"The Top 25 is about a level of respect, the ability to influence public opinion and help shape the laws of this country; contribution to the strength and quality of legal services; and social and political influence and involvement," writes Gail Cohen, editor of Canadian Lawyer magazine, in her introduction to "The Top 25 Most Influential".

For the second year in a row, Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Sossin made the list in the Changemakers category. Sossin was praised for his important role in Canadian legal education with the magazine making a special note of his leadership role in experiential education. "With the Law Society of Upper Canada planning radical changes to legal licensing in Ontario, Sossin's novel and creative approaches to legal education promise to play an important role in the profession in the coming years," noted the magazine.

Justice David Brown, a judge on the Ontario Superior Court in Toronto, was also included in the Changemakers category. Brown was lauded for his colourful delivery and outspoken judgements. Canadian Lawyer magazine noted Brown's criticism of "the motions culture" in which he decried the actions by "lawyers preferring to bring complex motions rather than settle matters through a civil trial".

Making the list as part of the In-house Counsel category, Osgoode grad Norie Campbell, top legal counsel for the Toronto Dominion (TD) Bank, leads a team of more than 60 lawyers. She also appears on the top 40 under 40 list. Canadian Lawyer made special mention of Campbell's important role in the bank "at a time when TD is making serious inroads into the US market". Campbell is also active in the United Way.

In the Corporate-Commercial Law category, University of Ottawa Professor and Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law, Michael Geist, is marking his third year on the Canadian Lawyer list. His column appears in the Toronto Star and Ottawa Citizen newspapers, and he is an author and blogs regularly on copyright law. "Through his academic work and public outreach, Geist illuminates issues surround copyright law and the Internet," noted the magazine.

Appearing in the Criminal Law/Human Rights category, Osgoode alumnus Brian Greenspan, a partner in the Toronto firm Greenspan HumphreyLavine, made the list for his continuing leadership in Canadian criminal law. The publication referred to his work to help "redefine the scope of the defence of duress now available to all accused". Greenspan appeared on the magazine's first top 25 list that was published in 2010.

Also appearing in the Criminal Law/Human Rights category is Justice Rosalie Abella, a judge of the Supreme Court of Canada. Abella was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree in 1991 by 91��ɫ for her leadership role in human rights law. "Abella was the sole dissenter in the 2012 case of R. v. N.S.," noted the publication, "where she argued that requiring a witness to remove her niqab would effectively force her to choose between her religious beliefs and participating in the justice system."

Full details are available on the�� magazine website.

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Osgoode and Lassonde will celebrate the research achievements and interests of their Faculties, Feb. 4, starting at 2:15pm at 1014 Osgoode Hall Law School, Keele campus.

“This research celebration provides a forum for members of the 91��ɫ community to learn more about the exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration among these Faculties,” said Robert Haché (right), vice-president research & innovation. “All members of the 91��ɫ community are welcome to attend.”

Following the welcome and opening remarks by Haché, Dean Janusz Kozinski of the Lassonde School of Engineering and Dean Lorne Sossin of Osgoode Hall Law School, a panel discussion moderated by Associate Dean of Research Poonam Puri will take place.

��Janusz Kozinski

“The convergence of engineering and law is very exciting area of interdisciplinary collaboration across a whole range of topics, and we hope this will be the first of many joint events as Osgoode and Lassonde work closely together in the months and years ahead,” said Kozinski.

"Osgoode is delighted to be moving forward with the Lassonde School of Engineering on cross-Faculty collaborations that will break new ground in the fields of law and engineering," said Sossin. "This is the first of what we know will be many celebrations of our successful joint research efforts."

Lorne Sossin

From 2:20 to 3:30pm, there will be a panel discussion highlighting the theme, “A Conversation Between Law and Engineering”. The paen will consist of the following:��Dean Sossin; Professor Giuseppina D’Agostino of Osgoode Hall Law School and founder & director ofIP Osgoode; Professor�� Michael Daly of the Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering; Professor Shin Imai of Osgoode Hall Law School; Professor Michael Jenkin of the Department of Computer Science & Engineering; and Professor Regina Lee of the Department of Earth & Space Science & Engineering.

The panellists will discuss a diverse range of topics, including space law, intellectual property, expert testimony, professional self-regulation, ethics, mining, corporate social responsibility, corporate accountability and more. There will also be research on display in Gowlings Hall at Osgoode Hall Law School and a reception featuring opportunities for networking. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Jody-Ann Rowe-Butler, research coordinator, Osgoode Hall Law School, at jrowe-butler@osgoode.yorku.ca or ext. 55771, or Gillian Moore, administrative assistant, Lassonde School of Engineering, at gmoore@yorku.ca or ext. 58215.

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The journal compiled a list of the 51 most cited articles over its 30-year history, with over 100 volumes published. Schwartz's article "The Nature of the Relationship Between Corporate Codes of Ethics and Behaviour", published in 2001, was the 36th most cited article out of 4,747 articles published in the last three decades.

"It is a great honour to receive this award," said Schwartz, who teaches in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies. “The article was based on my PhD dissertation research where I interviewed 57 managers, employees and ethics officers at four large Canadian corporations to try to determine if corporate codes of ethics impact ethical behaviour in the workplace.”

According to Alex Michalos, editor-in-chief of the , "Citation classics have been defined as articles whose frequency of being cited is at least four standard deviations above the mean." Michalos notes that Schwartz's article "is a significantly important contribution to the field of business ethics and as such is included in the list of citation classics."

The Journal of Business Ethics is a peer reviewed academic journal published by Springer and is recognized on the Financial Times top 45 journal list used towards their MBA program rankings.

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Laughing at the Gods (Cambridge University Press) is meant to be a companion to his popular 2011 book, ��Is Eating People Wrong? Great Legal Cases and How They Shaped the World.

As Hutchinson told a gathering of mostly lawyers, law students and legal scholars at a recent launch of his new book, “Greatness, in anything, is not just about meeting the standards, or exceeding the standards, but changing them.” And that is the criteria he used in choosing which judges to showcase in Laughing at the Gods.

Even though Hutchinson, a Distinguished Research Professor at 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School, refers to these eight judges as “great”, he says that interpretation is open to debate, as is the nature of their influence, good or bad. “The influence of these great judges has been, for good and bad, enormous,” he says.

“As such, this book is intended to open a conversation about some judges and their supposed greatness,” he writes in the book’s preface. It looks at some of the “main characters who have stood out among the judicial ranks,” those judges who have “helped to shape the world”. In this way the book is intended to spark conversation about certain judges and whether they are great.

Allan Hutchinson

Included in the book are England's Lord Mansfield laid the still-standing foundations of private law; America's John Marshall established the institutional importance of judicial review of legislative and executive action; Canada's Bertha Wilson opened up the judiciary to different and excluded viewpoints; and South Africa's Albie Sachs helped to turn a revolutionary movement into a democratic government.

“Great judges are nation-builders as well as game changers,” says Hutchinson.

But the book is “not intended as a hymn of praise for these memorable figures or the judicial function generally,” writes Hutchinson. Instead, it is an examination of “the common law enterprise and seeks to identify what it is that makes some of its judicial practitioners leaders in their field.”

A legal theorist, Hutchinson was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2004 and received a University-Wide Teaching Award in 2007. He is interested in law and politics, legal theory, the legal profession, constitutional law, torts, jurisprudence, civil procedure and racism. Much of his work has been devoted to examining the failure of law to live up to its democratic promise.

He is also the author of Evolution and the Common Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and The Companies We Keep: Corporate Governance for a Democratic Society (Irwin Law, 2005), among others.

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During a special��event held at 91��ɫ's Keele campus, President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri announced a $25-million dollar transformative donation from Pierre Lassonde, chairman of the��Franco-Nevada Corporation, for an expanded School of Engineering.

The announcement was made during a ceremony��in which the Computer Science & Engineering Building, where it was held, was��renamed the��Lassonde Building in honour of the School of Engineering's new��benefactor.��The upbeat event featured the student-constructed Mars Rover unveiling a commemorative plaque showing the building's new name, and the cutting of a giant cake fashioned in the likeness of the Lassonde Building. As part of the celebration, Lassonde was given a leather bomber jacket emblazoned with 91��ɫ Engineering by fourth-year space engineering student Shailja Sahani.

Right: Pierre Lassonde shows off his new engineering jacket

“91��ɫ is extremely thankful to Pierre Lassonde for his very generous gift,” said Shoukri. “This transformative donation will allow us to create a truly unique engineering program that will redefine engineering for the 21st century.”

Based on its traditional strength in humanities, social sciences, business and law, the University is committed to ensuring that��engineering students will be broadly educated to support future economic and social development.

“The most important natural resource of our country is not its oil or minerals or forests, but our young people,” said Lassonde. “It’s imperative that we give them all the education they need so that they can continue to make Canada one of the best places in the world to live. Through the collaboration of the new engineering program at 91��ɫ with one of the most successful business schools in the world, the Schulich School of Business, we know we can make a difference.”

��"Pierre's gift and vision will support a whole new way of thinking about engineering education. His transformational donation will lead to the creation of the Lassonde School of Engineering at 91��ɫ, with an ambition to graduate a new generation of entrepreneurial engineers with a social conscience," said Janusz Kozinski (left), dean��of the��Faculty of Science & Engineering.

The generous donation from Lassonde, combined with funding from the Government of Ontario and the University, provides an investment enabling 91��ɫ to become one of the��top global engineering schools based in Canada.

By embodying 91��ɫ’s core values of social responsibility, global citizenship and interdisciplinary education, the new school will provide a unique approach to engineering and entrepreneurship, establishing itself as a destination of choice for top engineering students.

Right:��President & Vice-Chancellor Mamdouh Shoukri��

“91��ɫ has a rich history of educational innovation, and the broadening of the focus of the engineering school to include business and public policy is a welcome step forward,” said Glen Murray, Ontario’s minister of training, colleges and universities. “Mr. Lassonde’s generous gift will accelerate the program and help transform it into a model for next-generation education in engineering.”

More about Pierre Lassonde

Lassonde has a BA from the��University of Montreal (1967), a BSc electrical engineering from Polytechnique, Montreal (1971) and an MBA from the��University of Utah (1973). He received his PEng Ontario designation in 1976 and his CFA, University of Virginia, 1984. He holds honorary��doctorates in engineering from the Universities of Toronto, Montreal and Ryerson, and a doctor of business, University of Utah. ��

In 1982, Lassonde co-founded Franco-Nevada Mining Corporation, the first publicly traded gold royalty company, with his partner and fellow 91��ɫ benefactor Seymour Schulich. Over the next 20 years, the company provided shareholders with a 36 per cent annualized rate of return. In February 2002, Franco-Nevada was acquired by Newmont Mining Corp., the world’s largest gold producer at the time. Lassonde was president of Newmont from 2002 to 2007 and vice-chairman in 2007. He served as chairman of the World Gold Council from 2005 to 2009.

In 2008, he led a group of investors and former executives in bringing back Franco-Nevada to the public market and became its chairman. The $1.2-billion IPO of Franco-Nevada was the largest mining company initial public offering ever done on the Toronto Stock Exchange. The success story continues today as the market capitalization of the company is now over $5 billion.

Left: Celebrating��a sweet moment in 91��ɫ's history

Lassonde’s philanthropic activities have had a significant impact on education and the arts. The Lassonde Entrepreneur Centre at the University of Utah was ranked number one in the US in 2010 for its creation of a public company from the University research labs. Other universities that have benefited from Lassonde’s philanthropy include Polytechnique Montréal, and the universities of Toronto, Western Ontario, Ryerson and 91��ɫ.��

He ��has been chairman of the Quebec National Art Museum since 2005 and has led a $100-million campaign to build a new wing to double the museum exhibition surface. He was made a companion of the Order of Canada in 2002 and an officer of the Order of Quebec in 2008.������

Lassonde is also the author of The Gold Book: The Complete Investment Guide to Precious Metals.

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Leblanc teaches governance, law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies in 91��ɫ’s Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, and is an adjunct faculty member at 91��ɫ’s Osgoode Hall Law School. An expert on corporate governance, he has made Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 list for vision, leadership and achievement, and has recently been added to the Canadian Who’s Who.��This year, he was��named among "People to Watch"��by the National Association of Corporate Directors in Washington.

Left: Richard Leblanc

At a ceremony in Toronto, he and five others received this year’s for exceptional contributions in the areas of instruction, course and curriculum development, and student engagement.����

This is Leblanc’s second teaching award. In 1998, students voted to present him with the inaugural Seymour Schulich BBA Award for Teaching Excellence.��

The OCUFA award recognizes teaching in a very��broad sense. “It is particularly meaningful for me,” says Leblanc, "because colleagues as well as students nominate you." In this case, letters of support came from faculty colleagues, teaching assistants, deans, librarians, and current and former students.��

Like three other recipients at the awards ceremony, Leblanc acknowledged the influence of a parent. “My father was a high school teacher. You don’t realize how much kitchen conversation has on your career choice and the passion you bring to teaching. My father would talk about teaching, grading, curriculum. I was exposed to all that.”����

But Leblanc also gave his audience four or five pointers on what makes a good teacher from a he compiled early in his career. The co-author of Inside the Boardroom says he’s had more response to that list than anything else he’s published.����

Institutional support is one of the requisites of good teaching, Leblanc says. For him, the OCUFA award validates the higher quality of teaching possible in smaller classes. Leblanc teaches large and small classes, and students from his small classes in particular strongly supported his nomination, he observed, because he came to know them in a way he doesn’t know students in large classes.

In her citation, Patti Ryan, political science librarian at 91��ɫ’s Scott Library and a member of OCUFA’s teaching award committee, said Leblanc is “both an exceptional teacher and an extraordinary leader in his field.”����

Those who have experienced the “magic” of Leblanc – students, alumni, colleagues, teaching assistants, administrators, librarians and clients – consistently describe him as engaging, energetic, enthusiastic and exciting, said Ryan.��

Ryan also cited LeBlanc's achievements in course and curriculum development. At 91��ɫ, he has developed or redesigned seven innovative courses in the areas of law, corporate governance and business ethics. He also played a key role in establishing curriculum for a new master’s of financial accountability program, described by one supporter as a “groundbreaking curriculum not currently offered anywhere else in the world."

Outside the classroom, Leblanc has made a powerful impact on the lives of his students and colleagues. They cite his generosity of spirit and dedication to mentorship, said Ryan. Whether he is supporting the work of part-time colleagues, taking time out to meet current and former students, or sharing his expertise with the professional community, LeBlanc consistently exemplifies the spirit of good teaching and lifelong learning.��

“Your pedagogical accomplishments, unwavering commitment to students and to the academic and professional community, and your passion for your work make you a most deserving candidate for this award,” concluded Ryan.

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All talks, unless otherwise specified, take place in the McLaughlin Senior Common Room, 140 McLaughlin College, at noon. The talks are free and open to anyone in the 91��ɫ community.

Today,��Ian Greene (left), master of McLaughlin College, will speak about his volunteer activities in Ethiopia for a Canadian nonprofit organization that helps at-risk children obtain adequate food, shelter and an education so that they can go to school, then university, and then contribute to Ethiopia’s rejuvenation. Find out what you can do to contribute.On��Thursday Sept.��22,��L. H. Gummi justice of the high court of Nigeria along with��several other high court judge, will speak on the differences and similarities between the Nigerian court and the Supreme Court of Canada, which was a model for the Nigerian High Court when it was established.��

Lieutenant-General (Ret’d) George Macdonald (right), the former vice-chief of the Canadian Defence staff,��will speak on Sept. 23 about the��current challenges facing the Canadian Forces as they transition from a combat mission in Afghanistan, deal with the pressures of reduced government funding, and try to manage within a very cumbersome procurement system. Macdonald, a Fellow of McLaughlin College, spent 38 years in the Canadian Forces, retiring in 2004 after three years as the vice chief of the defence staff. He began his military career as a fighter pilot and has occupied staff and command positions at several levels. He has served with NATO in Germany and Norway, and with NORAD in Canada and at Colorado Springs in the US. He currently works as a consultant in defence and security issues in Ottawa.

On��Tuesday, Oct. 25, Sandra Vides Martinez,��a senior student in International Development Studies and��in the Faculty of Education at 91��ɫ, will compare her experiences of working with youth in a Peruvian orphanage and her experiences of working with youth in Toronto. She will be facilitating discussions surrounding the importance of breaking down biases when working with at-risk youth in marginalized communities in conjunction with developing programs that are based on participatory development and capacity building.��Vides Martinez��will draw on her experiences in working with communities in Toronto as well as her work with McLaughlin College's Human Rights, Participatory Growth and Poverty Eradication Project.��

Gregory Tardi, legal counsel to the House of Commons, will speak on Monday, Oct. 31 about��“Accountability to Law as an Aspect of Democracy.”

Then on Thursday, Nov. 24, Tahera Aurban-Ali, who is a 91��ɫ student and a Canadian who was��born in Afghanistan, will provide her passionate analysis of the situation in Afghanistan. She argues that allied (including Canadian) intervention has done a lot of good to promote human rights, but we should be wary of compromises made with the Taliban.

On Wednesday, Nov. 30,��James Sheptycki (right), a professor of criminology at 91��ɫ, will speak about his 20-year career researching transnational crime and policing. This talk coincides with the publication of two new books Transnational Crime and Policing' (Ashgate, 2011) and Global Policing, co-authored with Ben Bowling, professor of criminology at King's College, London (Sage, 2011). In his talk, Sheptycki will reflect upon the role of the researcher the study of "the police" and how this is effected by "globalization".

A��light lunch is served at noon and the talks usually begin at about 12:15pm, followed by a question-and-answer session. Each talk usually finishes shortly after 1pm.

For information on subsequent lunch talk schedules, visit the McLaughlin College website.

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The new directors are Professor Colin Coates, director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies (RCCS); Professor Laurence Harris, director of the Centre for Vision Research (CVR); Professor Christina Kraenzle, director of the Canadian Centre for German��& European Studies (CCGES); Professor David Mutimer, director of the Centre for International��& Security Studies (YCISS); and Professor Lisa Philipps, director of the Centre for Public Policy & Law (YCPPL).����

“On behalf of the 91��ɫ research community, I would like to congratulate Professors Coates, Harris, Kraenzle, Mutimer and Philipps on their appointments,” said Robert Haché, 91��ɫ's vice-president research & innovation.��“Their leadership expertise will be essential to further strengthening the unique and exciting opportunities for interdisciplinary research, collaborations and partnerships at 91��ɫ’s research centres and institutes.”

Colin Coates (left), Canada Research Chair in Cultural Landscapes, is also professor in the Canadian Studies program at Glendon College and president of the Canadian Studies Network-Réseau d’études canadiennes.��His research examines political culture in New France and the history of Canadian utopias.��He also conducts research in the area of environmental history, and is an executive member��of the��Network in Canadian History & Environment – Nouvelle initiative canadienne en histoire de l’environnement, funded by��the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Coates has co-edited and authored several books including, Introduction aux études canadiennes: histoires, identités et cultures (with Professor Geoffrey Ewen, Glendon) and Visions: the Canadian History Modules Project (with Professor Marcel Martel, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies,��along with four colleagues from other universities), Majesty in Canada: Essays on the Role of Royalty among others.��Coates won the Lionel Groulx-Yves Saint-Germain Foundation’s prize for Heroines and History – Representations of Madeleine de Verchères and Laura Secord (co-authored with Cecilia Morgan of OISE).

Laurence Harris (right)��is a professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Health, a member of the graduate programs in Kinesiology��& Health Science and in Biology, and has served as chair of the Psychology Department. He is the director the Multisensory Integration Laboratory at 91��ɫ, which investigates how information from visual, auditory, vestibular, proprioceptive and tactile senses is combined by the brain to create our perception of body and space. Applications of his research include the design of virtual environments and improving perception in situations where sensory information is impoverished, such as in the unusual environments of underwater or in space, in ageing or in clinical conditions such as partial blindness or Parkinson’s disease.��Recently, Harris��ran an��experiment on the International Space Station looking at astronauts’ perception of orientation. He is the author of��more than��100 scientific articles and has edited nine books on topics pertaining to vision including Vision in 3D Environments, Cortical Mechanisms of Vision, Seeing Spatial Form, and Levels of Perception. ��He is editor-in-chief of the journal Seeing and Perceiving: a journal of multisensory science.

Christina Kraenzle (left) is a professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures��& Linguistics (DLLL) in the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies.��She has served as a CCGES affiliate since 2004 and been a member of the centre’s executive committee since 2005 through her role as the coordinator of the German Studies Program within DLLL.��Kraenzle’s research explores modern German literature, film and culture, with a focus on transnational cultural production, migration, travel and globalization. Her recent publications include Mapping Channels Between Ganges and Rhein: German-Indian Cross-Cultural Relations (with Jörg Esleben and Sukanya Kulkarni, 2008) as well as articles in The German Quarterly, German Life and Letters, Transit: A Journal of Travel, Migration and Multiculturalism in the German-Speaking World, and the volume Searching for Sebald: Photography after W. G. Sebald.

David Mutimer (right), a professor in the Department of Political Science, is also the founding editor of Critical Studies on Security and the editor of The Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs.�� He has been a member of YCISS since 1987 and has previously served as its deputy director.��Mutimer was also��a visiting professor at the University of Geneva in Switzerland and Newcastle University in the United Kingdom (UK), as well as a principal research fellow in the Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in the UK.��Mutimer’s research considers issues of contemporary international security through lenses provided by critical social theory and explores the reproduction of security in and through popular culture.��His research has focused on various aspects of weapons production and control, and more recently on the politics of the global war on terror, and of the regional wars around the world which are being fought by Canada and its allies.��Mutimer is presently leading a SSHRC-funded international research project on arms export controls.��His recent published work includes journal articles in Studies in Social Justice, The Cambridge Review of International Affairs and Contemporary Security Policy among others.

Lisa Philipps (left) has been a faculty member��at Osgoode Hall Law School since 1996.��Prior to that, she held appointments in the faculties of law at the University of Victoria and the University of British Columbia, and has held visiting professorships at Melbourne Law School, University College London and the University of Toronto among other institutions.��She served as associate dean research, graduate studies & institutional relations at Osgoode from 2009 to 2011.��Philipps' research focuses on tax law, budgets and feminist legal studies.��She has published widely on topics, including��fiscal transparency, income splitting, gender��budgeting, the distributional impact of tax cuts, the tax treatment of unpaid work, charitable tax incentives and more. Most recently she published two co-edited books on Tax Expenditures: State of the Art and Challenging Gender Inequality in Tax Policy Making: Comparative Perspectives.����

In all, 91��ɫ��lists 29 research centres and institutes.

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IP Osgoode, Osgoode Hall Law School’s Intellectual Property��& Technology Law Program, and OCE, a not-for-profit corporation that drives the commercialization of Ontario academic research, recently signed a memorandum of understanding to solidify the program.

Above: From left, Trish Barrow (director of Commercialization & CCR, Ontario Centres of Excellence), Osgoode students Shirley Bai, Rita Gao, Sebastian Talluri, Andrea Dias, Hashim Ghazi and Professor Giuseppina D'Agostino (founder & director, IP Osgoode).��Missing from the photo is student Jeremy Loeb.

“Intellectual property law is a key component in Ontario’s and Canada’s innovation agendas,” said Stan Shapson, 91��ɫ’s vice-president research and innovation. “The IP Osgoode/OCE project reflects our expanding research partnerships with industry and community partners and will further stimulate knowledge transfer between academia, government and industry groups pursuing innovative agendas.”

The IP Osgoode/OCE project will be launched as a 12-month pilot program with approximately six Osgoode students assisting OCE-supported companies with numerous IP matters – from patents to trademarks to copyright. The program will provide students with a combination of IP law theory and practical experience, while OCE is better able to support promising new companies, including helping them reduce start-up costs.

“This is a groundbreaking initiative for a law school to have a formal collaboration with a proven innovation driver such as OCE, at this level,” said Osgoode Professor , founder and director of IP Osgoode.

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“These companies are at the early growth stage,” D’Agostino said. “They need help from a very early point without having legal fees and various other costs choke them before they can get up and running. Having our IP students involved with these OCE-supported start-ups while��at the law school will minimize the companies’ IP costs because our students will be working pro bono.”

Initially, the students will explore general areas of IP, with a special focus on patent law. The students will then be engaged in a variety of IP activities such as reviewing IP licensing transactions, performing prior art searches, reviewing patent specifications, performing freedom-to-operate and clearance searches, assisting with the preparation and filing of provisional patent applications, and conducting legal research.

To better enable the students, OCE’s CCR will provide $30,000 for the project’s operating budget.��OCE will work with IP Osgoode and��a clinical supervisor to select the most suitable OCE-supported companies, based on the skills and knowledge of the participating students, the scope of potential projects that may come from a particular company, and other factors that are consistent with the program’s overall goals.

“OCE’s Centre for Commercialization of Research is delighted to be working with IP Osgoode on this initiative,” said Tom Corr, OCE president & CEO. “Starting with a solid IP strategy is essential to the successful commercialization of leading-edge discoveries. The companies we work with have limited resources, but tremendous potential. This partnership with IP Osgoode will solve problems at a crucial time for start-up companies that are poised to create jobs and strengthen Ontario’s economy.”

“For many high-potential start-ups, their IP is their most precious commodity,” said Mario Thomas, senior vice-president, Ontario Centres of Excellence, and��managing director, Centre��for Commercialization of Research. “IP protection is vital for technology companies to get their products to market, so the value of this legal expertise and guidance provided by IP Osgoode cannot be stressed enough.”

Osgoode Dean also applauded the partnership, describing the IP Osgoode/OCE project as “a robust collaboration that will extend the classroom into the realm of real-world IP issues and benefit both Osgoode IP students and the start-up companies.”

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This intensive -funded international workshop will take place Thursday, May 26 to Saturday, May 28 in the Research Tower on the��Keele campus.

The event is by invitation only and not open to the public. However, detailed information, including��the full list of presentations and abstracts can be��viewed by visiting the New Constitutionalism and World Order website.��Following��the events, the website will be used to provide publication and other information.

Right: Stephen Gill

The workshop will be one component of the International Political Economy and Ecology Graduate Summer School, hosted by 91��ɫ graduate programs in political science, geography and environmental studies, that has been taking place since May 16.

Some of the speakers at the workshop will include:

• Richard Falk, the Albert G. Millbank Professor Emeritus of International Law & Politics at Princeton University and a Visiting Distinguished Research Professor��in Global & International Studies��at the University of California, Santa Barbara
• 91��ɫ political science Professor , a current Trudeau Fellow
• sociology, social and cultural analysis Professor Neil Brenner of New 91��ɫ
• Tim DiMuzio, a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre of Excellence in Global Governance Research at the University of Helsinki
• current Trudeau Fellow Janine Brodie, Canada Research Chair in Political Economy & Social Governance at the University of Alberta.

Each presentation will be followed by a Q��& A where the workshop participants can engage with the presenters.

New constitutionalism refers to the complex of politico-juridical and constitutional frameworks, regulations and rights that have emerged as key mechanisms of global governance to regulate political economy, society and ecology in the era of neo-liberal capitalism.

Some of the questions the participants and��students will discuss include: What are the main transformations occurring in governance arrangements for the global political economy? What legitimacy concerns are raised by new constitutionalism in the context of the deepest crisis of global capitalism since the 1930s? Is there evidence of the emergence of, or conceptualization of, alternative forms of constitutionalism and world order?

Substantial evidence, says Gill, suggests that new constitutionalism is a key feature of the present world economic order, exemplified in organizations such as the , and in the emergence of independent central banks, each of which have been largely premised on neo-liberal development models. These developments have coincided with the global expansion of capitalism and the extension of private property rights and a proliferation in private governance mechanisms.

However, the recent deep crisis of accumulation has called into question the legitimacy and sustainability of these arrangements, prompting critical reflection on alternative forms of constitutionalism and global governance and questions concerning the potential shape of the emerging world order.

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