Toronto law school students who wrote an “aggressive” and “harsh” letter to their deans calling on the school to be more actively pro-Palestinian after the Hamas attacks last October did not breach their school’s non-academic code of conduct, an external review has found.
The review, conducted by Michael MacDonald, a retired chief justice of the eastern Canadian province of Nova Scotia, along with lawyers Katharine Mack and Jennifer Taylor of the law firm Stewart McKelvey, concluded that “while the letter was understandably troubling and offensive to many, the students’ participation in the letter, when placed in its appropriate context, was nonetheless a valid exercise of student expression.”
