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They did it! The uOttawa common law negotiation teams swept the top prizes at the Walsh Family Law Negotiation Competition on March 7th at the Law Society. They placed 1st and 2nd in the team category (returning the Walsh Cup to Ottawa where it belongs!) and one of our students won the Best Individual Student prize. This is now the sixth consecutive year that uOttawa has brought home some of the t...

Gagan Lamba and Aniket Bhat represented the Common Law Section at the 2020 Canadian National Negotiation Competition held at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton on February 22 and 23, 2020.

Congratulations to Dalton McGuinty (LLB ’81) on his appointment to the Order of Ontario. The Order, the province’s highest honour, recognizes those who have left a lasting legacy both within Ontario and Canada, and around the world.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The CAFLP conference is inviting interested persons to submit proposals for individual presentations or panels on any topic related to food law and policy. Send in yours by April 20, 2020!

On March 6, 2020, The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announced the appointment of Marc E.

On February 28, 2020, Manitoba’s Health, Seniors and Active Living Minister Cameron Friesen announced that James Lowry (JD ’14) has been appointed to the province’s Mental Health Review Board.

On 23 January, at 10 a.m. in The Hague, the International Court of Justice delivered its decision on a request for provisional measures in the contentious case of The Gambia v Myanmar. At the time, I was six time zones away – awaiting the Court’s decision with a group of Rohingya refugees in Kutupalong, the world’s largest refugee camp located out...

The 2020 Canadian Bar Association Awards ceremony took place on February 19, 2020 at the Château Laurier in Ottawa during the annual President’s Dinner, as part of the CBA annual general meeting. The event was hosted by uOttawa Common Law alumna Vivene Salmon (LLB ’09), CBA president.

Congratulations to Vivene Salmon (LLB ’09) for being named one of the 2020 Top 25 Women of Influence by the empowerment organization Women of Influence, which calls her “a legal leader with a notable first.” Not only is Salmon a lawyer and vice-president, country compliance manager of global banking and markets compliance, at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, but she was also named president of the C...