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The Journal of Law and Social Policy (JLSP) seeks to encourage debate and dialogue on important issues at the intersection of law and society, particularly as they impact low income individuals and disadvantaged communities. In addition to issues relating to housing and shelter, income maintenance, social assistance, human rights, health, employment, education, immigration and refugee law, mental health law, criminal and family law, the Journal is also interested in a range of questions about lawyering and social change, including the exploration of non-traditional legal strategies such as community organizing. Access to justice is a recurrent theme, as is the role of legal education in developing professional norms and practices in which social justice is an organizing aspiration.

The Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy was a peer-reviewed, student-run online legal journal established in 2006 and active up to 2013. The journal was created and managed by students at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, and served both the community of Osgoode Hall Law School and the legal community at large. While a significant portion of the Review was dedicated to student work, the Review also published articles by legal professionals and academics writing on law or legal theory. The Review did not focus its publication on any one area, but rather hoped to highlight jurisprudential and legislative activities in Canada and other parts of the world.

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The edited proceedings of Osgoode’s Constitutional Cases Conference, held annually since 1997, have been published as special volumes of the Supreme Court Law Review (SCLR) since 2002. The papers provide expert commentary and analysis of the Supreme Court of Canada’s constitutional jurisprudence for the preceding calendar year. Papers by Canada’s foremost judges, constitutional scholars, and litigation experts address the Court’s decisions on federalism and constitutional rights, including aboriginal rights, as well as offer broader perspectives on constitutional theory and interpretation. Over the years this conference has been recognized as the leading source of constitutional scholarship in Canada.

Select videos of the conference sessions are available here.