Nobel Prize winning economist delivers Beattie Family Lecture in Business Law
 Nobel Prize-winning economist George Akerlof delivered the 2010 Beattie Family Lecture in Business Law to a full house at Western Law on March 22. Akerlof spoke on the topic "Identity Economics".
Akerlof is a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley and co-author of Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being. [more]
Shakespeare on Trial - A Play with Appeal
 Some of Canada’s greatest legal minds gathered at Western on March 4 to settle a loan dispute. The creditor was summarily convicted of attempted murder in a trial without due process, then forced to give up most of his wealth and even his religion. This wasn’t a case from modern day Canada, though; the creditor was Shylock, and Shakespeare imagined his predicament more than 400 years ago. Listen to audio of play. [more]
Decorated soldiers entering Western Law
The Faculty of Law at The University of Western Ontario will admit two Canadian Forces members this fall under a new program for Canadian Forces personnel released for medical reasons. [more]
"Torture, Lawyers and Accountability"
 Philippe Sands delivered the 4th annual Claude and Elaine Pensa Lecture in Human Rights to a full house at Western Law on March 3. Sands, a Professor of international law at University College London and a regular commentator on the BBC and CNN spoke on “Torture, Lawyers and Accountability”. Listen to the 2010 Pensa Lecture given by Philippe Sands. [more]
SSHRC grants awarded for International Law research
 Western Law Professor Valerie Oosterveld has been awarded two Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grants for international law research. Oosterveld received an individual one year standard SSHRC grant for $31,664 for a project focusing on gender in international criminal justice [more]
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Western Law opens TSX
University of Western Law Dean Ian Holloway, together with students, alumni and friends, rang the morning bell on Thursday, April 29 to open the Toronto Stock Exchange in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the school's founding.
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Legal ethics moot launched
A new advocacy competition in Legal Ethics and Professionalism is being sponsored by Lenczner Slaght Royce Smith Griffin LLP. [more]
Western Law student leads BLSAC
Western Law student Keri Wallace was elected President of The Black Law Students' Association of Canada (BLSAC) at the association’s annual conference. [more]
Panel explores Corporate Social Responsibility
Western Law hosted a panel discussion on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in the Canadian Mining Sector, organized and moderated by Prof. Sara Seck. [more]
Recent Gifts
Thanks to funding support from Miller Thomson LLP, Western Law students had a chance to learn from two of the brightest legal minds in New Zealand this past January without ever having to set a foot off campus. [more]
Kevin Comeau LLB'82, has made a generous commitment of $25,000 to continue supporting the scholarship endowment established at Western Law.
Western Law's 2009-10 Student Legal Society has provided a gift of $25,000 to establish a new Entrance Scholarship at Western Law. The scholarship was established in honour of the Faculty of Law's 50th Anniversary.
The Toronto labour law firm of Mathews Dinsdale & Clark LLP has made a commitment of $60,000 over three years to establish the Mathews Dinsdale Speakers' Series in Labour Law. [more]
The Canadian Auto Workers Associations has agreed to extend and make a new gift for the Bob White International Student Student Internship in Labour Law enabling a Western Law student to work with the International Labour Organization in Geneva.
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