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Make a meaningful impact through research! The Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) allows you to contribute to a research project conducted by a professor of your choice. Benefits: Apply concepts you’ve learned in class to real situations. Work one-on-one with a professor. Get a close-up view of cutting-edge research at on...

As more people receive COVID-19 vaccines, the issue of vaccine passports has become a hot topic in Canada. A vaccine passport could be used to certify that an individual has received specific vaccines, potentially granting privileges such as travelling across a border or being permitted to access certain venues like restaurants or concerts. The regulation of these passports raises many questions,...

Dean Marie-Eve Sylvestre and co-authos Nicholas Blomley (Simon Fraser University) and Céline Bellot (Université de Montréal) have been awarded the 2021 W. Wesley Pue Book Prize by the Canadian Law and Society Association for their 2020 book Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of ...

The Employment Law Clinic has recently launched for its second summer, taking on new employment law matters from June 1, 2021, and running until September 1, 2021. The Clinic primarily aims to serve people living on low-income who are experiencing work-related legal problems and who cannot afford a lawyer. Clinic services are available pro bono (for free) and in both official languages.

We are thrilled to announce the appointment of Professor Signa Daum Shanks as an Associate Professor on July 1, 2021. Julie Ada, Hassan Ahmad and Brandon D. Stewart will also join our Faculty, as Replacement Professors for two-year terms. They all teach in the English Program. Their fields of expertise range from Indigenous Governance, to Human Rights, to Environmental Law to Comparative Law.

Le 7 mai 2021 s’est tenu le colloque 411 du 88ème Congrès de l’Acfas, un évènement scientifique organisé autour d’un réseau francophone immense (6000 personnes ont assisté au Congrès cette année).

Professor Samuel Singer has been awarded the Canadian Law and Society Association (CLSA) Article Prize for his paper "Trans Rights Are Not Just Human Rights: Legal Strategies for Trans Justice”, which argues that current human rights laws are not sufficient to address legal challenges facing trans people. Professor Singer’s article explores Canadian t...

Professor Suzanne Bouclin has published a new book entitled Women, Film, and Law: Cinematic Representations of Female Incarceration (UBC Press), which examines how popular fictional depictions of women’s imprisonment explore, shape, and refine beliefs about women who are incarcerated. Professor Bouclin argues that fictional depicti...

The Biennial Research Report for the Common Law Section, covering the years 2018-2020, is now available online (PDF, 5.12 MB).This report was produced under conditions unlike any previous such effort. It offers a glimpse of research activities and achievements at the Common Law Section covering the 2018-2019 and 2019-2020 fiscal years, or more pre...

As COVID-19 continues to challenge Canada and the world in unprecedented ways, the scientific community has focused efforts on a wide range of responses, from developing vaccines to deploying new digital technologies to help track and contain the pandemic. Professor Michael Geist has made repeated valuable contributions to this ongoing discourse.