Darcy MacPherson News Archive

August 26, 2024 — 
Dr. Bryan Schwartz and Professor Darcy MacPherson, the Manitoba Law Journal’s Co-Executive Editors-in-Chief, proudly announce this summer’s release of MLJ Volume 46, containing seven issues. The volume continues MLJ’s tradition of engaging with topics important to Manitoba and its almost 1.4 million residents, as well as matters affecting Canada more broadly.

August 1, 2024 — 
After more than a year of hard work and planning, the editorial team at the Manitoba Law Journal announces the inaugural release of its newest dimension: The Review of Enterprise and Trade Law (TRETL). The release of the MLJ’s Volume 46, Issue 7 follows the merging of the freshly-minted Desautels Review and the long-standing Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law. TRETL will be the MLJ’s sixth dimension of publication, focussing on broad legal issues faced by business and trade globally as well as local issues respecting trade and enterprise in Manitoba.

July 9, 2024 — 
As the legal profession moves further into the bold new—virtual—world of web-based services, the MLJ’s Executive Editors, Dr. Bryan P. Schwartz and Professor Darcy L. MacPherson, are excited to announce a new special issue about Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). The project is part 2 of a trilogy of issues centered on how the Canadian legal system deals with crisis in the modern age. Volume 46, Issue 2, Online Dispute Resolution: Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic, is part oral history, part academic exploration of ODR.

June 10, 2024 — 
Twenty years ago, a young professor at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Law approached the Dean with an idea: to ask the Manitoba Court of Appeal to take on third year law students as clerks to gain hands-on experience in seeing how the Province’s top court operates. As the 20th fall term of the program approaches, the Faculty and the Court realized the impact of the program’s long-lasting legacy and summoned alumni of the program from far and wide to celebrate at a luncheon held on May 10th, 2024.

August 23, 2023 — 
The Executive Editors of the Manitoba Law Journal, Dr. Bryan P. Schwartz and Dr. Darcy L. MacPherson are pleased to announce the August release of a special issue on Canada’s Emergencies Act: Beyond the Rouleau Report (Volume 46, Issue 1).

June 22, 2023 — 
Professors Bryan Schwartz and Darcy MacPherson, Co-Editors-in-Chief of the Manitoba Law Journal, are pleased to announce the completion of Volume 45 of Canada's most prolific law journal with the assistance of its third grant in a row over the past ten years from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council’s (SSHRC) Aid to Scholarly Journals program.

September 2, 2022 — 
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the establishment of a team of directors for the Marcel A. Desautels Centre for Private Enterprise and the Law (Desautels Centre). Professor Darcy MacPherson will fill the role of Desautels Research Director for a three-year term, and Professor Brandon Trask and Clinical Senior Instructor, Dr. Rebecca Jaremko-Bromwich, will join forces as Academic Co-Directors for a one-year term, all commencing August 1st. Dr. Laura Reimer will join the team to assist with program development and support.

May 13, 2022 — 
Every year, each faculty at the University of Manitoba nominates an outstanding student who is then invited to recognize two teachers who played an instrumental role in their educational journey, one from their early school years (K to grade 12) and one from university. Both teachers are then honoured at the Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning’s Students’ Teacher Recognition Reception. The Faculty of Law’s Outstanding Student for 2022 is Shawn Singh, a third-year law student and a fellow of the President’s Student Leadership Program. As fate would have it, the professor he chose to recognize at last Thursday’s reception was Assistant Professor Brandon Trask, who was also a Faculty of Law Outstanding Student Award recipient when he graduated – in 2012.

April 22, 2022 — 
Beyond tackling an advanced transaction in corporate law that not even lawyers five-years out encounter, law students competing in the Davies Corporate/Securities Moot need to come prepared to argue both sides of the problem. As a testament to the dynamic brilliance and professionalism of this year’s team from Robson Hall, Brandon Gray (2L), who tied for second-place Top Oralist, immediately expressed appreciation for his teammates and coaches for their contributions and assistance during the competition.

March 12, 2022 — 
Manitoba law students’ solid team effort secured National Tax Moot triumph