News

2019

• Dr. João Velloso Receives SSHRC Grant for Research on How Serious Criminality is Processed at the IRB

  Posted on Friday, February 1, 2019

  

  Common Law’s Dr. João Velloso has received an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a project entitled “Sentence severity and deportation: mapping criminality and collateral consequences of punishment at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada”.

• Twelve Common Law Students Receive UROP Grants

  Posted on Friday, February 1, 2019

  

  Twelve Common Law students are among those to receive grants from the University of Ottawa’s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP).

• Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau Receives SSHRC Grant for Research on Secrets and Whistleblowers

  Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2019

  

  Common Law’s Dr. Florian Martin-Bariteau, Director of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society, has received an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) for a project entitled “Les secrets et les lanceurs d'alerte dans un monde numérique” (“Secrets and Whistleblowers in a Digital World”), which will explore the tensions between protecting both confidential information, and whistleblowers who act in the public interest.

• Confronting a paradox: Esteban Salcedo wins prestigious scholarship for his research on regulating marine renewable energy

  Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2019

  

  Solving climate change is, in a word, complex. Google those three words, “solving climate change,” and you’ll turn up thousands of opinions, strategies and blueprints for how to best tackle the problem. While it’s encouraging to see such a wealth of proposed solutions, we can’t simply implement them all at once.  What if solving a problem in one area of the world causes a different problem in another? Do we risk causing unknown harms to the environment in our attempts to solve known problems?

• Congratulations to Our Insight Development Grant Recipients!

  Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2019

  

  Congratulations to faculty members who received Insight Development Grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. Professor Wolfgang Alschner received funding for his project “Multilateralizing ‘WTO-extra’ Issues: A Computational Analysis of Rule Convergence in Preferential Trade Agreements”; Professor Florian Martin-Bariteau received a grant for his project “Les secrets et les lanceurs d'alerte dans un monde numérique”; and Professor João Velloso received funding for his project “Sentence severity and deportation: mapping criminality and collateral consequences of punishment at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada”.

• Kyle Kirkup and Lee Airton’s New Project on Gender Identity Featured at National Awards Announcement

  Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2019

  

  A new project led by Queen’s Professor of Education Lee Airton and Common Law’s Professor Kyle Kirkup was featured today at a national press conference presided over by Canada’s Minister of Science and Sport, the Honourable Kirsty Duncan. The project looks at how Ontario's newest human rights terms – gender identity and gender expressions – are being interpreted by school boards across the province. 

• Professor Anthony Daimsis joins Commonwealth Secretariat Task Force of International Arbitration Specialists

  Posted on Friday, January 25, 2019

  

  Professor Anthony Daimsis has been asked to join The Commonwealth task force of international arbitration specialists from the Commonwealth regions, representing Canada and as an expert on capacity building.

• Pam Dheri, University of Ottawa Student, Invited by RCMP's Assistant Commissioner for Technical Operations to Develop National Vulnerabilities Disclosure Policy

  Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2019

  

  Last spring University of Ottawa third year Common Law student, Pam Dheri, participated in the Global Technology Law and Policy course run jointly each year by the Faculty and the University of Haifa.

• Five University of Ottawa students earn Internships through the Centre for Health, Law, Policy, and Ethics

  Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2019

  

  Breakthroughs in the health sciences offer tremendous hope to patients and the public. But with progress also comes new legal, policy, and ethical challenges. The University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics (CHLPE) is a hub for interdisciplinary research and training. CHLPE is housed in the Faculty of Law but draws its members from Law, Social Sciences, Health Sciences, Management, and Medicine.

• University of Ottawa Law of Cannabis Class First of It’s Kind in Canada; Takes Tour of Canopy Growth

  Posted on Thursday, January 24, 2019

  

  With the sudden need for lawyers familiar with cannabis law and regulations, the University of Ottawa announced last year it would offer Cannabis Law courses in English and French during the 2018/2019 school year – making it the first school in Canada to do so.