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The Common Law students have been hired by the Ottawa Light Rail Transit Commission.

In March of 2022, the Liberal government announced plans to launch a new dental care program for middle- and low-income Canadians, the result of an agreement with the NDP. While the proposed dental program is set to begin in 2022 and expand through to 2025, very little scholarly work has been done on how the federal government can and should implement such a program. The Centre for Health Law, Po...

The University of Ottawa has confirmed the dates for Homecoming 2022, September 28 – October 4, with plenty of interesting events and ways to connect with former classmates and friends.

On the evening of June 8, families, friends, and faculty came together for the Faculty of Law’s first in-person convocation since the beginning of the pandemic. The event, which was held at Shaw Centre, was an exceptional celebration, as the three cohorts from 2020, 2021 and 2022, were finally able to take the stage to receive their diplomas.

Yasmin Khaliq (JD’22), a recent graduate of the French Common Law Program, has published a paper titled When will Canadians benefit from the promised mental health transfer? in the digital magazine Policy Options.

Professor Anne Levesque is the 2022 recipient of the University of Ottawa's Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award in the Early Career Researchers category. This honour comes in recognition of the initiatives she has undertaken through the Equality Law Clinic (“the Clinic”), which she founded and has managed at the Common Law Section since July 2019.

Une délégation de la Section de droit civil a passé une semaine au Cameroun à discuter de la réforme du droit civil au Cameroun et au Canada.

On May 16, the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, announced the members of the Independent Advisory Board to help select the next Supreme Court Justice. The Honourable Louise Charron, LLB ’75, and David Nahwegahbow, LLB ’80, both Common Law alumni, are among the members of the of the new Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada Judicial Appointments.

The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General, announced the appointment of uOttawa Common Law alumni Andres Garin, LLB ’98, to the Superior Court of Quebec for the district of Montreal, on April 20, 2022.

The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, announced the appointment of Julie Bergeron, LLB ’98, as Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Cornwall.