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In the fall of 2018, the Common Law Section at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law convened the second annual Autumn School on the Methodology of Research in Law, a two-day workshop that brought together graduate students and seasoned researchers under the theme of “Talking About Research”.

Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the Raoul Barbe and Yolande Larose Graduate Scholarships,  Amira Maameri-Ulisse (2018-2019) and Benjamin Lachance (2019-2020). The scholarships, each valued at $10,000, are awarded to students whose work focuses on the study of the judiciary.

The 8th annual conference of the GSLEDD, the University of Ottawa Graduate Students in Law Association, took place on May 10th and 11th, 2019. Under the theme "Law Without Borders? An Interdisciplinary Exploration of Legal Contours", about thirty graduate students from across Canada took the opportunity to present their research. Lectures by keynote speakers Prof. Jane Bailey and Prof. Mona Paré also paved the way for interesting discussions.

Registration is now open for the Symposium on Return to Work in a Changing World of Work! During this Symposium, we will look at the question: how can public policies in Canada promote better practices to ensure sustainable return to work for all injured workers?

Doctoral student Angela Lee has been awarded the 2019 Graduate Student Award of Merit by the Senior Women Academic Administrators of Canada (SWAAC). The award recognizes women who have demonstrated outstanding leadership at their universities and in their communities, while maintaining an exemplary academic record.

Summarizing your thesis in less than 180 seconds is not easy. PhD student Bahati Mujinya did it all brilliantly, winning 2^nd place in the final of the University of Ottawa’s 3-Minute Thesis Competition, which took place on March 11, 2019 at Desmarais Hall.

SSHRC is pleased to announce the launch of the third annual 2019 International Policy Ideas Challenge, organized in partnership with Global Affairs Canada, which closes on March 29, 2019. This is a great opportunity to support and promote the work of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows and their contributions to policy development. 

Common law graduate student Ghazaleh Jerban clearly remembers the first time she saw the artifact that would become the focus of her fellowship research. “This big frame of intricately woven delicate wires,” as she describes it, at Ottawa’s Canada Science and Technology Museum stopped her in her tracks.

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?

Faculty of Law graduate student Niharika Bapna, who is part of the first cohort of students in the LLM Program’s Concentration in Legislative Studies, has recently published a paper entitled Plain Language Drafting: A Study of the Laws of India (2009–17) in the prestigious UK journal, Statute Law Review.