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The Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability has received funding from the University of Ottawa, through the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue, Public Policy Initiative, to organize a campus-wide Game Jam!

"In the news release from the firm, Dearden said that he felt honoured to receive an award named after John Nelligan, whom he called “a legend and an icon.”"Read the full article in The Law Times.Photo credit: The Law Times

The Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability has received funding from the University of Ottawa, through the Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue, Public Policy Initiative, to organize a campus-wide Game Jam!

Congratulations to uOttawa Faculty of Law alumna Dr. Sara Ross (LL.M. 2014) on her appointment to the faculty of the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

By Slava Balan, LLM, PhD candidate In December 2019, I enjoyed the enriching experience of accompanying Prof. John Packer, Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution, during visits to Geneva and Chisinau (the capital of Moldova) to advance minority rights and prevent conflicts.

On Monday February 10, 2020, the University of Ottawa’s Common Law and Civil Law Sections celebrated the appointment of Justice Nicolas Kasirer to the Supreme Court of Canada.

On Saturday, February 8, 2020, students from the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law’s Common Law and Civil Law Sections competed in the third annual Ottawa Law Classic hockey game at the uOttawa Minto Sports Complex. The Ottawa Law Classic’s aim is to support Do it For Daron (DIFD), founded after the suicide of 14-year-old Daron Ri...

Will Tao (J.D. 2014) was recently awarded a CLawbies for his blog, Vancouver Immigration Blog, for the second time. In 2015 it was as the Best New Canadian Law Blog and in 2019, he earned the Best Canadian Law Blog and Commentary award. We took the opportunity to ask him a few questions about his blog, his time as a student and his passi...

Over the past year, cabinet secrecy has become a hot topic due to controversies raised by legal cases against Quebec engineering firm SNC-Lavalin and Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. Hence, Professor Yan Campagnolo’s latest book on cabinet secrecy, Le secret ministériel : théorie et pratique, published by Presses de l’Université Laval, is very timel...

The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, announced on February 3, 2020 the appointment of Naheed Bardai (LL.B. 1999) Judge of Her Majesty’s Court of Queen’s Bench for Saskatchewan.