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2019

• Andrew Feltham, J.D. 2020, to clerk with Justice Sheilah Martin at the Supreme Court of Canada

  Posted on Tuesday, May 14, 2019

  

  Andrew Feltham, J.D. 2020, has been chosen to clerk with Justice Sheilah Martin at the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Feltham is currently in his second year of the Faculty of Common Law's English JD Program. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Ottawa, and also holds a MA from the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA, '10). 

• uOttawa finishes second in Vienna out of 372 teams at World’s Largest Moot

  Posted on Wednesday, May 1, 2019

  

  The University of Ottawa Willem C. Vis Moot team of James Plotkin (coach), Anna Katyk, Avery Ross, Rida Malik, and Quinn Giordano finished second out of 372 in Vienna at the world’s largest moot. A whopping 87 countries participated.

  Led by Professor Anthony Daimsis, the uOttawa team spent the first four grueling days in general rounds, facing teams from South America, Europe, and the Middle East before the tournament was cut from 372 to 64 teams.

• University of Ottawa Has Another Successful Mooting Season

  Posted on Tuesday, April 9, 2019

  

  The University of Ottawa has had another successful mooting season, earning results at the Inaugural Michel Bastarache Competition, the Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot, and the Walsh Negotiation Competition, to name just a few!

• uOttawa's Inaugural Michel Bastarache Competition on Language Rights

  Posted on Friday, April 5, 2019

  

  uOttawa Programme de Common Law en Français (PCLF) received the second place award for dissertations and  an Individual Award for Pleading went to Jia Wen Li at the Inaugural Michel Bastarache Competition on Language Rights. The competition was held in Ottawa as part of the 16^th annual Michel Bastarache Conference, which kicked off on Friday, March 22, at the Rideau Club with 100 guests in attendance to listen to speaker Claude Laverdure.

• Professor Nathalie Chalifour and Ecojustice On the frontlines of the Carbon Tax Debate (From The Gazette)

  Posted on Wednesday, April 3, 2019

  

  For more than a decade, uOttawa law professor Nathalie Chalifour has analyzed the constitutionality of federal climate legislation. In February this year, the outside world came knocking, and her expertise was put to the test.

  Saskatchewan was challenging the constitutionality of the federal government’s new national carbon pricing legislation, which came into force on April 1, 2019, in provinces lacking their own plans to reduce carbon emissions. The Ecofiscal Commission, acting as an intervenor in support of the federal carbon tax, invited her and Professor Stewart Elgie to represent it in the case before the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal.

• Another Successful Turnout for uOttawa at the 17th Annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot

  Posted on Friday, March 29, 2019

  

  The University of Ottawa celebrates another successful year at the 17^th Annual Oxford International Intellectual Property Law Moot. Almut MacDonald, Jessica Pugliese, and Spencer Malthouse, coached by Professor Jeremy de Beer, brought home a second-place finish. The achievements of this year’s Oxford team affirm a long-standing tradition of international IP mooting success for the uOttawa Common-Law Section.

• Student Sean Grassie publishes article on international environmental law and its implications for Canada

  Posted on Thursday, March 28, 2019

  

  Sean Grassie, a fourth-year student of the Common Law Section’s joint JD–MA program with Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA), has had a paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Environmental Law and Practice. His paper is entitled “Canada and the Global Pact for the Environment: A Strategic Legal Analysis.”

• The streak continues! uOttawa Common Law Teams return home from Walsh Negotiation Competition with First and Second Place for Best Individual Student

  Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2019

  

  For the fifth consecutive year, both University of Ottawa teams brought home some of the top prizes from the Walsh Family Law Negotiation Competition. The competition was held on March 9, 2019 at the Law Society in Toronto with competitors from across Ontario, Calgary and Saskatchewan. From uOttawa Team 2, Robert Barnes won first place for Best Individual Student and from uOttawa Team 1, Rachel Zweig won second place for Best Individual Student.  

• University of Ottawa wins award for best factums at 2019 Davies’ Corporate/Securities Law Moot

  Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2019

  

  The University of Ottawa Common Law team of Marta Porodko (3L), Yvonna Belkina (2L), Gavin Inkster (2L) and Andrew Newman (2L) competed at the 2019 Davies’ Corporate/Securities Law Moot on March 8^th and 9^th. The uOttawa team beat out thirteen schools from across the country to win the prize for best factums.

• Supreme Court of Canada's Justice Michael J. Moldaver speaks to first-year Criminal Law and Procedure course

  Posted on Thursday, March 21, 2019

  

  On Tuesday, March 12, Professor Lawrence David and the sixty students in his section of the first-year Criminal Law and Procedure course were fortunate to host the Supreme Court of Canada's Justice Michael J. Moldaver.