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Two graduate students currently engaged in doctoral studies at the Faculty of Law, Siobhán Airey and Pierre Cloutier de Repentigny, were recently profiled in the Ottawa Citizen. The article highlights how their work, and valuable support from the Faculty of Law, has brought them to the front lines of social justice.

To mark the 30^thanniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on the Rights of the Child (IRLRC) calls for a reflection on the principles and challenges that underlie children’s rights...

Me Éliane Boucher, candidate à la maîtrise à la Faculté de droit de l’Université d’Ottawa, est l’un des deux lauréates de la Bourse Élizabeth Corte pour l’année 2018.

This scholarship was established in memory of Barry McDougall, BA, LLB, by his family to enable one Polish law graduate per year to travel to Canada to earn a Master of Laws degree (LLM) in Common and Civil Law at the University of Ottawa.  An expert in energy law, Barry McDougall dedicated a great deal of his professional and personal life toward making Canadian law accessible to people in Eastern and Central Europe.

Faculty of Law PhD student Zoe Boirin has been awarded the Canadian Energy Law Foundation Graduate Law Scholarship for 2018-2019.

Salvador Herencia Carrasco, Ph.D. candidate and Director of the Human Rights Clinic of the University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC), has published an article on the pardon received by former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and its impact on transitional justice in Peru.

Former Faculty of Law doctoral student, Évelyne Jean-Bouchard, who earned her PhD in 2017, has been awarded the Royal Society of Canada’s Alice Wilson Award.

Faculty of Law graduate student Clifford Lincoln successfully defended his Master of Laws thesis on September 14, 2018, a mere 13 days removed from his 90^th birthday!

Faculty of Law doctoral student Duff Conacher has been awarded a Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) for his project entitled “The Ethical Politics Imperative: How does the Federal Canadian Political Process Ethics System Measure Up to a Best-Practice Model System?”

The Graduate Students in Law Association (GSLEDD) hosted its 7^th annual graduate student conference on May 11-12, 2017.  Under the moniker “Law at the Tipping Point: Conflicts, Challenges and Changes,” the conference brought together graduate students from across Canada to examine pressing legal issues across a variety of fields.