2012: Jan | Feb | March | April | May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec

                           2011: May | June | July | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec

April 2012

• Book Launch: "Corporate Catalyst: An inside look at the demands, costs and challenges of business leadership" by Tony Griffiths
  Date: April 2,, 2012
  Time: 6 - 8 pm
  Location: Stikeman Elliott LLP, 5300 Commerce Court West
  Description: Tony Griffiths, full of hard-won wisdom, give you a ring side seat at the many boardroom and corporate battles that he both fought and witnessed through the nearly six decades of his productive and colourful career. This evening will be of interest to anyone working or studying in the field of business and wants to know more about what happens behind the scenes in the corporate and executive suites.
  Sponsored by: Stikeman Elliott LLP and The Hennick Centre for Business and Law
  For more information on the book launch, please click here.
  

March 2012

• "Lunch With" Series
  Date: March 14, 2012
  Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
  Location: Ontario Securities Commission
  Organized by: The Hennick Centre for Business and Law and the JD/MBA Students' Association
  Guest Speaker: The Honourable Howard I. Wetston, QC, Chair
  For Howard Wetston's biography, please click here.
  Please Note:: This event is by invitation only.
  
  
• "Green Growth: Entrepreneurship and Ethanol" and premiere screening of the film "FREEDOM"
  Date: March 21, 2012
  Time: 5:30 - 8 pm (followed by a networking reception)
  Location: Schulich School of Business, R. McEwan Auditorium
  Description: Kenneth Field, Chairman of GreenField Ethanol & Osgoode Alumnus, and Cam Di Prata, Executive VP & Head of Corporate and Investment Banking at National Bank Financial, will share their views on growing and investing in leading edge green businesses such as GreenField Ethanol. The keynote speeches will be followed by the premiere screening of the film "FREEDOM", a Q & A session and a networking reception.
  Sponsored by: Schulich’s Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business and The Hennick Centre for Business and Law
  Please click here for the event invitation.
  
  
• IP Osgoode Speaker Series: Copyright and the Music Industry
  Date: March 22, 2012
  Time: 6 - 7:30 pm
  Location: Osgoode Hall Law School, Moot Courtroom
  Description: IP Osgoode is proud to present a lecture by Robert Levine on his book, Free Ride: How the Internet is Destroying the Culture Business and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back and Prof Danaher on his work, The Effect of Graduated Response Anti-Piracy Laws on Music Sales: Evidence from an Event Study in France. This is a must-see event for anyone interested in copyright and the music industry.
  Please click here for the event invitation.
  
  
• CRL Speaker Series: From the White House to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
  Date: March 27, 2012
  Time: 12:30 - 2 pm
  Location: Osgoode Hall Law School, Room 2027
  Description: Nicholas Rathod is the Assistant Director for Intergovernmental and International Affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. He previously served as the Associate Director for Intergovernmental Affairs for the Obama-Biden Transition team, the Political Director for Governor Eliot Spitzer (NY), and Senior Manager of State and Regional Affairs for the Center for American Progress. Nicholas will speak on the role of legal policymaking from the White House to the CFPB.
  Sponsored by: Critical Research Laboratory in Law and Society (Osgoode), Putting Theory to Practice International Speakers Series (Osgoode), the Hennick Centre for Business and Law, and the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security
  Please click here for the event invitation.

February 2012

• Responsible Business Dialogue Series: Corporate Crime and Accountability
  Date: February 28, 2012
  Time: 11:30 am - 1 pm
  Location: Schulich School of Business, Room W132
  Description: The role of corporations in Canadian society has roots in both the history of capitalism and in English common law. Although corporations employ the vast majority of Canadian employees and are the engine for economic growth and innovation, corporations often cause pollution, health and safety hazards and other harm to the public. A presentation by Norm Keith, Partner, Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, will focus on the trend in establishing more criminal and regulatory offences for corporations and whether prosecution is the most effective way to achieve corporate accountability. A new model of policy making will be also be introduced using the victim-vulnerability harm matrix.
  Please register at: www.schulich.yorku.ca/COERBregistration
  
  
• Experience Schulich - Specializations Fair
  Date: February 25, 2012
  Time: 1 - 2 pm
  Location: Schulich School of Business, CIBC Marketplace
  Description: Find out how a JD/MBA will accelerate your career.
  Advanced Registration: www.schulich.yorku.ca
  
  
• The Transformative Role of General Counsel in the Legal Profession
  Date: February 10, 2012
  Time: 8 - 9:30 am
  Location: Osgoode Professional Development
  Description: Professor David Wilkins, Vice Dean, Global Initiatives on the Legal Profession, Director, Program on the Legal Profession, and Lester Kissel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, will draw on his research with General Counsel around the world to lead a discussion of how the General Counsel role is both evolving and changing law practice, billing and the organization of law firms.
  Sponsored by: The Hennick Centre for Business and Law and Osgoode Professional Development
  Please click here for the event invitation.
  Please click here to view a video of the event.
  
  
• 15th Annual JD/MBA Conference - "The Leading Edge: Strength in Turbulent Economic Times" with The Honorable Leo E. Strine Jr, Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery
  Date: February 3, 2012
  Time: 8:45 am - 2 pm
  Location:Sheraton Centre Toronto
  Please click here to read more about the event.
  Please click here for photos of the event.
  
  
• Davies Fund for Business Law Lecture Breakfast
  Date: February 3, 2012
  Time: 7 - 8:30 am
  Location: Toronto Board of Trade
  Description: Breakfast dialogue with The Honorable Leo E. Strine, Jr., Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery.
  Please note: This event is by invitation only.
  
  
• Davies Fund for Business Law Lecture Dinner
  Date: February 2, 2012
  Time: 5:30 - 8 pm
  Location: The National Club
  Description: Private dinner with The Honorable Leo E. Strine, Jr., Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery.
  Please note: This event is by invitation only.
  
  January 2012
  

• Responsible Business Dialogue Series: The Case for Leverage-Based Responsibility for Human Rights
  Date: January 31, 2012
  Time: 11:30 am - 1 pm
  Location: Schulich School of Business, Room W132
  Description: Should companies' human rights responsibilities arise, in part, from their "leverage" - their ability to influence others' actions through their relationships? UN Special Representative John Ruggie rejected this proposition in the UN Framework for business and human rights. Professor Stepan Wood, Osgoode Hall Law School, argues that leverage is a source of responsibility where there is a morally significant connection between the company and a rights-holder or rights-violator, the company is able to make a contribution to ameliorating the situation, it can do so at modest cost, and the threat to human rights is substantial. Such responsibility is qualified; not categorical; graduated, not binary; context-specific; practicable; consistent with the social role of business; and not merely a negative responsibility to avoid harm but a positive responsibility to do good.
  Please register at: www.schulich.yorku.ca/COERBregistration
  
  
• Economic Inequality: What Do We Do?
  Date: January 24, 2012
  Time: 7 - 9 pm
  Location: Trinity St. Paul's Centre (Toronto)
  Description: This summer the Occupy movement rekindled widespread interest in the growing income gaps in our society. You are invited to a public debate on the subject featuring Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star columnist and co-author of The Trouble with Billionaires and Edward J. Waitzer, Partner, Stikeman Elliott LLP and Director, The Hennick Centre for Business and Law. John Sewell, former Mayor of Toronto, will moderate the discussion.
  Please click here to read more about the event.
  
  
• Public and Private Enforcement: Cross-Border Perspectives
  Date: January 20, 2012
  Time: 8 - 9:30 am
  Location: Torys LLP, 79 Wellington Street West, 33rd floor
  Description: Professor Howell Jackson, James Reid Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, and distinguished panelists will speak on the role of public and private enforcement in today’s capital markets, including the impact of the recent SCC decision on the national securities regulator, US and Canadian approaches to no-contest settlements, and the relationship between public and private enforcement in Canada and the US.
  Sponsored by: The Hennick Centre for Business and Law, Osgoode Professional Development and Torys LLP
  Please click here for the event invitation.
  Please click here to read more about the event.
  Please click here for photos of the event.
  
  
• Book Launch: "The Payment Order of Antiquity and the Middle Ages: A Legal History," by Professor Benjamin Geva
  Date: January 19, 2012
  Time: 12:30 - 2:30 pm
  Location: Osgoode Hall Law School, Room 2027
  Description: Exploring the legal nature of the payment order and its underpinning in light of contemporary institutions and payment mechanisms, the book traces the evolution of money, payment mechanisms and the law that governs them, from developments in Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, Rome, and Greco-Roman Egypt, through Medieval Europe and post-Medieval England. Doctrine is examined in Jewish, Islamic, Roman, common and civil laws.
  Sponsored by: The Hennick Centre for Business and Law, Osgoode Hall Law School Research Office, and the Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security
  For more information on the book launch, please click here.
  
  November 2011
  
  
• Hennick Medal for Career Achievement Presentation at the Schulich International Case Competition
  Date: November 25, 2011
  Time: 2 - 3 pm (followed by reception)
  Location: Schulich School of Business, R. McEwan Auditorium
  Description: The Hennick Medal for Career Achievement is awarded to a business and law graduate who has earned international recognition within the business and legal communities. The 2011 Hennick Medal recipient is Tye Burt, President & CEO, Kinross Gold Corporation. Mr. Burt's achievements were recognized at an invitation-only luncheon that preceded his keynote address at the Schulich International Case Competition.
  Please click here for photos of the luncheon.
  Please click here for the event invitation.
  Please click here to read the keynote address.
  Please click here for the media release.
  

• Hennick Centre Open House - All Welcome!
  Date: November 3, 2011
  Time: 12:30 - 2:30 pm
  Location: Schulich School of Business, Private Dining Room
  
  October 2011
  

• Jay Hennick receives an Honorary Degree, Doctor of Laws - York University
  Date: October 13, 2011
  Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
  Location: York University
  Description: Jay Hennick, co-founder of the Hennick Centre for Business and Law, received an Honorary Degree, LLD from York University during its annual fall convocation.
  Please click here for photos of the event.
  Please click here to read more about the event.

September 2011

• Intuition, Deliberation and Good Judgment: Featuring Jeffrey Rachlinski, Cornell University Law School
  Date: September 29, 2011
  Time: 12:30 - 2:30 pm
  Location: Osgoode Hall Law School, Room 2003
  Description: People make decisions in two ways—by using their intuition, or by reasoning carefully. Although both processes are essential to good judgment, and human intuition is surprisingly accurate, people commonly rely too heavily on intuition. Judgments made in professional settings are no different. Research on lawyers, trial judges, and business professionals demonstrate that even highly trained, highly experienced decision makers can let their intuitions run amuck. This presentation will review the evidence and research on how intuitive processes can adversely affect judgment in the courtroom, boardroom and beyond, and how to facilitate more deliberative, and more accurate, judgments.
  Sponsored by: The Hennick Centre for Business and Law, Ontario Legal Philosophy Partnership, and the Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
  Please click here for the event invitation.
  Please click here for the video of the lecture.

• Business and Sustainability Welcome Event
  Date: September 26, 2011
  Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
  Location: Schulich School of Business, Room W132
  Description: Schulich's Centre of Excellence in Responsible Business (COERB) and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law hosted a welcome event for all students interested in business and sustainability. Students were invited to meet COERB professors and staff, club leaders and fellow students studying Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), business ethics and sustainability.
  

May 2011

• IIEF Roundtable - Shareholder Democracy in Canada: Good, Bad, or Unimportant?
  Date: May 26, 2011
  Description: A diverse group of corporate governance experts, industry and investor representatives, and other professionals took part in a roundtable discussion on the future of shareholder democracy in Canada. The event was sponsored by the Institutional Investors Education Foundation (IIEF), the Canadian Coalition for Good
  Governance (CCGG), and the Hennick Centre for Business and Law. The IIEF holds regional roundtables on issues and developments in contemporary legal, accounting, compliance, regulatory, and political environments. Poonam Puri, Associate Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and Co-Director of the Hennick Centre for Business
  and Law, moderated the discussion. In particular, the discussion addressed several contemporary issues including: shareholder advisory votes on executive compensation or ‘say on pay’ provisions, director elections and issues of slate and majority voting practices, and lastly, the status of the proxy voting system in Canada.
  Please note: This event is by invitation only
  For the Hennick Centre's media release of the event, please click here.
  For the full report of the Roundtable discussion, please click here.
  
  
• JD/MBA Alumni Association Wine & Cheese Reception
  Date: May 18, 2011
  Time: 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
  Location: Barrister's Lounge, Osgoode Hall - 130 Queen Street West
  Description: The Osgoode-Schulich JD/MBA Alumni Association is committed to fostering a community where alumni can jointly pursue mutually shared interests and issues, thereby facilitating the professional and personal development of all graduates of the JD/MBA program at York University.
  Please note: This event is solely for JD/MBA Alumni
  Registration: www.osgoodealumni.ca/events
  For photos of the event, please click here.