Why the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Matters
Jesse McCormick will be presenting on “Why the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Matters” on Friday, November 13th, 2015, at 12:30 pm, in the Faculty Lounge, 4th Floor, Old Main...
View ArticleThe Self-Represented Litigant and You
Self-representation is a growing trend in the justice system, one requiring lawyers to interact with opposing parties that are not fully aware of the rules of court. Being able to interact with the...
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US Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart Speaks to TRU Sports Law
Travis Tygart presenting to TRU Sports Law US Anti-Doping Agency CEO Travis Tygart spoke to Associate Dean Heshka’s sports law class via video conference on October 22nd. Tygart is a world authority...
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Professor Margaret Hall Awarded University Research Grant
TRU Law Professor Margaret Hall was recently awarded a $3,000 research grant through Thompson Rivers University’s pilot student apprenticeship program. The award will be used to hire TRU Law student...
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Professor Lorne Neudorf Published in the Cambridge Law Journal
Professor Lorne Neudorf’s review of Ran Hirschl’s Comparative Matters: The Renaissance of Comparative Constitutional Law (Oxford University Press) has been published in the November issue of the...
View ArticleQ & A with Justice Abella
On Tuesday, November 24th, 2015, at 2:30 pm in the Barber Centre, House of Learning, TRU Faculty of Law will be hosting a “Question and Answer” session with the Honourable Justice Rosalie Abella of the...
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An Introduction to the Office of the Ombudsperson
On Thursday, November 5th, at 12:30 pm, the British Columbia Ombudsperson, Mr. Jay Chalke, will be speaking in the Barber Centre, House of Learning. If you think a provincial government ministry,...
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TRU Law Hosts Fulton’s Commercial Drafting Praxis Workshop
On November 3, 2015, TRU Law hosted its inaugural “Fulton’s Commercial Drafting Praxis Workshop” for 120 upper year TRU Law students. This workshop was designed as part of Professor Shanthi...
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TRU Law Professor and Students to Present at Canadian Elder Law Conference
Prof. Margaret Hall, JD student Vanessa Hope and JD student Kelly Melnyk will be attending the Canadian Elder Law Conference (“The Journey of Aging: The Law and Beyond, Connecting Across Discipline...
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Professor Shanthi Senthe Presents at the 44th Annual Conference on South Asia
Professor Senthe presented “Deconstructing “Equity” Within Financial Inclusion in Sri Lanka” at the South Asia Legal Studies Workshop at the University of Wisconsin Law School on October 22, 2015.View...
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TRU Law Students Meet with VP and General Counsel of the Vancouver Canucks
Students of Associate Dean Heshka‘s sports law class met for an hour-and-a-half last week with Vancouver Canucks Vice President and General Counsel Chris Gear at Rogers Arena. Mr. Gear talked about...
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Article Co-Authored by Professor Katie Sykes Published in George Washington...
“Pluralism in Practice: Moral Legislation and the Law of the WTO After Seal Products,” co-authored by Rob Howse and Joanna Langille of NYU Law and TRU Law Prof. Katie Sykes, has now been published in...
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Sessional Lecturer Heather Campbell Presents at Canadian Elder Law Conference
On November 12, 2015, sessional lecturer Heather Campbell presented at the Canadian Elder Law Conference in Vancouver. The conference was co-hosted by the Continuing Legal Education Society of B.C....
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Professor Katie Sykes Presents at Canadian Council on International Law...
Prof. Katie Sykes presented on “The Fall, Rise and Fall Again of the Northern Fur Seal” at the Canadian Council on International Law Annual Conference, the pre-eminent Canadian conference on...
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Prof. Margaret Hall Publishes Second Edition
Prof. Margaret Hall is very pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of The Law of Nuisance in Canada, Gregory Pun, Margaret I. Hall and Ian Knapp, co-authors (LexisNexis Canada, 2015).
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Professor Dagne Published in the Canadian Intellectual Property Review
Professor Dagne’s article will appear in the December Issue of Volume 31 of the Canadian Intellectual Property Review (CIPR), academic publication of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada....
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Justice Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada Visits TRU Faculty of Law
Justice Abella with Faculty at the Welcome Reception. Justice Abella speaking at the Barber Centre, TRU. Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella visited the Thompson Rivers University, Faculty of Law on...
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Professor Ruby Dhand Co-Authors Second edition of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada:...
Professor Ruby Dhand is very pleased to announce the publication of the second edition of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada: Mental Health Law (authored by Ruby Dhand, Anita Szigeti and D’Arcy Hiltz, Lexis...
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Professor Ruby Dhand Presents at the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal...
Professor Ruby Dhand presented her paper on “The Challenges of Implementing a New Clinical Legal Education Program: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives” at the Association for Canadian...
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Prof. Shanthi Senthe Hosts “Boughton Law Securities Workshop”
On Friday November 13, Professor Shanthi Senthe at Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law hosted the first “Boughton Law Securities Workshop”. This workshop was developed with the assistance of...
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