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From the first day of law school many of us walk in with the same goal in mind: secure an articling position. We study into the night to get good grades, join student clubs and moot competitions, all in the hopes of standing out during interviews. But once you finally land your articling position, a new question arises, how do you actually prepare for the transition from law student to articling student? In this article I share my experience navigating the shift and offer practical advice for both students and supervising lawyers to help make the articling term a successful and meaningful one.

Are you a 3L and still have not lined up your articling position? You are not alone. Finding an articling position takes creativity, perseverance, and planning ahead. Many in-house organizations and small firms often don’t know a year in advance whether they need an articling student, so they may not participate in the formal recruitment. Job postings by career development offices may not always list all of the available positions. This article shares tips and personal anecdotes from Hanaa Ameer-Uddin, articling student at Mercedes-Benz Financial Services Canada.

For decades, the global response to environmental destruction has been a complex web of regulatory frameworks. These systems, detailed and often technocratic, have primarily operated on a principle of licensing harm and penalizing infractions with fines. But what happens when those fines are simply absorbed as a “cost of doing business”? The result is a system that has, by and large, failed to stem the tide of widespread, long-term environmental damage.

The Bora Laskin Faculty of Law marked a truly historic moment on November 17 and 18, 2025, as it welcomed the Justices of the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) to campus as part of the Court’s 150th anniversary celebrations. The visit, which concluded the SCC’s national anniversary tour in Thunder Bay, Ontario, was both a celebration of Canada’s highest court and an unforgettable experience for students, faculty, and staff.