TheCourt.ca, launched early last year, features daily news and opinion about the Supreme Court of Canada and its judgments.

"Osgoode Hall’s The Court was easily the most important new Canadian law blog in 2007," said the Canadian Law judges. "Spearheaded by Simon Fodden, this group of law student editors is working hard to become the equivalent of the SCOTUS [Supreme Court of the United States] blog in the US. They’ve now got a full 12 months under their belt and it’s hard to argue they aren’t."

Osgoode Dean Patrick Monahan says the blog’s success is due to the tremendous efforts put forth by its crew of student editors and faculty supervisors.

"In introducing TheCourt.ca, our aim was to make it the place to go to for reliable and useful information about the Supreme Court," said Monahan. "That appears to be working, and I would like to offer congratulations to everyone involved in its first year of operation."

Student editors, who each receive an honorarium for their services, are responsible for writing commentary themselves and for soliciting and editing commentary from scholars at Osgoode and elsewhere. At the same time, they work on maintaining a complete bibliography of scholarly works about the court, biographies of the judges, and a history of the court and its work. In addition, there are reports from scholars around the world about developments at their supreme courts.

The blog was originally supervised by Professor Emeritus Simon Fodden and is now under the supervision of Osgoode Professor James Stribopoulos.

For more information, visit www.TheCourt.ca .

Media contact:

Melissa Hughes, Media Relations, York University: 416 736 2100 x22097 / mehughes@yorku.ca

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