New LL.M. with Concentration in International Trade and Foreign Investment Law

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce its new LL.M. with Concentration in International Trade and Foreign Investment Law and is now accepting applications for September 2010 admission. Read more...

Release of New Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. XLVI, 2008) has been published by UBC Press with Professor Don McRae as Editor-in-Chief and Professor John Currie as Assistant to the Editors. Read more...

Alumna Valerie Hughes (’79) Appointed Director, Legal Affairs, WTO Secretariat

Common Law alumna Valerie Hughes (’79) has been appointed as Director, Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Secretariat in Geneva. Read more...

LL.M. Student François LeSieur (LL.L. 2007, LL.B. 2008) Published in Human Rights Law Review

LL.M. Student François LeSieur (LL.L. 2007, LL.B. 2008) has published a book review of Civilian Immunity in War by Igor Primoratz in the Human Rights Law Review. Read more...

Vice-Dean LaViolette Comments on Fast-tracking Haitian Immigrants and Refugees

Vice-Dean of the French Common Law Program, Professor Nicole LaViolette, leant her expertise to Canadian Press journalist Heather Scoffield in an article entitled “Canada looking at fast-tracking Haitian immigrants, refugees in wake of quake” on January 14, 2010. Read more...

HRREC Publishes New Monthly Column in Canadian Lawyer

The Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) has published its first of a monthly column entitled, "Human Rights . . . Here & There," on current domestic and international human rights issues in Canadian Lawyer. Read more...

Prof. Steger Publishes Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century

Professor Debra Steger has released a new book entitled Redesigning the World Trade Organization for the Twenty-first Century, co-published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI). Read more...

Prof. Larocque and Students Contribute to Report on Mugabe’s “Vicious” Campaign

Professor François Larocque, alumna Megan Kendall (LL.L. ’08, LL.B. ’09) and National Program student Juliette Yip (LL.L. ’09) have contributed to a report by AIDS-Free World revealing that supporters of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe launched a campaign of rape and torture during last year’s national elections. Read more...

Professors Attaran and Mendes Comment on Afghan Detainee Revelations

Comments from Common Law professors Amir Attaran and Errol Mendes are featured in an Ottawa Citizen article from December 10, 2009 addressing the revelation by Gen. Walter Natynczyk, chief of the defence staff, that a prisoner detained by Canadian troops had been abused by Afghan authorities. Read more...