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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.

On December 29, 2021 the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, announced 135 new appointments to the Order of Canada, one of our country’s highest civilian honours, in recognition of outstanding achievement, dedication to the community, and service to the nation.

The passing of Senator Josée Forest-Niesing in November 2021 was a great loss to our community. A proud Franco-Ontarian, Senator Forest-Niesing was known as a passionate advocate for the rights and concerns of French-speaking Canadians. While she had a long and distinguished career practicing law in her hometown of Sudbury and in the Senate a...

In recent decades the mining industry has increasingly focused its attention on the Arctic region, generating significant economic benefits for local Arctic communities. But as local Indigenous populations bear witness to the exploitation of natural resources on their lands, recent research has shown that these communities do not benefit equally from the distribution of mining wealth. Professor So...

The ways in which contemporary democracies address social problems through courts is changing. While criminalization is still the primary way that legal institutions address problematic social conflicts, many scholars are now emphasizing the need to look beyond criminal law, pointing to alternative ways that law can be and is being mobilized to govern social problems.

The tragic death of Joyce Echaquan in September of 2020 led to the creation of “Joyce’s Principle”, a call to action for governments to end the systemic racism experienced by Indigenous people in healthcare and social services. A new project from Professors Emmanuelle Bernheim and Eva Ottawa aims to contribute directly to the implementation of Joyce’s Principle by documenting the mental health dis...

La Faculté de droit, Section de droit civil est heureuse d’annoncer une nouvelle entente avec le cabinet KRB Avocats | Lawyers. Cette entente a pour objectif de décerner des bourses aux étudiantes et étudiants de premier cycle de la Faculté de droit, Section de droit civil de l’Université d’Ottawa qui ont obtenu une moyenne pondérée cumulative de...

Le Centre de droit public de l’Université d’Ottawa est à la recherche d’une personne compétente et enthousiaste pour occuper le poste de stagiaire postdoctoral consacré à la poursuite d’activités de recherche novatrices axées sur les aspects juridiques et de gouvernance des questions liées à l’eau dans le cadre du Forum de l’Université d’Ottawa sur le droit et la gouvernance de l’eau, un groupe de...

Trois membres du corps enseignant de la Section de droit civil obtiennent une promotion ce printemps! Il s’agit d’Audrey Ferron-Parayre et de Terry Skolnik, qui deviennent professeure et professeur agrégés, tandis que leur collègue Mariève Lacroix accède au rang de professeure titulaire.

This May, Professor François Larocque will undertake a project that aims to improve the protection of language rights in Canada by empowering young Canadians to take an active role in the process of implementing the nation’s language laws and policies.