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Climate change and environmental degradation are the biggest long-term existential threats that we face. Mitigating their worst effects demands that we find ways to grow our economy while reducing the emissions that cause global warming. This will require that we accelerate innovation to produce cleaner products and climate-friendly policies to ensure a low-carbon future. To meet this challenge, t...

Professor François Larocque has published a new bilingual book on the State Immunity Act, alongside co-author Justice Azim Hussain. Entitled Loi sur l’immunité des états annotée | Annotated State Immunity Act (Wilson & Lafleur), the book is a user-friendly guide to the often complex legal world of state immunity, offer...

Artificial intelligence systems are increasingly being adopted by police forces to improve day-to-day law enforcement. Body cameras, facial recognition software, automatic license plate identification and even cell phone tracking systems all make use of ever-improving AI technology. But what happens when racist biases become integrated into AI technologies? Who regulates the data that informs AI a...

Organisée cette année par la Faculté de droit de l’Université de Sherbrooke*, c’est en ligne que s’est déroulée la 44e édition du Concours de plaidoirie Pierre-Basile-Mignault, 11 et 12 février 2022.

The newest Member of Parliament for Nunavut, Lori Idlout, JD ’18, wants Indigenous languages to be heard more prominently in Parliament.

uOttawa alumna Bernadette Clement, LLL ’87 and LLB ‘88, made history in 2018 when she became the first Black woman in Ontario to be elected as mayor. She was also the first woman to become mayor of Cornwall. Less than three years later, in June 2021, she became the fourth Black woman appointed to the Senate of Canada.

uOttawa alumna Bernadette Clement, LLL ’87 and LLB ‘88, made history in 2018 when she became the first Black woman in Ontario to be elected as mayor. She was also the first woman to become mayor of Cornwall. Less than three years later, in June 2021, she became the fourth Black woman appointed to the Senate of Canada.

Dr. Frankie Young, Ph.D. ‘21 Her thesis is titledEtuaptmumk: Considering Indigenous Economic Development Through Two-Eyed Seeing and was supervised by Professors P.M. Vasudev and Larry Chartrand.The thesis is “grounded in the Mi’kmaq principle of Etuaptmumk, Two-Eyed Seeing—concerned with engaging multiple perspectiv...

Her thesis is titled “A Principled Approach: The Mandatory Application of the Gladue Principles at Review Board Hearings”. The thesis was conducted under the supervision of our colleague from the Common Law Section, Dr. Joao Velloso, and the jury unanimously recommended it for an award. Madam Justice O’Bonsawin is Abenaki and a member of Odanak Firs...

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