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Deux nouveaux professeurs feront leur entrée à la Section de droit civil dès le 1er juillet prochain, apportant chacun une perspective originale à la recherche et l’enseignement en droit.

In the fall 2025 semester, the Common Law Section will be proud to welcome Professor Emily Laidlaw as the Rovinescu Visiting Scholar on Anti-Hate Speech. This role will foster research, teaching, and public dialogue on the pressing legal and societal challenges of antisemitism, anti-islamaphobia, and hate speech against racialized persons.

Member States of the World Health Organization adopted by consensus the world's first Pandemic Agreement.

On June 11 and 12, 2025, leading legal minds from across the country will gather at the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law for a landmark academic conference: The Supreme Court of Canada at 150: The Past, Present and Future.

The University of Ottawa’s Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) is pleased to announce that Professor Penelope Simons will serve as its next director, beginning a five-year term in 2025.

Les salles de classe débordaient à Fauteux, le samedi 10 mai dernier, alors que se déroulait la traditionnelle journée portes ouvertes de la Section de droit civil. Des chaises ont dû être ajoutées à la dernière minute, l’événement rassemblant près de 340 personnes dans une atmosphère conviviale.

Canada is often celebrated as a global leader in immigration and refugee protection. Yet behind the praise lies a more complex, and often contradictory, reality.

Students from the University of Ottawa attended the annual meeting of the International Neuroethics Society in Germany in April to present pioneering work highlighting innovative intersections between law, neuroscience, and ethics.

The Ontario government is pleased to announce the appointment of Justice Bain to the Ontario Court of Justice. Chief Justice Sharon Nicklas has assigned Justice Bain to Stratford.

The Ontario government is pleased to announce the appointment of Justice Hiland to the Ontario Court of Justice. Chief Justice Sharon Nicklas has assigned Justice Hiland to Cobourg