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Tara Hristov, JD ’20, was one of the four top nominees for the Gee-Gees women's teams’ Athlete of the Year Award. What a great way to end her athletic career with the Gee-Gees! In addition to this year’s award, she was previously nominated for the uOttawa Competitive Club Female Athlete of the Year in 2013-2014 and 2014-2015. Tara has been a memb...

Congratulations to Professor Nathalie Des Rosiers on being named one of the seven Trudeau Foundation Mentors for 2020.Professor Des Rosiers is currently the Principal of Massey College at the University of Toronto and a former MPP for Ottawa-Vanier (2016-2019). Prior to these positions, she was Dean of the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section. ...

The Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, is pleased to confirm that funding for the Programme de pratique du droit (PPD) has been renewed until 2025.

Our very own Connor Steele, who has just finished his 1L year, is one of the nine law students across Canada awarded the Legal Leaders for Diversity Trust Fund scholarship in 2020.

Congratulations to uOttawa Faculty of Law alumna Camille Nelson (LLB ’94) on her appointment as the next Dean of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law, effective August 1, 2020.Camille Nelson has an impressive academic career and has spent the last ten years at the head of several post secondary institutions. In 20...

We are pleased to announce that the promotion of Professors Wolfgang Alschner, Yan Campagnolo, Aimée Craft and Florian Martin-Bariteau to the rank of associate professor with tenure has been approved, effective May 1, 2020.

After half a decade of hard work, just weeks before her PhD thesis defence, Lilou Jiang’s world was turned upside down. With the COVID-19 pandemic necessitating social isolation, in a matter of days she faced the possibility that her defence would be indefinitely postponed. Through exceptional thoughtfulness, determination and creativity, the Faculty of Law’s Graduate Studies in Law Office manag...

La Section de droit civil est fière d’annoncer que cinq de ses étudiant.e.s ont été sélectionné.e.s pour assister les juges des cours québécoises et canadiennes, dans le processus de recrutement 2020. Les contrats sont d’une durée d’un an.

In an era of water scarcity and resource disputes, it is imperative that obligations and responsibilities relating to lands and waters are fully understood. In Ontario, relationships between the Crown and Indigenous Nations regarding lands and waters are tenuous. Professor Aimée Craft, whose research explores the changing legal landscape of Indigenous ...

Les facultés de droit du Québec ainsi que la faculté de droit de l’Université d’Ottawa ont décidé de faire circuler un état des places disponibles dans leurs cours respectifs :