SAOUPCOMING & NEWSWORTHY• NEW! Advising Drop in Hours (Nancy Czemmel & Kelly Cassidy)Either Nancy or Kelly will be available for advising during the following me blocks:Mondays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.Tuesdays: 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.Wednesdays: 4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.Thursdays: 9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.* Appointments may also be made with Asst. Dean Topsakal, Assoc. Dean Lame, NancyCzemmel or Kelly Cassidy. Please contact Kelly Cassidy for all appointments.* We provide informaon and guidance for both graduate and undergraduate students on thefollowing: programs, degree requirements, registraon, advising, course changes & schedules,procedures for withdrawal, exam schedules & conflicts, deferred & supplemental exams,rereads, academic standing, leave of absence or term away, and graduaon.Exchanges• Exchange & Study Abroad Applicaon Deadline:All 2011-2012 exchange and study away programs(Summer term 2011, Fall term 2011, Winter term 2012 and Full year)Friday, 5 November <strong>2010</strong>Applicaon must be completed in Minerva; CV must be submied to SAO by 3 p.m.32 • OCTOBER <strong>26</strong> TH <strong>2010</strong> • QN
LEGALFRONTIERSLEGAL FRONTIERS IS BACK! /LEGAL FRONTIERS EST DE RETOUR!Legal Frontiers, <strong>McGill</strong>'s International Law Blog, has started itssecond year of full-time blogging. In the past year we have enjoyedgreat successes from being named Best Club by the LSA toreceiving a nomination for Law Blog of the Year in the <strong>2010</strong> Editionof the Canadian Blog Awards. Vote for us at :http://tinyurl.com/voteforLF (Best Law Blog).We hope to replicate these successes this year by increasing ourFrench article contributions as well as by publishing SpecialContributions from distinguished academics and professionals ininternational law. Topics covered on Legal Frontiers this pastweek are:- litigation as a means of pursuing strategic military or politicalobjectives in the Middle East conflict (Daniel Haboucha)- the Ontario Court of Appeal and France’s ConstitutionalCouncil decisions concerning the niqab (Nafay Choudhury)- the United States’ international responsibility for the intentionalinfection of Guatemalan prisoners and handicapped residentswith sexually transmitted diseases (Keiran Gibbs)Our first Special Contribution was published on Sunday <strong>October</strong>24th and is authored by Osgoode Hall Professor Aaron Dhir. Hisarticle explores the intersections of corporate, environmentaland social governance with international human rights.Please join us at www.legalfrontiers.ca to read these articles andmuch more!Legal Frontiers, blogue de <strong>McGill</strong> sur le droit international, entamesa deuxième année de bloggage quotidien. Nous avonsconnu plusieurs succès depuis l’année dernière: Legal Frontiers aen effet été désigné meilleur club par l’Association des étudiantsde droit (AÉD) de <strong>McGill</strong>, en plus d’être nominé dans la catégoriedu blogue en droit de l’année dans le cadre du Canadian BlogAwards édition <strong>2010</strong>. Votez pour Legal Frontiers en suivant lelien : http://tinyurl.com/voteforLF (Best Law Blog).Nous espérons répliquer ces réussites cette année en augmentantle nombre d’articles publiés en français ainsi qu’en publiantdes contributions spéciales de professeurs et de praticiens expertsdu droit international. Parmi les thèmes abordés la semainedernière par Legal Frontiers, vous trouverez:- le recours aux tribunaux comme véhicule d’objectifs politiqueset militaires dans le conflit israélo-palestinien (Daniel Haboucha);- les décisions de la Cour d’appel de l’Ontario et duConseil constitutionnel français concernant le niqab (NafayChoudhury) ;- la responsabilité internationale des Etats-Unis pour l’infectionintentionnelle de ressortissants guatémaltèques à certainesmaladies transmissibles sexuellement (Keiran Gibbs).Notre première contribution spéciale, publiée le dimanche 24octobre, est signée par Aaron Dhir, professeur à Osgoode Hall.Son article porte sur l’intersection entre le droit international desdroits de la personne et la gouvernance corporative, environnementaleet sociale.Joignez-vous à nous à l’adresse www.legalfrontiers.ca pour lireces articles et bien plus encore !FACLThe 4th Annual Federaon of Asian CanadianLawyers (FACL) Fall Conference is fast approaching.This year, the keynote address willbe delivered by Jameel Jaer, Director of theNaonal Securies Project at the AmericanCivil Liberes Union. Other disnguishedspeakers include Lee Akazaki, the first everAsian lawyer to become the president of theOntario Bar Associaon. Workshop hosts willfeature lawyers from prominent law firms suchas: Fraser Milner Casgrain, Goodmans, McMillan,Ridout & Maybee, Glaholt, Miller Thomson,Blaney McMurtry, Gowlings, Fogler Rubino,Mushtaq Law, Edwards Angell Palmer &Dodge and Torkin Manes.This year, the conference will take place at <strong>University</strong>of Toronto, on Saturday, November13th. Student registraon is $20 and $45 moreif you wish to aend the dinner banquet. Addi-onal costs for transportaon, which will becheaper if we can organize group travel.* Registraon Info: hp://www.facl.ca/Fall-Conference<strong>2010</strong>.html* If you are not yet a FACL member, please fillout a membership form (free) and send it inalong with the conference registraon:hp://www.facl.ca/MembershipMDrive.htmlSend the package to FACL, c/o OBA, 300-20Toronto Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5C 2B8(specifying your aendance to either the conference,the banquet, or both), or in the alternave,give me your forms and cheque and Iwill send it in along with my own applicaon. Ifyou plan to go, do let us know so we can accountfor the <strong>McGill</strong> presence.Hope to see you there,Henry Ngan (henry.ngan@mail.mcgill.ca)QN • <strong>26</strong> OCTOBRE <strong>2010</strong> • 33
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