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The entire uOttawa community was excited to see an honorary doctorate awarded to Perry Dellelce at this year's Convocation. It is very special to have one of Common Law’s own alum receive this highest of commendations.

Congratulations to alum Nadia Effendi on receiving the Order of Merit from l’Association des juristes d’expression française de l’Ontario (AJEFO).

Professor Alain Roussy has been awarded the AJEFO Order of Merit for his contribution to access to justice in French in Ontario and to the improvement of legal services in French for the Franco-Ontarian community.

On May 31, 2023, the Honourable Doug Downey, Attorney General of Ontario, presented Professor Carissima Mathen with the David Walter Mundell Medal for her extraordinary contributions to legal writing.

The University of Ottawa invites applications for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Health Law. Applicants must be full-time tenure-stream Associate or Full Professors at the University of Ottawa. We are looking for an exceptional researcher who leads a globally recognized interdisciplinary research program focused on the issues arising at the intersection of law, health policy, medicine and...

Families, friends and faculty members gathered to celebrate the achievements of the Faculty of Law’s remarkable class of 2023.

Congratulations to alum François Baril, (LLB ’96), who has been awarded the Law Society of Ontario Medal.

Among the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is the necessity to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages.”

Professor Amy Salyzyn is interested in how technology can be used to facilitate more effective access to justice. This spring, she and a team of law students joined with the Ontario Justice Education Network (OJEN) to challenge high school students from Ontario to learn and think about access to justice and to develop concepts for digital tools that could contribute to reducing the access to justi...

The world's major economies, including Canada's, depend on an open and fair trading system for their prosperity. Yet over the past five years, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been partially deprived of one of its most valuable functions: trade dispute settlement.