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Suivez les aventures de Thomas Burelli, Alexandre Lillo et Lauren Touchant qui sont présentement à Glasgow pour la #COP26 où ils représentent le Centre québécois de droit de l’environnement en tant qu’observateurs grâce à l’appui fina...

The Fondation du Barreau du Québec (FBQ) has announced that Professor Yan Campagnolo’s 2020 book, Le secret ministériel : théorie et pratique (Presses de l’Université Laval), has earned an honourable mention in the 2021 legal writing competition in the monograph category. Le secret ministériel is the first compl...

The Fondation du Barreau du Québec (FBQ) has announced that Professor Jennifer Quaid’s 2020 article, “The Limits of Legislation as a Tool of Reform: A Study of the Westray Reform to Organizational Sentencing” (Revue juridique Thémis de l’Université de Montréal, 2020), has earned an honourable mention in the 2021 legal writ...

The Centre for Law, Technology and Society is delighted to announce that Professor Vivek Krishnamurthy has been appointed to the Public Policy Forum’s Canadian Commission on Democratic Expression, a three-year mandate to better understand, anticipate, and respond to the effects of new digital technologies on public life and Canadian demo...

Professor Marina Pavlović has contributed to Waiting to Connect, a report released by the Canadian Council of Academiesto examine the legal, ethical, social, and policy issues associated with deploying and adopting reliable high-speed Internet in rural and remote communities. The Council of Canadian Academies (CCA) assembled a multidisc...

Around the common law world, the law of judicial review of administrative action has changed dramatically in recent decades, accelerating a centuries-long process of incremental evolution. Professor Paul Daly has published a new book, Understanding Administrative Law in the Common Law World (Oxford University Press), which offe...

Congratulations to Emma Runzer-Boucher and Nicholas Chase, first place , Amber Miller and Hanna Yemenu, second place, and James Phelan and George Monastiriakos, third place teams in the October 14, 2021, 22nd annual University of Ottawa / Dentons Canada LLP Negotiation Competition.

During the 11th year of partnership with United Nations, Common Law students have recently completed the preparation of 5 additional studies for the Repertory of the Practice of the United Nations Organs. In his report to the 76th session of the General Assembly (A/76/223), The Secretary-General of the United Nations commended the ...

Meet our eight new doctors of law. The first seven received their PhDs at the spring 2021 Faculty of Law convocation, and the last—but not the least—received her PhD at Fall Convocation on Saturday, October 30. Who are they and what are their research interests?

Professor Natasha Bakht has been awarded the 2021 Huguenot Society of Canada Award by the Ontario Historical Society (OHS) for her 2020 book In Your Face: Law, Justice and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada (Delve Books). The award recognizes the best book published in Ontario within the last three years that has brought public awareness...