Omar Ha-Redeye was interviewed on CBC Radio One on the Twitter Moot.

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The Times Colonist covered the Twitter Moot in the article, UVic law students will compete today in world’s first moot court on Twitter.

Alex Consiglio of the Toronto Sun covered the Twitter Moot in Osgoode Law students take arguments to Twitter

Gillian Shaw of PostMedia covered the Twitter Moot in the Montreal’s The Gazette, Saskatoon’s The StarPhoenix, Regina’s Leader Post, Calgary Herald, Vancouver Sun, Ottawa Citizen, The Windsor Star, The Province, and Canada.com,

The Twitter Moot is being organized and hosted by West Coast Environmental Law and it’s bringing together — virtually — law students from UBC, Dalhousie, Ottawa, Victoria, and York’s Osgoode Hall in a competition that will see them present arguments via Twitter in a simulated appeal of an actual court case, last May’s B.C. Court of Appeal decision in West Moberly First Nations vs. British Columbia (Chief Inspector of Mines).

Teams of two from each school have been assigned to represent various parties in the appeal, including the government of B.C. and First Coal Corp., West Moberly First Nations and interveners, and will each have 10 minutes to make their arguments through Twitter.

The team representing the province of British Columbia will go first in what has been dubbed the Supreme Twitter Court of Canada, laying out its reasons why the appeal should be allowed. The team will be asked questions by a panel of three judges that includes University of Calgary law professor Kathleen Mahoney, lawyer and blogger Omar Ha-Redeye and lawyer turned mystery author William Deverell.

Omar Ha-Redeye spoke on a panel about Law and Cyberspace at the 21st Annual Conference of the Black Law Students Association of Canada (BLSAC) in Windsor, Ontario, from February 16-19, 2012.

Heather Gardiner of Canadian Lawyer covered the Twitter Moot in Moot by Twitter,

Three judges will preside over the moot, including author William Deverell, to appeal to an audience outside of the traditional legal realm; University of Calgary law professor Kathleen Mahoney, for her credentials in the legal community; and Toronto lawyer Omar Ha-Redeye, who is very active on Twitter and social media.

Meagan Williams, UWO Law 2011 (Photo credit: Nick Fox-Gieg)

Jeff Gray of the Globe and Mail is focusing on the articling crisis for law students in Canada, with an interview with Megan Williams of UWO Law.  See more on Slaw.

The McGill Faculty of Law is posting online testimonials for Alexandra Dodger, who passed away this past weekend:

Add your testimonial by emailing Lysanne Larose.

See also  Quid Novi, Vol 33, no 6, 25 October 2011.

The Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education held its Second Annual Conference on September 24, 2011 at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Speakers included:

Marian MacGregor, Executive Director, CLASP, Osgoode Hall Law School
Dean Lorne Sossin, Osgoode Hall Law School
Doug Ferguson, Director, Community Legal Services, University of Western Ontario
James Moliterno, Vincent Bradford Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, VA
Kim Brooks, Dean, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
André Bacchus, Director of Professional Development, Heenan Blaikie LLP
Steve Perks, University of Victoria
Hope Buset, University of Manitoba
Alyssa Manning, Parkdale Community Legal Services
Claire McNeil, Dalhousie University
Donna Franey, Dalhousie University
Laura Pinto, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education
Annie Rochette, University of Quebec at Montreal
Nathalie DesRosiers, General Counsel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association and former Dean of Law, University of Ottawa
Marian McGregor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Sarah Buhler, University of Saskatchewan
Kristin Marshall, University of Toronto
Jason Voss, University of Western Ontario
Nancy Henderson, Parkdale Community Legal Services
James Moliterno, Washington and Lee
Richard Foster, Monash Oakleigh Legal Service, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Fred Zemans, Osgoode Hall Law School
Sarah Buhler, University of Saskatchewan
Gemma Smyth, University of Windsor
Vivian Hilder, University of Manitoba
Sarah Rauch, University of British Columbia First Nations Clinic
Michele Leering, Executive Director, Community Advocacy and Legal Centre, Belleville, ON
Faisal Bhabha, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Notes on the future of articling in Ontario available on Slaw.

Omar Ha-Redeye wrote an article in the new publication by the Ontario Bar Association (OBA), Briefly Speaking – Student for the Fall 2011 issue on online networking.