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Every country has laws that govern the acquisition and loss of citizenship. While Canada’s model is not perfect, Canadian citizenship is more desirable than that of the vast majority of other countries in the world.

We are delighted to congratulate the Honourable Paul S. Rouleau, LLB ’77, and David Nahwegahbow, LLB ’80, who were each presented with degrees of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa (LLD) by the Law Society of Ontario.

Sarah Gagnon and Taylor Wormington, both 2020 graduates of the joint Political Science and Juris Doctor program at uOttawa, have been admitted to the University of Cambridge to pursue their LLM degrees. Recently, these two best friends were thrilled to learn they are also both recipients of the prestigious Right Honourable Paul Martin Sr. Scholarship.

Common Law’s Professor Jennifer Chandler has been elected as a 2022 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), one of the highest honours for members of the Canadian health sciences community.

The Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) is thrilled that one of its alumnae, Honorable Michelle O’Bonsawin, LLB ’98 and PhD ’22, has been appointed as the first Indigenous person on the Supreme Court of Canada.

La professeure Marie-France Fortin a reçu une subvention de la Fondation canadienne pour la recherche juridique pour un projet intitulé Repenser le droit de la responsabilité de l’État québécois : une approche historique constitutionnelle.

The Faculty of Law and the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics (CHLPE) are pleased to welcome Professor Jo Ellen Patterson to the Fauteux Hall research community as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.

At the beginning of 2022, Olha Chernovol was a practicing lawyer in Ukraine, working at both COSA LLC as a Project Coordinator, and at an NGO – Transparent Democracy – as an Executive Director. Her time was spent dealing with a variety of projects related to anti-corruption, anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 changed her...

The Common Law Section is proud to announce that Professor Aimée Craft has been elected as a new member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of new Scholars, Artists and Scientists, one of Canada’s pre-eminent distinctions for emerging leaders in research and innovation.