{"id":17639,"date":"2016-03-29T11:14:23","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T15:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/its-cuthemedev1.carleton.ca\/law\/?p=17639"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T15:43:11","slug":"2016-chet-mitchell-memorial-award-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/2016\/2016-chet-mitchell-memorial-award-winner-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2016 Chet Mitchell Memorial Award Winner Announced!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        2016 Chet Mitchell Memorial Award Winner Announced!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s recipient for the <a href=\"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/current-students\/grad-scholarships-and-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Chet Mitchell Memorial Award<\/strong> <strong>in Law<\/strong><\/a> is M.A. Legal Studies candidate, <strong>Sydney Jacklin<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award was presented to Sydney&nbsp;at the 11th Annual Carleton Graduate Legal Studies Association&nbsp;Conference which took place on&nbsp;Thursday, March 17, 2016.&nbsp;Sydney&#8217;s research is interested in how the law constitutes ways of &#8216;knowing&#8217; sexual violence and trauma. She has a particular interest in exploring ways visual and performance art may be used as a platform for redefining knowledge and experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter wp-image-17720 size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"815\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Award_Sydney-Jacklin_lrg-1-e1623866819654.jpg\" alt=\"Sydney Jacklin receiving award\" class=\"wp-image-17720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Award_Sydney-Jacklin_lrg-1-e1623866819654.jpg 815w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Award_Sydney-Jacklin_lrg-1-e1623866819654-160x117.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Award_Sydney-Jacklin_lrg-1-e1623866819654-240x175.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Award_Sydney-Jacklin_lrg-1-e1623866819654-768x560.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Award_Sydney-Jacklin_lrg-1-e1623866819654-400x292.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/110\/Award_Sydney-Jacklin_lrg-1-e1623866819654-360x262.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 815px) 100vw, 815px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">L-R: Sydney Jacklin and Prof. Christiane Wilke. Photo by: Marcus Sibley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 id=\"about-the-award\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">About the Award<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Established in 1991 by colleagues, family, and friends in honour of the late <strong>Chet Mitchell<\/strong>, who was a professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies. This award is given annually to a deserving student enrolled in the Master of Arts program in legal studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year&#8217;s recipient for the Chet Mitchell Memorial Award in Law is M.A. Legal Studies candidate, Sydney Jacklin! The award was presented to Sydney&nbsp;at the 11th Annual Carleton Graduate Legal Studies Association&nbsp;Conference which took place on&nbsp;Thursday, March 17, 2016.&nbsp;Sydney&#8217;s research is interested in how the law constitutes ways of &#8216;knowing&#8217; sexual violence and trauma. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3,555,7,1],"tags":[407,408,406,405],"class_list":["post-17639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-gr-awards","category-graduate-news","category-news","tag-carleton-graduate-legal-studies-association-conference","tag-chet-mitchell","tag-chet-mitchell-award","tag-sydney-jacklin"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26873,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17639\/revisions\/26873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}