Archives: Graduate news

Friday, November 19, 2021

Graduate Student Research Spotlight

The Department of Law and Legal Studies is proud to celebrate the journeys and successes of this years’ cohort of students graduating with a MA in Legal Studies or PhD in Legal Studies. Please find research highlights for some of our recent graduates below. We wish them all the best in their future endeavors. Congratulations... More

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Graduate Student Research Spotlight

The Department of Law and Legal Studies is proud of all of our graduate students. We would like to take this opportunity to highlight the research of some of our recent graduates as we wish them all the best in their future endeavors. Congratulations class of 2021!   Robyn O'Loughlin, PhD Robyn O’Loughlin is... More

Monday, April 19, 2021

Congratulations Kimiya Missaghi!

Department of Law and Legal Studies MA candidate, Kimiya Missaghi, has been awarded Research Impact Canada's 2021 Research Impact Canada Engaged Scholarship Award in the Master’s category. Congratulations! Kimiya Missaghi is a MA candidate at the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University currently completing her thesis. Her... More

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Congratulations Safiyah Rochelle!

Congratulations to Dr. Safiyah Rochelle for being awarded a Senate Medal for Outstanding Academic Achievement! Safiyah worked under the supervision of Professor Christiane Wilke and successfully defended her thesis “Capturing the Void(ed): Muslim Detainees, Practices of Violence, and the Politics of Seeing in Guantanamo Bay” this past... More

Friday, June 19, 2020

PhD Student Jean Ketterling Wins Prestigious Vanier Award!

PhD student Jean Ketterling said her heart rate shot through the ceiling when she clicked on an email notification to check the 2020 Vanier scholarship results. “Once my heart rate went back to normal, I was thrilled!” says Ketterling. Ketterling is one of three Carleton University students to win a Vanier Graduate Student Scholarship... More

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Congratulations to Samantha Butler!

Congratulations to Samantha Butler on defending her PhD!   "My project found, from interviews and focus groups with 26 self-advocates labelled with intellectual disabilities in Nova Scotia and Ontario, that membership in a self-advocacy organization enabled a sense of belonging, rights, voices, and a legal consciousness to be realized. Nova... More

Monday, June 1, 2020

Bullying and Racism of Indigenous Students in Northern Ontario

PhD candidate, Robyn O'Loughlin, has been researching the effects of the September 2012 anti-bullying framework within Ontario's Education Act. Growing up in Thunder Bay, she witnessed harassment and racism towards Indigenous people in the community as well as Indigenous students attending a local high school. Her grandmother's personal story also... More

Saturday, April 18, 2020

New UNHCR Internship for MA Legal Studies Students

Starting in September, 2020, the Department of Law and Legal Studies will host an internship with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). This extraordinary opportunity enables a student enrolled in the MA Legal Studies program to undertake a four-month, paid, part-time placement with the UNHCR office in Ottawa.... More

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

Deniz Konuk Wins DAAD One-Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates

Deniz Konuk, PhD Candidate in Legal Studies, has won a competitive DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) One-Year Grant for Doctoral Candidates for 2020-2021. Deniz’s PhD research will examine the role of audio-visual evidence in trials for police violence in Turkey and the US. She is investigating how audio-visual recordings are interpreted... More

Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Congratulations Veronica Øverlid!

Veronica Øverlid, a second-year Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton, has been awarded a 2020 Pierre Elliott Trudeau Scholarship. Her research focuses on migration and refugee law. Øverlid has a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies (BA) and an MA in International Human Rights Law. Prior to... More

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Law Phd Student Wins Award for Dissertation

Tiffany MacLellan’s dissertation for the Department of Law and Legal Studies has won the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Julian Mezey Dissertation Award. The annual international prize is awarded to “the dissertation that most promises to enrich and advance interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of law,... More

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

LLS Doctoral Candidate Jay Ramasubramanyam Wins a Major Award!

Congratulations to Jay Ramasubramanyam, a PhD candidate in the Law and Legal Studies program, for winning the 2018-2019 TD Graduate Fellowship in Migration and Diaspora Studies! The Fellowship is awarded annually by the Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs to a full-time graduate student who is pursuing courses in Migration and Diaspora... More

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