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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.

The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships program provides funding to the very best postdoctoral applicants, both nationally and internationally, who will positively contribute to the country's economic, social and research-based growth.

Mitacs Elevate is now accepting applications for two-year postdoctoral funding.

PhD candidate Irene Ekweozoh has been invited to present her paper, “The Right to Effective Remedy for Corporate Human Rights Abuse: A Policy-Oriented Approach” on a panel at the Institute for Global Law and Policy’s 2018 Conference, which will take place on June 2-3, 2018 at Harvard Law School.

Doctoral student Angela Lee has recently had her work published in the Canadian Journal of Women and the Law, the foremost Canadian feminist legal journal. The article, entitled “Meat-ing Demand: Is In Vitro Meat a Pragmatic, Problematic, or Paradoxical Solution?”, takes a critical perspective on in vitro meat (also referred to as lab-grown meat, cultured meat, or clean meat, among other names), which has been garnering significant attention in recent years.