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In a simulated meeting of the United Nations Security Council students called upon Iran and the United States to respect the Council’s resolution on the Iran Nuclear Deal (2231 (2015)) and reverse measures they have taken in contravention of that resolution.The United Nations Security Council Simulation convened on November 4, 2019 at the Fac...

On September 6 and 7, 2019, Murray Snider LL.M. student and member of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) attended the Association of Human Rights Institutes’ (AHRI) annual conference at the University of Potsdam, Germany. This year’s conference focussed on International Human Rights Law (IHRL) and International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and the challenges ahead, notably the releva...

Upper Left: (L to R): Laura Metcalfe (Vis 2015), Prof. Anthony Daimsis, Chief Justice Wagner, Jon Khan (Jessup 2013), Jolene Hansell (Jessup 2017, FDI 2017)Upper Right: with Sheila Block plus Michael Currie (Jessup 2014)Bottom: group at moot (L to R): Alexandra Mogyoros (Oxford moot 2012), Mark Str...

It is with pleasure we announce the appointment of Orlando Da Silva, LSM as a Wellness Mentor-in-Residence. Orlando is one of the truly great leaders in our profession. During his time as President of the Ontario Bar Association from 2014-15, Orlando made raising awareness about mental health problems in the legal profession his top priority. He spoke about his own struggles and in so doing e...

On October 11th, 2019, uOttawa Common Law - Ecojustice Clinic successfully held the Ontario government accountable for breaching Ontarians’ environmental rights: Two of three judges of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice found that the Ontario government acted illegally when it killed the province’s cap-and-trade carbon price without doing ...

Commander Catherine Julie Deschênes (LL.M.), an officer of the Canadian Forces and graduate of the Faculty of Law, has been appointed as a military judge by the Governor General of Canada. She was sworn in at a ceremony on October 11, 2019 in the courtroom of the Asticou Centre. Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies in Law, Sochetra Nget, attended the event.

Professors Michael Geist and Vanessa Gruben have been awarded Insight Grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for projects that each seek to fill a research void: Professor Geist will investigate new ways Canada can protect freedom of expression while addressing risks of online harm; while Professor Gru...

Professor Michael Pal has been awarded an Insight Development Grant by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a project entitled “The Guardians of Democracy: The Comparative Constitutional Law of Election Commissions”.The project will support a book that examines the constitutional law and politics of electi...

Common Law Professor Delphine Nakache is a co-researcher in a €3 million Horizon 2020 research project entitled: "Vulnerabilities Under the Global Protection Regime: How Does the Law Assess, Address, Shape and Produce the Vulnerabilities of Protection Seekers?” (VULNER).This 3-year project aims at analyzing how the protection regime...

Le corps professoral de la Section de droit civil s’enrichit de deux nouveaux docteurs en droit. En effet, les professeurs Thomas Burelli et Sarah Berger Richardson ont tous deux surmonté récemment la fameuse épreuve de la soutenance de thèse, passage obligé pour tout doctorant qui a terminé sa rédaction.