Today (26 September), international law scholar and university leader Professor Stephen Toope was nominated as the 346th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.

Professor Toope is Director of the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and formerly served as President and Vice-Chancellor of the University of British Columbia. He is a scholar specialising in human rights, international dispute resolution, international environmental law, the use of force, and international legal theory with degrees in common law (LLB) and civil law (BCL) with honours from McGill University (1983). Professor Toope is also an alumnus of Trinity College Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in 1987 after graduating from Harvard with a degree (AB) in history and literature. He has published articles and books on change in international law and the origins of international obligation in international society, and represented Western Europe and North America on the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances from 2002-2007.

Read more from the the Cambridge offical announcement.

Please join us for the third Oxford vs. Cambridge Football (Soccer) match at the end of the month! Both players and spectators are welcome.

Further details are available here (sign in required), and tickets can be purchased at this page.

We are delighted to invite you to a reception with the UK Consul General to Toronto on the evening of Wednesday July 20.

Kevin McGurgan has invited the alumni of Oxford and Cambridge Universities together with the Canadian Friends of the LSE to join him for a reception at The National Club. We will be soaking up the last rays of sunshine on their rooftop patio while eating an assortment of canapés.

Please note that to keep tickets accessible, drinks are not included with the ticket and there will be a cash bar.

Please see the event page for full details and details of how to purchas tickets.

Please note we have a revised date for our Massey College Dinner with Oxonian and Rhodes Scholar Dr. David Goldbloom, Senior Medical Advisor, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health and Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. Our dinner will now be held on November 16th, ticket details to follow.