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International Clerkships Program 2024-2025 - CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

webfull — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 19:07:14 +0000

Deadline: January 15, 2024, 5:00 PM ET

��ֱ��’s Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) is currently accepting applications for:

a 12-month clerkship at the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA);
a 10-month clerkship at the International Court of Justice (ICJ);
a 4-month clerkship at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR).

The clerkships are due to start in September 2024.

Published: 3 November 2023

Call for Student Papers

webfull — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:33:29 +0000

The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHLPR) invites the submission of original or unpublished papers relating to the theme “Solidarity and Strength: Responses to New Challenges in LGBTI Activism and Advocacy” for the 2024 Martine Roy Student Colloquium.

Published: 1 November 2023

Open call for blog posts: “The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 75: Human rights protection in a fragile multilateral order”

webfull — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 22:42:02 +0000

This is an open call for blog posts. The CHRLP invites as wide a diversity of voices as possible to submit posts on critical questions touching on the above theme. We also welcome submissions about human rights and (or) legal pluralism more broadly.

Published: 12 October 2023

Helge Dedek, Frédéric Mégret, and Colleen Sheppard named to prestigious research chairs

webfull — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 14:38:52 +0000

The Faculty of Law is delighted to announce the appointment of three professors to endowed research chairs.

Professor Helge Dedek was named to the Wainwright Chair in Civil Law, held most recently by former dean Daniel Jutras, OC, Ad E.

Professor Frédéric Mégret was named to the Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, of which the inaugural chairholder was François Crépeau, OC, OQ, FRSC, Ad E.

Published: 28 September 2023

Frédéric Mégret receives honorary doctorate

webfull — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 17:57:20 +0000

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that, on 25 November, Professor Frédéric Mégret received an honorary doctorate from the University of Copenhagen at a ceremony followed by a reception with Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II as special guest. Professor Mégret had delivered his lecture associated with the award, entitled “Roaming Rights and Global Mobility,” at the Faculty of Law of the University of Copenhagen the day prior.

Published: 29 November 2022

Call for Abstracts: Working Papers in Disability Law

webfull — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 20:22:32 +0000

The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism (CHRLP) invites ��ֱ�� students, recent ��ֱ�� graduates, and law students from other faculties to submit short abstracts of essays or works in progress for presentation at a student colloquium on March 24, 2023 from 16:30-18:30 ET.

Published: 14 November 2022

Arnold & Blema Steinberg Post-Doctoral Fellowships in International Migration Law and Policy 2023

webfull — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 21:00:57 +0000

The vision and generosity of the Steinberg Foundation is at the heart of this exciting Fellowship opportunity.

The Centre for Human Rights & Legal Pluralism of the Faculty of Law at ��ֱ�� is delighted to offer one Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for the 2023-2024 academic year.

Deadline: October 31st, 2022 at 11:59pm (EST).

Published: 14 September 2022

Marie Manikis wins Canadian Association of Law Teachers award

webfull — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 17:02:53 +0000

The Faculty of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Marie Manikis has received the 2022 Canadian Association of Law Teachers Scholarly Paper Award. Her paper “Recognising State Blame in Sentencing: A Communicative and Relational Framework” (Cambridge Law Journal, forthcoming) won the annual competition. Aimed at recognizing the work of scholars in the first seven years of their academic appointment, this prize is awarded to the author of a paper that contributes substantially to legal literature.

Published: 2 September 2022

2023 O’Brien Graduate Fellowships - Call for applications

webfull — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 18:16:30 +0000

The O’Brien Graduate Fellowships were established in 2005 through a very generous gift from David O’Brien for outstanding Masters or Doctoral students studying in the area of human rights and legal pluralism in the Faculty of Law, ��ֱ��. ��ֱ��’s graduate programs in law are the most extensive in Canada. Courses draw upon the civilian and common law traditions, but also include diverse legal traditions, legal theory, international law, environmental law, health law, human rights law, comparative private and public law, and air and space law.

Published: 16 August 2022

Call for Student Papers: Inaugural Martine Roy Student Colloquium

webfull — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 15:06:13 +0000

The Centre for Human Rights and Legal Pluralism invites submissions of unpublished papers under the theme "Towards equality and justice for LGBTI people". We encourage a diversity of topics and perspectives.

Published: 30 November 2021

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