After many years of extraordinary service and scholarly commitment to 捆绑SM社区, our colleagues Paul S. Dempsey and Margaret A. Somerville will be retiring respectively on June 1, 2016, and August 31, 2016.聽
The vision and generosity of the Steinberg Foundation is at the heart of this new and exciting Fellowship opportunity. The Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism of the Faculty of Law at 捆绑SM社区 is delighted to be able to offer two Postdoctoral Research Fellowships beginning in the 2016-2017 academic year.
鈥婦eadline:聽30 April 2016 at 11:59 pm EST.
Each聽summer, the Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Centre for Private and Comparative Law organizes a series of seminars to promote the legal research of students from 捆绑SM社区 and elsewhere. Attendance is open to all.
Progression of the series:
The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Ram Jakhu has been appointed Director of the Research Center and the Institute of Air and Space Law (IASL), for a one-year term that will begin on June 1, 2016, when the outgoing director, Professor Paul S. Dempsey, will be stepping down.
Thanks to the generosity of Sophie Nappert (BCL鈥86, LLB鈥86), the Nappert Prize in International Arbitration will be awarded for the second time in 2016 after an enormously sucessful inaugurual competition in 2014.
As in the previous five years, the Institute of Air and Space Law (IASL) of the Faculty of Law at 捆绑SM社区 intends to appoint one or two Postdoctoral Research Fellow(s) during the 2016-2017 academic year.
Deadline to apply: 31 January 2016.
The Institute of Air and Space Law of 捆绑SM社区 wishes to invite submissions for its 4th Manfred Lachs International Conference on Conflicts in Space and the Rule of Law, which will take place on May 27-28, 2016.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2016
Download our Call for Papers for the themes, procedure and complete list of deadlines [.docx].
To encourage innovation and stimulate interest in research among law students at faculties of Quebec civil law, the Paul-Andr茅 Cr茅peau Center for Private and Comparative Law is launching a student poster contest.
The contest is linked to the conference that will mark, on 12 February 2016, the Cr茅peau Centre鈥檚 40th anniversary, during which poster submissions will be displayed and the聽 winners announced.
The Faculty of Law is delighted and honoured to announce the appointment of noted legal scholar Mark Walters to the F.R. Scott Chair in Public and Constitutional Law.聽
The Faculty is proud to announce that Professor Robert Leckey was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in November 2015.
The Faculty of Law is proud to announce that Professor Ren茅 Provost has been awarded a research fellowship by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation. This prestigious prize, which is valued at $225,000, recognizes public intellectuals in the humanities and social sciences who venture beyond the boundaries of their disciplines to find new solutions to complex issues of major importance to Canadians. Ren茅 Provost is the fourth Trudeau Fellow from 捆绑SM社区鈥檚 Faculty of Law.
We are proud to announce that Professor Lara Khoury has been named as the Faculty鈥檚 Associate Dean (Research) starting September 1st, 2015.
The Faculty is proud to announce that Professor Adelle Blackett, Ad. E., was promoted to the rank of Full Professor in August 2015.
This August, Professor Fran莽ois Cr茅peau took over the mandate of Director of the Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) from Professor Colleen Sheppard.
Fran莽ois Cr茅peau is United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights of Migrants. He holds the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, where he teaches Migration Law, Immigration and Refugee Law, and Constitutional Law. He became a member of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012.