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The most comprehensive study to date investigating whether e-cigarettes are a gateway into or out of smoking finds that, at the population level, there is no sign that vaping and alternative nicotine delivery products promote smoking.

The Honourable Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, announced the appointment of Negar Azmudeh, LLB ’98, to the Federal Court.

Olivier Marceau is getting a Court’s eye view of the dramatic developments surrounding Israel’s top court.

Last spring, Clémence Thabet received the University Gold Medal for the highest cumulative grade point average in the entire JD Program when they graduated from the combined programme de common law en français and political science program.

The Faculty of Law (Common Law Section) is proud to welcome Professor Yan Campagnolo to his new position as Vice-Dean of the French Common Law Program.

La Section de droit civil de l’Université d’Ottawa sollicite des candidatures afin de combler trois postes de professeur-e menant à la permanence dans les domaines suivants : · Droit administratif et droit du travail · Droit des peuples autochtones et droit public · Innovation pédagogique en droit

Countries around the world are drafting policies on biodiversity offsets – the practice whereby corporations can compensate for environmental damage done in one site, by promoting environmental protection in another.

The following story was written by three Common Law students/alum, Alexandra Cunningham, Loujain El Sahli, and Sanjida Rashid as part of the series BEYOND THE CLASS. The series shares first-hand accounts of experiential learning opportunities and op-eds written by our students.

On October 11, 2023, visit the Ottawa Art Gallery at 4:00 p.m. to undertake a unique artistic journey devoted to the principles of law as it relates to people and their things.

Involuntary hospitalization; isolation; physical, mechanical or chemical restraints: the use of coercive practices in psychiatry is on the rise in Canada. While debates about the ethics of such practices are ongoing, a new project from Professor Emmanuelle Bernheim seeks to expose data on how these measures are used against Black and Indigenous communities.