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Professor Aimée Craft has been awarded the 2021 Canadian Bar Association President’s Award, which recognizes the significant contribution of a Canadian jurist to the legal profession and to the public life of Canada. Professor Craft is one of two honorees for this year’s President’s Award; the other recipient is Professor John Borrows, the Ca...

When talking about the law, often what first come to mind are criminal or civil codes, provisions, important decisions or legislation; in other words, somewhat complicated content based in written texts. But let’s change that: in a first-ever partnership with Justice Canada, the Faculty of Law, Civil Law Section has just launched a platform called Jurivision that proposes that we rethink, and rehu...

Comparution de Katherine Lippel sur invitation et présentation d’un mémoire à la Commission de l’économie et du travail de l’Assemblée nationale du Québec au sujet du projet de loi 59 portant sur la modernisation du régime de santé et de sécurité du travail.

Following the opening of the Indigenous Human Rights free legal clinic in Ottawa in early January, Fallon Benson, a 2L student in the English JD program, and member of Rainy River First Nations, shared with us her experience. Why did you choose to be involved? A dear friend of mine sits on the Advisory Council for the Indigenous Human Rights Pro...

Au-delà de leur formation universitaire, les juristes seront appelés à travailler en interdisciplinarité dans une multitude de sphères, selon l’avenue choisie. Alors pourquoi ne pas permettre à celles et ceux qui le désirent d’entamer une spécialisation dès leurs études de premier cycle en droit?

Professor Vivek Krishnamurthy has earned a grant from Global Affairs Canada for a project entitled “Media Freedom in an Algorithmic Age: Perils and Possibilities”, which examines the implications of algorithmic systems and other emerging digital technologies for media freedom. The aim of the project is to foster greater understandi...

Fallon Benson and Angel Larkman are both 2L students in our JD program. They are also part of our Indigenous Law Learner Community and have both taken action and found ways to change the world, while still studying.

Common Law’s twice graduated Dr. Ausma Sehanat Khan recently received rave reviews for her multi-volume epic fantasy series, the “Khorasan Archives” in the Toronto Star. Prior to being a full-time writer, she served as Editor in Chief of Muslim Girl magazine, the first magazine to address a target audience of young Muslim...

Congratulations to the organizers of the annual Souper Français which was held on January 8, 2021. It was a huge success with over 220 students, lawyers, judges and professors in attendance. The guest of honour was the Honourable Justice Andromache Karakatsanis of the Supreme Court of Canada who gave a beautiful speech.