The Faculty of Law proudly congratulates Professor Stephen Smith, who recently returned from a five-week stay in New Zealand as the NZ Law Foundation Distinguished Fellow of 2017. This prestigious fellowship is granted to one eminent international legal scholar each year. Past fellows include the Chief Justice of Canada the Right Hon.聽Beverley McLachlin, and this year鈥檚 Distinguished Tomlinson Visiting Professor John Borrows, from the University of Victoria.
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Published on: 3 Oct 2017
The 捆绑SM社区 Law & Society Workshop Series invites scholars, graduate students and postdocs in law, the social sciences, and the humanities to present works-in-progress broadly falling within the field of law and society.
We seek papers that use qualitative, quantitative, or interpretivist methods to explore the complex relationship between legal phenomena and social, political, and economic interactions, institutions, and processes. Our interest in socio-legal research extends to state, non-state, formal, and informal norms, institutions, and processes.
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Published on: 20 Sep 2017
The Faculty of Law and the Institute of Air & Space Law (IASL) are pleased to announce that, following his appointment in December 2016, Professor 叠谤颈补苍听贵.听贬补惫别濒 has joined the Faculty and officially taken over as the 13th Director of the IASL as of August 1st.
Published on: 13 Sep 2017
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Allison Christians has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor, effective September 1.
Professor Christians, who was recently renewed as H. Heward Stikeman Chair of Tax Law, coincidentally began her term as Associate Dean (Research) at the Faculty on the very same date for a three-year mandate.
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Published on: 7 Sep 2017
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Professor has been appointed International Francqui Professor Chair in Social Sciences for the year 2017-2018. After the fall term has ended, Professor Cr茅peau will be travelling to Belgium for a six-month stay hosted by the Universit茅 catholique de Louvain, from where he will be contributing to the intellectual life in his field of specialty with all universities in Belgium.
Published on: 31 Aug 2017
Last Thursday, the Barreau du Qu茅bec announced the names of the lawyers who will received the Advocatus Emeritus (Ad.聽E.) title in 2017. The Faculty of Law is happy to report that several of them are members of the 捆绑SM社区 Law community.
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Published on: 7 Aug 2017
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Alana Klein and Vincent Forray have been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective June 1.
Alana Klein teaches and researches in health law, criminal law, and human rights. She is a co-convenor of the 捆绑SM社区 Research Group on Health and Law.
Vincent Forray conducts critical transsystemic research in contract law, torts law, civil law of obligations and consumer law. He is also interested in studying the activities of the scientific, pedagogical and professional jurist.
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Published on: 5 Jun 2017
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the appointment of Aaron Mills (Waabishki Ma'iingan, Baatwetang) as Assistant Professor.
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Published on: 1 Jun 2017
Professor Vrinda Narain is the recipient of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice鈥檚 2017 Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship. She will present results of her research project entitled 鈥淒ifference and Inclusion: Reframing Multiculturalism and Reasonable Accommodation鈥� at CIAJ鈥檚 Annual Conference on diversity this fall.
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Published on: 17 May 2017
The Faculty of Law is proud to announce that Fr茅d茅ric Bachand, Ad. E., has been appointed a judge of the Superior Court of聽Quebec, district of聽Montreal. He replaces Madam Justice聽S. DeVito, who elected supernumerary status effective聽December 6, 2016.
Published on: 4 May 2017
The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Evan Fox-Decent has been promoted to the rank of Full Professor, effective May 1, 2017.
In sharing the news, Dean Robert Leckey underscored how this promotion 鈥渞ecognizes [Evan鈥檚] international stature as a scholar whose work crosses disciplinary lines and occupies a major place in current debates,鈥� adding that 鈥渨hether or not scholars agree with him, they must engage with his work.鈥�
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Published on: 4 May 2017
On Thursday, June 1, during the Faculty of Law鈥檚 Spring 2017 Convocation Ceremony, Professor Stephen J. Toope, O.C., BCL鈥�83, LLB鈥�83, will be awarded a Doctor of Laws degree, honoris causa, and will give the commencement address.
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Published on: 25 Apr 2017
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the appointment of Cristina Toteda as Faculty Lecturer in Legal Ethics, starting May 1, 2017. Me Toteda will work closely with Faculty members and engaged alumni to revise the mandatory second-year course in Legal Ethics and Professionalism and the upper-year course in Advocacy. She will teach those courses and also work with the first-year Integration Workshop course
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Published on: 20 Apr 2017
Professor Daniel Weinstock was awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for Excellence in Policy Research at the Broadbent Institute鈥檚 Progress Summit 2017, which took place in Ottawa April 5-7.
Published on: 19 Apr 2017
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Omar Farahat as Assistant Professor.
Dr. Farahat completed his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 2016, after which he worked as a Research Fellow at Yale Law School. Prior to that, he obtained a dual law degree from Universit茅 Paris 1 Panth茅on-Sorbonne and Cairo University in 2004, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School in 2007, and an interdisciplinary M.A. in the humanities from New York University in 2010. He has practiced law in Cairo, New York, and Paris.
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Published on: 11 Apr 2017
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