UNB Law
Bruno Gélinas-Faucher and Catherine Le Guerrier join UNB Law
Ed Bowes
Posted: June 28, 2024 1:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Faculty
UNB Law is excited to announce the appointments of two outstanding new faculty members, Bruno Gélinas-Faucher and Catherine Le Guerrier. Bruno Gélinas-Faucher joins UNB Law from the Université de Moncton, where he has been an Assistant Professor since 2022. He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. Prof. Gélinas-Faucher received an LL.M. with First-Class Honours, also from the University of Cambridge. He clerked for the...
Hilary Young named University Research Scholar
Ed Bowes
Posted: April 11, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students , Alumni , Faculty
UNB Law’s Professor Hilary Young was recently named a University Research Scholar at the 2024 President’s Awards. This award recognizes Prof. Young’s exceptional scholarship and internationally acclaimed research in the areas of defamation, tort, and health law. “It was gratifying to be recognized for my research contributions. When I first started as a scholar, I struggled to know what made for good research subjects, and the learning curve was steep. Now, I see...
UNB Law wins the McKelvey Cup
Ed Bowes
Posted: February 22, 2024 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Alumni , Students , Faculty
Congratulations to the team of Caitlin Grogan and Shane Scott, who took home the top prize at the 23rd annual McKelvey Cup moot, the Atlantic qualifier for Canada’s national trial advocacy competition, the Sopinka Cup. This victory marks UNB Law's second win at the McKelvey Cup in the past three years. Additionally, the UNB Law Defence team of Susan Ivimey and Jacob Stoddard delivered strong performances, earning them third place, out of six teams. Caitlin and Shane left their mark on...
Rollie Thompson talks rules, discretion and reform in family law at Rand lecture
Benjamin Pollard, J.D. Candidate, 2025
Posted: February 15, 2024 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty , Alumni , Students
On February 1st, 2024, Rollie Thompson, K.C., Professor Emeritus at the Schulich School of Law and Counsel at Epstein Cole LLP, delivered the twenty-seventh Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture. One of Canada’s leading family law experts, Prof. Thompson shared insights into the evolution and contemporary landscape of family law in Canada. The event drew UNB students, faculty, and staff, as well as alumni, members of the judiciary, and the legal community, including the NB branch of the CBA,...
UNB Law hosts McKelvey Cup Moot
Ed Bowes
Posted: January 24, 2024 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Alumni , Faculty , Students
UNB Law is excited to announce that it will host the McKelvey Cup Moot for the first time on February 9, 2024. This longstanding tradition brings together students from Dalhousie’s Schulich Law School, the Université de Moncton faculté de droit and UNB Law for an intensive two-day trial advocacy competition. Students exercise the fundamentals of trial advocacy, including exhibits introduction, objections, direct and cross examinations, legal arguments and jury addresses. UNB...
Rollie Thompson, K.C. to deliver Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture
Ed Bowes
Posted: January 10, 2024 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students , Alumni , Faculty
Please join us for the 27th Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture. UNB Law is pleased to welcome this year’s guest lecturer, Rollie Thompson, K.C., who will present: Rules, discretion and reform in Canadian family law. Rollie Thompson is Professor Emeritus, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University, and Counsel, Epstein Cole LLP. Thursday, Feb. 1, 20245 p.m. (reception to follow in the student lounge)Mary Louise Lynch Room (2A/B), UNB Faculty of LawThis in-person lecture is free for all who...
David Matyas and Paul Warchuk join UNB Law
Alexa Gualazzi
Posted: June 26, 2023 11:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
UNB Law is thrilled to announce the appointments of David Matyas and Paul Warchuk as assistant professors. "David and Paul bring world-class credentials and experience to UNB Law. They will make important contributions to teaching and research in the Faculty of Law as we work to enhance our program and national and international profile," said Michael Marin, Dean of Law. Mr. Matyas is a Gates Scholar and PhD candidate in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge. He received BCL/LLB...
Hannah Cameron receives 2023 Chief Justice Richard Wagner Award
Alexa Gualazzi
Posted: June 19, 2023 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni , Faculty , Students
UNB Law is proud to announce that Hannah Cameron (JD’ 23) has been selected as a recipient of the fourth annual Chief Justice Richard Wagner Award. Established in 2019, the award honours outstanding PBSC volunteers across Canada who embody the organization’s core values of dignity, equity, and humility. Hannah has been recognized for her work on the Stewart McKelvey Wills Project—a partnership that aims to provide a will and/or a power of attorney to those who qualify and...
Seven UNB Law grads appointed King’s Counsel
Ed Bowes
Posted: November 16, 2022 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty , Students , Alumni
Congratulations to seven UNB Law Alumni who received King’s Counsel designations in recognition of their high level of personal and professional integrity and for their outstanding contributions to the legal profession. Clarence Bennett, K.C. (LLB ’04) Catherine Bowlen, K.C. (LLB ’84) Matthew W. Cripps, K.C. (LLB in ’91) Jamie Eddy, K.C. (LLB ’92) Lisa Keenan, K.C. (LLB ’90) Rodney MacDonald, K.C. (LLB ’82) Christopher T. Titus, K.C. (LLB...
Orientation programming to promote equity, diversity and inclusion
Ed Bowes
Posted: October 28, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Alumni , Faculty , Students
In 2021, UNB Law introduced two important new orientation sessions for first-year students: an Indigenous pipe ceremony and anti-racism training. The purpose of these sessions is to incorporate Indigenous traditions and knowledge into our orientation programming and to provide students with the opportunity to improve intercultural competencies, both of which will help foster an atmosphere of inclusivity among our student body. Sharing in a sacred tradition This September, all first-year law...
Maria Panezi receives 2021-22 Environmental Trust Fund grant
Ed Bowes
Posted: August 23, 2021 8:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
Professor Maria Panezi has been awarded a $55,000 Environmental Trust Fund grant for the project Supporting New Brunswick’s Green Economy Transition: Interdisciplinary Student Research Group for the Trade-related aspects of the NB Climate Change Act and Output-Based Pricing System (OBPS). Prof. Panezi and her team plan to explore the International Trade parameters of provincial and federal carbon pricing legislation, with an emphasis on the New Brunswick Climate Action Plan. The...
Kerri Froc receives research grant to examine pay transparency
Ed Bowes
Posted: August 12, 2021 9:00:00 AM ADT
Professor Kerri Froc has received a research grant of $18,850 through the CBA’s Law for the Future Fund for the project, Establishing the foundation for pay transparency legislation in New Brunswick. The project is a partnership between Prof. Froc and the NB Coalition for Pay Equity—a group of individuals and organizations that pursues and ensures the realization of the right to pay equity and to just conditions of work for women. Much of the project will focus on developing model...
Benjamin Perryman awarded SSHRC grant to study “smart” border technology
Ed Bowes
Posted: August 10, 2021 7:30:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
Professors Benjamin Perryman (UNB) and Sean Rehaag (Osgoode Hall) have been awarded a SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant for their project Electronic Travel Authorizations: Interdicting Roma Refugees. The partnership includes Air Passenger Rights (APR), a non-profit group whose mission is to advance the rights of air travellers. The project will examine the racial profiling effects of “smart” border technologies, such as Canada’s Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) system. The...
Norman Siebrasse cited by the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal
Ed Bowes
Posted: March 9, 2021 9:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
Professor Norman Siebrasse was recently cited in several judicial decisions at both the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal. In Apotex Inc v Janssen Inc 2021 FCA 45 the Federal Court of Appeal cited Professor Siebrasse’s work on the utility requirement in patent law, noting his observation that there is no sharp distinction between demonstrated utility and utility based on sound prediction. In Bristol-Myers Squibb Canada Co v Pharmascience Inc 2021 FC 1, the Federal Court cited a...
Prof. Hilary Young contributes to Non-consensual Disclosure of Intimate Images tort adopted by the ULCC
Ed Bowes
Posted: January 25, 2021 4:00:00 PM AST
Category: Faculty
For more than two years, UNB Law Associate Professor Hilary Young and Associate Professor Emily Laidlaw of the University of Calgary have worked on a law reform project examining the non-consensual disclosure of intimate images (or “revenge porn”). As of Dec. 31, 2020, the Uniform Law Conference of Canada (ULCC) has adopted its Uniform Non-consensual Disclosure of Intimate Images Act (2021), based in large part on Laidlaw and Young’s proposal. ULCC uniform laws can be...
Norman Siebrasse extensively cited by the Federal Court of Appeal
Ed Bowes
Posted: October 8, 2020 8:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
Professor Norman Siebrasse was extensively cited and quoted by the Federal Court of Appeal in an important decision setting out the proper approach to the remedy of an accounting of profits in Nova Chemicals Corporation v Dow Chemicals Company 2020 FCA 141. Nova v Dow is a patent infringement case involving the production and sale of plastic wrap. Nova was infringing upon Dow’s patent. The original decision saw Dow awarded almost $645,000,000, a record award in Canadian patent law. This...
Professor Hilary Young reacts to SCC defamation decisions
Professor Hilary Young
Posted: September 16, 2020 3:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Faculty
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of Canada released its decisions in two companion cases—the first on Ontario's anti-SLAPP legislation, the Protection of Public Participation Act. 1704604 Ontario Ltd v Pointes Protection involved an alleged breach of contract and was notable for affirming the interpretation of statutory language such as "substantial merit" and "grounds to believe." The second case, Bent v Platnick, was more contentious. It involved a personal injury defence lawyer, Ms....
Delivering an outstanding legal education during a global pandemic
Ed Bowes
Posted: August 31, 2020 4:00:00 PM ADT
Program Support officer David Anderson (left) and Professor Basil Alexander (right) test new virtual classroom equipment in the Mary Louise Lynch. The UNB Faculty of Law is committed to ensuring a safe, positive, and academically challenging atmosphere for our students during the COVID-19 pandemic. The law school is following all health and safety directions provided by the Province of New Brunswick as well as the University of New Brunswick’s own COVID-19 safety plan. Our faculty and...
Kerri Froc talks gender, diversity and federalism
Ed Bowes
Posted: August 4, 2020 2:00:00 PM ADT
Professor Kerri Froc’s research into Canadian federalism was recently published in Vickers, Grace and Collier’s, Handbook on Gender, Diversity and Federalism. Professor Froc’s chapter, Reproducing the masculine, neoliberal state: Canadian federalism doctrine and the judicial deregulation of reproductive technologies, examines the gendered workings of Canadian federalism. According to Froc, there is a considerable lack of gender analysis in Canadian federalism jurisprudence....
Professor Hilary Young Contributes to LCO Defamation Law Reform Project
Ed Bowes
Posted: March 23, 2020 11:45:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
The Law Commission of Ontario (LCO) has published its final report titled Defamation Law in the Internet Age. The multi-disciplinary and multi-jurisdictional research project has been four years in the making and, according to the commission, examines “Ontario’s defamation laws and how they should be updated to account for ‘internet speech,’ including social media, blogs, internet platforms and digital media.” UNB Law’s Professor Hilary Young was involved...
The Law for All! Exploring UN Sustainable Development Goals with Girl Guides Canada
Ed Bowes
Posted: March 12, 2020 1:45:00 PM ADT
Category: Faculty
Professor Maria Panezi recently met with a group of Fredericton Girl Guides to teach them about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and to discuss advocacy for ourselves and others. Prof. Panezi’s presentation, The Law for All!, focused on SDGs Quality Education, Gender Equality, Clean Water and Sanitation, Climate Action, and Life Below Water. The group discussed these topics, questioning how they affect girls around the world and how they affect the individual. She...
UNB Law colleagues present at CBA-NB’s Midwinter 2020 Conference
Ed Bowes
Posted: February 19, 2020 11:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
Associate Dean Michael Marin and Professor Hilary Young recently spoke at CBA-NB’s Midwinter 2020 conference The Future is Now. The two-day event saw legal professionals from across the province come together to engage in networking opportunities, educational programming, and business meetings. Prof. Young, alongside fellow privacy expert David Fraser (McInnes Cooper Halifax), presented Going After Online Mischief: Legal and Practical Issues with Law Online. The presentation focused on...
UNB Law’s Viscount Bennett lecturer talks crypto-currency regulation
Ed Bowes
Posted: February 12, 2020 9:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty , Students , Research
Dr. Allan C. Hutchinson, professor of law at York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, delivered the forty-first edition of the Viscount Bennett Memorial Lecture on January 30. Nearly 100 were in attendance as Hutchinson explored the regulatory challenges of cryptocurrency in his talk, The New Crypto World: Governance on The Margins. What is cryptocurrency? Dr. Hutchinson describes cryptocurrency as a borderless, decentralized/distributed digital currency. It is self-regulating...
Perils of Pipelines, Riddles of Resources: The UNB Law Journal releases its 70th volume
Ed Bowes
Posted: February 7, 2020 11:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research , Faculty , Alumni
The UNB Law Journal has released Volume 70, which explores the forum topic Perils of Pipelines, Riddles of Resources. The centrepiece of this edition is Elizabeth May’s 2019 Viscount Bennett Memorial lecture titled, 1.5 To Stay Alive: How we Find Hope and Honesty in Dangerous Times. May explores the potentially devastating realities of climate change and discusses the need to unify and act now if we are to continue as a species. “Come with me. We have got solar panels to put...
2019 Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture discusses environmental protection and the law
Ed Bowes
Posted: December 6, 2019 3:00:00 PM AST
Category: Students , Faculty , Alumni
The Mary Louise Lynch Room was at capacity as Professor Bruce Ziff of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law presented the twenty-fifth installment of the Ivan C. Rand Memorial Lecture Series. Professor Ziff’s lecture, Environmental Protection and the Abject Failures of the Common Law, focused on the state of legal protections for the environment prior to the extensive legislative reforms that emerged in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Environmental Protection and the Abject Failures...
Norman Siebrasse shares expertise in Seoul
Faculty of Law
Posted: December 14, 2018 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
Professor Norman Siebrasse recently traveled to Seoul, South Korea at the invitation of the Seoul National University, Asia-Pacific Law Institute & Center for Law and Technology, where he delivered the lead paper in a seminar - “The Impact of the FRAND Declaration on Patent Remedies.” Standards, such as the Wi-Fi standard for wireless internet, or the MPEG standard for playing videos, are ubiquitous in modern technologies. Many patented technologies are essential to implementing...
Professor Jula Hughes Awarded SSHRC Partnership Development Grant
UNB Law
Posted: December 4, 2017 12:00:00 AM AST
UNB Law professor Jula Hughes was awarded a Partnership Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada as principal investigator. The grant was awarded as part of the SSHRC’s November 2016 Competition Awards. Grants provided through the Partnership Program help support research partnerships in social sciences and humanities. Responding to the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Professor Hughes is partnering with the New...
UNB Hosts Jessup Moot Qualifying Rounds
Matt Poirier
Posted: November 20, 2017 12:00:00 AM AST
In the fictional Odasarra Region, on the sparkling shores of the Kumatqesh Ocean, an international catastrophe is looming. The People’s Democratic Republic of Anduchenca has captured a Rukarukan autonomous submarine within their territorial waters. While the international community attempts to deal with this conflict, a news report reveals that Anduchenca, run by a military dictatorship since a 1967 coup d’état, has developed a nuclear submarine. Acting under authorization by...
John Kleefeld named dean of law at University of New Brunswick
UNB Law
Posted: April 20, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
John Kleefeld will soon be joining the University of New Brunswick as professor and dean of law. Professor Kleefeld comes to UNB from the University of Saskatchewan where he served as associate law professor with experience in teaching tort law, civil procedure, dispute resolution, legal research, and judgment writing. He has an LLM from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School, an LLB from the University of British Columbia, and a BA from the University of Waterloo. He is a member of...
Law professor emerges triumphant in first UNB teach-off
UNB Law
Posted: April 11, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
For a short time on March 21 at the University of New Brunswick’s Fredericton campus, an ordinary lecture hall became a pedagogical crucible. Five professors threw down their best five-minute lessons to see who would emerge the winner of the first-ever UNB Teach-Off, organized by UNB’s Centre for Enhanced Teaching and Learning. The five professors, Ben Newling (Physics), Cheyenne Joseph (Nursing), Andrew McAllister (Computer Science) and Jon Sensinger (Electrical & Computer Engineering),...
Professor Hilary Young presented at the Canadian Media Lawyer s conference
UNB Law
Posted: November 16, 2016 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Faculty
UNB Law Professor Hilary Young recently presented her paper on "Canadian Defamation Actions: An Empirical Study" at the Canadian Media Lawyer’s Conference in Halifax on Nov. 4. Professor Young’s paper was a quantitative study of Canadian defamation cases between 1973-1983 and 2003-2013. Professor Young’s findings concluded: Damages have more than doubled, when adjusted for inflation, between these two periods Corporate defamation claims make up about a third of the total in...
Prof Olabisi D Akinkugbe receives SSHRC Insight Development Grant
UNB Law
Posted: October 28, 2016 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
Congratulations Prof. Olabisi D. Akinkugbe for being awarded an Insight Development Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Thanks to the generous support of SSHRC, the ambitious research project entitled “Regional and National Courts and Africa’s Economic Integration: A Study of the East African Community” will be funded up to $66,000. SSHRC Insight Grants support research excellence in the social sciences and humanities. The East African Court of Justice...
Professor Young Awarded Support for Defamation Law Research
UNB Law
Posted: October 27, 2016 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
Prof. Young Awarded Support for Defamation Law Research Thanks to the gracious support of the Harrison McCain Foundation and the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), UNB Law Prof. Hilary Young will now have access to increased research support for her continued study of defamation law in Canada. Hilary was awarded The Harrison McCain Young Scholars Award, which provided up to $25,000 to support new or recently hired faculty who have received their highest degree within...
Dean John R Williamson eight alumni named to Queen s Counsel
UNB Law
Posted: October 25, 2016 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Faculty
Congratulations to dean John R. Williamson for being sworn in as Queen’s Counsel along with eight other UNB law alumni. A member of UNB’s faculty of law for more than 40 years, Dean Williamson began his career at UNB in 1974 after receiving his master of laws from Harvard Law School. Dean Williamson has undertaken law reform projects in Atlantic Canada relating to the enforcement of money judgments, including proposed draft legislation for the implementation of recommended reforms. Draft...