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The third edition of the Michel Bastarache Moot Court Competition on language rights took place from March 19 to 21.

How do uOttawa law students respond to a global pandemic? With teamwork!

Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau and Dr. Teresa Scassa have published Artificial Intelligence and the Law in Canada (LexisNexis Canada), which captures the diversity of law and policy challenges facing Canada when it comes to artificial intelligence. Bringing together some of the leading Canadian scholars in the field, the pee...

Chantal Da Silva, a Civil Law, LLL ’02, and Common Law, LLB ’03, alumna, was recognized by the Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2020 as the Corporate Counsel of the Year – International recipient. Chantal Da Silva is the Vice President, Legal Affairs and a member of the executive management team at Teranga Gold Corporation (now part of Endea...

Priya Dube and Jeremy Cooney represented the Common Law Section at the 2021 Canadian National Negotiation Competition held virtually on February 26, 27 and 28. They placed an impressive fourth in a field of 20 schools, the largest since the competition began in 2017.

Sania Ahuja, Layali Awwad, Sheryl Molloy and Lauren Thompson, representing the Common Law Section, enjoyed remarkable success at the 2021 All American regional round of the John H. Jackson WTO Moot, held virtually February 25 to 28. The team won for best factum for the complainant, best factum for the respondent and best overall factums. In the oral competition, the team made it to the semifinals ...

Professor Aimée Craft has been awarded the 2021 Canadian Bar Association President’s Award, which recognizes the significant contribution of a Canadian jurist to the legal profession and to the public life of Canada. Professor Craft is one of two honorees for this year’s President’s Award; the other recipient is Professor John Borrows, the Ca...

Following the opening of the Indigenous Human Rights free legal clinic in Ottawa in early January, Fallon Benson, a 2L student in the English JD program, and member of Rainy River First Nations, shared with us her experience. Why did you choose to be involved? A dear friend of mine sits on the Advisory Council for the Indigenous Human Rights Pro...

Professor Vivek Krishnamurthy has earned a grant from Global Affairs Canada for a project entitled “Media Freedom in an Algorithmic Age: Perils and Possibilities”, which examines the implications of algorithmic systems and other emerging digital technologies for media freedom. The aim of the project is to foster greater understandi...

Fallon Benson and Angel Larkman are both 2L students in our JD program. They are also part of our Indigenous Law Learner Community and have both taken action and found ways to change the world, while still studying.