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VIRES
THE STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO FACULTY OF LAW
VOLUME 10, ISSUE 1
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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008
First-years give Orientation Week two thumbs up
More on this year’s Orientation Week festivities: see page 10 for a photo spread.
UV
INDEX •DEAN MORAN INTERVIEW.....P. 3 •FIRST-YEAR SURVEY.....P. 6 •SUMMER JOBS.....P. 8
•FIRST-YEAR SURVIVAL GUIDE.....P. 17
•DEAR UV.....P. 25
•GAMES.....P. 24, 26
Asper Centre open for business
As U of T Law students will know, alumnus David Asper (LLM ’07) made a $7.5 million gift to the Faculty of Law in November 2007 – the largest ever given to a Canadian law school – to establish the David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights. Since last November, administration, faculty and staff have been working hard to get the Asper Centre off the ground and to shape a vision for its future. Now that the official opening is past and the Centre’s work is beginning, UV got in touch
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BY TINA YANG (2L)
with Director Cheryl Milne and Dean Mayo Moran to find out a little more about the Centre, and how students can fit into that vision. Overall, the Asper Centre will look at a broad spectrum of constitutional law, including issues from every section of the Charter. In particular, there will be a focus on litigation where the advisory committee feels that the law school setting, and the participation of academics, will bring something important to a case. Given that many who launch con-
stitutional litigation do so with inadequate resources, the Centre will represent a unique opportunity to take the intellectual resources of this law school and apply them to interesting constitutional arguments. Milne hopes that the Asper Centre will serve as a catalyst for students to learn about public interest work, as well as a site for collaboration between faculty and the private bar... CONTINUED ON PAGE 5
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