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This is not your typical leadership course. This course starts with the bold promise that any participant, whatever their background, will emerge being a leader and exercising leadership as their natural self-expression.

The Common Law Section is pleased to welcome Professor Aishwarya Pagedar as the new Greenberg Chair Visiting Professor, bringing her expertise in equality law, feminist legal studies, and comparative studies on jurisprudence to our vibrant academic community.

The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) as well as Professor Marina Pavlović, along with a group of law students, have submitted interventions to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), both calling for improved consumer information and greater transparency in Canada’s telecommunications sector.

La Section de droit civil est très fière de la nomination de son diplômé Andrew Miller (LL.L., 2004) à titre de juge adjoint de la Cour canadienne de l’impôt. Le ministre de la Justice du Canada, Arif Virani, en a fait l’annonce le 3 mars dernier. Son expertise en droit fiscal, sa rigueur et son engagement envers la justice sont récompensés par cette nomination bien méritée.

Professor Yan Campagnolo is leading a new project to demystify Canadian common law for French-speaking minority communities. The forthcoming “Common law en bref” collection will present the fundamentals of Canadian common law in a way that anyone with an interest in law can understand.

Toutes nos félicitations à Iulia Anescu, diplômée des Sections de droit civil (LL.L., 2022) et de common law (J.D., 2023) qui a obtenu un poste d’auxiliaire juridique à la Cour suprême du Canada auprès du très honorable juge en chef Richard Wagner.

The new Guide to Peer Review of Automated Decision-Making Systems published by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) builds on the work of Dr. Kelly Bronson, Dr. Jason Millar and the team of the Canadian Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Ethical Design Lab (CRAiEDL) at the University of Ottawa's Centre for Law, Technology and Society.

Madagascar's rich biodiversity is of environmental, cultural and socio-economic importance not only to the local population, but also to the rest of the world.

L’équipe de la Section de droit civil a obtenu des résultats exceptionnels lors de la dernière édition du concours de plaidoirie Laskin en droit constitutionnel et administratif. L’équipe a remporté le Prix des 4e meilleurs mémoires (appelant et intimé) et s’est classée 5e sur les 19 facultés de droit canadiennes au terme de la compétition.

For several decades, Feminist Legal Issues—affectionately known as FeminaRico—has offered students from Ottawa and Puerto Rico a truly unique learning opportunity.