Yemisi Dina appointed chief law librarian of Osgoode
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Yemisi Dina
Osgoode Hall Law School Dean (Interim) Mary Condon sent the following announcement to the Osgoode community on May 10:
Yemisi Dina
I am very pleased to announce the appointment of Yemisi Dina as Osgoode’s chief law librarian.
Yemisi Dina, who has a master of public policy, administration and law degree from York University, as well as a master of library and information science degree from the University Of Ibadan, Nigeria, served as interim chief law librarian from November 2017 to the present. She also held the position of head of public services at the Law Library from June 2006. In 2007-08, Yemisi Dina served as the acting chief law librarian.
The international search attracted an exceptionally talented group of candidates and I am delighted with the results of the search. Yemisi will provide leadership and strategic direction for the Law Library and we look forward to working with her.
Please join me in congratulating Yemisi Dina on her appointment as chief law librarian.
LCO, Osgoode and Element AI will host a discussion about artificial intelligence
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The Law Commission of Ontario (LCO), Osgoode Hall Law School and Element AI are hosting a discussion about artificial intelligence (AI) and the emerging legal, regulatory and ethical issues surrounding it. The event will take place on Wednesday, May 15, from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Helliwell Centre at the Ignat Kaneff Building (home to Osgoode Hall Law School) at the Keele Campus. It will also be live streamed.
This event has been positioned to be an introduction to AI, think of it as AI 101 – designed for lawyers. The event will include an explanation of AI technology and address crucial and growing issues about the impact of algorithms, automated decision-making, and artificial intelligence (AI) on the legal system in Ontario.
Automated decision-making systems, which may include the use of algorithms, machine learning and artificial intelligence systems, are already being utilized or proposed for use in areas as diverse as immigration and refugee proceedings, child welfare services, eligibility for government benefits, police profiling, and to determine sentencing, bail and parole conditions.
The representatives from LCO, Element AI and guest speakers will discuss issues including accountability, transparency, due process, “ethical AI”, human rights, data governance, challenges in litigating and contracting AI, and the emerging regulatory landscape.
This event follows up the LCO’s recent March 22 Roundtable on Algorithms in the Criminal Justice System. More information about the LCO’s Digital Rights Project can be found here. The event is funded, in part, by a Law Foundation of Ontario Justice and Technology Grant. Registration is required for this event and can be completed here.
Researchers win $1.89M grant to search for AI solution to infant pain assessment
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Importantly, this will be the first-time brain activity in infants is being considered in a potential clinical pain assessment tool in infants
On April 2, a team of York University researchers led by psychology Professor Rebecca Pillai Riddell, associate vice-president research and the director of the Opportunities to Understand Childhood Hurt (O.U.C.H.) Lab, was awarded a $1.5-million grant from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council, and the Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council of Canada – plus $387,000 in-kind contributions from community partners.
The project being funded, “Rebooting Infant Pain Assessment,” could give voice to preterm infants’ subjective experiences of pain, despite their inability to speak. The study will use machine learning to exponentially improve neonatal intensive care unit practice.
Pillai Riddell is the principal investigator (PI), with Professors Steven Wang (co-PI, Faculty of Science) and Aijun An (co-investigator, Lassonde School of Engineering) and Ian Stedman (Osgoode Hall Law School). Pillai Riddell is leading a team of 16 individuals across two countries and six sites. This is a highly collaborative international venture and it exemplifies cross-Faculty collaboration at York University.
Left to right: Principal investigator Rebecca Pillai Riddell (Health), Co-principal investigator Steven Wang (Science), Co-investigator Aijun An (Lassonde School of Engineering) and researcher Ian Stedman (Osgoode Hall Law School)
“The AI (artificial intelligence) component in this project is important because it is enabling us to use continuous brain activity in a proposed clinical pain assessment application – to our knowledge, that’s a first anywhere in the world,” says Pillai Riddell. “York’s partnership with UCL (University College London) and McMaster University in this venture is a fantastic synergy of our combined expertise of behavioural and biological infant distress responses. I am thrilled to then be able to take our health content knowledge and take it to the next level with cutting-edge York U artificial intelligence scientists in two sector-leading neonatal intensive care units – one in Canada (Mount Sinai) and one in the U.K. (University College London Hospital).
“Moreover, this special Tri-Council opportunity inspired us to invite new social scientists at Osgoode Hall Law School (Ian Stedman) and University of Calgary to explore the ethical and social implications of computer-assisted clinical decision-making,” she adds.
Desperate need for a better way forward for infant pain assessment
The need is great. Unmanaged pain in hospitalized infants has serious long-term complications. However, to manage pain, one must have accurate infant pain assessment. Infants cannot self-report their pain and current infant pain assessment tools used by health professionals have major problems because of the lack of specificity of current tools and bias in the caregivers who use these scales.
The researchers believe they have found a path towards a solution. “Our international team of knowledge users and health/natural science/engineering/social science researchers have come together to build a machine learning algorithm that will learn how to discriminate invasive and non-invasive distress,” Pillai Riddell explains.
Importantly, this will be the first time brain activity in infants is being considered in a potential clinical pain assessment tool
Three hundred babies and their mothers will be studied
A sample of 300 preterm infants and their mothers will be involved during a routine painful procedure. Pain indicators, such as facial grimacing, heart rate, brain electrical activity and oxygen levels will be used to train the algorithm to discriminate between the different types of distress.
“The complexity of pain requires a machine learning solution that is capable of modelling individual patterns of brain, behaviour and physiology during pain,” Pillai Riddell explains.
Re-examining a Muslim veil case where judge blocked feminist interveners
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Zunera Ishaq
The 2015 Canadian court case Ishaq vs. Canada (Minister of Citizenship and Immigration) brought religious freedom and civic responsibility head-to-head. Zunera Ishaq, a Muslim woman, challenged a government policy requiring her to remove her niqab while reciting the citizenship oath. The Federal Court ruled in the woman’s favour and determined that it was unlawful for the government to ban new citizens from reciting the oath with a face-covering veil.
Zunera Ishaq (Image: Aaron Vincent Elkaim for the National Post. Permission to use photo granted by the photographer)
Three years later, this pivotal case was put under the microscope once again, this time from a feminist perspective, by a PhD student at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, Dana Phillips. Specifically, Phillips revisits the fact that the court dismissed motions for intervention by feminist (and other equality-seeking organizations) because it believed that these groups were improperly relying on unproven social facts and social science research.
Dana Phillips
“I argue that the court unfairly characterized the submissions of the feminist interveners in a way that impedes such organizations from effectively supporting equality and access to justice in litigation,” says Phillips, who believes that litigation could be enlightened by and contribute to the production and circulation of feminist knowledge. “At a time when feminists are seeking to combat reductive stereotypes about immigrant, Muslim and niqab-wearing women, that seems awfully important,” she emphasizes.
Interestingly, Phillips wrote this article for a course she was taking as part of a new and very innovative program at Osgoode called Feminist Advocacy: Ending Violence Against Women Clinical Program. “I had the privilege of participating as a graduate student in the pilot year,” she explains.
The resulting paper, “Ishaq v Canada: ‘Social Science Facts’ in Feminist Interventions,” was published in the Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (2018).
Overview of the 2015 case
Zunera Ishaq is a Canadian resident and devout Muslim who chooses to wear a niqab, a veil that covers women’s faces in accordance to a specific interpretation of modest dress. Most Muslim scholars believe that women’s covering of the face is not a requirement of Islam; however, a minority, for example in the Salafi movement, believe that women are required to cover their face in public or places where they may encounter men who are not related to them (Wikipedia).
The policy of the office of Citizenship & Immigration Canada (CIC), at the time of the case, stated that this veil must be removed during the citizenship test, prior to the oath, for identification purposes:
13.2. Full or partial face coverings: Candidates for citizenship wearing a full or partial face covering must be identified…. The candidate must be asked to reveal her face to allow the CIC official to confirm the identity against the documents on file. The candidates must be advised at this time that they will need to remove their face covering during the taking of the oath. Failure to do so will result in the candidates not receiving their Canadian citizenship on that day.
Ishaq removed her niqab during the citizenship test, in adherence to CIC’s policy, but she did not do so during the oath. “My religious beliefs would compel me to refuse to take off my veil,” she explained. “I feel that the governmental policy regarding veils at citizenship oath ceremonies is a personal attack on me, my identity as a Muslim woman and my religious beliefs.”
As noted, the court ruled in her favour, stating that the existing government policy was unlawful.
Zunera Ishaq, second from right, leaves the Federal Court of Appeal. (Image: The Canadian Press/Patrick Doyle. Permission to reproduce image granted by the Canadian Press)
Several organizations sought to intervene but were not allowed
In her paper, Phillips re-examines this controversial case at the Federal Court of Appeal, and the role of social and legislative facts, and social science research, in feminist interventions in public interest litigation.
She underscores the fact that several organizations brought motions to intervene, but were prevented by the judge, Justice Stratas, who believed that the interveners’ proposed submissions were too vague. The judge believed that the interveners were trying to advance “social science facts” without properly proving them in evidence, Phillips emphasizes.
Concludes that judge’s decision departs from approach of other Canadian courts
Phillips meticulously presents and considers other similar court cases and concludes that Justice Stratas’s decision “departs from the generous approach to public interest interventions sanctioned by the federal and other Canadian courts.”
This has serious ramifications, according to Phillips, because it threatens the balance between the individual and systemic dimensions of a case and raises some important questions about the potential for feminist and other equality-seeking organizations to marshal their knowledge and expertise in litigation.
Legal advocate emphasizes ‘chilling effect’ of decision
Phillips’s analysis was also informed by interviews with two legal advocates who remained anonymous – “X” and “Y,” members of the organizations that brought motions to intervene. “X” stated that if all courts adopted an approach similar to the Ishaq vs. Canada case, the result would be a “chilling effect” on interventions.
Phillips hopes that the next court takes a more contextualized view of the facts. She adds, “Feminist advocacy inside the courtroom connects to the world beyond it.”
To read the paper, “Ishaq v Canada: ‘Social Science Facts’ in Feminist Interventions,” Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice (2018), visit the website. To learn more about Phillips, visit her profile on the Osgoode site. To learn more about the program, “Feminist Advocacy,” visit the website. To read the Federal Court case, visit the website.
By Megan Mueller, senior manager, Research Communications, Office of the Vice-President Research & Innovation, York University, muellerm@yorku.ca
New dean appointed to Osgoode Hall Law School
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York University President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton issues the following announcement:
Mary Condon
I am pleased to inform members of the Osgoode Hall Law School and York community that the search for a new dean has reached a successful conclusion.
The decanal search committee was established in 2018, composed of faculty, staff, students and alumni from Osgoode and was chaired by me. Following an extensive national and international search, which attracted outstanding candidates, the search committee recommended the appointment of Professor Mary Condon to the position of dean. I am very pleased to announce that Professor Condon has accepted our invitation to take up a four-year term, commencing July 1, and that the Board of Governors has approved the appointment.
Professor Condon will be well known to members of the York community, having served as interim dean of Osgoode since May of 2018. She joined the Osgoode faculty in 1992 and served as the school’s associate dean (academic) until 2016. In this capacity, she chaired the school’s Tenure and Promotions, Grades Review, and Faculty Appointments Committees. In the past, she has chaired the Faculty Recruitment Committee, and she previously served as director of Osgoode’s Graduate Program.
Professor Condon holds a law degree from Trinity College, Dublin, and MA, LLM and SJD degrees from the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Bar of Ontario. Her research interests include the regulation of securities markets, investment funds, online investing, and pensions. She is the author of a number of books, articles and policy papers in these areas, and has given lectures in Canada and internationally. She teaches courses in securities regulation and advanced securities in the JD program, as well as directing and teaching in the Professional LLM in Securities Law program. From 2005-2014, she was a member of the Board of Trustees of the York University Pension Fund.
Beyond York, she was appointed by the Ontario government as a Commissioner and Board Member of the Ontario Securities Commission (2008-2016), serving as a Vice-Chair from 2011-2014, in which role she sponsored a number of important policy initiatives and issued adjudicative decisions. From 2014-2016 she was a member of the National Steering Committee on Financial Literacy. In 2009, she held the Walter S. Owen Chair in Business Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia, where she was also the co- director of the National Centre for Business Law. In 2018, she was named one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN).
I know Mary will provide outstanding leadership as dean, and look forward to working with her and colleagues in Osgoode to advance its position as one of the premier law schools in Canada and around the world.
York University announces nine York Research Chair appointments
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Nine emerging and established researchers across the University will join the York Research Chairs (YRC) program, York University’s internal counterpart to the national Canada Research Chairs (CRC) program, which recognizes outstanding researchers. The newly appointed YRCs belong to the sixth cohort of researchers to be appointed since the establishment of the program in 2015. The new YRC’s terms start July 1.
Rhonda L. Lenton
“Our new YRCs are leading scholars and mentors in their fields,” said President and Vice-Chancellor Rhonda L. Lenton. “York is committed to ensuring that our research, scholarship and creative activities are of the highest quality and connected to the needs of the communities we serve. The YRC program is central to that commitment, and we are proud to support the ongoing excellence of our outstanding researchers through this initiative.”
This program, launched by Vice-President Research and Innovation Robert Haché, seeks to build research recognition and capacity, with excellence in research, scholarship and associated creative activity serving as selection criteria.
Robert Haché
“The YRC program mirrors the federal CRC program, to broaden and deepen the impact of research chairs at York in building and intensifying world-renowned research across the institution. These new YRCs are undertaking visionary work that has local, national and international impact,” said Haché.
Tier I YRCs are open to established research leaders at the rank of full professor. Tier II YRCs are aimed at emerging research leaders within 15 years of their first academic appointment. Both have five-year terms that are renewable in the context of open competition, based on peer review and the continuing availability of resources.
Tier I York Research Chairs
Benjamin L. Berger York Research Chair in Pluralism and Public Law
Benjamin L. Berger
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Benjamin L. Berger is internationally recognized as one of Canada’s foremost experts in law and religion, and constitutional and criminal law and theory. He is an award-winning scholar and teacher, deeply engaged in public and professional education and advocacy. Interdisciplinary and comparative in its approach, Berger’s research is dedicated to advancing knowledge about the unique challenges and complex role of public law in deeply diverse societies.
Janine Marchessault York Research Chair in Media Arts and Community Engagement
Janine Marchessault
Janine Marchessault, professor of Cinema and Media Studies in the School of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design, held the Canada Research Chair in Art, Digital Media and Globalization (2003-2013). She was the co-founder of Future Cinema Lab and the inaugural Director of Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology Research at York University. In 2018, she won a $2+ million Partnership grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for “Archive/Counter-Archive: Activating Canada’s Moving Image Heritage,” which involves 43 co-applicants and has collaborators from Canada and across the globe.
Gary Sweeney York Research Chair in Mechanisms of Cardiometabolic Diseases
Gary Sweeney
Faculty of Science Professor Gary Sweeney is an expert on diabetes and cardiovascular disease. His work focuses on understanding mechanisms of cardiometabolic diseases, such as heart failure, and is designed to advance knowledge that will facilitate our fundamental understanding of causes of these diseases. Thus, his research will result in informed decision-making and improved health care. His research is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Tier II York Research Chairs
Uzo Anucha York Research Chair in Youth and Contexts of Inequity
Uzo Anucha
Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies Professor Uzo Anucha is a scholar who conceptualizes her research as a community dialogue centred on equitable collaborations with community stakeholders. She is the Provincial Academic Director of the Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX), a multi-million investment by the Ontario government. YouthREX is an innovative knowledge hub that makes research evidence and evaluation practices accessible to Ontario’s youth sector through capacity building, knowledge exchange and evaluation leadership.
Hany Farag York Research Chair in Integrated Smart Energy Grids
Hany Farag
Hany Farag, a professor in the Lassonde School of Engineering, has research interest including the integration of renewable generation, energy storage and electric vehicles, renewable hydrogen and natural gas, and smart grids. Since joining York, Farag has secured more than $500,000 in funding from NSERC and power utilities. He led the development of teaching and research laboratories in the new Electrical Engineering program, worth $2 million. He received an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science in 2018.
Ryan Hili York Research Chair in Molecular Evolution
Ryan Hili
Faculty of Science Professor Ryan Hili’s research interests that focus on using DNA to program and encode the synthesis of molecular libraries ranging from small molecules to synthetic biopolymers. By using the principles of Darwinian evolution, his lab can evolve these molecular libraries for desired function, yielding small molecule drugs to treat human disease or antibody mimetics for use in medical diagnostics. Hili received an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science to build a research team in 2018.
Brent Lyons York Research Chair in Stigmatization and Social Identity
Brent Lyons
Schulich School of Business Professor Brent Lyons studies stigma in organizations and how individuals with stigmatized social identities, such as disability, navigate their work and interpersonal relationships to reduce consequences of stigmatization. He has published his work in numerous journals, such as Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Applied Psychology and the Journal of Management. He serves on various editorial boards, including that of the Journal of Applied Psychology and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
John Moores York Research Chair in Space Exploration
John Moores,
Lassonde School of Engineering Professor John Moores is an internationally recognized planetary scientist and space engineer whose research explores the atmospheres and surfaces of other worlds. His research group has been a member of the science and operations teams of five ESA and NASA space missions to Mars and Titan, and has been awarded the NASA group achievement award on 16 occasions. Moores has published 63 papers garnering more than 4,950 citations. He was elected as a Member of the College of New Scholars in the Royal Society of Canada in 2018.
Amy Muise York Research Chair in Relationships and Sexuality
Amy Muise
Amy Muise, a professor in the Faculty of Health, studies the maintenance of sexual desire and relationship satisfaction in romantic relationships. This is important given that long-lasting, happy relationships are key contributors to overall health and well-being, and that lowering the divorce rate helps to reduce financial instability and negative health and psychological consequences. Muise was bestowed an Early Researcher Award from the Ministry of Research, Innovation and Science in 2018. Her research has been supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.
Is your data safe? Spies and cybersecurity topic of Faculty of Science York Forum
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Speaker Eric O’Neill keeps the audience interested with real life spy stories
Spy stories, data encryption and how well companies are protecting your data were just a few of the topics discussed at this year’s Faculty of Science York Forum: Cybersecurity in the Age of Espionage at the Toronto Reference Library.
Speaker Eric O’Neill keeps the audience interested with real life spy stories
Eric O’Neill, a cybersecurity expert and former undercover FBI operative, took the audience inside one of the most notorious security breaches in United States history, and how the FBI eventually caught the spy or mole, Robert Hanssen.
Faculty of Science Interim Dean EJ Janse van Rensburg gives the opening remarks at the 2019 York Forum
The faculty’s current Science Communicator in Residence Dan Falk, an award-winning freelance science journalist, author and broadcaster, moderated the event. It included panellists Patrick Ingram, a mathematics professor in the Faculty of Science who teaches courses in cryptology, and Kristin Ali, a lawyer in the Privacy & Data Management group at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and an adjunct Professor at York’s Osgoode Hall Law School.
Speaker Eric O’Neill discusses how he helped bring down one of the most damaging spies in U.S. history
O’Neill was instrumental in gathering information and evidence needed to capture Hanssen one winter evening after he left a package of secrets for the Russians under a footbridge in a local park near his home.
“He gave up secrets regarding the nuclear arsenal for the United States. What we would do if the Russians fired. Where we would send the government, the president, vice-president, the congress, the cabinet … if there was an attack or a catastrophic event. He also gave up undercover operations and undercover operatives.” said O’Neill. “He even gave up people who could have potentially pointed the FBI at him from Russia. Spies that were working for us. He gave them up knowing they would be flown back to Moscow and killed.”
Eric O’Neill (second from left) talks about the importance of catching cyber spies with moderator Dan Falk (left) and panellists Kristin Ali and Patrick Ingram
What did this have to do with the topic of the evening, cybersecurity? Everything. “He was our first cyber spy,” said O’Neill, the national security strategist for Carbon Black and author of a new book about the case, Gray Day: My Undercover Mission to Expose America’s First Cyber Spy. “He was able to do what he did because he exploited computer systems inside the FBI.”
Although, this particular arrest happened in 2001, today’s cyber criminals or hackers have evolved. According to a threat report conducted by Carbon Black, O’Neill said some 83 per cent of Canadian businesses surveyed reported they had suffered a cyber-attack in the last 12 months.
“You are definitely under siege,” he said. It is no longer good enough to respond to these attacks, the best way to catch these cyber-attackers is to hunt them before they do damage.
“Data is one of the biggest commodities you can have,” said Ali. “Organizations, whether they’re in the private sector or the public sector, have become more and more aware of the obligations they have to safeguard your data. A big change to the data privacy landscape has been that there is now mandatory data breach reporting in Canada that came into force on Nov. 1. That’s had a huge impact.”
More organizations “are taking reasonable steps to safeguard the data that they collect to protect users and minimize the extent that they have to report that they’ve had a data breach,” she said.
Many cyber-attacks also happen to individuals through spear phishing attempts targeting email accounts with the intent to trick people into clicking on a malicious link. The message here was to be extremely careful what you click on, what websites you visit and remember nothing is free. Simple measures can go a long way to help keep your data secure. Create complex passwords, use a different one for each thing, and change it often. Avoid using some of the most popular passwords, such as 123456 or password1.
Moderator Dan Falk, the Faculty of Science Communicator in Residence, asks the panel, (from left) Eric O’Neill, Kristin Ali, and Patrick Ingram, a question about cybersecurity
“One mathematical measure you can have of the complexity of passwords is entropy, which is essentially, how hard is it to guess the next character based on the previous characters,” said Ingram, who spoke about the importance and evolution of encryption.
“We’ve been encrypting things for thousands of years in various ways.”
One of the flaws, however, was if you know how the message was encrypted you could figure how to break the encryption. “In World War II the Germans had these enigma machines that you dialed in the settings. If you knew the settings on the enigma machine, if you knew every detail of how it was encrypted, you could reverse those steps and decrypt the message.”
In the 1970s, a paper by mathematicians Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman proposed a new approach to cryptology that involved easy mathematical operations that were impossible to reverse. “Probably the best example of this right now is the RSA public-key cryptosystem. This came out a couple of years after the original paper,” said Ingram. It involves multiplying two 300-digit prime numbers. “Someone can try and reverse the process…but the inverse operation turns out to be much, much more difficult.”
Osgoode’s Poonam Puri appointed to Tethyan Resources board of directors
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Tethyan Resources announced on April 22 the appointment of Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Poonam Puri to its board of directors.
Poonam Puri
Tethyan Resources is a member of the Augusta Group of Companies, and is a precious and base metals mineral exploration company incorporated in England and Wales and listed on the TSX Venture Exchange.
Tethyan is focused on the Tethyan Metallogenic Belt in Eastern Europe, mainly Serbia, where it is acquiring and exploring a portfolio of quality precious and base metals projects with known mineralization and compelling drill targets. It emphasizes responsible engagement with local communities and stakeholders, and is committed to the proactive implementation of Good International Industry Practice (GIIP) and sustainable health, safety and environmental management.
Puri is a professor of law and former associate dean at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School. She is also an affiliated scholar to Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP. Puri is one of Canada’s most respected scholars and commentators on issues of corporate governance, corporate law, securities law and financial regulation. Puri is currently a commissioner of the Ontario Securities Commission and serves on the board of directors of the Canada Infrastructure Bank.
On the board of directors for Tethyan Resources, Puri replaces Michael Andrews who has resigned to focus on his professional commitments at a number of other companies where he holds senior executive positions.
Jerrold Annett, chief executive officer, said, “We would like to thank Dr. Andrews for his long-term support and wish him well in his future endeavours. We are very pleased to have Professor Puri join our board, bringing deep expertise in the area of corporate governance as she did at Arizona Mining. With the closing of our $5-million private placement last week, we are well funded for our 2019 exploration program.”
Osgoode Professional Development unveils newly renovated space in heart of Toronto
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Osgoode Professional Development (Osgoode PD) has unveiled its newly renovated space on the 26th floor of 1 Dundas St. W., operating in Toronto’s business core just steps away from the city’s subway line, financial district and government offices.
Part of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, one of the oldest and best law schools in Canada, Osgoode PD offers credit and non-credit programs for Canadian and international lawyers, paralegals, professionals, firms and organizations.
Its Continuing Legal Education programs offer everything from one-hour briefings to conferences and short courses taught by practising lawyers and a range of experts in other disciplines. OsgoodePD’s certificate programs for lawyers and professionals offer in-depth study of a particular legal subject, as well as customized programming for in-depth, practical training of employees or teams.
OsgoodePD’s flagship academic programs include a course-based professional LLM degree with 14 different specializations taught on campus or through distance learning by Osgoode’s award-winning professors, senior practitioners, judges and policy-makers. The International Business Law LLM and Canadian Common Law LLM programs are designed specifically for internationally trained lawyers.
Most of the courses and programs are offered on-site and through the convenience of distance education using webcast and video streaming. OsgoodePD also offers Programs On Demand, a selection of previously offered and exclusive on-demand courses available whenever your schedule permits.
Osgoode team performs well at Price Media Law Moot in Oxford, England
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Osgoode JD students Alana Robert (back row, fourth from the right ) and James Shields (back row, fifth from the right) were superb in their semifinal round against Kyiv Mohyla Academy at the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition
Osgoode JD students Alana Robert and James Shields were superb in their semifinal round against Kyiv Mohyla Academy at the Price Media Law Moot Court Competition. In a split 2-1 ruling, Kyiv Mohyla Academy advanced.
The Price Media Law Moot Court Program, established in 2008, aims to “foster and cultivate interest in freedom of expression issues and the role of the media and information technologies in societies around the world.” It was established by the University of Oxford’s Program in Comparative Media Law & Policy.
The competition is designed to challenge law students to participate in comparative research that meets legal standards at all levels (regional, national and international). Students learn to develop their arguments, both written and oral, on issues in media and information and communications technology law.
Part of York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, one of the oldest and best law schools in Canada, Osgoode PD offers credit and non-credit programs for Canadian and international lawyers, paralegals, professionals, firms and organizations.
