UNB Law
Award-winning performances at Sopinka and McKelvey Cup
Ed Bowes
Posted: Mar 23, 2022
Category: Alumni
Photo (left to right): Mark Browne, Alden Spencer, Jane Thomson, Raylene Mackey, and Duncan Wallace The all-Newfoundland team of Mark Browne (2L) and Alden Spencer (3L), finished in third place at the 2022 Sopinka Cup moot. The Sopinka is the eminent trial advocacy competition that sees the eight regional winners battle for the top spot in the nation annually. In addition to this impressive...
Read the full postUNB Law welcomes Graydon Nicholas as Wihkwatacamit
Ed Bowes
Posted: Aug 30, 2021
Category: Alumni
The Hon. Graydon Nicholas, C.M., O.N.B., LL.D. will be visiting UNB Law this year on a part-time basis. Graydon, as he would like us to call him, is a distinguished and highly respected Wolastoqey Elder, lawyer, judge, social worker, and activist. He is originally from Tobique First Nation, which is 180 kilometers northwest of Fredericton. Graydon’s title will be Wihkwatacamit...
Read the full postMaria Panezi receives 2021-22 Environmental Trust Fund grant
Ed Bowes
Posted: Aug 23, 2021
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...
Read the full postKerri Froc receives research grant to examine pay transparency
Ed Bowes
Posted: Aug 12, 2021
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...
Read the full postBenjamin Perryman awarded SSHRC grant to study “smart” border technology
Ed Bowes
Posted: Aug 10, 2021
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...
Read the full postWe’re renovating the law student lounge
Ed Bowes
Posted: Apr 26, 2021
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...
Read the full postAlumna Jeanne Pratt followed her curiosity to the top levels of the Competition Bureau
Ed Bowes
Posted: Apr 26, 2021
Category: Alumni
Jeanne Pratt (LLB’97) never wanted to be a “big-firm Bay Street lawyer.” She also never thought she’d be taking on the biggest Canadian and global merger cases and investigating anti-competitive marketplace activities splashed across media headlines. She ended up doing both. Jeanne came to UNB for law school after graduating from Memorial University in Newfoundland with...
Read the full postUNB Law grad to clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada for a second consecutive year
Ed Bowes
Posted: Apr 22, 2021
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...
Read the full postNorman Siebrasse cited by the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal
Ed Bowes
Posted: Mar 9, 2021
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...
Read the full postUNB Law students win big at McKelvey Cup
Ed Bowes
Posted: Mar 4, 2021
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...
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