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Every year, many postdoctoral fellows pass through the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law. These researchers are often embarking on fascinating new aspects of their previous doctoral research, broadening their horizons as they find new partners to converse and collaborate with.

C’était un retour en présentiel pour la 45e édition du concours de plaidoirie du Tribunal-École Pierre-Basile-Mignault après s’être déroulé en format virtuel lors des deux dernières années. Bien que la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Montréal en fut l’hôte, les participant(e)s ont eu le privilège d’être accueillis dans l’enceinte de la cour d’appel du Québec pour la joute finale.

Advocates for Students with Disabilities in Law (ASDL) is a new student club looking for alumni with disabilities who are interested in starting a mentorship program.

The Biennial Research Report for the Common Law Section, covering the years 2020-2022, is now available online.

As COVID-19 spread around the world in early 2020, technology companies were called upon to help search for solutions to the new and evolving challenges.

Félicitations à Clémence Bensa qui a accepté un poste de professeure de droit à l’Université du Québec en Outaouais, à compter du 1er janvier 2023. La professeure Bensa a été chercheuse postdoctorale à la Section de droit civil, sous la supervision de la professeure Michelle Giroux, depuis 2021.

North America’s opioid crisis has resulted in nearly 30,000 deaths since 2016 and is devastating communities across Canada. In response to escalating overdoses, Health Canada formally approved providing a “safer supply” of regulated drugs for people who are at risk of overdose from the toxic unregulated market.

At the Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, we embrace equity, diversity, and inclusion as essential to achieving excellence in education and research. Equal representation and fair access to justice is a crucial element of our teachings and our community as a whole.

uOttawa class to help teach happiness to future lawyers Legal professionals experience higher levels of psychological distress, depression, anxiety, burnout and suicidal ideation compared to the Canadian working population. This prompted Lynda Collins, a full Professor in the Centre for Environmental Law & Global Sustainability at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty Law, to create a speciali...

Félicitations à Mégane L. Fatal, Shila Mohammaddi, Lilith Akua Ampadu et Naomie Mieluzeyi pour leur excellent parcours lors du concours annuel de négociation en droit civil de l’association des étudiants noirs en droit du Canada.