered the 4th annual Claude and Elaine Pensa Lecture in Human Rights to a full house at Western Law on March 3.
Sands,
a Professor of international law at University College London and a regular commentator on the BBC and CNN spoke on “Torture, Lawyers and Accountability”.
Listen to the 2010 Pensa Lecture given by Philippe Sands.
[read more] On Thursday, March 18th, Western Law hosted a panel discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Canadian Mining Sector, organized and moderated by Prof. Sara Seck. [read more] A public forum on Polygamy in Canada was held on Tuesday, March 23 in the Moot Court Room of the Faculty of Law. The panel featured Professor John Finnis, Oxford University, Professor Grant Huscroft, Western Law, Professor Michael Milde, Dept. of Philosophy, UWO and Professor Bradley Miller, Western Law and was moderated by Western Law Professor Margaret Martin.
Listen to a podcast of the forum here. After a challenging final round judged by Professors Andrew Botterell, Stephen Pitel and Chris Sherrin, Jeffrey Warnock was named the winner of the 2010 First Year Appellate Competition. The other three finalists were John Mather, Steven Pulver and Gillian Fournie.
[read more] The Toronto labour law firm of Mathews Dinsdale & Clark LLP has made a commitment of $60,000 over three years to establish the Mathews Dinsdale Speakers' Series in Labour Law. The Series, which commenced in February, enables Western Law to bring leading labour law scholars and practitioners to campus to lecture an advanced seminar of labour law students on a wide-range of contemporary workplace law issues.
[read more] From March 10-13, Western Law’s team of Melissa Roth, Meaghan Hourigan, Nicole Morand, David Solomon and Christopher Sinal and competed in the White & Case Canadian National Division Qualifying Tournament of the 2010 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition in Toronto.
[read more] Western Law students did themselves proud at the annual 2010 Fraser Milner Casgrain Gale Cup Moot. Students Ben Blay and Tim Duncan were each presented with the Dickson Medal, awarded to the student or students who demonstrate excellence in oral advocacy at the FMC Gale Cup.
[read more] The 2010 Hicks Morley Labour Arbitration Moot was held at Western Law on March 3 followed by a gala banquet at Windermere Hall. In the Moot, students argue an appellate moot problem based on a recent labour law case.
[read more] The Faculty of Law at the University of Western Ontario will admit a Canadian Forces captain this fall under a new program for Canadian Forces personnel released for medical reasons.
(Read more) Denys Holland was a much-loved member of the Western Law faculty during his tenure at the school from 1974 until his death in 1984. Now a book about Holland's work and unique contribution to the law has been commissioned by the Faculty of Laws at University College, London (UCL).
[read more] Second-year Western Law student Keri Wallace has been elected President of The Black Law Students' Association of Canada (BLSAC) The election was held at the association’s annual conference hosted by McGill University
[read more] When Western Law administrative assistant Emilia Hugel saw images of the devastation in Haiti she felt compelled to help. So in late January she came up with the fundraising idea to raffle off a gourmet basket to raise money for the earthquake relief efforts.
[read more] Western Law graduate Roberta Jamieson ('76) is one of 10 experienced Canadian leaders assigned to mentor one or two promising doctoral students awarded the prestigious Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholarship. Jamieson was the first woman from a First Nation in Canada to graduate from a law school
[read more] Western Law is proud to announce a new advocacy competition in Legal Ethics and Professionalism. The competition, sponsored by Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP, is open to first-year students and will take place on April 6, 2010.
[read more] Talk to anyone affiliated with Western's law school in its early years and they'll tell you it was an exciting time. A new school with small class sizes and a friendly ambience - those were some of the hallmarks of Western Law when it was founded in 1959.
[read more] By Elena Kaminsky
A third-year Western Law student has been selected to present a paper at a nationwide Human Rights Conference. Jennifer Del Vecchio was selected through a competitive process to present at The Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) 6th Annual Global Generations Conference.
[read more]
Western Law News
2010 - Headlines
In life, as in Law, The Play’s The Thing
2010 Coxford Lecture Explores "The Limits of Judicial Fidelity to Law"
Canada-U.S. Distinguished Lecture focuses on NAFTA
Professor Emeritus Gerald Fridman Honoured at Book Launch
Students Sport 'Staches for Good Cause
A dedicated team of 46 Western Law students, nicknamed UWMo Law, are
putting down their razors and sprouting stylish '70s staches all for a
great cause. The students are taking part in 'Movember', an annual
fuzz-growing campaign that raises awareness and funds for Prostate
Cancer Canada.
[read more]
Prof. Adam Parachin Wins Prestigious Tax Writing Award
Leading Law and Economics Scholars from Yale and Northwestern visit Western Law
Young legal minds defend right to counsel
Students clamour for CLS experience
Cherniak Cup competition focuses on trial advocacy
Up close and personal with a Supreme Court Justice
BLG Client Competition
Dick Pound on "When Sport is no longer Sport"
Dick Pound, Founding Chairman of the World Anti-Doping Agency and partner at the Montreal offices of Stikeman Elliott LLP, visited the Faculty of Law at UWO on Monday November 1 [read more]
Panel addresses career opportunities in sports law
"Motive and Intention in Tort Law"
BLG Moot highlights Labour and Employment Law
Intensive Course in Unjust Enrichment and Restitution offered by UCL Prof. Robert Chambers
Law grad finalist in Constitutional affairs competition
International scholars debate proportionality
Students Gain Education in Advocacy at 2010 Lerners Cup
Western-Windsor International Humanitarian Law Forum
Western Law Professors Featured in New Book on Canadian Copyright
Coat of Arms honours Dean Ivan Rand
Harvard Law Professor Delivers Talk on Financial Reform
Community Legal Services Wins Case in Court of Appeal
BLG Moot Highlights Labour and Employment Law
Intensive Course in Unjust Enrichment and Restitution offered by UCL Prof. Robert Chambers
Law grad finalist in Constitutional affairs competition
Professor Frederick Schauer kicks off public law scholars series
Western creates Tort Law Research Group
Margaret Capes lauded for Public Legal Education outreach
Cyberlaw pioneer Professor Brian Fitzgerald to teach intensive course on copyright law and policy
Dean Holloway Welcomes Class of 2013
New Faculty Fellows appointed
Western Law welcomes international exchange students
Western to host international private law conference
Former Law Dean new Governor General
Class of 2010 celebrated at Western Law awards ceremony
Proroguing Parliament
Law prof awarded public policy prize
What a party! Hundreds celebrate as Western Law turns 50
Western Law launches Master of Legal Studies program
Western Law alumnus to co-chair CUSLI
Peterson has served as Minister of International Trade, Secretary of State (International Financial Institutions), and Chair of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance.
[read more]
Western Law Opens TSX
In Memoriam - Margaret Banks
SSHRC grants awarded for International Law research
Students secure prestigious judicial clerkships
Western Law hosts inaugural moot in legal ethics
Expert panel discusses ‘Buy America’ deal
Nobel Prize winning economist delivers Beattie Lecture
Akerlof is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and co-author of Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being. [view video]
[read more]
International Law Internship Program creates a world of opportunities
Shakespeare in Court: A Play with Appeal
Torture and accountability focus of Pensa Lecture in Human Rights
Panel explores Corporate Social Responsibility
“Polygamy in Canada: The Legal and Philosophical Questions”
First Year Appellate Competition 2010
Mathews Dinsdale supports Speakers' Series in Labour Law
Western Law does well at Jessup Moot
Two Western Law students win Dickson Medal in FMC Gale Cup Moot
Hicks Morley Labour Moot
Law admits decorated Canadian Forces captain
Professor Denys Holland biographer seeks reminiscences
Western Law student elected National President of Black law Students' Association
Law fundraiser nets $1,016 for Haiti
Western Law grad assigned mentorship
Lenczner Slaght LLP Advocacy Competition in Legal Ethics and Professionalism
International focus grows as Law marks 50 years
International Law trip provides unique student experience
I was among a fortunate group who participated in a fascinating trip to New York City from January 10-15 to study the internal workings of a variety of international organizations. The trip, led by International Law Professor Valerie Oosterveld, began on January 11 with a visit to the United Nations
[read more]
Student to present paper at national Human Rights Conference
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