February 27, 2025
Welcome back from reading week. We hope you did more resting than you did reading—you can count on Abby and I certainly did. A sweet n’ short issue of Ultra Vires in honour of this short month of love (and definitely not due to the fact that our contributors dropped like flies this month).
Recently, U of T Law assigned an anti-semitism course module, which consisted of islamaphobic material, as part of the 1L Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion sessions. The cover story of this issue, written by Samar Moghal (3L), Humza Khan (2L), and Sakina Hasnain (2L), details the Muslim Law Students Association’s role in advocating against the module and the Faculty’s response. Also in this issue, 2L student Pe’er Krut has written about the module from the perspective of the Jewish Law Students Association.
In this issue, you’ll also find coverage of recent events, such as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the inaugural John A. Tory Lecture Recap on the GAAR preamble, the Runnymede Society’s fireside chat with Supreme Court of Canada Justice Mahmud Jamal and various perspectives on oral advocacy including the Baby Jessup and the Arnup Cup.
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Manreet & Abby
Co-Editors-in-Chief
Ultra Vires Vol. 26