While I never did manage to “accidentally” bump into Peter Mansbridge in the halls or make it onto TV, I would say I still had a great experience as an intern in the CBC’s Law Department. My time with our national broadcaster as part of Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program was not […]
As part of Osgoode's Intellectual Property Law & Technology Intensive Program, I had the distinct pleasure of working with the Legal Affairs team at AstraZeneca Canada. With a technical background in the life sciences and a keen interest in pursuing a legal career engaged in this field, having the opportunity to gain first hand experience […]
My internship at ventureLAB as part of Osgoode's IP Intensive program, broadened my perspective on intellectual property law in a way that I did not expect. It was a richly rewarding learning experience that I could not have acquired through academic courses. ventureLAB is a non-for-profit business accelerator, specifically geared to entrepreneurs in the technology […]
You can learn all the case law and statute law to your heart’s desire in school, but it is difficult to learn the detailed workings of an industry in a classroom despite the creative planning of any brilliant professor or lecturer. Although throwing a child into the pool is a controversial method of teaching one […]
Silicon Valley is the nexus of the entrepreneurship in the 21st century. While European tourists may duck into a medieval church to sightsee, a Bay Area tourist may take in any number of technological cathedrals. In the Bay, it is easy to trace the history of technology companies like Google, Tesla, Hewlett Packard and Apple […]
I came to law school with a pretty definitive idea that I want to explore a career within Intellectual Property, but I was not quite sure what career might be ideal for me. While I was fortunate enough to get some exposure into what a career in IP looks at a private firm; I had […]
"Laws are like sausages. It’s better not to see them being made." Or so Otto Von Bismarck is (incorrectly) said to have said. That may well be true for the general public, but for law students, understanding how laws are made can add a lot to what we know about how they are applied. For […]
As part of IP Osgoode’s Intellectual Property Law and Technology Intensive Program, students are asked to reflect, then write on their placement experience. All I could think was how perfect my placement at the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers (SOCAN) was, as a musician and SOCAN member, and law student fascinated by infringement.
This past November, Professor Ronald E. Pearlman from York University’s Department of Biology gave a talk [1] at Osgoode Hall Law School to discuss the potential of the innovative CRISPR genome editing system. Central to the talk was the evolving nature of genome editing technology and the ethical concerns that come with its growing breadth of […]
I must confess, I never thought having a background in children’s theatre performance would ever factor into my law school education. Although it was a lifetime ago that I was holding court before gymnasiums full of children; animating children’s books from the curriculum through songs, puppetry, and interactive storytelling, that experience proved a perfect platform […]