Western Law Alumni Magazine Issue 4 -2009 : Page 3
WESTERN LAW WINS National I.P. Moot Western Law students Adriana Morrison and Shane Gonsalves won the Harold G. Fox Cup for best mooting team at the inaugural Canadian Harold G. Fox Intellectual Property Moot. The winning team was supported and cheered on by their Appellant teammates, Erika Douglas and Lisa Macklem, as well as researcher Scott Armstrong and coach Professor Margaret Ann Wilkinson. The Moot featured students from seven law schools across Canada and took place in Toronto at the Federal Court on February 21, 2009. “There was strong involvement from the entire Intellectual Property community which helped to make the event such a fantastic experience,” said Shane Gonsalves. “We received excellent guidance throughout the process from Professor Wilkinson as well as several local practitioners and other faculty members.” The Harold G. Fox Moot is named in honour of the late Harold G. Fox, one of Canada’s leading intellectual property scholars and advocates. The Western Law team is grateful to Ridout & Maybee LLP, the team sponsors, for their time and commitment. Prof. Chi Carmody and Christopher Sands at the Canada-U.S. Law Institute Distinguished Lecture The Obama opportunity for Canada “American politics is competitive and Canadians must join in that competition to ensure Canada-U.S. relations move forward under President Barack Obama,” said Christopher Sands, the Second Canada-U.S. Law Institute Distinguished Lecturer. Sands spoke on “The Obama Opportunity for Canada” at Western Law on March 23. Sands said the gradual erosion of ties that bind Canada and the U.S. since 9/11 and, more recently, since the onset of a worldwide recession, means that Canadians will have to work extra hard to maintain their privileged relationship with the U.S. Executive, and legislators in future must fi nd new ways for the two countries to work together. Sands has been a Senior Analyst at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C. since 2006, where he specializes in Canada and U.S.-Canada relations, as well as North American economic integration. The Canada-United States Law Institute (CUSLI) was founded in 1976 to serve as a forum for exploration and debate about legal aspects of the Canada-United States relationship. It comprises the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law and the Case Western Reserve University School of Law in Cleveland, Ohio. The CUSLI Distinguished Lecture series aims to highlight Shane Gonsalves and Adriana Morrison are congratulated by Supreme Court Justice Marshall Rothstein after winning the national I.P. moot competition the work of the Institute and generate fresh thinking about the Canada-U.S. legal relationship. PANEL EXPLORES GROUNDBREAKING BCE CASE A panel held at Western Law in February discussed the Supreme Court of Canada’s groundbreaking 2008 decision in the BCE Plan of Arrangement litigation, one of the most important corporate law cases decided by the Supreme Court of Canada in the past 35 years. “The BCE Case – Lessons Learned” panel featured John Finnigan ’82, John Porter from Thornton Grout Finnigan LLP and Alex Moore of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg and was moderated by Western Law professor Christopher Nicholls. The panelists spoke to an attentive and enthusiastic standing-room only crowd in the Moot Court Room. John Finnigan and John Porter were counsel to a committee of bondholders that opposed the planned leveraged buyout of BCE by a group led by the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan Board. Alex Moore played a signifi cant role, advising BCE in the litigation brought by these bondholders. 3 SCHOOL NEWS
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