Faculty of Law News Archive

August 31, 2025 — 
On August 21, 2025, the Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts and the L. Kerry Vickar Business Law Clinic jointly submitted formal comments including recommendations to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), in response to Broadcasting and Telecom Notice of Consultation CRTC 2025-94, Call for comments – A new approach to funding public interest participation in Commission proceedings.

August 25, 2025 — 
How Israel bypassed international laws to move towards the erasure of Palestinian statehood

August 8, 2025 — 
Law students working with the Manitoba Legal Clinic for the Arts have stepped into the policy arena, submitting a letter supporting the Canadian Arts Coalition’s August 1, 2025, proposal to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance as part of pre-budget consultations for Budget 2025.

August 8, 2025 — 
‘Appropriate, necessary:’ court to hold special hearing for family of serial killer’s victim

August 7, 2025 — 
The Master of Laws (LLM) program at Robson Hall is one of the University of Manitoba’s best-kept secrets but it’s time to let the cat out of the bag. Some of Canada’s most illustrious legal professionals count among our alumni. Wura Dasylva is a partner at Miller Thomson LLP in Regina, Saskatchewan, who completed her LLM at Robson Hall in 2017. When last we chatted in 2018, we were delighted to learn that she was busy skydiving and working hard as an articling student at Miller Thomson. Since then, she has really flown, and we are over the moon to share her latest news.

August 7, 2025 — 
Manitoba's justice minister says the rise due to more awareness of possible conflicts of interest

July 30, 2025 — 
From June 17 to 19 this summer, I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Hockey Conference. The Hockey Conference is a biennial conference for members of the hockey community, where the work of scholars, practitioners, and others is shared, and those with a vested interest in improving the game we all love are given a forum to share their vision for doing so. Winnipeg had the good fortune of playing host to the Hockey Conference this year at the Fort Garry Hotel thanks to the tireless work of the Faculty of Law’s own Dr. Martine Dennie, my fellow 3L students Stefan Lewis and Seth Garcia, and the other members of the Conference’s Committee, whom I list below. The theme of this year’s Conference was “In the Echoes of Reckonings.” It centred around how the sport—at all levels—could respond to the light being shone on hockey’s history of violence, homophobia, classism, misogyny, ableism, racism, and other related issues in hockey culture.

July 29, 2025 — 
Terry Francois, 53, was banished from northern Manitoba First Nation where his daughters, granddaughter live

July 28, 2025 — 
After having been promoted from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor in the Faculty of Law as of March 30, 2025, Brandon Trask officially received Tenure at the University of Manitoba as of July 1. The significance of this rite of passage for junior faculty members may be lost on most students, but it matters in the grand scheme of things to faculty members, staff, their relationship with the union and the university and, ultimately, to their students, regardless of how dull an administrative function it seems.

July 25, 2025 — 
Hockey Canada trial ruling could send chilling message to victims, say advocates