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Visual Advocacy in the Ascendant Osgoode sets its sights on areas where the fairness, accessibility and effectiveness of justice can be improved through visual media. 10 Visual Advocacy CONTINUUM in the Ascendant Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Magazine Osgoode, with the generous assistance of Volume 40 Kathryn Podrebarac ’92, has established EDITOR the Fund for Innovation in Law and Media Anita Herrmann (FILM) to create and sustain experiential Director, Office of External education programs focused on the use of Relations & Communications visual advocacy. Initial projects include the 416-736-5364 [email protected] Gladue Video Project and the Justice Video CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Information Project. Virginia Corner Manager, Communications 14 Bridging Law WRITERS Suzanne Bowness and Community Meghan Carrington Osgoode Visiting Professor Jamil Jivani is Bev Cline Virginia Corner inspiring Osgoode students to put law into New Ways to Connect Anita Herrmann action through his Community Organizing Kaitlin Normandin and the Law course and initiatives such as Lorne Sossin mobilizing voter turnout in the Jane and Christine Ward Finch neighbourhood. PHOTOGRAPHY Ian Crysler New Paramount Studios Ltd. 16 Osgoode’s Helping Hand Sjoerd Witteveen Members of the Osgoode community go DESIGN AND PRODUCTION above and beyond to support Syria’s refugees SPARK | sparkbranding.ca at home and abroad. WINTER 2016 PRINTING RJM Print Group LINKEDIN FACEBOOK YOUTUBE TWITTER Continuum is published once a year by Osgoode 20 Celebrating our Illustrious Osgoode Hall facebook.com/ youtube.com/ @OsgoodeNews Hall Law School of York University for alumni and Law School osgoode OsgoodeHall friends. Ideas and opinions expressed in Continuum Osgoode Catalysts do not necessarily reflect those of the editors, Alumni Group LawSchool Five more trailblazing alumni have been added Osgoode Hall Law School or York University. to our list of exceptional individuals who We invite your letters and comments, and hope you will keep us posted on where you are and what you overcame barriers and paved the way for others. are doing. Please send correspondence to: Continuum 03 Message from the Dean Office of External Relations & Communications 04 In Brief Ignat Kaneff Building, Room 1016 Osgoode Hall Law School York University 22 Osgoode Knowledge 4700 Keele Street Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Telephone: 416-736-5638 24 Faculty News Fax: 416-736-5629 E-mail: [email protected] 28 Class Notes Website: osgoode.yorku.ca/alumni 32 In Memoriam Printed in Canada ISSN 0318-1295 WINTER 2016

Message from the Dean

Community engagement is not just an rates in the country. From knocking on doors to giving away Thanksgiving turkeys, Osgoode students participating in the aspiration at Osgoode – it is embedded Community Organizing and the Law project all have come in the very mission and mandate of the to see law as embedded in community and community as embedded in law. I very much hope the ripple effects from this Law School (and York University). project within the Black Creek neighbourhood and throughout the Law School and the University continue to spread.

This year, more than ever, through its research, Osgoode’s commitment to community always has access to teaching and outreach initiatives, Osgoode is justice at its heart. To complement the many other initiatives in this regard, and with the support of visionary donor putting community first. support, Osgoode launched the Fund for Innovation in Law and Media. Featuring the development of new visual and digital legal advocacy and information, this Fund will set in The global refugee crisis has galvanized many at Osgoode. motion new collaborations, new student opportunities and Our response has been taking place in many spheres of the new benefits to vulnerable participants in the justice system. Law School, including a directed research course aimed at supporting the Refugee Sponsorship Support Program in Finally, Osgoode’s impacts in and benefits to broader collaboration with the University of Ottawa, several distinct communities engage an ambitious research agenda. Osgoode sponsorship teams and campaigns in conjunction with the faculty seek not only to enrich academic scholarly output, but pan-GTA University Lifeline Syria Challenge, a host of to shape the public debate. In this issue, we profile some of volunteer initiatives mobilizing students, staff, faculty Osgoode’s most influential and original scholars. and alumni and ongoing research and advocacy, often in In these and many other ways, Osgoode continues to see collaboration with others throughout the University and community engagement as not only our commitment but through York’s Centre for Refugee Studies. also the mechanism by which we bring to life our motto, At the same time, the Law School was swept up in the “Per Jus Ad Justitiam/ Through Law to Justice.” excitement and promise of the election campaign. Many students, staff and faculty were engaged in various issues that lay at the centre of the campaign from the missing and murdered Indigenous women inquiry to physician-assisted dying, legalizing marijuana and various initiatives on civil liberties, national security and a host of regulatory and policy Lorne Sossin ‘92 spheres. Beyond the substance of the campaign (and wishing Dean our many alumni running for office well), we also turned our focus to our own front yard in the northwest part of the GTA. Led by Visiting Professor Jamil Jivani, a group of Osgoode students took on the challenge of deepening the engagement of a community with one of the lowest electoral participation

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WHAT’S NEW Osgoode students and JusticeFundr because they believe the the expertise, experience, availability law can be fairer, more responsive and of, and even languages spoken, by alumni are demonstrating better able to serve the public. any given potential stand-in, and entrepreneurial spirit in justicefundr.ca book the lawyer they feel best meets their client’s needs. The app is free to JUSTICETRANS the development of new download. Each potential stand-in sets is a mobile phone application and their own fee for an appearance. The approaches to increasing website offering free legal information app takes a transaction fee of $7.50 about transgender rights across access to justice, as these from whatever the stand-in charges. Canada. It was founded last spring by Payment happens seamlessly and latest ventures show. Benjamin Vandorpe ‘15, a 26-year-old virtually instantly within the app when transgender man. The transgender the court appearance is complete, using JUSTICEFUNDR community faces serious barriers to Stripe to process credit card payments. is a donation-based crowdfunding access to justice, and JusticeTrans’ The app is currently populated with platform for individuals and mission is to help alleviate some of courthouses in Chicago, New York, organizations to raise funds for legal those barriers. Los Angeles, San Francisco, Detroit, proceedings that are intended to justicetrans.com Toronto, Ottawa, Hamilton, Calgary advance the public interest. Founded and Edmonton. by Martin Hui ’14, Douglas Judson ’15 STANDIN LAW standin.is and Avnish Nanda ’14, JusticeFundr was co-founded by Osgoode LLM improves access to justice by reducing student Andrew Johnston and Toronto financial barriers to litigation, lawyer Peter Carayiannis. It’s a new Five of the eight Indigenous graduates of the Class of 2015 with Justice Murray Sinclair and Justice Harry LaForme ’77, ’08 (LLD). iPhone app that lets lawyers who can’t From left to right: Joshua Tallman, Serena Dykstra, Jacob Dockstator, Justice Murray Sinclair, Justice Harry LaForme, Kendra d’Eon, Laura Mayer. empowering parties and intervenors in Photo: Ian Crysler public interest legal proceedings. make it to a court appearance find The platform also helps identify and other lawyers near their courthouse build a community of support for a legal to “stand in” for them. The location- THE START OF A NEW LAW SCHOOL TRADITION issue. Hui, Judson and Nanda founded based app allows lawyers to quickly see Osgoode held its first-ever everyone to the traditional territory Doctorate at Osgoode’s Convocation of the Mississaugas of the New Credit, ceremony later that afternoon, told Honour Ceremony for LaForme advised the graduates to stay the gathering “this is not a white man’s Indigenous graduates last close to each other as First Nations system. This is our system too and people and “surround yourself with we just need to make it work for us as INSPIRING OSGOODE STUDENTS TO TAKE ON THE WORLD June 19 as part of Spring whoever you are.” others have made it work for them.” Convocation celebrations. For graduating student Jacob “Jake” With that goal in mind, Fong, a “China represents “I would like to see Dockstator, the Honour Ceremony consultant with King & Wood Mallesons, a vital part of “Even though this is the first, I can’t was “a moment of pride.” He said in Osgoode known as a the largest law firm in the world, has Osgoode’s future imagine a graduation in the future an interview that studying at Osgoode made a $60,000 donation toward as a global law global legal academy, without it,” Dean Lorne Sossin meant he “had the freedom to strengthening the relationship and school, and we are said of the start of the new Law introduce Indigenous methodologies inspiring lawyers to promoting collaboration between grateful to Felix School tradition. and perspectives to legal issues.” be the best not just in Osgoode and Tsinghua University Fong for helping School of Law in Beijing. to open doors for Five of eight Indigenous graduates The knowledge he has acquired Canada but around the more of our students and professors of the Class of 2015 and their guests “will allow me to work with First Nations The Felix Fong ’78 Osgoode/Tsinghua to experience Tsinghua University’s mingled at the event with Justice communities in Ontario and across world,” Hong Kong-based alumnus Travel Fund will make it possible for one excellent law school,” said Sossin who has Harry LaForme ’77, ’08 (LLD), Justice Canada, assisting them with issues Felix Fong ’78 wrote in an e-mail or two Osgoode students or professors made three trips to China in the past year. Murray Sinclair, Sossin and a number relating to economic development and message to Dean Lorne Sossin. every year to go on exchange for a of Osgoode faculty members who access to justice.” semester to Tsinghua, which has had Osgoode is also proud to have an specialize in Indigenous law including “The world is flat and fast changing. an exchange agreement with Osgoode exchange agreement with the Professor Signa A. Daum Shanks, Sinclair, Chief Commissioner of the Students should come to Osgoode since May 2014. University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law, Director of Indigenous Outreach. Truth and Reconciliation Commission ready to take on the world and where six Osgoode students spent the Holding an eagle feather and welcoming of Canada who received an Honorary embrace change.” fall term in 2015.

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DESIGNING THE FUTURE OF JUSTICE Last August, the Winkler mapping and deep dive journeys, to help This year’s Justice Design Project will define the problem of access to justice be held from August 29 to September 2, Institute for Dispute from a user-perspective and to build a 2016 at the Law School. The early-bird Resolution at Osgoode courthouse that was more responsive cost is $599 for applications received to the needs of users. The teams’ ideas by May 31, 2016 and $699 after that hosted the first ever were brought to life with the help of date. Deadline for applications is August Justice Design Project visual artists. 8, 2016. There is significant financial aid for those who qualify. (JDP), which challenged The students’ designs are now captured in a graphic entitled “Justice Spaces For more information about the Justice participants to “design the of the 21st Century” that is on display Design Project, including how to courthouse of the future.” at Osgoode. apply and information about financial aid, please contact Nicole Salama, Participants’ responses to the inaugural Assistant Director Nicole Aylwin led Program Lawyer, Office of the Dean, at: workshop were overwhelmingly the week-long program, which brought [email protected] or positive. “Being enrolled in the JDP together 13 York University, University 416-736-2100 ext. 44596. of Ontario Institute of Technology has opened my mind into being a much and University of Toronto students more creative and innovative thinker,” Also learn more about the Justice from various educational backgrounds said André Damata, a third-year York Design Project at winklerinstitute.ca. including philosophy, law and society, student majoring in Kinesiology and women and gender studies, and Health Science. “The JDP has showed neuroscience, to name a few. me valuable techniques I can apply in tackling real-life issues. I will take away Throughout the week, the students many skill sets that will help guide me OSGOODE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT’S learned about and employed design on my path to my future somewhere in 20TH ANNIVERSARY thinking methods, such as empathy the justice system.” The year 2015 marked the 20th anniversary of OsgoodePD.

Launched in 1995 under the leadership of then Dean Marilyn Pilkington, OsgoodePD has become the world’s leading law school lifelong learning program. Highlights of the last 20 years include:

• OsgoodePD was the first to offer • The development of more programs a part-time Professional LLM, designed for executives and non-law allowing practising lawyers to professionals than any other law It’s also the 40th anniversary obtain deeper expertise in a range school in North America; of specializations without taking a of the Juris Doctor/Master • Transforming the legal landscape career break; for internationally-trained lawyers of Environmental Studies • First to offer desktop and law graduates by offering the (JD/MES) joint degree program videoconferencing, enabling access first fully online NCA Exam Prep to LLM programs from anywhere in Bridging Program, funded by the at Osgoode and York’s Faculty the world; Province of Ontario. of Environmental Studies.

• Leadership in developing ‘learn by doing’ CLE programs, such as the annual Written Advocacy program offered in partnership with The Advocates’ Society;

In conjunction with the 20th anniversary, a special speaker series, featuring timely and controversial topics of interest to Canadians, will be presented over the winter and spring. Check the website at osgoodepd.ca/20years for more details.

Photo: New Paramount Studios Ltd.

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NEW LEARNING AND LEADING SERIES Starting this spring, Osgoode will launch a unique new Learning and Leading Series that will provide free professional development programming to the School’s JD and full-time LLM students on a first-come, first-served basis.

The first offering in May, which will “ We want to prepare all of Business Fundamentals for Law be repeated in August, will be a our students for success Students will be sponsored by the five-day, non-credit certificate program Davies Fund for Business Law, which in Business Fundamentals for Law in every way we can,” was created in 2006 by the firm of Students taught by Beppino Pasquali, said Dean Lorne Sossin. Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP CPA, CA, an Adjunct Professor at “The Learning and Leading Series to inspire interest in business law Schulich School of Business and complements our academic program among students and build ties with the Osgoode Professional Development. and enables students to develop the broader legal and business communities Other programs to follow will knowledge and skills they will need in Toronto. include community organizing, to thrive.” innovation through technology, social innovation, French language skills and leadership skills.

Nicola Martin, left, and Sherry McGratten. Photo: Sjoerd Witteveen EARN, KEEP, SPEND, GIVE

Nicola Martin is the NICOLA MARTIN SHERRY MCGRATTEN AUTO INDUSTRY TITAN AWARDED HENNICK MEDAL Career Development Officer Class of 2015, Osgoode consummate York Sergio Marchionne ’83, Chief Executive Officer of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles N.V. I’m a single mother of a six-year-old I was 17 when I got pregnant with my University employee son and I’ve been working at Osgoode first daughter. She’s now 15 and my and Chairman of Ferrari N.V., was presented with the Hennick Centre Medal for – professional, caring, for 11 years. I wanted to help Osgoode second daughter is nine years old. I’ve Career Achievement last November 17. students but thought I didn’t have a been a single mom since they were and dedicated. lot of money to give. Then I found out babies. Without Nicola’s bursary, I’d about the monthly payroll deduction. have struggled even more to finish law The Hennick Medal is given One of the world’s top leaders in the University, in 2013; and Marianne As the Career Development Officer at It’s so easy. It’s just another deduction school. Sometimes you don’t get as automobile industry, Marchionne Harris, Chair of the Board of Directors annually to a distinguished Osgoode, she works with outstanding and I don’t even think about it. much sleep as you’d like to, but you just received the award prior to a talk he of the Investment Industry Regulatory students by helping them realize their have to keep remembering why you leader who has earned gave on the 21st century business Organization of Canada (IIROC) in 2014. Law school is now an expensive professional goals. Often, she also are doing it and the difference you are leader as part of the Giambattista Vico program and I think students who international recognition Launched in 2009, the Jay and Barbara witnesses their financial struggles. going to make. Lecture Series. return to pursue the JD degree are very Hennick Centre for Business and Law Determined to make a difference, she in the business and legal courageous. I’ve been toying with the Since I was little, I’ve wanted to be a The Vico Lecture, which was organized – a joint initiative of Osgoode Hall Law recently created the Nicola Martin idea of going back to school myself, social justice lawyer. My dad was an communities. by York’s Faculty of Liberal Arts School and the Schulich School of Bursary through a small monthly payroll but it requires a lot of time and energy. injured worker and we grew up on & Professional Studies, took place Business – is the first Canadian centre deduction to support students in the Maybe when my son is older I’ll be able government benefits, so I saw the before a full house in Osgoode’s Moot to promote and develop joint business Juris Doctor (JD) Program who have to do it. impact of social assistance first-hand. Court Room. and law scholarship and education. financial need and are single parents. Here she tells her story alongside I really believe that from the money you I used to work in communications and Previous recipients of the Hennick Made possible by a gift from Jay and Sherry McGratten ’15, a recipient of earn, you keep some, you spend some, public relations. I liked what I was doing, Medal are Kathleen Taylor, Chair of Barbara Hennick, the Hennick Centre’s her bursary. and you give some. It’s true I could use but I was not in love with it. I wanted to the RBC Board of Directors, in 2010; flagship is the joint JD/MBA program the money, but I might have spent it on do something more grassroots. Thanks Tye Burt, former President and CEO offered by Osgoode and Schulich. Jay something frivolous. This way, I know to Nicola’s help, I’m now articling with of Kinross Gold Corporation, in 2011; Hennick is the Founder and CEO of my little bit can help someone a little bit Legal Aid Ontario. This is exactly what I Moya Greene, CEO of Royal Mail Group, FirstService Corporation, a global leader – or maybe even a lot. want to do. in 2012; Gregory Sorbara, former MPP, in the real estate services sector. Vaughan and now Chancellor of York

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Kathryn Podrebarac ’92 remembers attending “Osgoode students are as well positioned as any in the world to bring social justice issues to light and present them in a Ontario’s first medical product liability class way that might inspire,” said Podrebarac, who also made action trial, Anderson v. St. Jude Medical, two previous donations to the Law School for a bursary Inc., back in 2012 and being dazzled by the in memory of her long-time mentor and business partner, Bonnie Tough ’76, and the Osgoode@125 Fund. defendants’ use of visual advocacy to present Needless to say, Dean Lorne Sossin is delighted that FILM evidence and persuasive arguments. is up and running. FILM is being established, he says, “to promote and develop new approaches to advocacy in the justice system, especially the potential of visual advocacy to “I hadn’t really seen anything like it in enhance access to and the conduct of dispute resolution.” Canada. Not only did they use graphic FILM will bring together experts from a variety of disciplines presentations, photos, timelines and – from filmmakers and editors to lawyers and jurists – and charts, but their closing hyperlinked all will also provide key roles for Osgoode students in the of this visually compelling evidence to development and delivery of its projects. the text of their argument, as well as to electronic versions of key documentary Initial projects under FILM include the Gladue Video Project, exhibits and case law,” said Podrebarac which involves the creation of short documentary-style videos who was called to the bar in 1994 and practises in the areas of as a supplemental aspect of Gladue Reports in the sentencing commercial litigation and class actions. process for Indigenous offenders in the criminal justice system (see sidebar). Since then, Podrebarac’s appreciation for the use of visuals in legal advocacy has rapidly grown. She has chaired the FILM will also enable the development of the Justice Video Advocates’ Society’s annual expert evidence program and had Information Project, which will feature supervised, student- a ringside seat for the personal injury bar’s use of accident produced videos on legal issues for public audiences, to re-enactment graphics and other demonstrative evidence to be developed in partnership with other non-governmental educate and provide a compelling narrative for trial. organizations and justice sector providers such as Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO). “It made me wonder how we can use visual advocacy in other “ Our goal is to focus on areas practice areas,” she recalled. where the fairness, accessibility Visual Advocacy and effectiveness of justice can be In 2013, she attended an Advocates’ Society talk given by improved through visual media, Regina Austen, Director of the University of Pennsylvania Law and our hope is that the FILM in the Ascendant School’s front-running Program on Documentaries and the Law, which impressed upon her that visual advocacy is the initiative will open students’ minds future of advocacy. to new ways of thinking about the justice system,” Sossin said. By Virginia Corner So, when a grateful client gave Podrebarac a thank-you gift

of $100,000 last year for achieving a remarkable litigation One of the Justice Video Information Project’s first result and told her she could donate the money to whatever assignments will involve the Community and Legal Aid organization she wished, she didn’t have to think very long Services Program (CLASP) at Osgoode, a free legal clinic for about where her donation would go. The Fund for Innovation in Law and Media (FILM) will create and sustain people with legal problems who cannot afford a lawyer. The Principal of Podrebarac Barristers Professional experiential education programs focused on the use of visual advocacy FILM will bring together expertise on visual media (likely from Corporation gave the money to Osgoode for a new, ground- Osgoode’s Artist in Residence program and York’s School to address social justice issues, educate the public about the law and legal breaking visual advocacy initiative. of the Arts, Media, Performance & Design), with expertise in process, and enhance the practice of dispute resolution. Thanks to her foresight and generosity, the Law School access to justice and public legal education (likely CLEO), and has established the Fund for Innovation in Law and Media Osgoode students (CLASP) to create a series of short videos (FILM), an endowed fund that will create and sustain Osgoode that will provide the public with simple, easy-to-understand experiential education programs focused on the use of visual legal information on a variety of topics. advocacy to address social justice issues, educate the public about the law and legal process, and enhance the practice of dispute resolution.

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“We think we can create something including posting on YouTube and other first of many initiatives involving new “We would very much want to see this The Art of Advocacy meaningful and important in a very social media providers, this summer. media in the legal process, and that grow into the kind of visual advocacy cost-effective way,” said Sossin, noting these projects will evolve into a clinic and Documentaries and the Law Ultimately, Sossin hopes that the In the 43 years that trial lawyer Art Vertlieb ’72 has been going to that, if everything comes together, the program that students can take for Project that Penn Law, for example, Gladue Video Project and the Justice court, not much has changed about the court process. first of these public legal information credit as part of the School’s has pioneered.” Video Information Project will be the videos will be ready for wide circulation, experiential education offerings. A court is a very traditional place, says Vertlieb, Although our justice system (based so much so that you’d be hard pressed to find around oral advocacy, written factums, many differences between a court 100 years ago briefs and judgments) has been slow and a court today. to change, Sossin thinks it’s inevitable that visual advocacy will be used more “The court is just not as progressive as it needs and more. In many instances, it offers to be,” says the Vancouver-based lawyer who a better way to communicate legal has built a distinguished career on a passion information and ideas. for advocacy and has appeared before all four levels of court on criminal and civil matters. “Courts need to embrace technology and not be overburdened by tradition and conservatism.” their mothers, sisters, friends, elders Jackson, who will work with Gladue “ When you add in a visual, and community service workers, Report writers to identify the subjects you open up brand new Believing that there is an opportunity to put technology to better use and possibly travelling to remote of her video profiles, has been making horizons for conveying in advocacy, Vertlieb has made a donation of $50,000 to Osgoode for the establishment of the Art Vertlieb Q.C. Fund. The endowed communities. It will also mean staying films, mostly documentaries, for 10 and generating legal neutral, not being emotionally years and is currently enrolled in fund will provide support to the Law School for the use of creative manipulative, and keeping the videos York’s Graduate Program in Film. Her knowledge, and for media and visual arts advocacy to address social justice issues, simple. No music score and use of only first film was about her relationship conveying and generating educate the public about the law and the legal process, or as part of basic filmmaking technique such as with her mother, who faced struggles the ideas and advocacy dispute resolution. visuals laid over an interview. throughout her life as a result of a that shape our systems Vertlieb, who works at MacKenzie Fujisawa LLP specializing in childhood spent in residential school. When that’s done, Jackson will of dispute resolution.” personal injury law, administrative law and professional disputes, served as Commission Counsel to two high profile inquiries. One hand over her films to the courts to Interestingly, the Gladue Video Project was the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry (2010-2012), supplement – but not replace – written was, in part, inspired by the power of Images are everywhere, Sossin said. which looked into the mass murder of vulnerable women from Gladue Reports that judges already visual media coming out of the Truth Visuality has permeated our culture Vancouver’s downtown eastside (the Pickton victims). The other was receive to assist them in determining and Reconciliation Commission’s – thanks to television, the internet the Braidwood Inquiry (2007-2010), which examined the safety of options for bail and sentencing. investigation into what happened to and social media – and it will come to The Gladue conducted energy weapons and the death of Robert Dziekanski. (Section 718.2 (e) of the Criminal Indigenous children who experienced influence many aspects of our legal Code, which was reaffirmed by the neglect and deprivation as well as Video Project system. Today’s law students – the next “In those two inquiries we took important evidence off of Skype and it Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. physical and sexual abuse in the Award-winning Anishinaabe filmmaker generation of lawyers – have grown worked,” says Vertlieb, noting that there is an opportunity for today’s Gladue, says the court must take special government boarding schools. Lisa Jackson is about to do something up with imagery, whether on their tech-savvy lawyers to take advantage of the adversarial contest cultural considerations into account that’s never been done before – at least Dean Lorne Sossin viewed some of phones, tablets and laptops or in their through the effective use of technology. The Art Vertlieb Q.C. Fund in sentencing an Aboriginal offender. not in Ontario’s Gladue (Aboriginal those videos and was reminded “of how classrooms. It has shaped how they exist will enhance Osgoode’s ambitious plans to develop student visual This is aimed at addressing the fact Persons) Courts. persuasive and direct the emotional in the world, not to mention how they advocacy initiatives. that Aboriginal people in Canada are connection – never mind the intellectual will practise law. She’s going severely over-represented in the prison connection – can be with films, narratives, to create system. In looking for alternatives to “The young lawyers will know how to do stories, accounts.” Sossin said the Law “ That’s always my several short incarceration, the judge must consider this and they’ll take the older judges School consulted widely with relevant video profiles the background of the accused as there question about visual organizations including members of through it,” Vertlieb predicts. of Aboriginal may be mitigating factors.) advocacy,” Sossin said. the Indigenous Bar Association, the offenders – a “The ideal outcome would be that Criminal Lawyers’ Association and a A former President of the Law Society of British Columbia, Vertlieb “kind of day in the “If every other part of our lives is these videos are a valuable tool and number of Osgoode faculty, students, has received numerous awards for his contributions to the legal life” is how being transformed by visual media, they are replicated in the future,” said staff and alumni before embarking on profession including the Osgoode Alumni Gold Key Award in 2002. Jackson puts it – showing who they are why would we expect law to be any Jackson who is receiving a fellowship the Gladue Video Project. and where they come from. different? Why would we want it to be Several years ago, he also created another award at Osgoode (the from Osgoode to serve as the Director “We hope that the project will serve as any different?” Art Vertlieb Q.C. Award) to assist an Osgoode student from British It will mean filming interviews with of the Gladue Video Project, a visual an example of the ways visual advocacy Columbia every year who has the ability and commitment for a career many people including the offenders advocacy pilot project that Osgoode can play a constructive and value-added Virginia Corner is Osgoode’s in law, but lacks financial resources. (she’ll only be working with people is undertaking in conjunction with the role in the justice system,” he said. 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thrilled with the results: voter turnout He has this incredible enthusiasm. For in Jane-Finch (which stood at 48 me it was an inspiration, to see a person BRIDGING percent in 2011) increased by 11 percent who I could identify with who wasn’t that night, ten times higher than their much older than me or strictly on an original goal and three percent higher academic route,” she says. LAW & COMMUNITY than the national average increase. If the students are clearly fans of their For Holder, the opportunity offered professor, the feeling is mutual. “The Photos (left and above): Ian Crysler By Suzanne Bowness by Jivani’s class was personal. students here have just been amazing. “As someone who has experienced All of the work I have been doing Jivani says that Osgoode fits his carding before, it’s something that for the last few months depends on ambitions as it’s one of the few places has always been on my radar,” she them. They’ve made my life so much in Canada where lawyers can carry out says. Taking the lead on a consultation easier and they make coming to work legal work intent on changing systems at community organization East everyday fun, because I’m just excited rather than defending specific clients. Scarborough Storefront, Holder says to see all the cool stuff they’re going to Compared to the US, Jivani says she appreciated the chance to work come up with,” says Jivani. Canada spends a lot less money on such alongside community members. “It’s goals. “That’s unfortunate to me. That’s In fact, it’s not so long ago that Jivani Yale Law Grad Turned Osgoode The atmosphere is similar in the second-year so important from a legal standpoint one challenge I think we have as a legal was a student himself. First in his family practicum course called “Community Organizing and when you’re doing social justice work. community—how do we address the to finish a post-secondary education, Visiting Professor Shares Activist Passion the Law” that Jivani teaches as an Osgoode Visiting It’s not sitting up in this high and mighty access to justice issues, both in terms he started out at Humber College to with his Students Professor. Taking a place at the seminar table rather ‘I’m a lawyer’ chair, but actually being of representing individual clients, but gain transfer credits before moving to than at the podium, he makes sure that each student concerned about issues affecting people also the systemic work that has to York for an international development gets a chance to speak to the week’s reading and and working with them in a way that’s get done?” studies and non-profit management Jamil Jivani’s name is getting around. share progress on their projects. Lindsay Holder, a meaningful,” she says. She plans to degree. From there he got into Yale Jivani thinks that while his generation  Articles about the 28-year-old lawyer second-year Juris Doctor (JD) student interested stay involved even after the class University’s law school, where he and the next are keen on this type of in working with abused women, says this approach project ends. and community activist’s initiatives have work, the tight job market sometimes 65 is typical of Jivani’s style. “He’s very casual. Right began to experiment with community appeared everywhere from the Toronto from the get-go. Some professors are very formal, involvement. After graduating in 2013, dissuades them from pursuing it. VOLUNTEERS % intimidating almost. He’s not like that at all. He could 10 Jivani worked in the corporate law “Right now the shortage of articling from diverse Star to the Metro commuter newspaper. be, but he’s not,” says Holder. increase department at Tim Horton’s before jobs means that students aren’t always communities He’s equally been a contributor to the in democratic articling at Torys in Toronto. At the being encouraged to think about the While his style may be informal, the subjects at the same time, he was founding initiatives beginning of their legal career as a Huffington Post, CBC’s The Current, heart of his course, and indeed his working life, participation like the Police Literacy Initiative, a way they can really pursue innovative couldn’t be more important. Focused on how to public education and advocacy group ideas,” he says. He says one way of and the National Post, where he wrote a Holder also appreciated both the fact engage communities around law and policy issues, that looks at ways to improve relations remedying that may be to start allowing thoughtful and frequently-cited editorial that Jivani got involved but also let the seminar is organized around three real-world between police and the community, articling credit for non-traditional  the students take charge. “Jamil gave on working with the police. projects: mobilizing voter turnout in the Jane and co-founding Teachers beyond the lawyer work. us an overall idea of what he wanted and Finch neighborhood, organizing community Classroom, an initiative that seeks 1,100 to see out of it but then amongst the In the meantime, Jivani is focused on consultations on the new Ontario regulations around to help unemployed teachers with COMMUNITY three of us we just divided it up. Where the next phase of his course: wrapping And yet while his name may be on the posters of the police carding, and analyzing pre-charge diversion skills transfer. he thought we could use direction, he MEMBERS many events and talks he organizes, on topics from (a system that offers an alternative to incarceration up the projects currently underway and would step in and say, ‘Okay, I think pledged to vote police carding to voter turnout, watching Jivani in for youth accused of minor crimes). For second-year “Basically, I was balancing a career deciding on which of several projects you’re focusing too much on this with #JaneAnd action makes you realize he’s more interested in JD student Hannah Ordman, who switched in late between the business world in that communities have proposed thing, I think you should go more this FinchVotes getting things done than grabbing the spotlight. At without knowing much about it, the class was a true corporate law, and then a bunch of (housing is a big one) are feasible for way.’ Other than that, we had a lot of an October event on police carding at a Toronto high practicum. “It’s the best course I’ve ever taken community work. I was looking for next year’s cohort to tackle. Clearly agency,” she says. school, Jivani seems constantly in motion, moving —it was an incredible experience,” she says. an opportunity where I could bring he’s found a home base for his next those things together under one roof, accomplishments. “I really, really enjoy back and forth across the cafeteria setting as he Beyond the projects, both students Students were also inspired by how the class helped because it was starting to get a little the fact that this is a place I was looking helps his team prepare for the consultation. Far say that Jivani also looks out for them them connect with the community. Working on the overwhelming,” recalls Jivani. When for, to balance between my interest  from a distant observer, he’s right in there: helping personally, for example asking for their mentors suggested law school as a in business and my interest in social check in on the catering when it arrives, greeting résumés to pass along in case jobs possible path, Jivani met with a few justice,” says Jivani. “There’s space for 6,000 the youth he invited from the local boys and girls #JANEANDFINCHVOTES come up. “He’s very concerned about faculty members and the dean. Already all that here.” HOMES club he works with. When the event starts, he quickly us. He’s always checking in and just project, Ordman says she and her colleagues were familiar with Osgoode as a guest were visited yields the floor to his law students after only a few making sure that he’s available to us out on the street almost nightly before the federal lecturer, he was invited to the visiting introductory remarks. if we need him,” says Holder. Ordman Suzanne Bowness is a Toronto-based writer election, canvassing voters and connecting them scholar role on a two-year term. and editor, and Principal of CodeWord agrees. “We really feel valued by him. with information on campaign issues. She’s also Communications.

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OSGOODE’S As Danch watched, the streets filled, unprecedented move of collaboration, and countless more alumni – including first with men and then families. the four university presidents Farzin Yousefin ’13, who cancelled his “The entire back third of the huge established the Lifeline Syria Challenge big Toronto wedding to raise thousands march was just moms and dads with to facilitate private sponsorships, of dollars for a Syrian family – are Helping Hand diaper bags and kids on their backs, raise funds and engage volunteers in a stepping forward with creative solutions trying to keep up.” coordinated, pan-university response to as well. the global refugee crisis. Law School students, faculty, staff and alumni go above and beyond “Oh no, I thought, this is a desperate move that’s going to end badly. I can’t Since then, Osgoode has formed two “ This is what Osgoode to support Syria’s refugees at home and abroad talk about it even now without crying.” sponsorship teams, each committed to is known for,” says Dean raising $27,000 and to helping a Syrian In that moment, Danch decided to take Lorne Sossin. family settle in the Toronto area over action. In so doing, she became another By Christine Ward the next 12 months. A third team led by of the growing number of Osgoode “We have a long history of social justice Osgoode alumnus Bill Kaplan ’83 and students, alumni, faculty and staff initiatives, and clinical and pro bono a group of local labour arbitrators has striving to make a difference in what work, including an activist role during already raised more than $100,000 to The world was still reeling from The second-year Osgoode student had no way of knowing that her host city many say is the greatest refugee crisis the Southeast Asia refugee migration fund refugee families and resettlement would soon become a physical and emotional waypoint for thousands of Syrians the world has ever known. of the 1970s. It’s very much reflective the death of Alan Kurdi, the efforts through Osgoode (see sidebar). attempting to flee their country’s bloody civil war for Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan, of Osgoode’s spirit to ask how can Late in December 2015, a fourth team three-year-old Syrian refugee Iraq and the European Union. In September, York University (including we help?” Osgoode), Ryerson University, the lead by Brian Greenspan of Greenspan found lifeless on a Turkish Several weeks into the fall semester, during a visit to the University of Toronto and OCAD Humphrey Lavine, donated a further The Law School has also joined the beach, when Jen Danch arrived downtown market, the magnitude of the crisis hit her full University announced a ground- $27,000. Refugee Sponsorship Support Program on. Crowding the motorway as far as the eye could see were breaking partnership with Lifeline Syria (RSSP), a national program matching in Budapest, Hungary for a All told, more than 50 Osgoode faculty, hundreds of people, mainly Syrian refugees and migrants who to assist the Syrian refugees preparing immigration and refugee lawyers with staff and students have signed up to semester exchange at Central had spent days camping at Budapest’s Keleti train station only to for new beginnings in Canada. In an asylum seekers and private sponsors in be on call when the families arrive, find the border blocked to train travel by Hungarian authorities. European University. With seemingly no other option, they decided to take fate in their hands and walk the 170 kilometres to the Austrian border.

16 17 YORK’S need of pro bono legal assistance. That’s exactly what Elise Mercier is ONE WEEK & MORE THAN Following the lead of the University of hoping for. The second-year Osgoode CAMPUS-WIDE Ottawa, Osgoode launched this January student applied to the directed research RESPONSE a directed research course that pairs course after spending the previous $100,000 the volunteer lawyers with students and eight months in the immigration and puts them to work at biweekly refugee refugee division at Parkdale Community Across campus and with the support clinics run by Lifeline Syria across the Legal Services as part of Osgoode’s Osgoode alumnus leads a whirlwind of York’s Centre for Refugee GTA. It is led by Professor Craig Scott, intensive poverty law program. Studies, faculty, staff and students who returned to Osgoode in January “At Parkdale, resettlement is often a effort to support resettlement are marshalling their resources, after serving for four years as Member very slow process,” she says. “It’s been expertise and connections to of Parliament for Toronto-Danforth, disheartening to see families apart for It began with a November 1 Toronto Star article that support Syrian refugees. Osgoode and as the New Democratic Party’s so long. I think the most exciting part of reported Canadians could sponsor a Syrian refugee family has contributed to this campus- Official Opposition Critic for Democratic this program will be the much quicker for $27,000. “I remember thinking, wow,” says Bill Kaplan wide response by supporting two and Parliamentary Reform. The course turnaround – knowing that families will ’83. “You can sponsor a whole family for one year for York Project Leads for the Syria qualifies for the School’s “praxicum” be reuniting with loved ones, arriving $27,000. Why wouldn’t you?” and Refugee Awareness Initiative graduation requirement that obliges in the country and integrating into new A Toronto arbitrator, Kaplan fired off a quick e-mail to his (John Carlaw and Pierre-André every JD student beginning with communities relatively quickly.” colleagues on a labour arbitration listserve. Twenty-four Thériault) and a Syrian and Refugee the Class of 2015 to experience law “This isn’t just about Syria,” insists More than 100 people, many of them part of the Osgoode hours later, he had reached his goal. Another day and he Awareness Initiative Student Liaison in action. and Project Associate (Mariam Sossin. “There is a global refugee crisis community, replied. Seventy-two hours later, Danch was had doubled it. One week after making his request, Kaplan Hamoui), who work out of offices at Sixteen Osgoode students – 15 JD and we see its impact across Toronto, back at the Keleti train station with $10,000 and a makeshift had just over $100,000 in hand from some 50 colleagues the Centre for Refugee Studies. and one LLM – attended a training Ontario and Canada. As a Law School, Arabic sign that read, to help Canada’s Syrian resettlement efforts. session in November and then hit the we’re reaching across the boundaries “Like all Canadians,” he says of his labour arbitration York’s student chapter of the ground running in the New Year with between the profession and the “I have free tickets to Austria.” colleagues, some of whom are also Osgoode grads, World University Service of Canada in-class lessons on the substantive academy. We’re all pulling together and (WUSC) receives a levy from current issues of refugee law, and the ethical finding a uniquely Osgoode approach Working in shifts over the next few days with three other students to help one student a year and professional challenges involved that allows for everyone’s concerns and women volunteers from Malta, Argentina and Turkey, she “ we were moved by the plight of the study at the Keele campus and one in dealing with clients from different compassions, and ensures those who purchased 440 train tickets, along with much-needed tents, Syrian refugees and we wanted to do student every three years attend cultural backgrounds and with potential desire to make a positive difference can blankets and food. After Hungary closed its southernmost Glendon College. In January, York something to help.” trauma issues. They met with their first do so.” border with Serbia on September 12, Danch continued to help expanded the program to include Syrian families shortly thereafter. fund emergency packages, which were driven across the five four-year tuition waivers for Two days after watching the refugees’ In considering how best to manage the funds, Kaplan was border and distributed to refugees camped in Croatia. WUSC-sponsored refugee students, “The work mostly involves helping emotional march through the streets referred to Osgoode Dean Lorne Sossin, who was already and plans are underway to raise Syrian families already in the GTA of Budapest, Jen Danch and her spearheading the School’s sponsorship efforts through the additional funds for refugee student fill out the refugee forms required to student colleagues at Central European “The entire experience is etched in my Lifeline Syria Challenge. After consulting with the group, bursaries. sponsor additional family members University took to Facebook to appeal mind – especially the young kids and and considering a number of different options, there was an overwhelming consensus to partner with the Law School currently seeking refuge in Turkey, for help. The Hungarian authorities had pregnant women, so many who had York’s students are also engaged in Lebanon and Jordan,” explains temporarily reopened the entrances and funnel the money through Osgoode.“We chose the Law the University’s response through Pierre-André Thériault, Osgoode’s to the city’s central train station and already lost a child in the conflict. I was School for a number of reasons,” he explains, “including organizations like RefugeAid, which RSSP coordinator, a PhD candidate thousands of Syrians were flooding in overwhelmed by the emotion of it and by Lorne’s initiative and leadership, the opportunity for faculty- is galvanizing students to raise specializing in refugee settlement and a in the hope of gaining passage to the power of young people who just show student collaboration and because our money will be wisely awareness, funds and support. practising lawyer who is also helping to western Europe. and responsibly spent.” Kaplan and his donor colleagues are The Office of Student Community up and help while others are humming coordinate the Lifeline Syria Challenge also pleased that any member of their group who wishes to & Leadership Development has and hawing about why it can’t be done.” at York. The students are also helping “ I posted a note asking my become more directly involved with one of the sponsored also partnered with student leaders Osgoode and other York University families will have an opportunity to do so. to coordinate a clothing drive for private sponsorship teams complete friends to send money, so Now back in Canada, she is proud to count the Osgoode newcomers to campus. the necessary paperwork to bring more I could buy train tickets community among those who aren’t just taking action, but “ Canadians are the most generous helping to lead it. “That’s the cool thing about this School For more information on York’s than 10 refugee families to Toronto. from Budapest to Austria and why students like me come here. A law degree that’s not people in the whole world, and if contributions to the global refugee “They’re going to walk away with a for as many refugees as rooted in social justice is a dangerous tool. There’s nothing reading about our modest contributions crisis and how you can help, visit great experience,” Thériault adds. possible,” she says. inherently great about having a law degree; you have to have www.ryerson.ca/lifelinesyria/york/ makes people think of ways they can “Students want to make a difference a commitment to doing something decent with it.” index.html and they will for people in a very help, well, that’s great.” vulnerable and oftentimes desperate Christine Ward is Principal of Ward Development Communications situation.” based in eastern Ontario. WINTER 2016

CELEBRATING

HELEN A. KINNEAR ’20 DAVID A. CROLL ’24 MARGARET HYNDMAN ’25 LEONARD BRAITHWAITE ‘58 JUDY LAMARSH ‘50 1894–1970 1900–1991 1902–1991 1923–2012 1924–1980

OUR Described as generous and self-effacing, David Croll was born in Moscow and Upon Margaret Hyndman’s call to the The son of West Indian Judy LaMarsh was born in Chatham, ILLUSTRIOUS Port Colborne native Helen Kinnear was immigrated with his family to Canada bar, the guest of honour remarked that immigrants, Leonard Braithwaite Ontario, and grew up in Niagara the first federally appointed woman when he was a young boy. An early he regretted that her parents had spent grew up in the Kensington Market Falls. Talented and outspoken, judge in Canada. Before attending advocate of welfare and other types of so much money to educate her for a area of Toronto during the Great she was a true original. LaMarsh OSGOODE Osgoode Hall Law School, she received social assistance, Croll first worked as profession in which there was no room Depression. He enlisted with the enlisted in the Canadian Women’s a BA from the University of Toronto in a lawyer then moved into politics. He for women. Undeterred, Hyndman went Royal Canadian Air Force during Army Corps during WWII, serving CATALYSTS English and History. She set up practice served as the Mayor of Windsor from on to establish a successful career in WWII, and served with No. 6 as a translator in Intelligence with with her father and participated in 1931 to 1934 during the height of the company law and litigation. In 1945, she Bomber Command in England. Japanese-Canadian soldiers. After numerous Liberal political associations. Great Depression. Croll insisted the became the first woman director of a Upon leaving the Armed Forces, the war, she attended the University By Kaitlin Normandin She was even nominated to run as a city go into deficit in order to provide Canadian trust company. She was also he earned a degree in commerce of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law federal candidate but declined. Kinnear relief programs for the unemployed the first Canadian woman to appear from the University of Toronto, a School. LaMarsh was called to the was the first woman to plead a case in and destitute. He became Canada’s first before the Privy Council in London. Master of Business Administration Bar in 1950 and joined her father’s Osgoode alumni who overcame the Supreme Court of Ontario, the first Jewish cabinet minister when he was During WWII, Hyndman organized the from Harvard Business School, law practice. She would eventually barriers in the legal community woman to be appointed a King’s Counsel appointed the Minister of Public Welfare voluntary registration of Canadian and a law degree from Osgoode leave the practice to become a in the British Commonwealth (1934), under Mitchell Hepburn’s Liberal women for war work and pushed to Hall Law School. He was the editor Liberal MP in 1960. In 1963, she and whose risk-taking, until finally she became the county government. While serving as Minister of provide free legal aid to members of the of the Obiter Dicta, the elected became the first Ontario female perseverance and propensity court judge for Haldimand. Labour, Croll resigned from Hepburn’s Armed Forces and their families. For her student body President, and lawyer and the second woman to Cabinet, after the Premier sided with services to the Free France Movement won the Gold Key Award upon ever serve in the federal Cabinet. to aim high paved the way for She also served on the Council of the General Motors during the 1937 United she was awarded a citation from Charles graduation. In 1960, Braithwaite As the Minister of Health and Canadian Bar Association, was the others are the inspiration for Auto Workers Strike in Oshawa. DeGaulle and received a silver medal embarked on a successful political Welfare, LaMarsh pushed for the Honorary President of the Women’s He wrote: “I would rather walk with the from the City of Paris. career in Etobicoke. He was the adoption of the Canada Pension our Osgoode Catalysts Project. Law Association of Ontario, and was workers than ride with General Motors.” first black person elected to the Plan and Medicare. appointed by the Province of Ontario A passionate advocate of women’s Etobicoke Township Board of as a member of the Minister’s Advisory After another term as Mayor of Windsor, rights, Hyndman served on many legal She also served as the Secretary of Education and alderman on the Here you will read about five exceptional Council on the Treatment of the and service with the Canadian Army and women’s organizations, such as the State during Canada’s Centennial Etobicoke Council. Braithwaite individuals – Margaret Hyndman, Helen Offender. In 1965, she became the during WWII, he was elected as an National and International Federation in 1967. LaMarsh left politics in became a Member of Provincial A. Kinnear, David A. Croll, Judy LaMarsh first woman to receive a medal from MP for Toronto-Spadina riding. Croll of Business and Professional Women. In 1968, to become a journalist for the Parliament in 1963, the first black and Leonard Braithwaite – who were the John Howard Society of Ontario in became Canada’s first Jewish Senator in her role as President, she helped shape Canadian Broadcasting Corporation person in Canada to do so. recently added to our growing list of recognition of her contributions to the 1955. He was the author of an influential Ontario’s legislation on equal pay for and a lecturer at Osgoode Hall Law Osgoode Catalysts. For a complete list profession and concern for the rights report on poverty, which moved the equal work. Hyndman also participated During his inauguration speech, School. She helped to establish the of alumni who have blazed a trail, please of the offender. Trudeau government to triple family in the Kaufman birth control case, the he spoke out against segregation Royal Commission on the Status of visit: digitalcommons.osgoode.yorku. allowances and institute the Child Tax Lavell case involving native women’s in Ontario schools and was Women in Canada and advocated for ca/catalysts/ Credit in 1978. Croll was also responsible loss of status after marrying instrumental in its abolition in women’s rights for the rest of her for several Senate reports on aging. non-native men, as well as the Bell Ontario. Just a year after his life. She was once quoted as saying: In 1990, he was sworn into the Queen’s Canada equal pay case. In recognition of speech, the last segregated school “There are hundreds of women, Privy Council, an honour usually given her accomplishments, she was appointed in the province closed for good. from every walk of life, who would only to federal cabinet ministers. the second female King’s Counsel in Braithwaite served as MPP until go into politics with some party 1938, a member of the Order of Canada 1975. In 1999, he became the encouragement.” The Liberal Party in 1973, and received the Law Society first black bencher elected to the created a fund in LaMarsh’s name to Kaitlin Normandin, who holds a Master of Information from the University of Toronto, Medal in 1986. Governing Council of the Law provide financial support to female th was the Archival Student Assistant for Osgoode’s 125 anniversary in the 2014-15 academic year. Society of Upper Canada. federal Liberal candidates. She now lives and works in Ottawa.

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DON’T MIND THE GAP: Her research is hands-on and discipline, as well. So, in the case of Our empowering for the communities Chemical Selves: Gender, Toxics and involved; as an example, in working Environmental Health, to allay concerns FROM SCHOLARSHIP with youth and environmental justice that Scott might be outside of her activists from the Aamjiwnaang First realm, or making claims that she doesn’t TO ADVOCACY Nation, near Sarnia’s Chemical Valley, have the expertise to make, the book “we’re influencing people on the went through an extra round of detailed ground in their organizing, we were peer review by an epidemiologist. Osgoode professors’ Moreover, Congresswoman Carolyn able to use the research to help people “And that’s okay,” says Scott. “This is a crucial book on a crucial subject. Dhir brings new insights to bear on DHIR Maloney, the Ranking Member of critical questions involving diversity on boards in the United States and Europe. understand how their exposures and His cutting-edge research reminds us why we care about issues of inclusion and CHALLENGING Engaged scholarship research has substantive CHALLENGING BOARDROOM HOMOGENEITY revises our understandings about how to achieve it.” the U.S. House of Representatives the health effects they were feeling – Deborah L. Rhode, Director, Center on the Legal Profession, BOARDROOM One of the most satisfying impacts you impact onE. W. McFarland public Professor of Law, and Director,policies Program on Social Subcommittee on Capital Markets, who were connected more broadly to Entrepreneurship, Stanford University can have as an academic is to deepen “How many women and men sit on corporate boards and why does it matter? HOMOGENEITY requested the report, is urging the U.S. the extraction in the tar sands, to the Aaron Dhir’s ambitious book analyzes the role corporations play in shaping expec- and enrich the discourse says Dhir, who tations of equal treatment and how, from quotas in Norway to disclosure obliga- Corporate Law, Governance, and Diversity Securities and Exchange Commission to pipeline debates, and the production tions in the United States, law can and has intervened. The bottom line is that this believes in putting research to work. volume should be read by everyone interested in understanding the wave of poli- update its existing diversity disclosure By Bev Clinecies around the world addressing equal opportunities in the workplace.” of petroleum and chemicals He’s presented his findings in the U.S. – Judith Resnik, Arthur Liman Professor of Law, Yale Law School requirements in a manner consistent more broadly.” “Aaron Dhir asks whether corporate board gender diversity is a good idea and at many leading universities, including how to achieve it, contrasting Norway, the first of five European countries to man- with Dhir’s recommendations. date diversity, with the United States, which has since 2009 required disclosure of board diversity efforts. In Norway, board members show broad support for the Grounded, honest research Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, and mandate, arguing that women have brought more rigorous debate, monitoring, What impactand risk assessment to boards. does Moreover, the mandateresearch increased board diversity As to what’s Scott is aware there’s always the risk Michigan. He has also written an opinion significantly. The U.S. disclosure law has done little to increase gender diversity, making it hard to assess diversity’s effects. As more than half a dozen countries consider following Norway’s path, Dhir’s pathbreaking study provides important taken his research that people will dismiss your results piece in The Atlantic and has been by Osgoodelessons by deftly combining professors theory and research tools from psychology, have sociology, Chemical exposure and legal studies.” well beyond because they think you’re being driven featured in venues ranging from Forbes – Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University Osgoode Professor Dayna Scott is the on public policy initiatives? the confines of by a political agenda, and the New York Times to National Aaron A. Dhir is Associate Professor of Law (with tenure) at Osgoode Hall Law editor of Our Chemical Selves: Gender, School of York University. academia and Public Radio. Is there a risk of criticism Toxics and Environmental Health, into the realm Cover image: © 2014 “ if you align yourself when one’sYarek Waszul / theispot.com ideas go beyond published by UBC Press in 2015. During In Canada, Dhir has published Cover design by James F. Brisson AARON A. DHIR of practical the time she was editing the book, with activists, it may commentaries in the Globe and Mail and the traditional confines of implementation Professor Scott was also Director of the the Toronto Star. And he was not only Dhir cites the publication’s timeliness. be that you threaten the academy? And, looking National Network on Environments and honoured to participate as an expert Gender diversity on corporate boards to undermine the more forward, will Canadian legal Women’s Health. panelist at a recent Ontario Securities Globally, there’s rapidly intensifying “ The corporate world is conventional sense of a Commission (OSC) policy roundtable, As such, the research she and others academics follow a growing debate focusing on the lack of in the midst of a really detached academic.” but “very flattered” when former OSC conducted into chemical exposures trend among their U.S. gender parity in the governance of fascinating and important Chair Howard Wetston quoted from business corporations. In 2016, these affecting women in the workplace Yet in response to his research in Wetston’s introductory colleagues in advancing their discussions are expected to form the transition as countries was tied into the advocacy work being potential criticism remarks. backbone of new laws and initiatives across the globe are undertaken by the Network. For example, ideas more forcefully to effect of this approach aimed at increasing gender diversity. a project undertaken in partnership with Looking forward, Dhir says that he now confronting gender to research, Scott, meaningful change? For example, as recently as January a group of women plastics workers in the foresees academics in Canada and imbalances on corporate who is cross- 2016, the influential U.S. Government auto sector in Windsor generated a lot elsewhere showing even further appointed with Accountability Office released a boards of directors. of media coverage and policy interest, interest in publicizing their research, the Faculty of To consider these questions, Continuum report entitled “Corporate Boards: In doing so, they are as well as greater understanding by and, as a consequence, seeing their Environmental spoke with Osgoode Professors Aaron Strategies to Address Representation labour unions of the need to address the work turned into actionable initiatives. resorting to the force Studies, says being upfront in discussing Dhir and Dayna Scott; their research of Women Include Federal Disclosure link between chemical exposures and of law and the two main your approach is what’s required. “After spending some time in the U.S., and publications are garnering Requirements.” workplace cancers. significant interest among media, public forms of legal regulation “There’s really nobody without a I was very struck by the fact that some Currently, Scott is focusing on policy makers, other academics, and At the heart of the report are direct standpoint, we’re all coming from a academics have agents, and others being discussed – quotas grassroots research with communities advocacy groups in Canada and beyond. references to research findings particular place in our research and even have publicists. You wouldn’t contained in Osgoode Professor Aaron and disclosure – are both affected by chemical exposure. “To gain that informs everything that we do, so have seen that until relatively recently. Dhir’s book Challenging Boardroom empirically investigated the full picture, we have to think not be explicit about it in your publications. While I had neither (laughs), I think it’s only about workplace exposure,” she Homogeneity: Corporate Law, in my book,” he says. I think that makes the research more certainly rooted in a desire to mobilize Governance, and Diversity, published by says, “but also the exposure to people grounded, more honest.” research and to facilitate an impact Cambridge University Press in 2015. living in the communities that surround outside of the academic world as well.” the facilities that are producing To really get engaged in policy work, you have to be comfortable going these chemicals.” Bev Cline is a Toronto-based freelance writer, outside the strict confines of your own editor, and book author.

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NEW FACES OUR AMAZING Osgoode welcomed three new full-time faculty members this academic year: ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE Margaret Boittin, Lisa Dufraimont and Deborah McGregor. FOR 2015–16

“The hiring of these outstanding new faculty will strengthen Osgoode for the future by ensuring visionary scholarship, research and teaching in priority areas,” Dean Lorne Sossin said. “We are delighted to welcome Margaret, Lisa and Deborah   KAMI CHISHOLM to the Osgoode community.” a filmmaker, community educator, and activist – holds a PhD in History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is currently finishing an MFA in Film Production at York University. Chisholm has made more than a dozen films that have screened at festivals, universities, and events worldwide including The Well (Indiepix, 2015), The Insomniacs (distributed by Wolfe Video and MTV/ Logo, 2008) and FtF:Female to Femme (Frameline Distribution, 2006). While at Osgoode, Chisholm is working on Citizen, a feature length documentary project that explores some of the ways in which the regulation of citizenship and the enforcement of borders MARGARET BOITTIN LISA DUFRAIMONT DEBORAH MCGREGOR is used to deny many disparate groups of people access Assistant Professor Margaret Boittin joins Associate Professor Lisa Dufraimont teaches Joining York University as a cross-appointee to basic human rights. Osgoode with teaching interest in the and conducts research in the areas of criminal with the Faculty of Environmental Studies, areas of property law, Chinese law and law and procedure and evidence. Associate Professor Deborah McGregor   NADINE VALCIN research methods. is Canada Research Chair in Indigenous is an award-winning bilingual She brings with her several years of teaching experience, producer, writer and director. having held a faculty position at Queen’s University Faculty Her research lies at the intersection of criminal law, local Environmental Justice (Tier 2). She has an architecture degree of Law from 2006. She also served as Acting Associate Dean government law, international and comparative law and from McGill University and is an (Academic) at Queen’s for the first half of 2015. She earned She is working to advance the theory and practice of Chinese law with a focus on the regulation of prostitution, alumna of Doc Lab, the Women in her JD from the University of Toronto, and also holds an LLM environmental justice scholarship by engaging with Indigenous human trafficking, law enforcement and civil servants. the Director’s Chair, the National and JSD from Yale University. intellectual traditions. Her research program will provide Using empirical research methods, Boittin examines how Screen Institute and l’Institut a much deeper understanding of environmental injustices marginalized individuals perceive their relationships to the national de l’image et du son. Her factual and Dufraimont has published extensively on subjects related facing Indigenous peoples, and even more importantly, lead laws and institutions that govern their behaviour. documentary work has been shown on radio and to criminal law and evidence, with a particular focus on the to viable approaches to addressing such challenges. Her work television in Canada and the United States. She has jury system and the psychological aspect of procedural and has been published in an array of national and international Boittin is currently working on a book manuscript entitled directed four documentary projects for the National evidentiary rules. Her work has appeared in edited collections journals, and she has delivered numerous public and The Whore, the Hostess and the Honey: Policing, Health, Film Board of Canada, including the critically-acclaimed and in leading law journals, and she was co-investigator on academic presentations relating to traditional knowledge and Business and the Regulation of Prostitution in China, based Black, Bold and Beautiful (1999) and Une école sans a SSHRC-funded psycho-legal research project investigating governance. She co-edited Indigenous Peoples and Autonomy: on two years of field research in China. She also conducts frontières (A School without Borders, 2008). She is the effects of Canadian jury pattern jury instructions on the Insights for a Global Age with Mario Blaser, Ravi De Costa and research on human trafficking vulnerability and public opinion currently developing two feature films, Trajectoires criminal standard of proof beyond a reasonable doubt. William Coleman (2010). around human trafficking policies in Nepal and China, which (in French) and My Own Angel (in English) as well as is being funded with grants of $1.5 million from the U.S. She is also associate editor of the Criminal Reports and Prior to joining York, McGregor was an Associate Professor the dramatic television series Deep Shadows. During Department of Labor, USAID, Humanity United, Terre des a regular contributor to the National Judicial Institute’s in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto, her tenure at Osgoode, Valcin will be producing a video Hommes, Stanford University and Vanderbilt University. Criminal Essentials e-letter, which is distributed monthly to where she also served as Director of the Centre for Aboriginal installation entitled Whitewash that examines slavery about 1,000 Canadian judges. She is an investigator with The Governance Project, led Initiatives and the Aboriginal Studies program. She recently in Canada and its omission from the national narrative. by Francis Fukuyama at Stanford University’s Center on completed a SSHRC-funded research project (“Traditional Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, doing research Knowledge, Water and First Nations in Ontario”), and is on the Chinese bureaucracy and civil servants. Boittin has been currently undertaking three more. She earned her PhD from working and conducting research in China since 2001. Her work the University of Toronto. has been published in Law & Society Review.

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OF OUR Education Education Education PROFESSOR BENJAMIN BERGER LLM ’72, Harvard Law School; LLB ’71 LLB ’97, Osgoode Hall Law School; LLB ’87, Osgoode Hall Law School; ASSOCIATE DEAN, STUDENTS MCMURTRY Western University; BA ‘68 (English) BA, Highest Honours (Philosophy and BA ’82 (Sociology), York University. was awarded the Canadian Association of Western University. Women’s Studies), Carleton University; Occupation Law Teachers-Association Canadienne des FELLOWS BA (Psychology), Carleton University. Professeurs de Droit (CALT-ACPD) Prize for Occupation Staff lawyer at Jane & Finch Academic Excellence for 2014-15. Practised litigation in a large firm Occupation Community Legal Services Clinic for setting as well as a boutique civil, Partner, Martha McCarthy & Company five years before entering private constitutional/human rights and LLP in Toronto specializing in family practice in 1993 specializing in criminal, Aboriginal practice. Law Office of law and equality rights litigation. family, and immigration law. Mary Eberts since 2006. Counsel and Has been involved in the leading Appointments legal advisor to the Native Women’s cases expanding legal recognition for One of the founding members of the The McMurtry Visiting Clinical Fellowship Association of Canada since 1991. LGBTQ families. Canadian Association of Black – which honours Osgoode alumnus Appointments Appointments Lawyers (CABL) and a past President R. Roy McMurtry LLB ’58, LLD ’91, former Senior Fellow, Massey College, Member of the Legal Aid Ontario of CABL. Past President of PEACH Attorney General and Chief Justice of University of Toronto; Gordon Family Law Advisory Committee; (Promoting Economic Action and Henderson Chair in Human Rights Advisory Board member of the Community Health). Past lawyer PROFESSOR CARYS CRAIG Ontario, and former Chancellor of York at the Faculty of Law, University Motherhood Initiative for Research member of the Consent and Capacity ASSOCIATE DEAN, RESEARCH University – brings leading lawyers and of Ottawa; Ariel Sallows Chair in and Community Involvement (MIRCI) Board 2005–2014. & INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS Human Rights at the College of and its journal. Awards received the 2015 President’s related practitioners to Osgoode for a term Law, University of Saskatchewan; Awards Pro Bono Law Ontario for community University-Wide Teaching Award. or part of a term to provide mentorship Constitutional Litigator in Residence Canadian Bar Association Sexual service; CABL Award of Excellence for at the Asper Centre, Faculty of Law, to students and lawyers engaged in Orientation and Gender Identity Advancement of the Profession; Law University of Toronto. experiential education initiatives. Conference “Hero Award” in 2008 Society of Upper Canada’s Lincoln Awards for her contributions to LGBTQ Alexander Award; Harry Jerome Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal, Law communities. Award; Osgoode’s Dianne Martin Medal Society Medal from the Law Society for Social Justice Through Law. Osgoode welcomes three exceptional individuals Interesting Fact of Upper Canada, President’s Award as McMurtry Visiting Clinical Fellows for the Worked on M. v. H., a decision which Interesting Fact of the Women’s Law Association of 2015–16 academic year. sparked the recognition of same-sex Successfully represented the appellant Ontario, Governor General’s Award relationships in dozens of federal and Mavis Baker in the Supreme Court What follows is a snapshot of each Fellow that admittedly in Honour of the Person’s Case, provincial statutes. of Canada in the landmark case of PROFESSOR POONAM PURI does not do justice to their impressive CVs. Distinguished Service Award of the Baker v. Minister of Citizenship and and six Osgoode alumni were named among CBA-OBA and several honorary degrees. Immigration, which established a new Canadian Lawyer’s Top 25 Most Influential Interesting Fact standard for the duty of procedural Lawyers for 2015. Co-founded the Women’s Legal fairness in administrative law. Education and Action Fund (LEAF).

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William Watson ’79 Barbara Murchie ’84 ALUMNI MOVES was appointed Chair of the University was elected Bencher of the Law Society of Waterloo’s Board of Governors. of Upper Canada. Check out the latest achievements and the comings and goings of fellow alumni. Christopher Nicholls ’84 ’92 (LLM) 1980s was appointed Vice-Chair of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association. Maryka Omatsu ’75 1950s 1970s Jane Armstrong ’80 was appointed to the Order of Ontario. was appointed Chair of Guelph Hydro 5 ’8 Morley Torgov ’54 Electric Systems Inc. Board of Directors. 2 ’7 Gale Rubenstein ’75 PAUL LE VAY was appointed to the Order of Canada. was appointed to the Hydro One Inc. RUSSELL JURIANSZ received the Law Society of Board of Directors. ’80 Upper Canada’s 2015 Lincoln Jack Pelech ’59 was awarded the degree CHANTAL TIE Alexander Award. who passed away in 2008 was one of of Doctor of Laws honoris SUBMIT received the Law Society 10 Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame past causa from the Law Society 5 ’7 of Upper Canada’s 2015 inductees selected to be a part of the of Upper Canada. SUSAN ENG ’86 (LLM) Law Society Medal. YOUR OWN curriculum in both the Hamilton Wentworth received the Law Society CRAIG CARTER

Catholic and Public School Boards. Sidney Troister ’72 of Upper Canada’s 2015 received the Law Society was elected Bencher of the Law Society Law Society Medal. Susan Wolburgh Jenah ’80 of Upper Canada’s 2015 CLASS

of Upper Canada. joined Aird & Berlis LLP as Senior Advisor, Law Society medal.

1960s 6 ’7 Corporate Finance and Capital Markets. NOTE SANDRA CHAPNIK Mark Tamminga ’86 Allen Linden ’60 3 ’7 Timothy Gallagher ‘81 retired from the Ontario was named one of the Top 25 most was appointed to the Order of Canada. EVA MARSZEWSKI retired from the federal government in was appointed to the Order Superior Court. March 2015 after a 30-year career as a influential lawyers by Canadian Lawyer What’s happened in your

of Ontario and was honoured policy advisor in the public service. magazine. ’62 ’64 (LLM) by the Association of Conflict life since you graduated David Jarvis ’76 Richard Cullen ’87 (DJur) ’12 (LLD) Resolution with its Marvin E. was appointed to the Ontario Superior Bradford Morse ’81 (LLM) wrote Land Revenue and the Chinese from Osgoode? WARREN WINKLER Johnson Diversity and Equity Court of Justice, Family Court. was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law Dream, which was recognized by the was appointed to the Award. Her organization at Thompson Rivers University in 2014. China Policy Review as one of the Order of Ontario. Peacebuilders International Susan Armatage Richer ‘77 Lindsay Brian Swartz ’81 Top 20 Economic Essays of 2014. We want to hear about it! (Canada) was selected by was elected Bencher of the Law Society received the 2015 Award of Excellence Share news of your career, Robert Evans ’64, ‘81 (LLM) the American College of Trial of Upper Canada. Rocco Galati ’87, ’97 (LLM) in Construction and Infrastructure Law family life and personal was elected Bencher of the Law Society Lawyers as the recipient of was named one of the Top 25 most Ross Earnshaw ’77 from the Ontario Bar Association, in of Upper Canada. the Emil Gumpert Award influential lawyers by Canadian Lawyer accomplishments with your for providing exemplary was elected Bencher of the Law Society recognition of his professionalism and longstanding contributions to the practice magazine and was elected Bencher of fellow alumni by submitting M. Virginia MacLean ’67 and much needed access of Upper Canada. of construction and infrastructure law. the Law Society of Upper Canada. a Class Note. was elected Bencher of the Law Society to justice. Susan McGrath ’77 of Upper Canada. Henry Gluch ’87 was elected Bencher of the Law Society D. Grant Vingoe ’81 was appointed Associate Assistant Deputy 4 ’7 of Upper Canada. was appointed Vice-Chair of the Ontario Kenneth Pedlar ’68 Visit Securities Commission. Attorney General in the Tax Law Services received the Frontenac Law Association’s MARY CORNISH Lorne Waldman ’77 Portfolio of the Department of Justice. Lou Tepper Award of Excellence. received an honorary osgoode.yorku.ca/ was named one of the Top 25 most doctorate from York 3 ’8 Jeffrey Lem ’87, ’02 (LLM) alumni University’s Faculty influential lawyers by Canadian Lawyer Michael Holden ’69 MARIANNE HARRIS was elected Bencher of the Law Society of Liberal Arts and magazine. was admitted as a practitioner in Western was appointed to the Hydro of Upper Canada. Australia in 1971. In 1991 he was appointed Professional Studies. Richard Bennett ’78 ’11 (LLM) One Inc. Board of Directors. a Judge of the Family Court of Western was appointed to the Ontario Superior Jonathan Rosenthal ’87 Australia and a Justice of the Family Howard Goldblatt ’74 Court of Justice, Family Court Branch. John Coyne ’84 was elected Bencher of the Law Society Court of Australia. In 1996 Michael was was elected Bencher of the Law Society was appointed to Ontario’s Climate Change of Upper Canada. appointed Chief Judge of the Family Court of Upper Canada. Barbara Hall ’78 Action Group. of Western Australia and the following year was appointed to the Order of Canada. Peter Van Loan ’87 was appointed to the permanent Appeal ’74 ‘91 (LLM) David Goldman ’84 was elected as Member of Parliament Division of the Family Court of Australia. Paula Barran ’79 was awarded the 2014 Lexpert Zenith for the York-Simcoe riding. ‘91 (PhD) He continued in these dual roles until his was inducted into The National Association Award in the Corporate Mid-Market DIANNE SAXE retirement in 2007. In 2014 Michael was of Professional Women’s VIP Woman of category for practice excellence, thought Susan Woodley ‘87 was appointed Ontario’s awarded the Order of Australia for his the Year Circle. leadership and setting new standards for was appointed to the Ontario Superior new Environmental services to the law. the legal profession. Court of Justice. Law Commissioner.

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Arlene Brock ‘88 3 ’9 Colleen Hanycz ’99 (LLM) ’03 (PhD) ’06 was inducted as a Fellow of Bermuda College. KIMBERLY MURRAY was the first female appointed President JO-ANNA BRIMMER in the 152-year history of La Salle University received the Law Society of and her husband John Daniel Daviau ’89 in Pennsylvania. She had previously served Upper Canada’s 2015 Laura welcomed their son, was appointed Chief Executive Officer as Principal of Brescia College and had been Legge Award. Matthew Joseph Brimmer, of Canaccord Genuity. a faculty member at Osgoode for a number on April 16, 2015. of years. 9 ’8 Janice Quigg ’93 hit 10 Amazon Best-Seller lists in the Sara Cohen ’06 MARIE HENEIN Avvy Yao-Yao Go ’99 (LLM) United States and Canada with her book was named one of the Top 25 most was named one of the Top 25 was elected Bencher of the Law Society The Soul of Success, Vol.1: The World’s influential lawyers by Canadian Lawyer most influential lawyers by of Upper Canada. Leading Entrepreneurs and Professionals magazine. Canadian Lawyer magazine. Reveal Their Core Strategies for Getting to Paul Hong ’06 the Heart of Health, Wealth and Success. 2000s Joseph Peschisolido ’89 serves as the Deputy Chief of Staff for the was elected as Member of Parliament Andrew Spurgeon ’93 Dawn Devoe ’01 Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. for the Steveston-Richmond East riding. was elected Bencher of the Law Society was named one of the Top 25 most of Upper Canada. Paul Sweeny ’89 influential lawyers by Canadian ’06 Lawyer magazine. was appointed to the Ontario Superior Adam Szweras ’94 EVA MELAMED

Court of Justice. was appointed to Aurora Cannabis Inc.’s was the first Jewish woman Board of Directors. ’05 inducted into the McGill GARY University Sports Hall of 1990s David Carinci ’95 ’00 (LLM) Fame. ANANDASANGAREE is Senior Legal Counsel at DMTI Spatial Inc., was elected as Member Osgoode’s Hong Kong alumni gathered together David Cohen ’90 in August to enjoy a bubbly reception. a Neopost Company and in 2014 he was of Parliament for the Gina Papageorgiou ’06 (LLM) was elected President of TMA Global. honoured with the Distinguished Alumni Scarborough-Rouge was elected Bencher of the Law Society Award from the York Catholic District Rajvinder Grewal ’13 Paul Cooper ’90 Park riding. of Upper Canada. ’09 School Board. David and his wife, Rosalba, was elected as Member of Parliament for was elected Bencher of the Law Society BERNADETTE welcomed the birth of their daughter, Ava Steven Del Duca ’07 the Brampton East riding. of Upper Canada. Gilles LeVasseur ’05 (LLM) MAHEANDIRAN Rose, and their son Dominic is very happy. is Ontario’s Transportation Minister was appointed to the Order of Ontario. along with the other Stephen Hsia ’13 Janet Minor ’90 (LLM) and Member of Provincial Parliament members of The Justice and Lisa De Marco ’95 was a finalist in the Royal Canadian Mint was elected Treasurer of the Law Society for Vaughan where he and his family Corporate Accountability was appointed to Ontario’s Climate Change ’05 (DJur) currently reside. coin design challenge. The Mint will change of Upper Canada. Project travelled to Kenya Action Group. FIONA SAMPSON the design of Canada’s coins in 2017 in time to provide workshops on oil th Patrick McGrade ’90 was appointed to the Order for Canada’s 150 birthday. Nancie Lataille ’95 7 ’0 and gas to approximately 100 was appointed Senior Vice-President of of Canada and received the joined Heidrick & Struggles as Partner in PAUL JONATHAN subsistence agriculturalists. Corporate Affairs of Restaurant Brands Inc. 2015 YWCA Toronto Women their Toronto office. SAGUIL ’14 of Distinction award for received the 2015 Precedent Kelly Yerxa ’09 (LLM) AVNISH NANDA her work with the human ’90 Kevin Baker ’96 Setter Award. was appointed Director of Legal Services/ opened Nanda & Company, rights charity Equality Effect a boutique litigation firm RACHEL NOTLEY rode his motorcycle from Deadhorse, City Solicitor for the City of Cambridge. (theequalityeffect.org). that represents clients from was elected Premier Alaska to Key West, Florida as part of the Lisa Skakun ’07 (LLM) of Alberta. Ride for Inclusion, which raised awareness Alberta and British Columbia. joined Mogo Finance Technology Inc. as Jagmeet Singh ’05 and funds to support students with Chief Legal & Administrative Officer. 2010s James O’Sullivan ’90 disabilities in post-secondary education. was appointed Deputy Leader of the Liane Fong, Roni Hoffman, Ontario New Democrat Party. was appointed as Group Head of Canadian Clifford Jackman ’08 Alexandre Boucher ’10 (LLM) Heather Hui-Litwin, Joy Mathews Lisa Raitt ‘96 Banking at Scotiabank. was a Governor General’s Literary Awards was appointed a puisne judge of the and Marc Rodrigue, alumni from was elected as Member of Parliament ’05 finalists for his novel The Winter Family. Superior Court of Quebec. the Class of 2011, Mark Warner ’91 for the Milton riding. TANYA WALKER helped develop the Toronto Public Library’s was inducted as a Fellow of the American Lisa Feldstein ’10 was recognized with the Heather John ’08 Law at the Library Series, which focused Bar Foundation. Sven Spengemann ’98 received the 2015 Precedent Setter Award. Traditional Law Practice co-founded LawGo which provides on helping Torontonians solve common was elected as Member of Parliament affordable, fixed-fee legal services Sanjeev Anand ’93 (JD), ‘99 (PhD) Award by the Canadian legal problems (torontopubliclibrary.ca/ for the Mississauga-Lakeshore riding. on demand. Jack Bensimon ’11 (LLM) ’12 (LLM) was appointed to the Provincial Court of Association of Black Lawyers was appointed Chief Executive Officer programs-and-classes/featured/law-at- and was presented with the the-library.jsp). Saskatchewan. Prior to being appointed to Ali Ehsassi ’99 Aida Shahbazi ’08 and Board Director of Epcylon Planet Africa Rising Star the bench, he served as Dean of Law at the was elected as Member of Parliament received the 2015 Precedent Setter Award. Technologies, Inc. University of Saskatchewan for three years for the Willowdale riding. Award from the Planet Africa Group. and as a Professor of law at the University of Alberta for 10 years. 

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IN MEMORIAM January 1, 2015 to December 31, 2015

OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 1946 1956 1966 Walter J. Rapson Gordon C. Saunders Joel H. Selley

ANNUAL 1947 1957 1970 David G. Menzel Martin E. Offman Lionel C. Larry GENERAL John G. O’reilly 1948 1971 Melvin P. Rubinoff Bruce A. Finkler William R. MEETING Duncan C. McKillop 1958 Rauenbusch Roy H. Saffrey Augustine M. Arrigo 1974 NOTICE Silas A. Ward A. Alan Borovoy Marc Rosenberg Donald J. Catalano 1949 Irwin Schwartz David E. Hill Larry D. Clarke John R. Varley Alumni are invited Bernard W. Papernick Geraldine F. Waldman to attend the Annual 1950 Nicholas Pasic Arthur Tugwood General Meeting on: C. John Cannon 1976 Victor L. Paskaleff William E. Tennyson 1959

1951 Arnell S. Goldberg 1978 Wednesday, May 18, 2016 J. Joseph Kelly Paul R. Jewell Daphne A. Intrator 5:30pm to 6:00pm Joseph D. Sheard Douglas H. Lissaman Richard G. Leighton Portrait Room of Osgoode Hall Garry J. Sullivan 1953 1980 130 Queen Street West, Ernest Dicker 1960 J. Anna Fraser Toronto, Ontario W. D. August 1954 1982 Daniel W. Burtnick Walter E. Bell John H. Kenney Howard M. Hacker Please contact the Osgoode Gordon M. Ronald E. Williams 1991 Alumni Office at Farquharson 1962 Rollin M. Matsui 416-736-5638 or Benjamin Lamb Dean’s Alumni Reception Michael R. Salhany Milton J. Bernstein [email protected] 1993 Edward F. Wren E. Lyle Brown Susan H. Davidson to obtain a copy of the agenda. Join fellow alumni, faculty and friends in honouring Gordon D. Goldman LLM 1955 our alumni for their contributions to the profession, John A. Geller 1963 2001 Positive RSVPS Appreciated Joseph M. McBride Arthur H. Clairman Craig A. Shaw Law School and legal community. Robert C. Thomas S. Joshua Langer Hugh E. Zimmerman 1965 May 18, 2016 Terrance A. Sweeney Convocation Hall, Osgoode Hall 130 Queen Street West, Toronto Professor Emeritus Terence G. Ison 6:00pm – 7:30pm who taught at Osgoode in the 1980s passed away on September 2, 2015 at the age of 80. Free

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