Editorial

Clinical & Intensive Programs

Our 2012 prediction (albeit late): Osgoode will be the first law school to require the completion of a clinical intensive program prior to graduation.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a good thing.

The application for Osgoode’s intensive programs are open. We don’t want to sound overly dramatic, but applying and participating in one of these 12 programs may be the most formative thing you ever do here at Osgoode.

Last year Osgoode had 563 total applications, from 331 students for 181 total placements. This year there will be 191 total spots available.

Many-a-students have arrived at an OCI or articling interview to find out that they share a common experience with the person on the opposite end of the table. Clinical intensive alumni occupy positions as senior partners, judges and law professors.

Anita Herrmann, Director of the Office of Advancement, estimates that there are over 2,400 students who have walked through these inten sive programs. “Alumni universally find that the clinical education programs have a huge impact on their legal careers. I have Bay Street partners tell me that their experience changed their lives.”

“Apply. Sometimes students think they don’t have what it takes to participate, but every Osgoode student has the ability to participate in a program. Fear of rejection should not be an impediment to applying,” says Natia Tucci, Director of the Clinical Intensive Program.

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DUTY TO WARN

Monday, January 23rd, 12:30 PM, TBA:
Asian law Students of Osgoode Year of the Dragon Celebration

Monday, January 23rd, 12:30 - 1:30 PM, Room 2008:
Lunch and Learn: Academic Integrity and Legal Citations Session

Tuesday, January 24, 9:00-2:00 AM, Room 1337:
The Obiter Dicta presents: Underwater Basket Weaving, an Expert’s Guide

Thursday, January 26th, 12:30-2:00 PM, Room 2027:
Book Launch: The Payment Order of antiquity and the Middle Ages by Ben Geva

Friday, January 27th, 1:40 - 3:00 PM, Room 2027:
Feminist Friday - Celebrating Graduate Students

Saturday, January 28th:
Canadian International Law Students’ Conference (Tickets on sale now in main foyer of Osgoode)

Letter to the Editor

There is nothing offensive about playing on the perception that Davies students work like slaves. It is as offensive as just saying the word “slave”. Just saying a word doesn’t make it offensive. The joke is so mild even my Grandma could laugh at it and she thinks women shouldn’t show their elbows on television.

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