Western Law Notes : Summer 2008
News of the School
Western Law welcomes new Associate Deans
Western Law is pleased to welcome two new Associate Deans. Prof. Michael Lynk is Western Law's new Associate Dean (Academic) and Prof. Mark Perry assumes the role of Associate Dean (Research, Graduate Studies & Operations). [read more]
Doug Ferguson attends Democratic convention
Western Law's Doug Ferguson was among thousands of Democrats in Denver in late August where Barack Obama was formally elected to lead the party in its run for the White House. [read more]
Finding the Music in Corporate Law
Western Law Professor Sara Seck hopes to bridge the gap between corporate law and social justice law in her new position as Western. [read more]
2008 Western Law Alumni Magazine
The 2008 issue of The Western Law Alumni magazine highlights our faculty, alumni and students who are involved in the world of sports. View PDF of magazine.
Alumni and Development
Recent gifts to Western Law
Western Law would like to thank the following donors for their generous gifts to the law school.
Torys LLP and Western Law Alumni at the Firm have made a commitment of $215,000 to support The Pre-Eminent Business Law Speaker Series for the next five years. [read more]
A gift from the law firm of Wildeboer Dellelce will create a new placement for Western Law's International Law Internship Program. The new internship will be established at either the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, or the New York Stock Exchange. [read more]
Larry Innanen LLB '73 has made a gift of $50,000 to support the International Law Internship Program (ILIP) at Western Law. [read more]
A gift from Harrison Pensa LLP will be used to support the Claude and Elaine Pensa Lecture Series in Human Rights for an additional three years. The successful lecture series was established in honour of the 50th anniversary of Claude Pensa’s call to the Ontario bar. [read more]
The Firm Mathews Dinsdale & Clark LLP has made a commitment of $60,000 over three years to establish the Mathews Dinsdale Lecture Series in Labour Law that will run with the Advanced Labour Law Course starting in the 2009-10 academic year. This generous donation will enable Western Law to initiate a lecture series, which will be added to the Advance Labour Law course, bringing leading labour law scholars and practitioners to campus to lecture for a short period of time.
A gift of $20,000 was made by ZSA Legal Recruitment to support student scholarships at Western Law. Warren Bongard LLB'91, Co Founder of ZSA Legal Recruitment played a key role in this gift. [read more]
Mark Lichty LLB '78 has made a new commitment to the Alex Kennedy Memorial Scholarship Fund. Mr. Lichty recently made a gift of $5,000 to support this Scholarship Fund. Mr. Lichty has been a past donor to the Fund.
Research Highlights
Prof. Chi Carmody presented a paper entitled "Rules, Effects and the Structure of WTO Law" at the Society for International Economic Law (SIEL) Inaugural Conference in Geneva, Switzerland on July 16, 2008. The paper was recently listed on the Social Science Research Network's Top Ten downloads for International Trade Law. His paper, "A Theory of WTO Law", was published in the Journal of International Economic Law.
Prof. Erika Chamberlain presented a paper entitled, “Misfeasance in a Public Office: Odhavji Estate and Beyond” at the National Judicial Institute’s Civil Law Seminar in Ottawa in June. She also presented “Negligent Investigation: Tort Law as Police Ombudsman” at the Fourth Biennial Conference on the Law of Obligations, held at the National University of Singapore from July 23-25. Her paper will be included in the conference book, The Goals of Private Law, which will be published by Hart Publishing in 2009.
Prof. Michael Coyle has just completed a comparative analysis of indigenous land claims processes in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. It will be published as a chapter in Indigenous Peoples and the Law: Comparative and Critical Perspectives, forthcoming from Hart Publishing (Oxford) next February. In Augugst Prof. Coyle became the first recipient of the MacCormick Fellowship for visiting academics at the School of Law in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Prof. Ben Hovius presented two papers entitled “Market Driven Changes in Property Values after Separation under the Family Law Act” and “The Extent of a Court’s Power under Section 5(6) of the Family Law Act” at the Middlesex Family Lawyers’ Association’s 18th Annual Conference on Family Law on June 6, 2008. He also delivered a paper entitled “Unequal Sharing of Net Family Properties under Ontario’s Family Law Act” in Toronto on June 10 at the LSUC’s Second Annual Family Law Summit. In its June 27, 2008 issue, the Lawyers Weekly published an article by Professor Hovius on the recent Ontario Court of Appeal in LeVan v. LeVan.
Prof. Rande Kostal's revised paperback edition of A Jurisprudence of Power: Victorian Empire and the Rule of Law has been published by Oxford University Press. A Jurisprudence of Power concerns the brutal suppression under martial law of the Jamaica uprising of 1865, and the explosive debate and litigation these events spawned in England. The book explores the centrality of legal ideas and institutions in English politics, and of political ideas that give rise to great questions of English law.
Prof. Bradley Miller was a visiting fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy for April and May, where he conducted research into European approaches to constitutional rights limitations and proportionality and balancing tests. He also submitted for publication a paper on conceptions of harm and morality in the judgments of the Supreme Court of Canada, and prepared a paper on the Supreme Court of Canada’s interpretive methodology for an upcoming colloquium on originalism and constitutional interpretation to be hosted by Western Law in October.
Prof. Jason Neyers gave a lecture on “Recent Developments in The Economic Torts” to the National Judicial Institute in Ottawa in June 2008. In July, he travelled to Hong Kong and Singapore where he delivered a paper entitled “The Economic Torts as Corrective Justice” at the Obligations IV: The Goals of Private Law conference. On July 1, he was named the Cassels Brock LLP Faculty Fellow in Contract Law.
Prof. Adam Parachin delivered a talk before the American Bar Assocation Section of Taxation in Washington D.C. dealing with the Canadian experience with income tax rules regulating the expenditures of registered charities. In June, he presented a paper in Vancouver at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences dealing with the charitability of amateur sports organizations and prepared a paper dealing with the concept of charitable gifts under Canadian income tax law.
Prof. Mark Perry was the Keynote Speaker at "The 2008 Workshop Web2Touch - living experience through web". This workshop was in conjunction with the 2008 IEEE 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE 2008) held in São Paulo, Brasil. His talk was entitled "SaaS, the Web2 for business: can we put it in a Cloud?", and was sponsored by the State of São Paulo Research Foundation (July 16-18). In Campinas, Brasil, he was invited to the government research centre CENPRA, 14th July and spoke on the condition of Open Innovation contributed to the "Local Context, Global Problems" workshop at the iSummit conference 29th July to 1st August.
This summer, Professor Sara Seck completed an article entitled “Unilateral Home State Regulation: Imperialism or Tool of Subaltern Resistance?” which will be published in the Fall 2008 volume of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal. This issue is dedicated to Comparative Constitutionalism and Transnational Law. In July, she was invited to speak at a discussion evening at Osgoode Hall Law School as part of the ATLAS program (Association of Transnational Law Schools).
Prof. Robert Solomon was one of approximately 30 experts invited to participate in a two-day forum entitled “Young Impaired Drivers: The Nature of the Problem and Possible Solutions” in Woods Hole, MA, on June 3-4, 2008. The forum was convened by the American Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Prof. Solomon presented two papers in Brisbane on Monday, July 28. The first, “Minimizing Impairment-Related Youth Traffic Deaths”, was delivered as part of an international speakers series hosted by the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARS-Q) and the Queensland Department of Transport. The second paper, “Research, Advocacy and Reform of Canada’s Federal and Provincial Impaired Driving Legislation: 1998-2008”, was presented at CARS-Q on the Carseldine Campus of the Queensland University of Technology.
Prof. Thomas Telfer is the co-author a report: "Canada Interest Act: Report of the Working Group". The Report canvassed various reform issues and was presented by a member of the Working Group to the Annual Meeting of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada (ULCC) in Quebec City in August. Prof. Telfer was invited to join the ULCC Working Group on the reform of Provincial Preference Laws and Fraudulent Conveyances. In August Prof. Telfer traveled to New Zealand where he taught an intensive LL.M. course on Secured Transactions at the University of Auckland. The course examined Personal Property Security legislation from a comparative perspective.
Upcoming Events
Homecoming
34th Annual Alumni Awards Dinner
Friday, October 3, 2008
The Great Hall, Somerville House
5:30 p.m. - reception with complimentary cocktail & hors d'oeuvres
6:30 p.m. - dinner
Western honours outstanding alumni during a fabulous three-course meal with musical entertainment and cash bar. This year law grad Christine Elliot, LLB '78 will receive the Community Service Award. For more information visit: www.westernhomecoming.uwo.ca. Seats are $65 per person. To join us please register online or call 519-661-2199 ext. 85739.
Law All Classes Reunion
Manulife South End Zone Lunch
Saturday, October 4
12:00 p.m.
at TD Waterhouse Stadium Price: $40
RSVP to programs@uwo.ca or call 519.661.2111 ext. 85739.
For information, contact Nicole Bullbrook at 519-661-2111, ext. 86613 or e-mail nicole.bullbrook@uwo.ca
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