Guillaume Lagani猫re and Ghyslain Raza sweep Henri-Capitant prizes
The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce that two recent alumni from our graduate studies programs have been awarded the Henri-Capitant prizes for 2021.
Guillaume Lagani猫re, LLM'13, DCL'20, won the Henri-Capitant prize for his doctoral thesis, , which was supervised by Professor Genevi猫ve Saumier. His dissertation investigates the regulatory function of private international law with respect to transboundary pollution. Guillaume Lagani猫re is currently a professor of law at UQ脌M, where he specializes in research on private international law, the law of civil evidence and judicial law.
Ghyslain Raza, BCL/LLB'11, LLM'20, won the Henri-Capitant prize in the Master鈥檚 category for his paper, , supervised by Professor Daniel Jutras. It studies the life and work of Fran莽ois-Joseph Cugnet (1721-1789) and his influence on Quebec鈥檚 legal tradition. Ghyslain Raza also received the Wainwright Dissertation Prize for the best-written contribution to civil law in the BCL/LLB program and the Pilarczyk Graduate Award in Law during his LLM. This fall, he will be pursuing a PhD at Queen's University.
鈥淚 am thrilled to see this recognition of two exceptional academics who researched and thrived in the Faculty of Law鈥檚 graduate studies programs,鈥� said Professor Andrea Bjorklund, Associate Dean (Graduate Studies).
About the Henri-Capitant Prizes
The Henri-Capitant Association (Quebec section) awards two prizes of excellence intended to promote research in private law applicable in Quebec. The Henri-Capitant Prizes recognize graduate research at a law faculty or a department of legal sciences in Quebec universities, or from the civil law section of the University of Ottawa鈥檚 Faculty of Law.
