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The Honourable David Lametti, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, announced the appointment of Ranjan Agarwal, LLB ’03, as Judge of the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in Brampton.

In Canada, the duty to accommodate workers with disabilities is rooted in human rights jurisprudence. This legal duty requires all employers to accommodate workers up to the point of undue hardship. But recent census data indicate that people with disabilities still experience high levels of poverty and unemployment. The duty to accommodate is significant for a large proportion of the workforce wh...

When a country is in the midst of a civil war, revolution or insurrection, who represents that country on the international stage? How does a country like Canada go about determining the legitimate representative of a State that has multiple regimes fighting for power?

With each passing year, the Internet provides lawyers and legal scholars with unprecedented access to data on treaties, cases, and regulations. With this increased availability of legal data, it is becoming more challenging and time-consuming – perhaps even impossible – for legal experts and firms to comprehensively analyze documents and provide efficient services. As legal data grows, new tools a...

The Revue générale de droit celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2020, marking half a century of high quality contributions to legal discourse as one of Canada’s oldest French-language law journals. New funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), through its Aid to Scholarly Journals Program, will allow the Revue to continue to innovate in how it delivers content to its...

Founded in 1966, the Ottawa Law Review/Revue de droit d’Ottawa (OLR) is one of Canada’s premier bilingual law journals. The OLR’s mandate to publish articles of the highest quality has resulted in its articles being cited in decisions by courts across Canada, including the Supreme Court. With new funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), through its Aid to Scholarly...

Professor Aimée Craft of the Common Law Section leads an in-depth discussion of Indigenous research methodologies, exploring what “Indigenous research” really means.

As of July 1st, 2022, researcher Mariam Wallet Aboubakrine will join the members of the Civil Law Section of the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law as a research-fellow for a five-year period.

It was a wonderful celebration of the life of Rosie.