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Penny Collenette, LLB ’91, co-chaired the Advisory Committee of the Prosperity Project which recently called for a nation-wide childcare system. The Project penned  an open letter to Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, six other federal ministers and Opposition Leaders, signed by public policy...

Canadian Lawyer has released its list of nominees for the 2021 “Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in Canada” honours.  Among the nominees is the Common Law Section’s Professor Nathalie Chalifour in the category of “Changemakers” (3rd page of the voting survey). Please consider voting!  You may vote for up to five nominees i...

Professor Lynda Collins has published a new book entitled The Ecological Constitution: Reframing Environmental Law (Routledge), which sets out the necessary components of any constitution that could be considered “ecological” in nature. Re-imagining constitutions along these lines could play a vital role in building a sustainable fu...

The Common Law Section is pleased to announce the re-appointment of Professor John Packer as the Neuberger-Jesin Professor of International Conflict Resolution for a second four-year term, to June 30, 2025.

The Allan Rock Fund will now support Black law students in the Common Law Section.

As Deans of the Civil Law Section and the Common Law Section of the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, we are horrified by the discovery of the remains of 215 children at the site of the former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. We find it particularly abhorrent that these deaths were never documented by the authorities and that families and communities were not given the o...

“At the heart of any innovative project, creative endeavour or process of social and institutional change, there is the exercise of leadership,” says Margarida Garcia, the acting vice-dean of research at the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section and the director of the Leadership Academy, a new initiative centred around leadership training, research, mentorship and transformational knowledge mobilizat...

Congratulations to the organizers and the cast of this year’s FTX Production’s Time Capsule Musical, released on YouTube on March 19, 2021. A cast of 15 actor-singers were featured in the first-ever virtual Musical presented by FTX Productions. The “DIY” musical is a medley of songs from various musicals. Each individual membe...

As the COVID-19 pandemic became an unavoidable reality in the spring of 2020, approaches to teaching and learning were forced to shift dramatically. In recognition of their tireless work in facilitating the transition to online/distance education, Professors Ellen Zweibel and Craig Forcese have been named as recipients of two newly-...

Hannan Mohamud, JD candidate 2023, has been awarded one of the Top 30 Under 30 Awards by the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation (ACGC). The award features 30 outstanding young people, nominated by their community and selected by a committee of peers, for their commendable work in making the world a more just, fair, and sustainable place for a...