Continuum: Osgoode Hall Law School of York University Alumni Magazine (Winter 2012)

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by  Advancement Office, Osgoode Hall Law School of York University

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Osgoode Hall Law School
Alumni Magazine
Volume 36 R
08 Bursting with Pride
EDITOR
Anita Herrmann It was billed as the Osgoode Building
Director, Office of Advancement
Celebration, but Sunday, October 16, 2011,
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was really all about “community” and the
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coming together of those who share an
CONTRIBUTING EDITORS
Virginia Corner enduring common bond.
Communications Manager
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Manager, Office of Advancement
WRITERS Community
Virginia Corner Engagement with the community continues to N
Laurie de Fleuriot de la Coliniere
Nathalie Kalina be one of Osgoode’s central priorities, which is
Anita Herrmann why the Law School is committed to enhancing
Smriti Kapoor experiential learning opportunities for students.
Lorne Sossin
Christine Ward I
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AKA Photography Inspiring Osgoode alumni who overcame W
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barriers in the legal community and paved the
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Clifton Li Photography way for others are showcased in The Catalysts
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION Project, part of a dynamic new physical and
Fish Out of Water Design Inc. digital history exhibit in Gowlings Hall called
PRINTING “Osgoode: Then and Now.”
Colour Innovations
Continuum is published once a year by Osgoode 22 Mental Health, Disability,
Hall Law School of York University for alumni and
friends. Ideas and opinions expressed in Continuum Law & Justice
do not necessarily reflect those of the editors,
Osgoode Hall Law School or York University. Osgoode is taking a leadership role among
We invite your letters and comments, and hope that
you will keep us posted on where you are and what law schools in raising awareness, creating
you are doing. Please send correspondence to: innovative research and teaching programs,
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Connect Osgoode Alumni
26 Faculty News
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28 Class Notes
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31 In Memoriam
32 The Way Things Were
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Message
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What an amazing time
to be at Osgoode. Looking
out at an overflowing
Moot Court Room at our
Building Celebration on
October 16, 2011, was a
Our theme for the year of building launch is New Windows on Justice
thrilling moment. It was
and the Building Celebration featured a panel on this idea with Justice
a privilege to greet so
Rosalie Abella, former Dean Peter Hogg, former Attorney General and my
many luminaries – from our
classmate, Michael Bryant ’92 and John Tory ’78. The idea of New Windows
Alumni Award of Excellence on Justice captures compelling new perspectives on the future of Canada’s
honourees, former Supreme justice system as well as Osgoode’s goal of engagement, making a difference
Court Justice Peter Cory in the community and investigating law in action.
and former Superior Court These ideas are featured in Osgoode’s new 2011–2015 Strategic Plan, which
Justice George Carter, to reflects our commitment to experiential education, research intensification,
collaboration with partners in the community and finding new ways to tell
the award presenters Chief
our story. In 2012, Osgoode will become the first Law School in Canada to
Justice Beverley McLachlin
include a universal experiential component, which will provide every JD
and former Chief Justice,
student a clinical, intensive or simulated learning experience as part of
Attorney General and their degree.
current Chancellor of York
Following through on our commitment to pursue partnerships, Osgoode
University, Roy McMurtry, is embarking on ambitious collaborations with a range of organizations,
from former Deans, to the including the Human Rights Legal Support Centre, the Office of the
donors who made the Judge Advocate General, the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, the
Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted, the United Nations Office
building project possible,
of Staff Legal Assistance and the Society of Adjudicators and Regulators of
including the Kaneff family,
Ontario, just to name a few.
and to so many alumni,
This issue of Continuum focuses on how these dynamics come together.
former faculty and staff
These stories truly represent new windows on justice.
returning to Osgoode to
Finally, as you may have noticed, Continuum has a new look, with the
join us in ushering in a
windows of the Ignat Kaneff building on the masthead. The new design
new era.
provides a visual counterpart to the fresh and forward looking content
of Continuum.
For more perspectives on all things Osgoode, check out my blog at:
http://deansblog.osgoode.yorku.ca/ or follow me at @DeanSossin on Twitter.
Lorne Sossin ’92
Dean
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IN BRIEF
Top OSC Spot for Professor Mary Condon
Professor Mary Condon prior to being appointed bring all this experience
has been appointed a June 1, 2011, for a two-year back to the classroom at
Vice-Chair to the Ontario term as one of the OSC’s Osgoode when my term at
Securities Commission three full-time Vice-Chairs. the OSC expires.”
(OSC), the regulatory
“At the OSC I have the Condon, who is a member
body responsible for
opportunity to be closely of the Board of Trustees of
overseeing the capital
involved in emerging the York University Pension
markets in Ontario.
policymaking on issues of Fund and a member of the
HY A leading academic in the fundamental importance to Investor Education Fund
AP area of securities law, our capital markets, as well board of directors, is on
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INTERNSHIP Canada, she worked for the Centre for
Refugee Studies at York University and
OffERS Precedent magazine, which led to an
internship at the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees in Cambodia.
GREAT
She was subsequently accepted into the
Canadian Bar Association Young Lawyers
OPPORTUNITY
International Program and now works for
the Law Society of Kenya. In her spare
time, Thomas is learning Swahili and
mountain climbing. She is an inspiring
Chelsea Thomas ’08 came to Osgoode example of someone who followed her
with the desire to make a real, practical dream, took the risks to reach it, and
difference in peoples’ lives. Instead now realizes the unsurpassed benefits
of walking the traditional path after of her choices and the incredibly rich
completing her articles, Thomas booked experiences they have revealed. Thomas
a one-way ticket and flew to Thailand. hopes that other alumni will consider the
She witnessed the devastating effects of CBA program and take the opportunity to
human rights abuses on refugees and discover more about other countries and
became inspired to pursue international more about themselves.
refugee law. When she returned to
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Heraldry in Gowlings Hall
ARTIST DONALD BLACK,
A 75-YEAR-OLD RETIRED
LAWYER AND MEMBER Of
THE ROYAL HERALDRY SOCIETY
Of CANADA, CREATED A
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OSGOODE HALL LAW SCHOOL
COAT Of ARMS THAT NOW
HANGS IN GOWLINGS HALL.
The Law School had commissioned Black for the work
but he decided to donate the carving, which took him
approximately 125 hours to complete. Hunched over a
workbench in the laundry room of his Toronto home,
he carved the individual pieces with his handtools then
mounted them on a fibreboard. The final piece measures
72 inches high by 42 across.
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at an event at Rideau Hall in the spring of 2009.
Black, who graduated from the University of Toronto a little smaller “because having a portico on the helmet
Faculty of Law in 1960 and was in general practice until makes no sense at all.” In addition, he created an extra
his retirement in 2004, points out that the Osgoode coat loop of scroll on the Doric column to ensure that the
of arms is relatively young, having been granted its words “Magna Charta Angliae” appear on one side.
memorial bearings in 1958. “Dean Smalley Baker conceived of the coat of arms,
Black followed the “blazon” for the Osgoode coat of arms but Donald has given us an heirloom,” said Dean
in “Beddoe’s Canadian Heraldry” in creating his work. Lorne Sossin. “Every day I see people stopping to look
Blazon is the precise language of heraldry that guides at it and I am so pleased that we have such a beautiful
an artist. But, he also made some small modifications work of art to carry on an Osgoode tradition.”
of his own such as making the portico above the helmet
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IN BRIEF
Businessman and Benefactor
Jay Hennick Receives Honourary Degree
As early as six years sometimes had trouble collecting the Howie Kirshenbaum, a 50 per cent
money he was owed from some of the equity stake and a free hand to run
old, honourary degree
neighbours,” Monahan said. “Thus he the business, while Hennick would
recipient Jay Hennick learned the first hard lesson of the earn a token salary and a share of
service business – always keep a close the profits. Hennick had struck on a
showed that he had
eye on your receivables.” simple concept that would prove the
a nose for business. While still in his teens, Hennick went cornerstone of his business philosophy:
find the right person to manage a
on to create a lifeguard business and
Patrick Monahan, York’s Vice-President that, in turn, evolved into a complete business, give them the motivation
Academic and Provost who delivered pool service operation, which of ownership, and share in the
the citation for Hennick at the Fall included maintaining and cleaning profits generously.”
2011 Convocation, brought a smile to swimming pools. Hennick, who received a Bachelor of
the business leader’s face when he Laws degree from the University of
“Hennick completed his sociology
described how as a six-year-old boy Ottawa in 1981, began his career as a
studies at York in 1978,” Monahan said.
Hennick created his first business, corporate lawyer with Fogler, Rubinoff
“The challenge was how to continue
collecting and returning neighbours’ LLP. In 1989, he established FirstService
to operate the pool business while
empty garbage cans after the weekly Corporation, which is now a global
attending law school full-time at the
pickup for one cent a can. leader in the real estate services sector,
University of Ottawa. Drawing on the
“The good news was that the garbage partnership philosophy emphasized providing services in commercial real
can business is steady year-round; by his parents, Jay offered his general estate and property management,
the bad news was that Hennick manager and long-time friend, with revenues of more than $2 billion
annually. In 1998, at the age of 41,
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Hennick received Ontario’s Entrepreneur “The Hennick Centre reflects
of the Year Award for consumer services Jay’s conviction, based on his own
and Canada’s Entrepreneur of the Year experience, that training in both law
Award for creative service integration. and business fundamentals is the key to
In December 2001, he was named career success in the globalized world
Canada’s CEO of the year by Canadian of the 21st century,” Monahan said.
Business magazine.
“Mr. Chancellor, Jay Hennick is
He and his wife, Barbara, believe in giving one of Canada’s most successful
back generously to their community and businessmen, building a global leader
contributing to a variety of causes through in its field through an exemplary
The Jay & Barbara Hennick Family partnership philosophy. He is also
Foundation. At York, they established the one of the University’s most generous
Hennick Centre for Business and Law benefactors, and his philanthropy,
at Osgoode and the Schulich School of not just at York but in the community
Business. At Mount Sinai Hospital, where generally, is exceptional and a model
Hennick is Vice-Chair of the Board of for others. It is my privilege to present
Directors and Co-Chairs the Hospital him to you and this convocation as a
Foundation, they created an endowment fitting candidate for the degree Doctor
to support medical research at the of Laws honoris causa.” CHEY
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Osgoode has entered into a unique and exciting new “We have the kind of depth in the study of law that is a good
reciprocal interdisciplinary studies partnership with the complement to those areas where Ryerson has developed
Yeates School of Graduate Studies at Ryerson University expertise,” Sossin said. “Students will be enriched by having
that broadens students’ academic experience. the chance to take the courses we’re going to designate each
year as available to the other.”
As of this fall, a limited number of Ryerson graduate
students can enrol in courses at Osgoode and Osgoode Students, who pay their usual tuition to their home university,
students can take graduate school courses at Ryerson. are allowed to register for up to one full-year or two half-year
courses, selected from a list of more than a dozen courses
Dean Lorne Sossin said the partnership capitalizes on each
provided by each institution. Students will obtain credits for
institution’s expertise, namely Osgoode’s tradition of excellence
courses if they attain the pass level required.
in legal education and scholarship and in experiential learning,
and Ryerson’s record of applied education and strength in areas
such as media studies and journalism.
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BURSTING
PRIDE
with
It was billed as the “Osgoode Building
Celebration,” but it was never just
about the building. The day was all about
“community”– the coming together of
students, faculty, staff, alumni and friends
of Osgoode Hall Law School who share an
enduring common bond.
by Virginia Corner
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