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Web EditorJanuary 29, 2014
My Life in New York
Even as I applied to New York firms, I never really expected I’d come here, and as I flew back from my interview, was pretty […]
Web EditorMarch 27, 2013
Point/Counterpoint: Has UV jumped the shark?
Point: Yes. UV is full of shit. Michael Robert (3L) UV was once a forum for law school gossip, ribaldrous humour (dick jokes) and the occasional […]
Web EditorFebruary 27, 2013
Talk Has Just Started: A Dissident’s Views on the Tuition Petition
Over the past month, over 400 hundred students have signed a petition to end annual 8% tuition fee hikes at the University of Toronto Faculty […]
Web EditorFebruary 27, 2013
Give Us More Information Instead: A bigger issue than an excess of tuition is a deficit of information
If UV ink spilled is any indication, a number of U of T Law students think our tuition is too high (or, at the very […]
Web EditorJanuary 30, 2013
Point/Counterpoint – Online Dating: Yes or Never?
Point Michael Robert (3L) & Robbie Mac (2L) There’s a comedian who has a great bit about a garbage man trying to pick up women on […]
Web EditorJanuary 30, 2013
Top 10 Meme Characters
Internet memes have become hugely popular lately, but not everyone knows what they are. In fact, they are surprisingly difficult to explain, so we’re not […]
Web EditorJanuary 4, 2013
2012 Year in Review: Top 10 UV Articles About Dating
Of the Top 10 keyword searches that brought readers (mostly to their dismay) to Ultravires.ca this December, four were derivations of “Ultra Vires.” And four […]
Web EditorJanuary 4, 2013
UV Year in Review: Top 10 Stories of 2012
10. For the first time ever, a mouse is spotted in the law school. https://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=455765657807665&set=a.441171982600366.127522.335964726454426&type=1&theater 9. Articling changes. UV writes about it. https://ultravires.ca/2012/11/articling-in-ontario-radically-remade/ […]
Web EditorNovember 28, 2012
Point/Counterpoint: Are UT Law students as hot as they think they are?
Point Matt Brown According to the 2012 UV Recruitment Survey, the average 2L is about a 7.5 on the universal attractiveness scale. 1/3 of respondents […]
Web EditorOctober 17, 2012
A Book Review of 50 Shades of Grey in the Form of a Top 10 List
In which uv tackles another subject like—Pho Hung’s demise—that is already months out of date. 10 You know that uv is struggling for content when […]
Web EditorOctober 17, 2012
Point/Counterpoint: What makes for better Pub Night venues – dance clubs or pubs?
UV Poll! [poll id=”2″] POINT: Please don’t stop the Music. Music. Music. On an average Thursday you go to school. You sit down. You talk […]
Web EditorOctober 17, 2012
How to Win at Call Day
Beginning at 8 am on October 26th, Toronto law firms are permitted by the Law Society of Upper Canada to call 2014 JD candidates to schedule […]
Web EditorSeptember 12, 2012
New Grading System Actually Makes Sense
The first thing you need to know about the new grading system is that it is not a cosmetic change. Your As will not become […]
Web EditorSeptember 12, 2012
Point/Counterpoint: Should 2Ls change their name on Facebook for OCIs?
Point, Michael Robert Some Bay Street firms will receive over 2,000 applicants for a mere 20 positions within their 2013 2L summer class. Students from U […]
Web EditorSeptember 12, 2012
Top 10 reasons NOT to join Law Review (or any other journal)
Every year, incoming 1Ls are faced with a seemingly difficult choice: whether to participate in the lamest extracurricular in the law school or whether to […]
Web EditorMarch 27, 2012
MPG’s Top 10 Facebook Uses
Law students spend a lot of time on Facebook. It is both a vital procrastination tool and a way to creep their classmates. Law students […]
Web EditorFebruary 25, 2012
Top 10 Leading Law School Dating Laws
A list for which “dating” can mean whatever you want it to mean. 10. “Intra” is not the same as “inter.” All literate people should […]
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