UNB Law
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...
On-ice redemption for students at alumni hockey game
Ed Bowes
Posted: April 3, 2024 12:00:00 AM ADT
(Fredericton, NB) The UNB Law Students pulled off a huge victory on Friday, defeating the UNB Law Alumni 10-5 at the Lady Beaverbrook Arena. The students came out flying with goals from Jarrod Ryan and Sebastian Vella in the first half of the opening frame. Students Eddie May and Nick Currie extended the lead to four going into the first intermission. The alumni responded quickly in the second, scoring two unanswered goals to cut the lead in half. But the comeback was short-lived as the...
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...
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...
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...
UNB Law to Host New Brunswick Restorative Justice Symposium
Ed Bowes
Posted: October 21, 2022 12:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students
Join us on Nov. 7 and 8, 2022, for the New Brunswick Restorative Justice Symposium. Developed in partnership between UNB Law and the New Brunswick Department of Justice and Public Safety, this two day event will be a forum to discuss the benefits of restorative practices from all angles to the community, persons harmed, persons responsible for causing harm and the Justice system at large. We are excited to welcome an impressive group of keynote speakers: Hon. Malcolm Rowe, Justice...
We’re renovating the law student lounge
Ed Bowes
Posted: April 26, 2021 3:55:00 PM ADT
Over the last year, COVID-19 has presented UNB Law with many challenges. For the first time in our history, we were forced to close our doors and teach virtually. Despite being away from their peers and professors, our students have shown great resilience—they have not only carried on with their studies, but also excelled in competitive moots, secured articles and judicial clerkships, and devoted their time to pro bono work. As we prepare to reopen the doors to the law school, we are...
UNB Law grad to clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for a second consecutive year
Ed Bowes
Posted: April 22, 2021 8:56:00 AM ADT
Category: Students
Third-year UNB Law student Erik Arsenault has been selected to clerk for The Hon. Justice Andromache Karakatsanis at the Supreme Court of Canada. Erik will begin his one-year term in August of 2022 following the completion of a clerkship at the Ontario Court of Appeal. This marks the second year in a row that a UNB Law student has secured a clerkship at Canada’s top court. These coveted positions are highly competitive, requiring academic excellence and a robust application process;...
UNB Law students win big at McKelvey Cup
Ed Bowes
Posted: March 4, 2021 2:00:00 PM AST
Category: Students
Congratulations to team UNB Law who took home 6 of 8 awards at the 20th annual McKelvey Cup Moot. The McKelvey Cup is a trial-level moot which sees mooters deliver direct and cross-examinations of witnesses (played by professional actors) as well as an opening or closing statement. The defense team of Erik Arsenault (3L) and James Pinchak (2L) won second place overall, while the Crown representatives Navy Vezina (3L) and Chris Arisz (3L) placed third. Individually, Erik won best closing,...
Supreme Court of Canada Justice Thomas Cromwell to Judge 58th Harrison Shield
Ed Bowes
Posted: September 11, 2020 8:25:00 AM ADT
Category: Students
The 58th edition of UNB Law’s in-house moot will be like no other in the law school’s history. In addition to the Chief Justice of the Court of Queen’s Bench, The Hon. Tracey DeWare (LLB ’94) and The Hon. Madame Justice Kathleen Quigg (LLB ’89) of the New Brunswick Court of Appeal, former Supreme Court Justice Thomas Cromwell has agreed to help judge this year’s competition. “It is always such a pleasure to see talented young lawyers at work and to...
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...
UNB Law student Curtis Doyle secures Supreme Court of Canada clerkship
Ed Bowes
Posted: March 30, 2020 3:45:00 PM ADT
Category: Students
“It is a tremendous opportunity to learn from some of the brightest students, lawyers, and judges in the country, while turning my mind to important legal problems and doing work that is helpful to the Court.” In the summer of 2021, third-year student Curtis Doyle will be heading to Ottawa, where he will be clerking for the Honourable Justice Moldaver at the Supreme Court of Canada. As a member of a four-person clerkship team, Curtis will provide legal support to Justice Moldaver...
UNB Law hosts the 2020 Canadian National Negotiation Competition
Ed Bowes
Posted: February 18, 2020 12:00:00 PM AST
Category: Students
The UNB Faculty of Law is proud to host the fourth annual Canadian National Negotiation Competition (CNNC) at the Wu Conference Centre, Feb. 21-22, 2020. Founded in 2017, the CNNC promotes consensual dispute resolution and builds networks among Canadian law schools and their students. The event also serves as a qualifier for the annual International Negotiation Competition, which will be held in July at the Alexander Blewett III School of Law, University of Montana. The CNNC sees teams of...
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...
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...
UNB Law Faculty to launch the first Canadian student chapter of Legal Hackers
Ed Bowes
Posted: October 1, 2019 3:00:00 PM ADT
Category: Students
The University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law will be the first in Canada to have a student chapter of Legal Hackers. Created in 2012 at NYU BLIP Clinic, Legal Hackers is a global grassroots movement of designers, entrepreneurs, lawyers, policy advocates, researchers, students, teachers and technologists who explore and develop creative solutions at the intersection of law and technology. After countless hours discussing the intersections of STEM and the law, UNB Legal Hackers was co-founded...
UNB Law students secure high-profile clerkships
Ed Bowes
Posted: June 3, 2019 3:28:00 PM ADT
Category: Students
Ashley Wilson (left) and Fahim Rahman (right), two of thirteen UNB law students to secure clerkships. The UNB Faculty of Law would like to congratulate thirteen law students who have secured judicial clerkships for 2019 and 2020. These students will spend up to one year working for judges in provincial and federal courthouses across the country. Legal clerkships offer valuable professional experience for recent graduates, giving them an insider’s perspective on how court cases are...
UNB congratulates Law moot participants
UNB Law
Posted: February 27, 2018 12:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students
Law students from University of New Brunswick took part in three highly competitive moot law competitions last weekend. In Fredericton, from February 22-24, Andrew Kinley, Hilary Perry, Nicole Sample and Chad Thaincompeted in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition under the supervision of their coach, Professor Michael Marin. The Jessup Moot is the oldest and largest international moot in the world, and is based on a...
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...
2017 Viscount Bennett Lecture
Matt Poirier
Posted: November 27, 2017 12:00:00 AM AST
Since 1975, UNB Faculty of Law has been proud to bring some of the nation’s brightest legal minds to Fredericton to give a lecture on a topic that is close to them. On October 26 of this year, Dennis Edney QC came to the give the 2017 Viscount Bennett Memorial Lecture, titled “The Rule of Law in an Age of Fear”. As its title would suggest, his lecture focused on the growing support for anti-democratic and intolerant ideologies of fear around the world and the threat that...
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...
UNB Law preparing to host the Canadian qualifying round of the Philip C Jessup International Law Moot in 2018
UNB Law
Posted: April 3, 2017 5:00:00 AM ADT
Category: Students
UNB Law is looking forward to hosting next year’s Canadian Qualifying round and students are encouraged to get involved in this prestigious event, coinciding with UNB Law celebrating it’s 125th anniversary. The Jessup Competition is the world’s largest most prestigious moot court competition and the oldest moot court competition dedicated to international law. The Jessup is open to law schools all over the world with participants from over 550 law schools in more than 87 countries. The...
Law Students Society President attends Q A with Supreme Court Justice Malcolm Rowe
UNB Law
Posted: November 8, 2016 4:00:00 AM AST
Category: Students
Law Students’ Society President attends Q&A with Supreme Court Justice Malcolm Rowe On Oct. 25 Law Students’ Society President, Veronica Medon, attended a moderated question and answer session with Supreme Court Justice (then nominee) Malcolm Rowe at the University of Ottawa. As part of their pursuit for greater openness and transparency, the Office of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada asked Canadian law school deans to send students to the question and answer...