The universiTy of ToronTo faculTy of law alumni magazine fall/Winter 2012 laborious Times What does a post-industrial, hyper-technological, deficit-slashing world mean for union-management relations? nexus 1 DEAN’S MESSAGE Fall/Winter 2012 Volume 22, Number 2 editor in Chief Kate Hilton, JD 1999 exeCutive editor Lucianna Ciccocioppo art direCtor Katina Constantinou, Sugar Design Copy editor Dylan Reid faCt CheCkers Catherine Dowling, Cathy Garnier Mailing assistant Nancy Reid Tel: 416 978 1355 Fax: 416 978 7899 GACY [email protected] editorial offiCe Tel: 416 946 0334 Fax: 416 978 7899 [email protected] letters to the editor: LE Fax: 416 978 7899 [email protected] Renaissance on track Visit us online at www.law.utoronto.ca, We are halfway through another academic year, and so far 2012-13 has been absolutely and find us on: extraordinary. in We enjoyed our best Reunion ever, with a turnout of more than 300 enthusiastic alumni (see p.33). During Reunion season, we checked in with some of our amazing women alumni, to talk about careers and staying in law (“Generation Now,” p. 13). We also Nexus magazine is published semi-annually by the celebrated the graduation of our first class of Global Professional LLM students, who had Office of Advancement, with a circulation of 8,300. nothing but good things to say about our executive-style program (“GPLLM Grads,” p.8). It is distributed to alumni, faculty, students, staff and And with labour issues taking up headlines across North America, we asked our alumni to friends of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. “ Law school is a full-time commitment. weigh in on the state of union-management relations (“Laborious Times,” p. 16). All material is copyright © 2012, and may not be reprinted without the express written permission of As usual, our conference calendar was full of notable events, such as the first in an annual The Ivy Maynier scholarship lets me the author. series of patent law colloquia (“Does Patent Law Help or Hinder Medical Innovation?” p.11). All correspondence and undeliverable copies: To kick off 2013, we reflect on the first five years of Canada’s Indian Residential Schools Nexus magazine, Faculty of Law, 84 Queen’s Park, Settlement Agreement (“Civil Action, Redress and Memory,” p. 30). 112-C, Toronto, ON, M5S 2C5. give it my full-time attention.” The highlight of the fall term, of course, was the announcement of a $10 million gift by Do we have your correct address and contact details? The Hon. Hal Jackman to name our new Jackman Law Building (“The Future is Please let us know of any corrections: 416 978 1355 Forthcoming,” p.22). With the campaign now in its final stages, we are hard at work or email [email protected]. planning for a groundbreaking this summer and for our move to Victoria University, just AMAN DHILLON Publications Agreement Number: 40064892 across the street, for the duration of the construction. JD Candidate, 2013 ISSN 1923-502X We are so grateful to all of you who have supported us so far. If you have not yet donated, Printed in Canada by Colour Innovations. please consider lending your support to help us reach our goal by June 2013. Together, we By including a gift to the Faculty of Law in your will, can secure the future of our Faculty, one of Canada’s great public institutions. you’re helping us nurture the boundless potential kson C of current law students like Aman. Please join the i d campaign for the law school today. igel igel n To find out more, contact: [email protected], 416-946-8227 Mayo Moran, sJd 1999 [email protected], 416-978-3846 dean of the faCulty of laW by photo university of toronto faculty of law nexus 3 BOUNDLESS departments: What’s 3 inside dean’s Message 6 Contributors 29 nota bene The sounds of serendipity features: By Lucianna Ciccocioppo PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE PAGE 30 opinions Civil action, redress and memory 8 11 12 16 22 By Mayo Moran 32 gpllM grads: does patent generation laborious the future is Where laW and laW help or noW tiMes forthCoMing on the stand business Meet hinder MediCal By Karen Gross By Sheldon Gordon By Karen Gross and By Randi Chapnik Myers innovation? Lucianna Ciccocioppo Q & A with By Mark Witten A Faculty of Law What does a Mark Wiseman, Nexus congratulates conference on women post-industrial, Henry N. R. Jackman’s LLB/MBA the inaugural Courts grapple with in law helped launch hyper-technological, $10M lead gift secures class of the Global the challenges of the Justicia Project deficit-slashing a bright future for Professional LLM. protecting the public to encourage their world mean for the Faculty of Law We zeroed in on a and rewarding Big retention in the legal union-management with the Jackman 34 consultant, a litigator, Pharma. profession. More than relations? The Law Building, as our a corporate lawyer five years later, has evolution of new alumni continue REUNION 2012 and an engineer to anything changed? labour laws. to give generously. share their success stories with us. 36 o 29 n CLASS NOTES t s r i 38 final SUBMISSIONS k e 30 32 34 university of toronto faculty of law nexus 5 CONTRIBUTORS contributors 2nd 0 katina Constantinou, raina + Wilson, Mark Witten, art direCtor, sugar design photographers, “generation noW,” p. 13 Writer, “does patent laW help or hinder MediCal innovation?” p.11 Nexus introduces our new art director, Raina and Wilson are an award-winning Katina Constantinou, founder of Sugar commercial photography team based in Mark Witten is a freelance writer specializing Design. A creative director, brand strategist Toronto, Canada. in health and science. He has written for and designer, she has produced integrated The Walrus, Toronto Life, Canadian Living, They shoot a wide variety of subjects for campaigns, including visual identities, Reader’s Digest, Today’s Parent and U of T’s clients such as Toronto Life, Canadian publication design, websites, advertising and Edge Magazine. His article in Homemakers Business, Universal Music, and Bank retail design, for a diverse roster of clients: magazine, “Drugs made to measure,” of Montreal. They recently landed the first Toronto Life, Oceana Magazine, LCBO, received the 2012 Sanofi Pasteur Medal annual Applied Arts Creative Excellence Adidas, Rethink Breast Cancer and The for Excellence in Health Research Journalism. Award for photography, and a silver and Bay, among others. Her work has received He stays fit by playing squash, tennis and bronze from the Advertising + Design Club international recognition including awards trying to keep up with his wife Anne and of Canada. Even though each is an only from the Advertising + Design Club of daughter Leah. child, they never fight over the camera. Canada, Applied Arts and Coupe Magazine. When she’s not teaching as a sessional instructor at OCAD University, she’s jetting off to New York City for inspiration. TRAMPOLINE BRANDING Contact: Larry Bootland 902 405 4809 coxandpalmerlaw.com Project: 8588C&P September Brand Ads Client: Cox & Palmer Publication: Nexus New Brunswick | Newfoundland & Labrador | Nova Scotia | Prince Edward Island Size: 9” x 11.75” Insertion Date: October Insertion Photos/Logos: Hi res university of toronto faculty of law NOTE: All trapping is the responsibility of prepress PROCESS SEPARATIONS C M Y K FATEH SALIM Fateh Salim, a civil litigator with the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, heard about the GPLLM program from a law professor friend. Just a couple of years back, Salim had been employed at a private sector firm in North Africa and he was keen to incorporate international law into his practice. “There is a deficit when it comes to government lawyers’ understanding of cross-border issues and globalization, which are among the most important issues of today,” Salim says. His employer, who supported his decision to return to school, also appreciated the program’s value. “When I told them about my plans, they were forward-thinking,” he recalls. “They recognized the importance of the skill set not just for my practice but for its availability in government in general.” It was clear that acquiring such specialized knowledge would really benefit his clients, Salim says. Plus, the program offered an intensive international arbitration course that appealed to him. Cynthia “I practice both litigation and alternative dispute resolution, so I ROBERTSON knew I would be using those skills right away,” he says. While most law courses Salim had taken in the past were purely GPLLM Cynthia Roberston was enjoying breakfast one Saturday last June academic, this one offered something unique. It was a complete when her husband, Stanley Strug, noticed an ad in the Globe and meld of law and business taught by real professionals. “I was Mail newspaper. It was for the University of Toronto law school’s impressed by the variety of the law faculty—professors from within GRADS: new Global Professional Master of Laws—exactly the type of the U of T community and exceptional practitioners from firms—and program the husband-and-wife business team had been seeking. their experience in both business and international law,” he says. Partners at Parkridge Properties Inc., a Toronto and Halifax-based Even the makeup of the student body, lawyers and non-lawyers, consultancy that advises the public and private sectors on WHERE reflected that law-business mix. There were students from infrastructure projects, the couple had been on the hunt for some government, private firms, in-house counsel, and business people LAW AND legal training with an international flavour. with experience in the corporate world.