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Ranjan Agarwal, LLB ’03, is the recipient of the 2020 Eric Hoaken Excellence in Mentoring Award given by The Advocates’ Society. Ranjan is the first winner of this newly established award.

La professeure Jennifer Quaid est nommée vice-doyenne à la recherche et aux communications à compter du 1er juillet 2020. Elle se joint à l’excellente équipe du bureau de la recherche en droit constitué de Cintia Quiroga, doyenne-adjointe, d’Andrew Kuntze, stratège en communication de la recherche, et de l’adjointe administrative Natalie...

Alex Trebek Postdoctoral Fellowship, Water Law and Governance at the University of Ottawa’s Centre on Governance and Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability.

We are thrilled to announce that Samuel Singer is joining the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, as an Assistant Professor starting July 1st.

Dean Adam Dodek has been named one of the seven Commissioners of the new Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression.

Tenille E. Brown, student member of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC), has been appointed as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Lakehead University.  Tenille is completing her PhD in Law under the supervision of Dr. Elizabeth F. Judge in the area of legal geography, examining the i...

For its detailed analysis of the history of Canada-U.S. environmental relations, Professor Jamie Benidickson’s 2019 book Levelling the Lake: Transboundary Resource Management in the Lake of the Woods Watershed (UBC Press) has been awarded the prestigious Albert B. Corey Prize. The book traces the environmental consequences of over a century ...

Professor Aimée Craft has earned a grant from the New Frontiers in Research Fund (NFRF) for a project entitled “Sacred Responsibilities to Water: Indigenous Knowledge Exchange (Canada-Colombia)”, which aims to bring together nations with different cultures and languages that have intimate relationships with water. Indigenous communities in C...

In March 2020, Canadian Lawyer magazine announced the list of nominees for its eleventh annual Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers awards.

Legal and policy instruments at global and European levels increasingly emphasize the need to address the specific demands of vulnerable migrants. But what does it mean to be vulnerable? Common Law Professor Delphine Nakache is leading the Canadian section of a Horizon 2020 research project entitled "Vulnerabilities Under the Global...