Graduate students garner prestigious awards
October 1, 2014
Kirsten Stefanik
Western Law PhD student Kirsten Stefanik has been awarded the prestigious Governor General’s gold medal for 2013. The award is in recognition of her outstanding academic performance in the completion of her Master of Laws (LLM) at Western Law.
“Kirsten has produced ambitious and groundbreaking work in the field of international humanitarian law,” said Randal Graham, Western Law’s director of graduate studies. “Her work promotes legal changes that could ameliorate the conditions suffered by victims of war and pursues this important goal by borrowing from established principles in environmental law.”
A rising academic star, Stefanik is the first Western Law student to be honoured with this prestigious award.Western Law PhD student Kirsten Stefanik has been awarded the prestigious Governor General’s gold medal for 2013.
Tashi Phuntsok
Tashi Phuntsok has been awarded a Dalai Lama trust scholarship. Phuntsok, a graduate of Western Law’s LLM program and current PhD candidate, was among 10 exceptional worldwide candidates of Tibetan descent who were selected to receive the $6,500 scholarship.
The scholarship program aims to further the human capital development of the Tibetan people by supporting the pursuit of excellence among Tibetan students in a field of graduate studies of their choice.
Phuntsok’s 2012 LLM thesis at Western Law was entitled Indigenous Peoples under International Law: An Asian Perspective. He joined Western Law’s PhD program in 2013. His thesis will develop an alternative perspective of international law based on the fourth-world (indigenous) peoples’ aspirations, views, and experiences.
This article appeared in the Western Law 2014 Alumni Magazine.
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