
Research Centres, Networks and Labs
Research Centres, Partnerships, Labs, Networks, Groups, Programs and Clinics

Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability
The Centre for Environmental Law and Global Sustainability is the University of Ottawa's forum for research, teaching, discussion and advocacy related to environmental law. The Centre aims to promote policy-relevant environmental law research and teaching; encourage collaboration amongst faculty and students on research, teaching and community outreach relating to environmental law; and recruit, assist and train the best environmental law researchers and students. The Centre is home to one of the largest concentrations of environmental law professors of any law school in Canada, with areas of expertise including water law, toxic torts, environmental justice, sustainable food law, international trade, economic instruments biotechnology and aboriginal law.
Co-Directors: Thomas Burelli and Heather McLeod-Kilmurray

Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics
Breakthroughs in the health sciences offer tremendous hope to patients and the public. But with progress, new sets of legal, regulatory and ethical challenges emerge. The interdisciplinary Centre for Health Law, Policy & Ethics is a hub for the generation of new ideas and evidence and the development and dissemination of interdisciplinary research designed to tackle pressing health, health care and health system issues.
Director: Colleen Flood

Centre for Law, Technology and Society
The goal of the Centre for Law, Technology and Society is to research, analyze and theorize the complex and interdependent relationships between law, technology and society. This centre for research, student training and knowledge dissemination brings together independent scholars and professors interested in its strategic areas of research, which include a wide variety of subjects relating to law and technology in its broadest sense and from multiple perspectives. The Centre encourages multidisciplinarity, providing the richest and most comprehensive approach to research and policy-making. It seeks to develop a national and international network of associated researchers and institutions, both in law and in many other domains, and serve as a nexus for partnership building and collaborative scholarship.
Co-Directors: Marina Pavlović and Valerie Steeves

CGA Ontario Tax & International Business Research Centre
The CGA Tax Research Centre promotes research in Canadian federal and provincial taxation and in international tax law. The Centre sponsors the publication of research and tax law and policy, provides a forum for national and international conferences on tax law, and contributes to the development of tax policy and related areas of administration. It participates in academic and professional forums on the domestic and international tax scene and acts as a conduit for communication with various governmental agencies.
Director: Vern Krishna

Human Rights Research and Education Centre
The Human Rights Research and Education Centre strives to bring together educators, researchers and students from other disciplines to approach issues surrounding human rights from a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary perspective, both in order to respect such rights and to explore that which they require in a complex, interconnected world. The HRREC benefits from a bilingual and bijuridical environment, and is the only institutional human rights research centre located in the National Capital Region. The Centre fosters research, teaching and outreach partnerships, with academic units, governmental and civil society organizations.
Director: Jabeur Fathally

Public Law Centre
The uOttawa Public Law Centre is Canada’s leading centre for public law research, debate and engagement.
The Centre is home to the largest number of public law experts in the country and is located in Canada’s capital, close to key public law institutions such as the Parliament of Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada, the Department of Justice and numerous boards, tribunals and agencies.
The Faculty of Law’s Civil Law and Common Law sections are known nationally and internationally for their expertise in public law, including in constitutional law, Indigenous legal traditions, administrative law, the law of democracy, immigration and refugee law, criminal law, human rights, comparative public law, critical public law and public law theory.
The Centre is bilingual, multijural and interdisciplinary. It brings together experts from inside the Faculty of Law and the University with domestic and international collaborators, visiting scholars, fellows and affiliated graduate students to create new opportunities for research and engagement across the spectrum of public law and public policy subjects.
The Centre supports and carries out innovative and interdisciplinary research, which it disseminates to diverse audiences in Canada and globally. It leverages its convening power to bring together government representatives and civil society organizations for high-level discussions on public policy issues. And it organizes conferences, seminars and invited lectures that both intervene in current debates and seek to advance those debates.
The Centre, like the University, is situated on the traditional, unceded land of the Algonquin Nation. The Centre will conduct its activities in acknowledgement of that fact and with a commitment to helping the Faculty of the Law and the University of Ottawa respond to the Calls to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Co-Directors: Vanessa Macdonnell and Terry Skolnik