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Continuum: Volume 37 (Winter 2013) OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL OF YORK UNIVERSITY ALUMNI MAGAZINE • Experience Osgoode • At the Top WINTER 2013 • Advancing Experiential Leadership • Shifting the Discourse CONTINUUM Experience Osgoode 10 Experience Osgoode CONTINUUM Doctrine and theory are important building Osgoode Hall Law School blocks for a career in law, but they aren’t Alumni Magazine the only model of learning law schools Volume 37 employ. Osgoode is proud to be the first and EDITOR only Canadian law school to also include an Anita Herrmann Director, Office of External experiential education requirement as part of Relations & Communications its Juris Doctor (JD) curriculum. 416-736-5364 [email protected] CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 16 At the Top Virginia Corner We asked three high-powered business Communications Manager executives (who just happen to be women WRITERS and graduates of Osgoode) for their thoughts Meaghan Carrington on a range of subjects including what it takes Virginia Corner Kevin Hanson to succeed. Anita Herrmann Lorne Sossin Christine Ward 21 Advancing Experiential PHOTOGRAPHY Leadership AKA Photography The Law Foundation of Ontario’s Community Digital Freedom Fabrice Grover Leadership in Justice Fellowships are building Lydia Guo ’14 bridges between academia and community Ron Montes ’15 agencies by placing leading practitioners in Terry Tingchaleun temporary residence at universities and colleges. WINTER 2013 DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Fish Out of Water Design Inc. PRINTING 22 Shifting the Discourse Colour Innovations Through their academic research as well as direct Continuum is published once a year by Osgoode engagement with law reform processes and Hall Law School of York University for alumni and friends. Ideas and opinions expressed in Continuum public debates, Osgoode professors are having do not necessarily reflect those of the editors, a powerful influence on public policy-making. Osgoode Hall Law School or York University. We invite your letters and comments, and hope you will keep us posted on where you are and what 03 Message from the Dean you are doing. Please send correspondence to: Continuum 04 In Brief Office of External Relations & Communications Ignat Kaneff Building 25 Faculty News Osgoode Hall Law School York University 4700 Keele Street 28 Class Notes Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Telephone: 416-736-5638 31 In Memoriam Fax: 416-736-5629 E-mail: [email protected] Website: osgoodealumni.ca 32 The Way Things Were Follow @osgoodealumni COVER PhotoS: FABRICE Grover, LYDIA GUO ’14, TERRY TINGCHALEUN Connect Osgoode Alumni Printed in Canada ISSN 0318-1295 FSC Information Goes Here This is an Osgoode classroom. Photo: HORST HERGET Photography Message from the Dean Experiential learning has been a cornerstone of legal education at Osgoode for more than 40 years, since the establishment of Parkdale Community Legal Services and the Community and Legal Aid Services Program (CLASP). Osgoode already boasts more clinical and intensive programs than any Whether in our backyard, other school in the country. Adding new and innovative experiential across Toronto or around the programs is a key aspect of Osgoode’s 2011-16 Strategic Plan, appropriately titled “Experience Osgoode.” In the fall of 2012, on the United Nations world, Osgoode students (UN’s) International Day of Persons with Disabilities, Osgoode’s Faculty have found ways to make a Council approved the new Disability Rights Intensive Program in positive difference through conjunction with ARCH Disability Law Centre. Osgoode has also launched law and to gain a better a new experiential research course in collaboration with the Centre for legal education as a result. Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). So, it should come as no Beyond the curriculum, Osgoode continues to work with the legal surprise that in 2012, community on expanding opportunities for experiential learning through Osgoode became the first internships and fellowships. In January, Osgoode announced a new business law summer internship program offered through the Hennick law school in Canada to Centre for Business and Law, and funded through a generous donation by establish a new upper-year McCarthy Tétrault. curriculum which features This issue of Continuum focuses on different perspectives on experiential a requirement that every education at Osgoode. We hope you will continue to remain engaged with Osgoode student participate Osgoode and support the many initiatives on the go – we welcome your in an experiential program comments, suggestions and ideas. before graduation. I hope you enjoy this issue of Continuum. For more perspectives on all things Osgoode, check out my blog at deansblog.osgoode.yorku.ca or follow me at @DeanSossin on Twitter. Lorne Sossin ’92 Dean ex·pe·ri·en·tial learn·ing: \ik-ˌspir-ē-ˈen(t)-shəl ˈlərniNG/: process of gaining knowledge or skills through action, participation and reflection; hands-on learning; learning by doing. WINTER 2013 3 IN BRIEF CPD That’s Good for a Laugh Continuing professional development imaginary red ball, or ranting about deal with the unexpected. Lawyers (CPD) for lawyers isn’t exactly a their pet peeve until told to stop, and must also be able to embrace risk, laughing matter. But, it was last you’ll have an idea of what playful, silly understand the importance of body November when New York City lawyer and fun workshops these were. language and know how to develop and improv comedian Tommy Galan A total of 60 people – 95 percent rapport with fellow lawyers, jurors, spent a day at Osgoode Professional lawyers – attended the sold-out clients, judges and other stakeholders. Development (OPD) conducting two sessions, which qualified for 3.5 CPD All of these skills are sharpened hilarious “Improv(ed) Legal Skills” hours as part of the Law Society of through the study of improvisation, improvisation workshops. Upper Canada’s requirement that says Galan, who defines sharpened Picture a group of normally serious- lawyers and paralegals complete as “anything that’s not scripted.” minded and business-like people 12 hours of professional development “Improv relies on effective standing in a circle trying to mimic each year. communication, listening skills and each other’s gestures and sounds, Galan, an accomplished lawyer, compassion, along with the skills of pretending to throw and catch an professional speaker, performer performance, presentation, public and Director speaking and acceptance” Galan says. of Corporate “Honing improv skills can benefit Programming lawyers in any area of practice by at The Peoples making them better able to think Improv Theater quickly on their feet, answer questions in New York City, on the fly and speak with greater where he teaches confidence and poise.” the benefits of Galan has delivered his workshop, improv to lawyers, which is an accredited Continuing executives and Legal Education (CLE) course in New business teams, York State, to the NYC Law Department, led the workshop the American Bar Association, Hofstra participants in Law School and hundreds of lawyers classic improv in both the private and public sectors. exercises and Galan will be coming back to OPD drills to help them in the future. Contact Heather Gore hone their skills as Liddell at [email protected] lawyers. for more information on how to register Every lawyer, Galan or how to create an in-house or says, needs to be custom program. able to actively listen, stay in the moment and Photo: TERRY TINGCHALEUN 4 WINTER 2013 NEW FellowshipS BrINg Wealth OF TALENT to OSgOODE Raj Anand Fay Faraday Joseph Arvay Two new Osgoode fellowships have brought four exceptional Anand is teaching an upper-year seminar on Legal Ethics this lawyers to the Law School for the 2012-13 academic year. winter and Faraday is teaching a first-year class called Ethical Raj Anand, a partner at WeirFoulds LLP in Toronto, Joseph Lawyering in a Global Community. She also taught an upper- Arvay, Q.C. of Arvay Finlay Barristers in Vancouver, and Fay year seminar in the fall on Discrimination and the Law. Faraday ’93, a sole practitioner in Toronto, are the three The McMurtry Fellowship honours Osgoode alumnus R. Roy inaugural recipients of the McMurtry Visiting Clinical Fellowship. McMurtry ’58, ’91(LLD), former Attorney General and Chief Pooja Parmar, who recently completed doctoral studies at Justice of Ontario, and current Chancellor of York University. the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, is the As for the Osgoode Catalyst Fellowship, it is “designed inaugural holder of the Osgoode Catalyst Fellowship. to bring to Osgoode emerging scholars who have a “The McMurtry Fellows are playing a vital role in helping to demonstrated interest in a career in law teaching, and to connect our students, faculty and staff with broader practice support and mentor scholars who will enhance the diversity networks, insights and expertise,” says Dean Lorne Sossin. of the profession,” says Sossin. “They are helping to build bridges between the Law School While at Osgoode, Parmar has presented a faculty seminar and the community to advance experiential education.” with the aim of preparing a major article for publication, Arvay spent the month of September at Osgoode, delivered taught a course on law and development, and pursued an the James Lewtas Lecture on Sept. 19, 2012, to an overflow active affiliation with one of the Law School’s research centres. crowd, and advised faculty and staff on the development and implementation of clinical programs. WINTER 2013 5 IN BRIEF Supreme Court Judge Visits Osgoode The Honourable Madam Justice Parkdale Community Legal Services Karakatsanis told the students that Andromache Karakatsanis ’80 about her days as a student in the a just rule of law “is what makes (pictured, centre) of the Supreme program. In the picture below, she Canada the envy of the world” and Court of Canada visited Osgoode in is seated beside Osgoode Professor must be safeguarded. January and spoke to students in Janet Mosher, Academic Director at It was alumna Karakatsanis’ first the poverty law intensive program at Parkdale.
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