Posted on: February 16, 2016
TRU Law placed second at the BC Law Schools Competitive Moot over the weekend in Victoria. This marks the third year TRU Law has sent a team to the BC Cup, since the law school opened in 2011.
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Posted on: February 11, 2016
First-year law students who have been studying Aboriginal Rights and Title and Indigenous Law took an annual field trip to the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, to hear from members of the Aboriginal community on rights and land title, resources, Indigenous law and residential school experiences.
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Posted on: February 10, 2016
Third-year law students Kelly Melnyk and Olivia Harvey were the first TRU team to compete in the McIntyre Cup—the Western Canadian law competition in trial advocacy—in Calgary last weekend.
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Posted on: February 3, 2016
The student-organized conference Keeping it Civil: Exploring Civil Liberties and the Charter in Canada addresses rights and freedoms in Canada from a legal perspective.
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Posted on: January 29, 2016
Professor Janna Promislow is among scholars and activists this week at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Posted on: January 29, 2016
The Old Main building expansion—which houses TRU Law— received international recognition this week at the 2015 Wood Design Awards.
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Posted on: January 28, 2016
Lorne Neudorf, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Law, had an op-ed published in The Financial Post this week, detailing his concern over the lack of scrutiny over ministerial lawmaking powers.
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Posted on: January 21, 2016
Determining Access, Theory and Practice in Implementing Indigenous Governance over Lands and Resources, is a two-day conference that provides an opportunity for sharing information, strategies and answering key questions faced by Indigenous groups navigating the post Tsilhqot’in Nation v. British Columbia landscape.
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Posted on: January 8, 2016
Professors Chris Hunt and Micah Rankin’s article “Anonymity, the Rule of Law and the Shriveling of the Biographical Core” (2015) 61:1 McGill Law Journal 193, examines the Supreme Court of Canada’s recent decision in R v Spencer, 2014 SCC 43, which determined that individuals have a Charter-protected privacy interest in their internet subscriber information. Hunt and…
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Posted on: January 7, 2016
Mediators, judges and lawyers from around BC and western Canada are participating in a series of TRU Law courses in dispute resolution this week. Mandatory for all law students, “Block Week” includes classroom and hands-on sessions at the Centrepoint BC mediation facility and the Kamloops Courthouse.
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