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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.

Faculty of Law doctoral student Ghazaleh Jerban has earned the inaugural Ingenium-University of Ottawa Fellowship in Gender, Science and Technology for her work focusing on the gender aspects of intellectual property law.

In the fall of 2017, the uOttawa Faculty of Law convened a seminar to discuss the methodology of research in law. Acknowledging that the relationship between research and legal institutions is changing, the first Autumn School on the Methodology of Research in Law was created to allow students and seasoned researchers to come together to ask fundamental questions about the nature of law research.

Faculty of Law graduate student Kun Hui has been awarded a Jacques Frémont Scholarship for International Graduate Students.

The Graduate Students in Law Association (GSLEDD) will host its 7^th annual graduate student conference on May 10-11, 2018.  Under the moniker “Law: from Crisis to Opportunity,” the conference will bring together graduate students from across Canada to examine pressing legal issues across a variety of fields.

Global Affairs Canada, in collaboration with the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), is pleased to announce the third edition of the International Policy Ideas Challenge designed to identify concrete innovative solutions to emerging international policy challenges faced by Canada.

Alumnus Olabisi Akinkugbe, who earned his PhD at the Faculty of Law in 2017, has been appointed to a tenure-track position at Dalhousie University’s Schulich School of Law.

In December 2017, Salvador Herencia Carrasco, doctoral student, HRREC member and Director of the Human Rights Clinic, was selected as one of ten foreign experts who will support the work of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia.

Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation invites applications for a Fellowship in Gender, Science and Technology created in partnership with the University of Ottawa. This position is for a maximum of four months and welcomes graduate students from all Faculties at the University of Ottawa.

Global Affairs Canada and the Chinese Ministry of Education are offering short-term scholarships to Canadians wishing to study abroad in China. Scholarships are awarded for studies, research, language studies or a combination of studies and language studies at participating Chinese institutions.