Faculty of Law - Common Law Section

• Professor Yan Campagnolo’s book on cabinet secrecy makes Hill Times’ list of 100 best books in 2021

  Posted on Tuesday, January 18, 2022

  Professor Yan Campagnolo’s most recent book, Behind Closed Doors: The Law and Politics of Cabinet Secrecy (UBC Press), has been named to The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books in 2021. The book explores whether or not decision-making at the highest levels of government can maintain a tradition of secrecy in an era when the state executive is increasingly expected to be transparent and accountable to the public.

• Professor Emeritus Ed Ratushny invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada

  Posted on Wednesday, January 12, 2022

  Ed Ratushny, Professor Emeritus at the Common Law Section, has been invested as an Officer of the Order of Canada, a distinction awarded to those who have demonstrated an outstanding level of talent and service to Canadians.

• In a mock Security Council meeting, 18 common law students urged the international community to help the people of Afghanistan at the time of crisis

  Posted on Wednesday, December 8, 2021

  In a simulated meeting of the UN Security Council, virtually convened on 15 November 2021, Common Law students passed a resolution, making a series of recommendations to the international community to help the people of Afghanistan at the time of catastrophe. The unanimously passed SC resolution (S/RES/2606 (2021)) covers, inter alia, helping the people of Afghanistan, the role of the United Nations, the question of representation of Taliban in the United Nations, and the UN sanctions on Taliban.

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