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La Section de droit civil a toujours eu à cœur de mettre en lumière le travail de ses diplômées et diplômés. C’est dans cet esprit qu’elle décerne chaque année l’Ordre du mérite à des personnes qui, pendant leurs études à la Section comme au terme de celles-ci, se sont illustrées sur la scène régionale, nationale ou internationale en mettant leurs connaissances au service de la société et en faisa...

On September 3, 2020, at 5 p.m., the Faculty of Law invited its students—as well as gamers and curious members of the University community—to attend the inauguration of a virtual Fauteux Hall. While attending in person to socialize isn’t possible, the lawyers of tomorrow are invited to gather at the Faculty of Law... in the game of Minecraft....

K. Lippel, Ellen MacEachen, Sonja Senthanar, « Workers' compensation in Canada: experiences of precariously employed workers in the return to work process after injury» in Prue Vines & Arno Akkermans (Eds), Unexpected Consequences of Compensation Law, Hart Publishing, 79-99, 2020 10.5040/9781509928026.ch-005

The Alex Trebek Forum for Dialogue at the University of Ottawa is supporting the creation of a new research project on water regulation and governance. The project will use water-related issues as a lens to identify climate change-induced problems and their ramifications, and then make recommendations to multi-level policymakers. “The m...

The Common Law Section is pleased to announce the results of our sixth annual internal awards program.

Ranjan Agarwal, LLB ’03, is the first South Asian lawyer to be elected to a leadership role on the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) since its creation in 1907. Earlier this year, Ranjan was the recipient of the 2020 Eric Hoaken Excellence in Mentoring Award given by The Advocates’ Society. Ranjan is the first winner of this newly established award.

From deciding whether or not a tax return should trigger an audit, to determining which refugee claimants will be given status in Canada, administrative officials around the country make thousands of decisions every day that fundamentally affect the lives of Canadians. But these officials – and all Canadians – are entering an era of “artificial administration”, where human decision-making may be d...

Faculty of Law, Common Law Section, alumni Anna Keller, LLB ’09, Chase Irwin, LLB ’10 and Jamison Young, LLB ’07, have been named recipients of the Ottawa Business Journal Forty Under 40 awards for 2020. A joint initiative of the Ottawa Board of Trade and the Ottawa Business Journal, the annual Forty Under 40 awards recognize rising business ...

In a rapidly evolving legal landscape where big corporations leverage their economic power and influence to avoid being criminally prosecuted for their crimes, Professor Jennifer Quaid stands out as one of only a select few scholars in Canada actively conducting research on how the criminal law is applied to organizations. As a part of three newly-funded research projects, she is set to further co...

The University of Ottawa’s Public Law Centre has enthusiastically welcomed Professor David Robitaille, a Full Professor in the Civil Law Section, as its new Co-Director. He joins Professor Vanessa MacDonnell of the Common Law Section in a unique partnership between the two sections.Professor Robitaille has earned numerous award...