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Monday, June 10, 2024

Professor Ania Zbyszewska awarded FLS Editors’ Article Prize AND Mitacs Award!

We are pleased to share that Associate Professor, Ania Zbyszewska has been awarded the FLS Editors' Article Prize 2024 for the best scholarly contribution to the journal for her open access article entitled ‘Towards a Feminist Geo-legal Ethic of Caring Within Medical Supply Chains: Lessons from Careless Supply During the COVID-19 Pandemic’... More

Wednesday, May 8, 2024

Announcing our newest BA Honours Concentration: Criminal Law and Social Order!

We are pleased to announce that we have a new concentration available for our 20 credit BA Honours program! Criminal Law and Social Order! More about the concentration: "Learn about the role of criminal law and the criminal justice system’s actors and institutions (including the police, the courts, prisons, etc.) in shaping dominant forms... More

Thursday, April 25, 2024

We are hiring! Experiential Learning Coordinator Term Position

Do you have experience in academic advising and an interest or experience in experiential learning, including knowledge of placements or work experience programs and/or recruitment and outreach? We are hiring an Experiential Learning Coordinator for an 18 month term to start as soon as possible. This position works as a team, but also... More

Monday, April 22, 2024

Special Issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons co-edited by Dale Spencer

Check out this special issue of the Journal of Prisoners on Prisons co-edited by our very own Professor Dale Spencer, along with Erin Dej of Wilfrid Laurier University. More details here:... More

Friday, April 5, 2024

New article featuring Nadine Ijaz: Advancing Holistic Healthcare: Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine for All

Our very own Assistant Professor, Nadine Ijaz, has been busy doing work with the World Health Organization (WHO) throughout the past year! Check out this article from the university on Nadine's fascinating work!... More

Thursday, April 4, 2024

PhD Student Diksha Kale places third in 3MT Competition!

We are pleased to share that PhD student, Diksha Kale has placed third in Carleton's Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition on March 28th! The 3MT Competition was founded in 2013 at the University of Queensland in Australia. Students are given no more than three minutes to present their thesis in person to a panel... More

Tuesday, March 19, 2024

March 2024 Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture

Another year, another Chet Mitchell Memorial Lecture in the books! On March 15th, we were incredibly fortunate to be joined by Dr. Adelle Blackett, Professor of Law at McGill University and Canada Research Chair in Transnational Labour Law. Dr. Blackett came to our campus from Montreal to give a very insightful discussion on the... More

Friday, March 15, 2024

Juristalk with Hafsa Kanjwal

On March 8th, we were pleased to welcome Dr. Hafsa Kanjwal to our department to deliver our first Juristalk of the semester! Dr. Kanjwal, an Assistant Professor of South Asian History in the Department of History at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, discussed her new book "Colonizing Kashmir: State-Building Under Indian Occupation."... More

Monday, February 26, 2024

Ottawa Pro Bono Gladue Report Pilot Project

Check out an exciting new project headed by one of our faculty members! The Ottawa Pro Bono Gladue Report Pilot Project was started by Professor Jane Dickson in January 2024 with the goal of providing Gladue reports for sentencing to Indigenous persons who are before the courts but unable to secure a Gladue report... More

Thursday, February 8, 2024

Our MA and PhD Programs are still accepting applications!

Are you interested in pursuing an MA or PhD in Legal Studies? Both our MA and PhD programs are still accepting applications for September! Check out our graduate programs page here for more information and feel free to email lawgrad@carleton.ca with any... More

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

New article featuring Professor Dale Spencer and PhD Student Delphine DiTecco

We are pleased to share a new article from the Journal of Sports and Social Issues entitled, CrossFit and “Cancel Culture”: Probing Practitioners’ Responses to the “Canceling” of Greg Glassman. This article is co-authored by several folks from Carleton, including Faculty Member, Dale Spencer and two Carleton graduate students, including... More