{"id":16831,"date":"2011-04-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfiledev.uit.yorku.ca\/2011\/04\/12\/osgoode-honours-12-graduating-students\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:43:28","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T12:43:28","slug":"osgoode-honours-12-graduating-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2011\/04\/12\/osgoode-honours-12-graduating-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Osgoode honours 12 graduating students"},"content":{"rendered":"
Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Lorne Sossin presented 12 graduating students with Dean's Gold Key Awards for outstanding contribution to the life of the law school at the Dean's Third-Year Luncheon on March 30.<\/p>\n
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| Above: Back row, from left, Daniel Del Gobbo, Brent Kettles, Robert \"Hunter\" Graves, Osgoode Hall Law School Dean Lorne Sossin, Melayna Williams, Darren Hall, Hamza Dawood and Lauren Cowl. Front row, from left, Cynthia Hill, Jeffrey Carolin, Marlene Costa, Dorothy Charach and Jennifer Quito.\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n In congratulating this year's award recipients, Sossin said he \"was simply in awe of the multiple initiatives these students have undertaken and the leadership, commitment and enthusiasm they have demonstrated.\" Here are brief biographies of the award winners:<\/p>\n In the summer following his first year at Osgoode,\u00a0Carolin\u00a0\u00a0participated in the Ian Scott Public Interest Internship Program and used this opportunity to work with the Pivot Legal Society in Vancouver's downtown east side. During the winter semester of his second year,\u00a0Carolin\u00a0participated in the Intensive Program in Poverty Law at Parkdale Community Legal Services, working in the Immigration\u00a0& Refugee Law Division.<\/p>\n In addition,\u00a0Carolin has been a tireless key founding member of the Osgoode Hall Law Union and was instrumental and indispensable in helping to coordinate the first Social Justice Social during Orientation Week 2009 and its successor in 2010.<\/p>\n Charach\u00a0has shown her school spirit through her cheerful participation in Mock Trial in all three years. This past year, she\u00a0was one of the three producers of Mock Trial.\u00a0Charach has also left an indelible mark at the Obiter Dicta<\/em>, having served as the publication's business manager and co-editor-in-chief.<\/p>\n Finally, Charach has been an active member of several Osgoode sports teams and leagues, including intramural volleyball (where she was chosen as MVP in 2009), softball and touch football.<\/p>\n Costa\u00a0has represented Osgoode in two different international mooting competitions and served as a senior caseworker in the Osgoode Business Clinic. In the summer following her first year at Osgoode,\u00a0Costa participated in the International Legal Partnership, working at the United Nations Development Programme in Serbia.<\/p>\n Cowl's\u00a0many contributions to Osgoode over the past three years have been truly exceptional.\u00a0She has been intensively involved in the work of the Osgoode Hall Law Journal<\/em> during each of her years as an Osgoode student. As this year's\u00a0managing editor of the journal, Cowl\u00a0has met the demands with commitment, skill and good humour, all while demonstrating outstanding leadership.<\/p>\n In addition to her dedication to the journal,\u00a0Cowl has found time to contribute to the academic mission at Osgoode in other ways, including serving as CLASP duty counsel and participating as a mooter in the Lerner\u2019s Cup Moot. During her last two years at Osgoode,\u00a0Cowl has also shown her commitment to equality by serving as a volunteer for LEAF at Work.<\/p>\n He is a founding member of two Osgoode clubs (the South Asian Law Students' Association and the Muslim Law Students' Association) and has organized countless events for the student population.\u00a0Dawood served as an editor for the Osgoode Hall Law Journal<\/em> for three years. He has also acted as the head coach for the Third Annual Osgoode Black & Blue Charity Tip-off against the University of Toronto\u2019s Faculty of Law.<\/p>\n In addition to his extensive participation in student government,\u00a0Del Gobbo\u00a0has served as an Osgoode Chambers Residence Fellow and a first-year Torts Dean\u2019s Fellow, mentoring other students.<\/p>\n |