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This prize honours Christine Huglo Robertson, Executive Director of the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ) between 1992 and 2012.  Its goal is to engage law students in the work of CIAJ and to promote scholarship concerning the administration of justice.  The prize is awarded annually for an original paper, previously unpublished, on a topic relating to the administration of justice.  Candidates are STRONGLY encouraged to consider subjects relating to the theme of CIAJ’s Annual Conference scheduled in October.  Click here for more information.

The Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice (CIAJ) provides funds for The Charles D. Gonthier Research Fellowship, named in honour of the late Mr. Justice Charles D. Gonthier of the Supreme Court of Canada, a former President of the Institute.  The $7,500 fellowship is awarded annually to an academic selected by the jury who will best research the topic of CIAJ’s annual conference.  The fellowship competition is open to faculty and graduate students at Canadian universities.  Click here for more information.

Professor Elizabeth F. Judge has joined a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant entitled, “Dreamcatcher Informatics: A Web-based/Mobile Information System for Aboriginal Land Management, Consultation, and Preservation of History, Culture, and Traditional Ecological Knowledge” as a co-applicant. 

Global Affairs Canada is pleased to announce the inaugural International Policy Ideas Challenge, designed to identify concrete innovative solutions to emerging international policy challenges by drawing on the network of talented graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in Canada.

Three University of Ottawa PhD candidates in Law, Aboubacar Dakuyo, Siobhán Airey, and Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, all members of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC), have been selected to attend Harvard Law School’s Institute for Global Law and Policy African Regional Workshop 2016.

Pursuant to a seven-year SSHRC Partnership Grant awarded to the Canadian Network for Research on Terrorism, Security and Society and the Faculty of Law’s own internal bursary program, Professor Craig Forcese will be recruiting a Research Fellow in 2016 (and for several years thereafter) to complete graduate research on anti-terrorism law, rule of law and accountability.

La Bourse d’études supérieures Raoul Barbe et Yolande Larose pour l’étude du pouvoir judiciaire est remise à Louis Bertier. Cette bourse, au montant de 6500$, est attribuée annuellement à un(e) étudiant(e) dont les travaux portent sur l’étude du pouvoir judiciaire.

Ezeala Chinonyerem Ijeoma, an LLM student in the Faculty’s Global Sustainability and Environmental Law Concentration, has been selected as the silver award winner in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (CoP21) global legal essay competition, organized by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL).

Thomas Burelli, qui accomplit son doctorat aux universités de Perpignan et d'Ottawa, vient de se voir attribuer la Bourse d'études supérieures Nicole-Sénécal en droit international.

Freedom Kai Phillips, Felicia Uchenna Ugwu and Sileshi Hirko of the Faculty of Law’s Graduate Studies in Law program, have each won graduate scholarships from the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) through its International Law Research Program.