Internal Appointments

Garrick Apollon

• Director, Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, 2025

Denis Boivin

• Vice-Dean, Governance, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, 2025

Suzanne Bouclin

• Vice-Dean, Research, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, 2025

Yan Campagnolo

• Vice-Dean, French Common Law Program, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, 2023

Anne Levesque

• Academic Director of Experiential Learning, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, 2023

Jamie Liew

• Chairholder, Shirley Greenberg Chair for Women and the Legal Profession, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, 2024

Steve Lorteau

• Director, National Program, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, 2025

Matt Malone

• Director, Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC), 2025

Pacifique Manirakiza

• Vice-Dean, French Common Law Program, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, 2025

Graham Mayeda

• Vice-Dean, English Common Law Program, Common Law Section, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa. 2024

Doug Sarro

• Academic Director, uOttawa Startup Law Clinic, 2024

Penelope Simons

• Director, Human Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa, 2025

João Velloso

• Vice-Dean, Graduate Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa, 2024
   

External Appointments

Jane Bailey

• International Visiting Fellow, Centre for Protecting Women Online, Open University, England, 2025

Kristen Boon

• President, Council of Canadian Law Deans, 2025

Jennifer Chandler

• Chair, Assessment Panel on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, 2024

Aimée Craft

• Chair, Clean Environment Commission of Manitoba, 2025

John Currie

• Judge (ad hoc), International Court of Justice, 2025

Adam Dodek

• Chair, Canadian Legal Information Institute, 2025
• Distinguished Fellow, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2025

Craig Forcese

• Member and Vice-Chair, National Security and Intelligence Review Agency, reappointed by the Governor-in-Council for a four-year term, effective July 24, 2024.

Florian Martin-Bariteau

• Participant, NETMundial+10: Strengthening Internet Governance and Digital Policy Processes, Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, 2024
• Participant, Ministerial Roundtable on Canada’s AI Strategy for the Federal Public Service, Treasury Board of Canada, 2024

Chidi Oguamanam

• Participant, Diplomatic Conference on Genetic Resources and Associated Traditional Knowledge, World Intellectual Property Organization

John Packer

• Member, Minister of Foreign Affairs’ Standing Table on Human Rights, Global Affairs Canada, 2025

Marina Pavlović

• Consumer interest director, Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments, 2025

Amy Salyzyn

• Board Member, International Association of Legal Ethics, 2024

Doug Sarro

• Chair, Canadian Advocacy Council of CFA Societies Canada, 2024

Teresa Scassa

• Participant, Ministerial Roundtable on Canada’s AI Strategy for the Federal Public Service, Treasury Board of Canada
• Member, Ontario Health Data Council, 2025

Grants with start dates falling between April 1, 2023 and March 31, 2025
 

Social Sciences and Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

• Natasha Bakht (with Vanessa Gruben), Connection Grant, “Law as a Terrain for Advancing Social Justice”, $23,920.
• Aimée Craft, Insight Grant, “Anishinaabe Birthing Reclamation”, $313,676.
• Jeremy de Beer and Chidi Oguamanam, SSHRC Partnership Award, “Open African Innovation Research (Open AIR)”, $50,000.
• Vanessa Gruben, Connection Grant, “Governing Reproduction: Exploring Law and Politics in Canada”, $24,111.
• Vanessa MacDonnell, Connection Grant, “The Supreme Court of Canada at 150: The Past, the Present and the Future”, $25,000.
• Michael Pal, Trans-Atlantic Platform – Democracy, Governance and Trust, “Open Constitutional Democracy: Reconciling Deliberation and Constitutional Democracy”, $196,974.
• Sylvia Rich, Insight Development Grant, “Proportionality and Unjustified Harm in Sentencing”, $55,994.
• Teresa Scassa, Partnership Engage Grant, “Designing a Privacy Regulatory Sandbox”, $25,000.
  
  Others under embargo

Government Grants and Contracts

• Yan Campagnolo, Department of Justice Canada, Access to Justice in Both Official Languages Support Fund, “La common law en bref”, $93,524.
• Christian Clavette / CIPPIC, Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada, “Making Privacy More than a Virtual Reality: The Challenges of Extending Canadian Privacy Law to Extended Reality”, $49,450.
• Jeremy de Beer / Open AIR, International Development Research Centre, “Signposting to Future Scenarios – Reflecting on Knowledge & Innovation in Africa, Scenarios for the Future”, $65,540.
• John Packer, Canadian Defence Academy, “Applying Human Security to Anticipate Future Security Challenges”, $12,600.
   

Foundations and Other External Funding

• Jane Ezirigwe (with Delphine Nakache), Digital Research Alliance of Canada, “Digital research infrastructure for a neglected group and discipline: Advancing equitable access for racialized researchers in Social Sciences at uOttawa”, $30,616.
• Vanessa Gruben, Canadian Foundation for Legal Research, “Justice in Access: Litigating for Health & Harm Reduction Services for People Who Use Drugs”, $9,897.
• John Packer / HRREC, Open Society Foundations, “Supporting Activists-in-Exile in Canada and Beyond”, approx. $1.2 million.
• Sophie Nunnelley, AMS Healthcare Fellowship in Compassion and Artificial Intelligence, $75,000.
   

University of Ottawa Grant Programs

• Jane Bailey, Bridge Funding Opportunity, “Rethinking Consent: Protecting Privacy and Equality in the Face of Scientific and Technological Advances”, $10,000.
• Aimée Craft, Knowledge Mobilization Excellence Award, “Decolonizing Water”, $7,000.
• Paul Daly, University Research Chair in Administrative Law and Governance, $125,000.
• Vanessa Gruben, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “A.I. in Mental Healthcare – Workshop and Café scientifique”, $6,000.
• Vanessa Gruben, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “Law as a Terrain for Advancing Social Justice”, $6,000.
• Vanessa Gruben, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “Surrogacy Regulation in Canada: Addressing the Challenges”, $6,000.
• Vanessa Gruben, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “Governing Reproduction: Exploring Law and Politics in Canada”, $6,000.
• Roojin Habibi, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “Health and Human Rights @ 75 Symposium”, $6,000.
• Roojin Habibi, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “Canada Before International Courts and Tribunals: Articles-in-Progress Workshop”, $6,000.
• Marel Katsivela, Visiting Researchers Program – Science Diplomacy, “Sylvain Mercoli – Université d’Angers”, $5,000.
• François Larocque, Canadian Francophonie Research Chair in Language Rights, $125,000.
• François Larocque, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “Droits, langues, et communautés : table-ronde et lancement de livre en hommage au professeur Pierre Foucher”, $6,000.
• François Larocque, Visiting Researchers Program, “Juan Jiménez-Salcedo – Université de Mons”, $3,500.
• Vanessa MacDonnell, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “Responsive Judicial Review”, $6,000.
• Vanessa MacDonnell, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “Evolving Approaches to Constitutional Interpretation in Canada”, $6,000.
• Vanessa MacDonnell, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “Exploring Research Methodologies in Public Law”, $6,000.
• Vanessa MacDonnell, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “The Supreme Court at 150: The Past, Present and Future”, $6,000.
• Vanessa MacDonnell, Visiting Researchers Program, “Silvia Suteu – European University Institute”, $4,900.
• Florian Martin-Bariteau, Early Career Researcher of the Year Award, $10,000.
• Delphine Nakache, Visiting Researchers Program – Science Diplomacy, “Thibaut Fleury Graff – Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas”, $5,000.
• Delphine Nakache, University Research Chair in Migrant Protection and International Law, $125,000.
• Michael Pal, Conference/Workshop on Campus Opportunity, “The Public Law Conference 2024”, $6,000.
• Teresa Scassa, Big Idea Grant, “Governance of Health Care Administrative Data to Enable Artificial Intelligence Research in Brazil”, $10,000.
• Frankie Young, Seed Funding Opportunity, “Resetting Netuklimk and Law Reform as a Way to Prosperous Peoples”, $10,000.
   

Student funding

• Mitacs Accelerate (2024-2025): Ola Mirzoeva, JD/MA student (supervisor Jeremy de Beer), “Digging deep and looking up: Applying Canada’s mining experience to the moon”, $25,000.

This program (managed by IREX) provides funding for a research visit by uOttawa PhD students to an international host institution:

• uOttawa PhD Mobility Program (2025): Paul-David Chouinard, PhD student (supervisor Paul Daly), “Standing in Judicial Review: Comparative Perspectives from Canada and the UK”, $7,000.
• uOttawa PhD Mobility Program in Germany (2024): Bin Cheng, PhD student (supervisor Wolfgang Alschner), “How States can use soft law as a vehicle to dynamically update and modernize outdated international investment treaties”, $6,000.
• uOttawa PhD Mobility Program (2024): Montana Cardinal, PhD student (supervisor Angela Cameron), “Nehiyaw Apihtaw'kosisan Visual Law Language: Revitalization, Reconnection, and Reclamation”, $6,000.