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While community-based research can be challenging and emotionally draining, enormous benefits can be gained from working directly with the people who are affected by legal problems.

Professor Wolfgang Alschner, an empirical legal scholar specializing in international economic law and the computational analysis of law, has been named as the new Hyman Soloway Chair in Business and Trade Law.

Activists-in-Exile are those who are forced to flee their country of origin for fear of persecution owing to their activism. While research on Activists-in-Exile (or AiEs) is still in an emergent phase, Professor John Packer and his colleagues are seeking to open up a new avenue of understanding on the topic and develop options to support AiEs.

Two students from the Common Law Section, Dalia Dadi (The French common law program) and Jasjeet Dhaliwal, have tied for first place in the 2022 Initiates Cup in the Dominion Mock Trial Moot Court competition.

Dr. Teresa Scassa has been appointed the first ever Scholar-in-Residence for the Information and Privacy Commissioner of Ontario (IPC).

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Every country has laws that govern the acquisition and loss of citizenship. While Canada’s model is not perfect, Canadian citizenship is more desirable than that of the vast majority of other countries in the world.

Common Law’s Professor Jennifer Chandler has been elected as a 2022 Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS), one of the highest honours for members of the Canadian health sciences community.

The Faculty of Law and the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics (CHLPE) are pleased to welcome Professor Jo Ellen Patterson to the Fauteux Hall research community as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar.

The Common Law Section is proud to announce that Professor Aimée Craft has been elected as a new member of the Royal Society of Canada’s College of new Scholars, Artists and Scientists, one of Canada’s pre-eminent distinctions for emerging leaders in research and innovation.