The Student Newspaper of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Volume 2 Issue 1 12 September 2000 www.law.utoronto.ca/ultravires
Donation Gives DLS andELS a New Horne
Faculty Annonnces
Funding for HUlllan Rights
Fasken Martineau DuMoulin donate half a n1illion dollars
Student concerns about survival of progran1n1e alleviated
BY ANNA MARRJSON A."'D
] UUANA SAXBERG Thanks to a generous $500,000 gift fr'lm Fasken Martineau DuMoulm, Downtown Legal Services (DLS) and Enterprise Legal Servtces CELS) wtll have a permanent home at 655 Spadina by 2002. The building will be called the "Fasken Manneau DuMoulin LLP Centre for Legal Serv1ces," and will officially be announced at a recept1on on Wednesday, September 13 at Flavelle House. Uke many not-for-profit organizations in the City of Toronto, DLS has had off1ces m a hodgepodge of different environments over the last twenty years. Until the summer of 1998, the administrative office was located in what was affectionately known as "the pit" - the overheated, low-ceilinged basement of Falconer House. This fall, for the first time in years, the intake office and the administrative office are in the same location at 720 Spadina. Similarly, ELS has had to endure years of cramped quarters In the basement of Falconer House. The money pledged by Faskens will be used to renovate the building at 655 Spadina by making 1t wheelchair accessible and refurbishing the off1ce spaces inside. Faskens has been a benefactor of the law school for over a decade, starting with the establishment of
see "Gift" on page 3
BY j ENNIFER K Hl!Rfu"lA
Onentation 2000 Comm1ttee! Left to right: Jacob G!lck, Gmny Tsai, Sarah Armstrong, Karen Park, Rachel lscove, Scott Patriqum, Alba Sandre, Gordon Lee, Cat Youdan, Sandra Chu, Noah Gitterman. Absent: Karyn Sullivan, Karen Bellinger, Chene Brant, Julie Maclean, Rebecca Hayes, Yana Ermak.
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tract top scholars . .. and the edge it gives its graduates," states Dean Ron Daniels. Increasingly, faculty recruitment and retention is affected by the dispanty of salaries with those offered south of the border, which have increased Significantly in the past decade. Junior faculty members, who generally are faculty w1th zero to ten years teaching experience, had their sa lary increased to $100,000. The startmg salary had previously been $72,000, which means that some JUnior faculty received raises of almost $30,000 to be on par with professors who have been teaching for more than five years. Intermediate and senior faculty, instead of being bumped up to a new salary level, received average increases of $15,000 and $5,000 respectively. These increases, which will cost about $500,000 annually, are not being funded out of law school tuition but from the Provost's budget. The Provost acted upon petition by the faculty's Teachmg Association, which was supported by the Dean who also assisted with the Provost's response. The mag01tude of the increases illustrates the faculty and umversity's commitment to provide the foundations required for the preservation and enhancement of the faculty's domestic and tntemational stature. For U of T to be competitive in attracting talent, Daniels would like to see nominal parity with salaries offered by top U.S. law schools, where starting salaries are between U.S.$100,000 and U.S.$115,000. By nominal parity, it 1s meant that salaries match in dollar terms without currency adjustments. The summer
see "Parity" on page 4
Lois Ch1ang, the new Ass1stant Dean, recently announced that fundtng for the International Human R1ghts Programme at the faculty has been secured and that a new, fulltime Dtrector for the programme Will be \mea. Chiang's announcement comes as relie1 to those who were concerned l ast spnn& and \h\s summet aoou\ \he con\mued a\la\\ab\\IW o11unom& tOT \he Ptowamme. The lntcrnstl ontJI Humon Rtghts Programme was established m 1988 under the leadership and v1510n of Professor Rebecca Cook. One of the mam goals of the programme IS to tram and develop the next generation of lawyers in the promotion and protect1on of InternatiOnal and national human rights law. The programme provides
upper-year and graduate students w1th the opportunity to work with a human nghts organ1zat1on. In the past 12 years, more than 140 students have been placed with a broad range of United Nat1ons, governmental and non-governmental organizations in over 30 countries. This past year, 18 students interned w1th the programme and worked with organizations such as the International ~abour Organization in Costa Rica, the International Cnminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Tanzania, the Centre for Reproductive Law and Policy in New • York, and the N1sga'a Tnbal Council in New Aiyansh, British Columbia. The faculty is currently in the process at hiring a new, full -t1me Director of the Programme, who is expected to actively pursue fundraislng and development activities, while admmistering the Programme and working to build further opportunities for students. To this end, the Director will work with faculty and administration to develop a strategic plan for an expanded International Human Rights Programme at the law school.
see "Programme" on page 4
Meet the 1999/2000 I Interns, see Clubs and 1 Clinics on pages 6 & 7