Fall elections fill vacancies as Student Caucus ramps up for the new academic year Elections for 1L Student Caucus Representatives took place on September 15, 2014. The results saw Quinlin “Quin” Gilbert-Walters (1L Section A Rep), Lauren Katz (1L Section B Rep), Camille Walker (1L Section C Rep), and Chelsea Caldwell (1L Section D Rep) chosen to be their section representatives. They add to the...
And May the Curve Be Ever In Your Favour…
This year, the Academic Policy and Planning Committee (APPC) (a part of Faculty Council here at Osgoode), has been discussing the bell curve and its application to small classes. The scope of the discussion includes all seminars, intensive/clinical programs and classes with enrolments under thirty students. As one of your student representatives on the APPC, I would like to take the opportunity...
Student Caucus: A Year in Review, or, “Where Doth the Time Go?”
TOM WILSON
<Beastly Bard>
Graduating students will recall that Hannah Askew (’13) won the 2010-11 “Dean for a Day” contest.
First among Equals: Osgoode Hall Law School Joins the Law Students’ Society of Ontario
TOM WILSON
<Contributor>
During the L&L and Student Caucus elections that concluded on March 21, Osgoode students voted to join the new Law Students’ Society of Ontario (LSSO).
Submission to the Law Society of Upper Canada in Response to the Pathways Report
What follows is the full-length November 12 submission by Student Caucus to the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) in response to LSUC’s Pathways Report on the future of the articling requirement.
Osgoode Library Policy Update
JEFF MITCHELL
<Contributor>
It’s that time of the year again. With exams around the corner, Osgoode students take a seat in the Library to study. As upper years will recall, the “exam period restricted access policy” is just around the corner.
Creating a “Law Students Society of Ontario”
LEEANNE FOOTMAN
<Contributor>
On October 19, six representatives of your Legal and Literary Society and Student Caucus attended a two-day conference at Queen’s University, put on by the Queen’s Law Student Society. The conference invited representatives of student government from all six of Ontario’s law schools with a goal of creating a draft constitution
We The People
JEFFREY HERNAEZ
<Contributor>
As stated by Chief Justice Marshall in the famous US case Marbury v Madison, “the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce their own happiness, [which] is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected.”
Lions and Tigers and Student Caucus Updates, Oh My!
TOM WILSON
<Chair, Student Caucus>
Hello again, Osgoode!
It feels like weeks since my last update as Chair of Student Caucus. In fact, it has been weeks… and what a busy fortnight it’s been!
A Belated Welcome From Tom Wilson, Chair of Student Caucus
TOM WILSON <Chair, Student Caucus> With the start of a new year at Osgoode, I want to take this opportunity as Chair of Student Caucus to welcome everyone back and to report on Caucus’ work over the summer. First, allow me to address an age-old question: how is Student Caucus different from Legal and Lit? Here’s the long and short of it … Legal and Lit is the overarching student government...