The event will take place April 27, from 7 to 9pm, in the Rosedale Room of the Marriot Bloor-91��ɫville Hotel, 90 Bloor St. E., Toronto. Everyone is welcome to attend. It is sponsored by the 91��ɫ Centre for International Security Studies and the at 91��ɫ.

The forum will feature analyst, author and educator Daryl Copeland, 91��ɫ law Professor of Osgoode Hall Law School and director of the Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime & Security, and Dutch and Australian media theorist and innovative philosopher Geert Lovink. 91��ɫ political science Professor ��Dz�������������ٳ󲹳�, director of the 91��ɫ Centre for International & Security Studies, will be the forum’s moderator.

Lovink is a research professor of Interactive Media at the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, a professor of new media at the University of Amsterdam and is the founding director of the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam.

Before joining Osgoode, Scott was the Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in 2000 and a professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto, from 1989-2000. Scott is currently a commissioner on the civil-society (Truth Commission) in Honduras in the context of which information sourced from WikiLeaks plays a significant role. He is also convening editor of the quarterly journal  and series editor of the . He was named a 2010  Visiting Fellow and is an editor of  (Hart Publishing, 2001).

Latham’s research is focused on technologies of border surveillance; critical theories of sovereignty, global governance and migration; international communication; the politics of knowledge and large-scale monitoring systems. He is the author of B and co-editor of and .

Copeland is an adjunct professor and Senior Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, who specializes in foreign policy, global issues, diplomacy and public management. He is the author of . From 1981 to 2009, Copeland served as a Canadian diplomat with postings in Thailand, Ethiopia, New Zealand and Malaysia. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was elected five times to the executive committee of the Professional Association of Foreign Service Officers. From 1996-1999 he was national program director of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs in Toronto and editor of Behind the Headlines, then Canada's international affairs magazine. In 2000, he received the Canadian Foreign Service Officer Award.

For more information, visit the 91��ɫ Centre for International & Security Studies website.

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A Perilous Imbalance: The Globalization of Canadian Law and Governance, a new book co-authored by Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Stepan Wood, shines an urgent light on the dangerous imbalances in contemporary forms of globalized governance.

The book will launch Wednesday, April 7, from 12:30 to 2pm in the Private Dining Room of the Executive Learning Centre in the Seymour Schulich Building, Keele campus.

Co-author and political economy Professor Stephen Clarkson of the University of Toronto, a senior fellow of the Centre for International Governance Innovation, will join Wood, a core faculty member of the  (IRIS), in introducing .

Left: Stepan Wood

The book advocates for a revitalization of the Canadian state as a vehicle to pursue human security, ecological integrity and social emancipation, and to create spaces for alternative forms of law and governance.

As citizens of a middle power, Canadians know how it feels to be objects of global forces, but they are also agents of globalization who have helped build structures of transnational governance that have highly uneven impacts on prosperity, human security and the environment, often for the worse. A Perilous Imbalance argues that these imbalances need to be recognized and corrected. It situates Canada’s experience of globalization in the context of three interlinked trends, the emergence of a global supraconsitution, the transformation of the nation-state and the growth of governance beyond the nation-state.

Jinyan Li, interim dean of 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School; Stan Shapson, vice-president research & innovation; and 91��ɫ Professor Dawn Bazely, director of IRIS; will give the opening remarks, followed by commentary by Osgoode Professor Craig Scott.

Lunch will be served. For more information, contact Joanne Rappaport, Osgoode research coordinator, at jrappaport@osgoode.yorku.ca.

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Scott, who is the director of Osgoode’s Jack & Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime & Security, has been awarded a 2010 Ikerbasque Fellowship by the Bacsque Foundation for Sience. The foundation is a granting agency established by the Government of the Basque Country in Spain in 2008 with the mission to consolidate the Basque Country as “a European point of reference for excellence in the field of research.”

Left: Craig Scott

The fellowship will support 12 months of personal research and collaboration with the Transnational Law Research Group of the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain. Scott will build on his existing scholarship pertaining to the civil liability aspects of corporate social responsibility in relation to human rights and environmental protection, as well as interact with Deusto’s Trans-Law Research Group to widen the scope of the group’s study of economic law.

Right: Stepan Wood

Wood, who is the coordinator of Osgoode's Juris Doctor-Master in Environmental Studies Joint Program and director of the Moot Court Program, has been awarded a Jean Monnet Fellowship at the Robert Schumann Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. Wood will complete a project titled “ISO 26000 and the Legitimation of Transnational Governance Authority in the Field of Corporate Social Responsibility” during his sabbatical next year.

Wood is the fifth Osgoode faculty member to have been chosen as a Jean Monnet Fellow at EUI, following Professors Michael Mandel, Craig Scott, Peer Zumbansen and Robert Wai.

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91��ɫ has been awarded a grant to establish a European Union Centre of Excellence(EUCE). Recognized for the excellence, breadth and depth of its European Union (EU) studies and scholarly activities, 91��ɫ will receive funding of $480,000 over three years to integrate the University’s existing research, teaching, outreach and networking activities on Europe and the European Union (EU), and introduce and facilitate new activities on the EU and EU-Canada relations.

91��ɫ is recognized as a leader in European studies and has been actively building its concentration in EU studies. Over the past few years, 91��ɫ has attracted numerous new European-focused faculty appointments across a variety of disciplines, including law, political science, business, public administration and humanities. The hub of this activity has been the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies (CCGES), whose affiliated faculty and staff form a natural constituency and administrative backbone for the activities planned by the new EUCE.

“We are tremendously proud of 91��ɫ’s leadership and research excellence in European studies,” said Stan Shapson, vice-president research & innovation. “The activities of the EUCE will promote understanding and knowledge of the European Union as a major player in the global political and economic system, and will be key in promoting the importance of the EU-Canada relationship, its political, economic, security and cultural dimensions, and the widening range of global and regional issues jointly addressed by the EU and Canada.”

With this award, 91��ɫ joins a network of two dozen EUCEs worldwide. 91��ɫ’s EUCE will be hosted by CCGES and directed by Willem Maas (right), Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration and professor of political science and public & international affairs at Glendon College.

The EUCE’s multidisciplinary team also includes:

• Burkard Eberlein, policy professor in the Schulich School of Business;
• Roger Keil, director of the CITY Institute and CCGES, and a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies;
• Heather MacRae, professor in the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies (LA&PS);
• Peter McIsaac, professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures & Linguistics, (LA&PS);
• Ian Roberge, professor of political science and public & international affairs at Glendon College;
• Karen Robson, sociology professor in the Department of Sociology, (LA&PS);
• Craig Scott, director of the , and professor in Osgoode Hall Law School;
• Dagmar Soennecken, professor in the School of Public Policy & Administration, (LA&PS);
• Leah Vosko, Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy and professor in the Department of Political Science, (LA&PS);
• Robert Wai, professor in Osgoode Hall Law School;
• Peer Zumbansen, Canada Research Chair in the Transnational & Comparative Law of Corporate Governance and professor in Osgoode Hall Law School.

About the European Union Centres of Excellence

Established in 1998 by the European Union, the network of European Union Centres of Excellence in universities provides information and education about the European Union. In Canada, the objectives of the EU Centres are to increase awareness about the political, economic and cultural importance of the EU-Canada relationship, to promote greater understanding in Canada of the European Union and its policies, and to disseminate information and publicize EU views on issues of interest within regional communities.

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