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2021

• Common Law Celebrates Mois de la Francophonie

  

• Professor Aimée Craft receives the Canadian Bar Association President’s Award

  Posted on Wednesday, February 17, 2021

  

  Professor Aimée Craft has been awarded the 2021 Canadian Bar Association President’s Award, which recognizes the significant contribution of a Canadian jurist to the legal profession and to the public life of Canada. Professor Craft is one of two honorees for this year’s President’s Award; the other recipient is Professor John Borrows, the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Law at the University of Victoria Law School. With this exceptional honour, Professor Craft and Professor Borrows join the prestigious ranks of past recipients which include former Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin and former Senator Murray Sinclair, among many other luminaries of Canadian law.

• Professor Yan Campagnolo’s book on cabinet secrecy honoured by the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research

  Posted on Thursday, February 11, 2021

  

  Professor Yan Campagnolo’s 2020 publication, Le secret ministériel : théorie et pratique (Presses de l’Université Laval) has been named the runner-up for the 2020 Walter Owen Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research.

• Professor Vivek Krishnamurthy explores media freedom in an algorithmic age

  Posted on Thursday, January 21, 2021

  

  Professor Vivek Krishnamurthy has earned a grant from Global Affairs Canada for a project entitled “Media Freedom in an Algorithmic Age: Perils and Possibilities”, which examines the implications of algorithmic systems and other emerging digital technologies for media freedom.

• Professor Jennifer Chandler coordinates international consortium investigating AI-based neuroprostheses

  Posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2021

  

  The rapid evolution of AI technologies has made a profound impact on the world of medicine, leading to significant advances in how technologies can interface with the human nervous system. But the use of AI-based neuroprostheses as medical devices raises a number of questions: Which AI-elements should future neuroprostheses incorporate or leave out? What technical design choices or regulatory measures are required to proceed safely? How can we support patients in clinical decision-making to avoid overblown hopes and to know—to borrow Thomas Nagel’s famous phrase—“what it’s like to have a hybrid mind”?

• Professor Natasha Bakht and Professor Angela Cameron both make Hill Times list of 100 best books in 2020

  Posted on Monday, January 18, 2021

  

  Professor Natasha Bakht’s recent book, In Your Face: Law Justice and Niqab-Wearing Women in Canada, and Professor Angela Cameron’s recent edited collection with Sari Graben and Val Napoleon, Creating Indigenous Property: Power, Rights, and Relationships, have both been named to The Hill Time’s List of the 100 Best Books in 2020.

• Professor Anne Levesque named finalist for Franco-Ontarian Community Engagement Award

  Posted on Friday, January 8, 2021

  

  La Fondation franco-ontarienne has chosen Common Law’s Anne Levesque as a finalist for a Prix Saphir in the Community Engagment category.  The Prix Saphir aim to recognize and promote the commitment, excellence and influence of women in the Franco-Ontarian community.

• On the Margins of Trans Legal Change: Professor Samuel Singer guest edits special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society

  Posted on Thursday, January 7, 2021

  

  Professor Samuel Singer is the guest editor of a new special issue of the Canadian Journal of Law and Society, entitled On the Margins of Trans Legal Change, with fellow guest editor Ido Katri (University of Toronto). The publication is the continuation of a project seeking to amplify trans legal studies in Canada, which was the focus of a conference at McGill University’s Faculty of Law in May 2019.

• Faculty of Law Ranks Among Top International Law Schools For SSRN Downloads

  Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2021

  

  The University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law has earned a prestigious ranking on the Social Science Research Network’s (SSRN) list of the Top 500 International Law Schools.  uOttawa currently ranks 12^th on the list of total downloads from international law schools for the last twelve months, and second among Canadian law schools.  This truly places uOttawa’s legal research production amongst the top schools in the world.

• Professor John Currie appointed to Permanent Court of Arbitration

  Posted on Wednesday, January 6, 2021

  

  Professor John Currie has been named to the Canadian National Group of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the oldest global institution for the settlement of international disputes.