Osgoode@125 Historical Photo Exhibit

Follow

• 

  1988 - The Boys (and Girls) of Summer

  A national conference on the Free Trade Agreement is held at Osgoode. Osgoode student representatives take first place in the final round of the Niagara International Moot competition against the team from Dalhousie. A controversial ban limits smoking in the Law School to two designated rooms. New student groups include the Osgoode International Law Society and a Native Law Student Association. Student sports teams now include hockey, softball, touch football, inner tube water polo, broomball, and basketball. Golf, squash, and ping pong tournaments are held regularly. Here, touch football enthusiasts toss the pigskin around the front lawn of Osgoode.

• 

  1989 - Reaching for Utopia

  Osgoode Hall Law School celebrates its centennial. Dianne Martin ‘76 joins the Osgoode faculty. Three justices of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union visit and sit in on Trial Practice class, where they participate in a half-hour mock trial. An Ad Hoc Committee on Race Relations is established by Faculty Council to gather information about overt and systemic forms of discrimination within the Law School. The third annual Barbara Betcherman Memorial Lecture hosts Canadian author Margaret Atwood, in keeping with its mission to develop and promote ideas about women and the law.

• 

  1990 - The Centre for Feminist Legal Studies opens at Osgoode

  It is intended to encourage creative discussion and other initiatives concerning feminism and law among academics, students, and members of the legal profession. The Immigration and Refugee Law Intensive is introduced as a way for students to assess the roles that lawyers play in the design and implementation of immigration and refugee law. As part of the Teach in China Program, several Osgoode graduates teach law at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law in the City of Chongqing, China . The first Annual Environmental Law Symposium is held at Osgoode. Osgoode students rally in support of Mohawk protestors during the Oka Crisis.

• 

  1991 - Honourable Friends

  As part of the Law School’s centennial celebrations, retroactive LLB degrees are offered to lawyers who were called to the bar before Osgoode Hall became a degree-granting institution in 1957. Among the 2000 recipients are Frederick Catzman, Nathan Strauss, and Paul Martin, Sr. of the classes of 1928 and 1929.

• 

  1993 - Fostering Excellence

  Marilyn L. Pilkington is appointed Dean of Osgoode. She is the first female dean of a law faculty in Ontario. The Osgoode Alumni Association creates the Mentor Program to help first-year students adjust to law school by matching them with an alumnus or alumnae. On the heels of the Charlottetown Accord, the Centre for Public Law and Public Policy holds a conference on Canada’s constitutional situation. The Osgoode Owls Men’s Hockey Team wins the York Intramural League championship title.

• 

  1994 - Fair and Equal Representation

  The Aboriginal Intensive Program in First Nations Lands, Resources, and Governance is established as a pilot project by Osgoode graduate Susan Hare and Professor Alan Grant. Osgoode holds its first Flaming Feminist Cabaret and Cotillion. Student organizations now include a Women’s Caucus, the First Nations Law Student Association, the Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Collective, and the Black Law Students Association. Older student groups grow exponentially, such as CLASP. Here are their old offices.

• 

  1995 - Benvenuto

  Dean Marilyn Pilkington spearheads a new Professional Development Program, which oversees the continuing legal education of law graduates by offering part-time graduate programs, non-credit courses, and various one or two day programs. Osgoode students are able to study Italian Law on exchange at the University of Bologna. These four legal scholars took a day trip to Rome.

• 

  1996 - Serving Toronto’s Communities

  The Osgoode Business Clinic is founded. Staffed primarily by Osgoode Hall Law School student-volunteers, the clinic provides basic legal advice to individuals starting small enterprises who could not otherwise afford a lawyer. Parkdale Community Legal Services celebrates its twenty-fifth anniversary.