Faculty of Law News Archive

August 31, 2018 — 
The University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law paid for Manitoba Bar Association memberships for all of its registered students starting in the fall of 2017

August 31, 2018 — 
The MLJ welcomes submissions from professors, practitioners and students on any subject relating to Hugh Amos Robson’s life, career and judicial decisions

August 31, 2018 — 
Dr. Jonathan Black-Branch played a number of roles at the International Law Association’s (ILA) 78th Biennial conference in Sydney, Australia from August 19 to 24, 2018

August 31, 2018 — 
This summer, Myles Davis, [J.D./18] became the first University of Manitoba law student to win one of the prizes offered in the annual Insolvency Institute of Canada's (IIC) Law Student Writing Awards Program.

August 24, 2018 — 
In the wake of proposed changes to sections of the Criminal Code of Canada contained in Bill C-75 (An Act to amend the Criminal Code, the Youth Criminal Justice Act and other Acts and to make consequential amendments to other Acts), CBC News reported July 31 in the article ‘It’s problematic,’ Bill C-75 to leave low-income people without access to legal help, that law students in Ontario would no longer be able to help clients in need of representation, while gaining valuable hands-on training. As a result of such reports, law students in Manitoba likewise became concerned. Legal Aid lawyer, award-winning sessional instructor and University Law Clinic director Mike Walker offered a clear explanation as to why Bill C-75 will not have any impact on law student practice in criminal matters in Manitoba.

August 24, 2018 — 
Of all the things he was in life, be it soldier, lawyer, activist, politician, or professor, Roland Penner, C.M., O.M., Q.C. [B.A./49, LL.B./61] was a Dad who loved his family very much, and a friend and humanist who cared very deeply about the rights and well-being of other people. This message was clear as family, friends and dignitaries each shared stories illustrating Penner's legacy with a gathering of over 200 community members at his Celebration of Life held Thursday, August 23, 2018 at the Neil Bardal Funeral Centre.

August 9, 2018 — 
'Canada has a problem with money — specifically, who has it and who doesn’t'

August 2, 2018 — 
When Robson Hall Faculty of Law’s Bankruptcy Professor Virginia Torrie, receive word that a travel grant she had applied for through the University of Manitoba/SSHRC Exchange Grants Program was approved, she packed her bags and headed to London, UK. There, she was the only delegate from a Canadian university to attend and present at the 20thAnnual INSOL International (International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy Professionals) Academics’ Colloquium held July 11 – 13.

July 13, 2018 — 
Robson Hall Law Professor Brenda Gunn is back at the United Nations – this time, in Geneva, Switzerland. A Research Fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Gunn was in Geneva this week to attend the UN’s Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP), and to moderate a side event.

June 19, 2018 — 
The Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman Foundation has announced a $1 million investment