UNB Law
A partnership to provide trial advocacy training for lawyers
Ed Bowes
Posted: September 15, 2023 10:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Research , Alumni , Students
We are thrilled to announce that the University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law and the Faculté de droit of the Université de Moncton have partnered to introduce the Intensive Trial Advocacy Program (ITAP), a week-long academic program designed exclusively for practicing lawyers. The 2024 English program runs from Saturday, April 27 to Friday, May 3, 2024, at UNB Law, while the French program will be held at UdeM in 2025. ITAP is designed to train lawyers in basic trial techniques...
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...
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....
UNB Law researchers cited in Supreme Court’s Nevsun Resources Ltd. v. Araya
Ed Bowes
Posted: March 5, 2020 11:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
On February 28, 2020, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that an action could proceed against Nevsun Resources Ltd., a Canadian mining company operating in Eritrea, for breaches of customary international law because, unlike treaty law, customary international law is automatically part of Canadian law. In this case, three Eritrean workers now living in Canada allege that they were forced to work at a mine owned by the Canadian corporation, and were allegedly subjected to violent, cruel,...
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...
William Henry Harrison Moot Court a great success.
Matt Poirier
Posted: December 12, 2017 12:00:00 AM AST
On November 8th, the top four oral advocates from the previous year’s Legal Research and Advocacy class paired off against each other in the William Henry Harrison Moot, arguing a criminal appeal concerning that most Canadian of topics: hockey fights. Both groups put in a lot of work to prepare for the moot and argued their cases valiantly before the bench of 3 judges, but in the end the team of Tanisha Connelly and Chad Thain won their appeal over Christopher Goodridge and Michael...
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...
The History of Ludlow Hall
UNB Law
Posted: November 7, 2017 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Research
A characteristic of many Canadian law faculties is that classrooms, offices, library facilities and lounges are housed within a single building. At UNB that building is Ludlow Hall. Built with the support of Sir Max Aitken and the Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation, it was opened in 1968 in a grand ceremony attended by many of Canada’s legal luminaries. It was expanded to its present footprint in 1984. In many ways Ludlow Hall is a gracious building. After three...